Best of Mercury Years [Original recording remastered]

The Crew-Cuts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EMY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #456,762 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

1. Crazy 'bout Ya Baby, 2. Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream), 3. I Spoke Too Soon, 4. Oop-Shoop, 5. Do Me Good Baby, 6. Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So), 7. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) 8. Chop Chop Boom, 9. This Is My Story, 10. Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love), 11. Don't Be Angry, 12. Mostly Martha, 13. A Story Untold, 14. Angels In The Sky, 15. Gum Drop, 16. Seven Days, 17. Honey Hair, Sugar Lips, Eyes Of Blue, 18. Out Of The Picture, 19. Tell Me Why, 20. Young Love, 21. Be My Only Love, 22. I Like It Like That

Customer Reviews

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Crew Cuts, April 29, 2002

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Ellen J. Barrett (Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Crew Cuts: The Mercury Years (Audio CD)

Actually, I have the best of the Crew Cuts. My Husband, Pat Barrett, is one of them and, of course, I think he is the best.
I was very happy to be able to find a CD as I have not been able to do that in this area
We both enjoyed listening to the tape. There are a few songs that Pat was not crazy about, but, all in all, it was great.
I am going to order more for my friends and relatives.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good collection of a very underrated group's work, August 11, 2004

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Bruce R. Gilson (Wheaton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Crew Cuts: The Mercury Years (Audio CD)

The Crew Cuts were a Canadian group which had a number of hits back in the 1950s. The songs were, by and large, "covers": songsthat had been done by rhythm & blues groups,which they redid in a style better suited to the majority's tastes of the day. As such, they are badly vilified by r&b devotees, who seem to treat the cover versions as desecrations of holy objects. Well, I was, back then, one of that big majority that preferred the covers to the r&b original, and I still, 50 years later, do. This CD includes all the big Crew Cuts hits, including "Sh-Boom" and "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" which were the biggest. It also includes aome covers that never charted (where other artists had the hit version) like "Young Love" and "Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)." And it includes some songs I've never heard by any artist before. I've always liked the Crew Cuts' sound, and as I've already said here, thought their covers were better than the originals, so, no surprise, I like this album. If you're into r&B, you won't. But if your taste agrees with mine, you'll be happy if you buy this CD.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Credit where credit is due, February 2, 2002

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Mercury Years (Audio CD)

Although often dismissed for being "merely" a cover group, the Crew Cuts still achieved a lot of chart success with pop versions of many r'n'b tunes of the era. The complaint is often registered that such cover group "stole" the music from the original artist, depriving them of the deserved recognition. In reality, these cover artists provided exposure to these tunes, reworked for a wider audience as they were, to a vastly larger number of listeners that would otherwise never have heard these songs.

During the mid-50's the Crew Cuts presented the listening public with well-produced and listenable versions of many songs that became top tunes because of their treatment of them. Eventually, with rock and r'n'b artists being more widely accepted with the takeover of the pop charts by the rock-and-rolling teens, the string of hits for the Crew Cuts dried up as the age of the cover artists faded.

Here in this collection are their charted singles along with a number of b-sides and an album cut. Considering the vintage of these recordings, the sound quality is very good with all taken from the original mono masters. The twelve page liner notes booklet provides a history of the group along with production credits. An excellent reissue from Polygram on this underappreciated group.