Collection [Import]

Baccara | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00000GAO1
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,115 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sorry, I'm a Lady

2. Heart, Body and Soul

3. Spend the Night

4. Cara Mia

5. Woman to Woman

6. Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

7. Boogaloo

8. Colorado

9. Darling

10. Ohio

11. Parlez-Vous Francais?

12. Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

13. Ay, Ay Sailor

14. Baby, Why Don't You Reach Out?: Light My Fire

15. Mucho, Mucho

16. The Devil Sent You to Lorado

17. My Kisses Need a Cavalier

18. Body-Talk

19. Bad Boys

Editorial Reviews

Import exclusive release for the Spanish flamenco act. Details TBA. RCA. 2004.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight but entertaining disco music, March 7, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collection (Audio CD)

Music can be serious, but it doesn't have to be serious all the time. Baccara, with their European accents, their sexy voices and their lightweight songs, made disco music that was never meant to be taken seriously. Their music was pure fun, and never meant to be anything else. If anybody doubted that, listen to their cover of Yummy yummy yummy. It was a silly song when first recorded by the Ohio Express in the sixties and sounds every bit as silly by Baccara, but it suits them.

Baccara topped the British charts in the late seventies with Yes sir I can boogie. The follow-up, Sorry I'm a lady, provided them with a top ten hit. These are the best tracks here, though there are some other wonderful tracks, especially The devil sent you to Laredo and Parles-vous Francais.

Baccara did not make music that could be called essential, but they had a style all their own that provides a refreshing change from more serious music.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOW VERY SEXY !, December 8, 2001

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"djostia" (NEW ORLEANS, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collection (Audio CD)

this was the music of my childhood and i passionately hated back then .. i thought kraftwerk and bowie was "it"..but now older and wiser i know better, this is the music to take a vacation in an hedonist southern French town and have naught affairs with married german business men ! "yes sir i can boogie" and "parlez vous francais" especially classy and sensual beyond words..so what if they cannot pronounce "W"s !

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Sensational Baccara, August 16, 2005

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A. Griffiths "Adrian" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collection (Audio CD)

Put your serious mood to one side before reading this review:

Baccara...what a group! The original purveyors of sexy-disco. Those spanish accents! Those lyrics! Those strings! But enough flattery...Why is it darned-impossible to get a Baccara collection that has all of their best (by which I mean funniest) material on it? We all know that every CD worth it's salt is going to include "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" and "Sorry I'm A Lady", but the tracks that make up the rest of the many best-ofs out there always seem to leave something good out. Of course you need "Parlez-Vouz Francais", with it's side-splitting spoken intro, and yes you also need "Ay Ay Sailor"...no need to expand on the merits of that one, the title alone should do it. "Yummy Yummy Yummy" is another essential track, a cover version (of course) that perfectly suits the Baccara sugar coated, nudge-nudge musical style.

But for every album with these golden hits included, you have to go without something else. The lyrically challenging "Koochie-Koo" is a must have comedy classic, Hearing these bargain basement sirens gasping "Koochie-Koo, I wanna play with you!" over and over again in exactly the same style as the afore-mentioned two hit singles is an experience I wouldn't want to pass up. Nor would I go without "Love You Till I Die" - now that's a very hard one to track down, it was originally the B-side to "Sorry I'm a Lady", and is actually a rather dreamy ballad, or to be precise, it sounds like a dreamy ballad you might hear through the haze of an all night drinking binge, with it's hypnotic echoing synthesised string background constantly droning away in your head...I love it, needless to add. It is actually available on the first "real" Baccara album, but buying that means you don't get "Parlez Vous Francais" and other must-haves. When are we going to get all these songs combined in the one package? I guess the point I'm trying to make is that at least this CD ("The Collection") has the best available selection of tracks of all the ones I can see for sale. Shame it's so expensive. 19 tracks by Baccara is quite an ordeal to sit through, as their music style has all of one (count 'em!) facets to it. They might as well be 19 of the very best.

By the way, has anyone else realised that "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" completely rips off Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me this Way"? It's ok, I forgive them...just look at those misty, doe-eyed mug shots on the Baccara CD sleeve - who wouldn't?