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The Best Of John Travolta

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I think the novelty of this CD is worth something. I was a child of the "Me Generation" of the 1970s, and the youngsters of today didn't know John Travolta as a young sitcom actor. Unfortunately, a lot of us did.

In those days, such a "celebrity" could easily become a pop-music "star" (dubious distinction) by singing/putting out an album. Such performers didn't need to sing any better than you or me. In the 1976 track "Let Her In," John Travolta proves that point. It's one of the most awful vocal recordings ever committed to vinyl, which is no small feat. His rendering of "It Had to be You" is a close second.

But in all credit to Travolta. He learned from his setbacks in his career and used them to better himself. He was in good voice in the movie soundtrack for "Grease" in 1978, a far cry from the earlier attempts here.

I think it's summed up well in the opening line of "Let Her In," a good career update for him:

"I'm different today hey, hey!"

And for that, we should be glad.

I never could understand why Travolta didn't become a huge singing star.I loved his voice,and he had HUGE hits from "Grease"and his first single,"Let Her In."This CD has all of his main hits,and some songs I never heard before.

To hear Travolta "sing" the timeless classic, "It Had to Be You" is to toil in pain.

It's THAT awful.

John travolta was around from about 1975. He made Let her in in 1976. John travolta's fans mostly know him as an actor and a dancer,but not a musicain. On this cd he has the songs Sandy, Let her in,Greased lightin, Never going to fall in love again and many more.He has a beautiful voice while singing and acting , his big movie was Grease and Saturday night fever. I love John. From a big john travolta fan ADAM.

Many of John Travolta's fans like him best as an actor,undoubtedly. Back in 1975,he became a teen idol while he was a cast member of the ABC sitcom Welcome Back Kotter. Previously,he appeared in the broadway musical GREASE before it became a film. Travolta displayed his singing talents on radio airwaves in 1976 with LET HER IN,which sounds like a song the R&B group The Stylistics would record. Another great song from this album is GREASED LIGHTNIN' from the GREASE movie soundtrack with moral support from pre-Taxi Jeff Conaway. This collection does have SANDY,also from GREASE,but it could use his duets with Olivia Newton-John,his GREASE co-star.

I own several Best Of from Disco Classics but I'm not sure this is really disco. Let Her In is OK, but I don't think of it as disco. It sounds like generic pop to me.

John Travolta sings like a girl--decades ago, as this collection shows, and more recently, as a guest vocalist on Carly Simon's misguided "Film Noir."
Best of? He only made two solo albums. This is more like a "least ridiculous" than a "best of" collection." And be assured it is still pretty ridiculous.
But he was cute, which accounted for 90% of sales back in the 70s.

When I was 10 years old John's first record came out. I absolutely loved it and played over and over and over. LOL It is funny to hear those songs again, I haven't heard them for years.

I had this album when I was 13 years old and a raging little Vinnie Barbarino fan. I remember playing the songs "Let Her In" and "Razzamatazz" over and over. Let's just say these songs haven't held up over the years. Travolta is not a singer. He's more of a chorus student - one that didn't make any of the ensemble groups. We'll give this one a solid 9.5 on the Cringe-O-Meter, just below Clint Holmes' "Playground in My Mind". I gave this CD two stars because, well, it IS Travolta and it's fun to see how he paid the bills before "Saturday Night Fever".

I'd thought he was a movie and television actor but this has got to be the worse career move that John Travolta ever made from the late seventies to debut his all-time classics collection CD album. He's not interesting to listen here and the only Travolta I remember him as was a film & TV performer. But hey now I know already from imformation about this guy!