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Bobby Rydell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 1995)
• Label: K-Tel
• ASIN: B000000RHL
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,591 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Kissin' Time

2. We Got Love

3. Wild One

4. Little Bitty Girl

5. Swingin' School

6. Volare

7. Good Time Baby

8. I've Got Bonnie

9. Do the Cha-Cha-Cha

10. Wildwood Days

11. Forget Him

12. A World Without Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ain't Nothin' Like the Real Thing!, December 29, 1999

By 

Jerry (Nevada USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I was extremely excited to finally get Bobby's Greatest, but my excitement quickly turned to disappointment after about five notes on the first track, when it became abundantly clear that these were not the original recordings. Please forgive me, but I'm a Baby Boomer, and my musical awarenes was born with the music of the late 50's early 60's, and Rydell's hits are imprinted note-for-note in my mind. I guess these tracks were re-recorded and/or re-mixed, but the result is a reasonable facsimile, definitely not the real thing. In fact, on several of the tracks it doesn't even sound like the young Bobby, but an older Bobby! Something was lost in the remix, mainly Bobby's voice. And check out the scratchy harmonica cacaphony on FORGET HIM.....OUCH! The closest to the original is VOLARE. WILD ONE & SWINGIN' SCHOOL sound like rejected early takes. Deceived....Yes. Disappointed....for sure. But, as another reviewer mentioned, even though it's not the original, it still sounds okay on a car stereo!

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointed, January 8, 2000

By 

StereoJack "StereoJack" (Brodheadsville, PA-USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

While searching for a while for Bobbys Hits on a CD, I bought this. Unfortunately (for me anyway) they are all re-recordings. While his voice is still good, it's just not the same. Luckily I can pull out my old Cameo LP of his original Greatest Hits. Scratchy, yes, but there is no substitute for the real thing! I should have checked out Amazon's review page first!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rydell remake, July 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Bought this album from another site. I thought that it was original. Here I could have listened to the tracks or read the reviews and would have known it wasn't original. Based on the reviews I wouldn't have bought it. I usually send back remakes, but not in this case. It is a good albuum and Bobby sounds as he does today, older, more mature. If any of us ever attended live performances of our favorite artists we found that they usually sounded different in the live setting. Some anthologies have a couple of takes of the same song from the original recording session. The best one seems to prevail.

I consider myself a purist and like the original recordings but this album is decent and the recordings of Forget Him and Volare are enjoyable. I have rerecordings of other artists that I was surprised with and none is as good as this one. Rick Nelson's is good, Paul Anka's not so good. Just about anything by Roy Orbison or Elvis Presley is good. I guess if you like the artist you can be a little more forgiving.

I thought it suprising to see such poor reviews of a decent album. But I would still buy the original if I could only have one or the other. I'm not sorry that I have this one too.