The Best of Bobby Rydell [Import]

Bobby Rydell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PRESTIGE ELITE
• ASIN: B000024IC4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,934 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dream Lover

2. Stagger Lee

3. This Magic Moment

4. Tossin' and Turnin'

5. Born With a Smile on My Face

6. Wildwood Days

7. Forget Him

8. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

9. Kissin' Time

10. Wild One

11. Tomorrow Is Today

12. You're Not the Only Girl for Me

13. Gimme a Good Ole Manny Song

14. Sway

15. It's Getting Better Every Day

Customer Reviews

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67 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not The Hits I Remember, March 20, 2000

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If you are looking for the original versions of Bobby Rydell's hits you still haven't found them. I don't know where they found these tracks but they are not the original versions the way I remember them. They must be re-makes and bad ones at that. If you like Bobby Rydell pass this one up.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Original Cameo Recordings Are Still Unreleased, March 3, 2001

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This review is from: Best Of Of Bobby Rydell (Audio CD)

Warning: These are not Bobby Rydell's original Cameo recordings. In fact, none of Cameo's back catalog (which also includes Chubby Checker, The Orlons, The Dovells, and Dee Dee Sharp, among others) is legitimately available domestically or as an import. As an avid fan of Fifties and Sixties pop music, I have purchased import albums of several of Cameo's artists--including a 1994 Rydell collection called "All the Boppin' Hits" on the Bar Records label. When I compare them to the few original Cameo singles I have it seems to be legit, but this Prestige release is all re-recordings.

Just last month Collectors' Choice Music released a 25-track collection entitled "Bobby Rydell On Capitol." But by the time he began recording for Capitol in 1964, the British Invasion had ended Rydell's reign on the pop charts. Only "Diana" and "I Just Can't Say Goodbye" hit the charts, and that was at No. 98 and No. 94 respectively.

We can only hope that whoever owns the Cameo/Parkway masters will eventually see fit to take the tapes out of the vault and release these artists' music in the original versions they were meant to be heard. In the meantime, this release is a poor substitute for the real thing.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Best of Bobby Rydell, December 11, 2003

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This review is from: The Best of Bobby Rydell (Audio CD)

After placing one order over a year earlier, giving up on delivery, then placing a second order and waiting over four months for delivery of this CD, it was a smashing disappointment! These are later recordings of Rydell's great hits, and pale imitations of the originals. What a waste of time and money!