Customer Reviews

The Complete Hits of Linda Scott

5 star:		(25)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

"The Complete Hits Of Linda Scott" is an album of absolute perfection. . . track after track after track! Linda's crystal clear yet powerfully melodic voice presents these songs in a manner that has made them "true classics". If you hear Linda's version, any other singer's version gets compared to hers and probably will not just quite measure-up. Of course her "I've Told Every Little Star" is her theme-song. And she sings a number of songs about "stars". But she has a really unique song about love found and lost called "I Left My Heart In The Balcony" which captures that mood just right.
The artists performance, the musical arrangements, and the recording production of this album is a delight to the ears.
It's a shame that Linda Scott quit recording back in 1968 (she sang background vocal that year on Lou Christy's "I'm Gonna Make You Mine"- a song not on this collection obviously, but it was her last year of recording.) She tends to guard her privacy very carefully these days. . . but still I hope for miracles. . . I hope she records some more. I don't know what a more "mature" Linda Scott's vocal delivery might sound like now, but real talent like hers is always lasting and I believe she probably sings and sounds better than ever. C'mon Ms Linda Scott, give us a little bit of happiness, sing a few more songs to brighten our lives with your "smile". . . a smile that you can hear in your voice when you sing. Thanks Linda for the music you have given us.

Previously, the only way you could get a Linda Scott compilation was to find an obscure and hard-to-find import (foreign) bootleg CD or LP - usually copied from an LP. Finally, thanks to Eric Records that has changed. Linda was an underated early 60's artist with a naturally powerful and smooth voice that was perfect for singing about teenagers in love.

Eric Records holds the rights to Linda's music and has possession of the original master and session tapes. For that reason we now have the defining collection of Linda Scott. ALL TRACKS ARE TRUE STEREO except for the last track (#22). Several of these songs are in STEREO FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! This is the first time in decades the original session tapes have been pulled to master a compilation reissue of Linda Scott (if ever).

Thanks to Tom Daly and others for the excellent mastering of this CD. You will find Tom Daly's name of the back of this CD. I've had some brief contact with Tom Daly via an Internet bulletin board and I know how dedicated he is to bringing the best sound quality on anything he works on.

At the time of this review, Amazon did not have a complete track listing, so here it is:

(1) I've Told Ev'ry Little Star (2) Don't Bet Money Honey (3) Starlight, Starbright (4) I Don't' Know Why (5) It's All Because (6) Little Star (7) A Thousand Stars (8) You Are My Lucky Star (9) When You Wish Upon a Star (10) Blue Star (11) Stardust (12) Stars Fell On Alabama (13) Count Every Star (14) Three Guesses (15) Yessiree (16) Town Crier (17) Bermuda (18) Lonely For You (19) Never In A Million Years (20) Christmas Day (21) I Left My Heart In The Balcony (22) Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?

I never heard of Linda Scott until 2001. Her music was a regular feature on an oldies specialty radio show here in Hawaii. I thought it was charming in an innocent "girl group" type of way, but was never hooked enough to it until I won this CD from the same radio station in an on-air contest. I was very impressed with the music on this CD as it sounded like a cross of a gentler Brenda Lee and Lesley Gore combined with a hint of Lennon Sisters thrown in. What most impressed me was the absolutely clean sound reproduction in this release from Eric Records. The 40+ year transfer from tape to CD is just magnificent!

As another reviewer noted, it is too bad that she is not very well known and her music not widely played. I think she can gain some new fans if her music is used someday in a movie or something. I can almost picture using the track "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed" as an intro to a slasher type of movie.
I am sure it would click with a younger audience after they wonder who recorded this.

Best tracks: "I've Told Every Little Star", "Bermuda", "Never in a Million Year" and the cover of the Elegants' hit "Little Star" which I think is way better than the original.

You won't find one single word about Linda Scott in the faintly snobbish Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (1997). In fact, it's hard to find her mentioned anywhere. I suspect it's because Linda was a purveyor of "innocently" sparkling and catchy pop songs and after the Beatles, her bouncy style was, if not bad, then certainly too babyish. Some would say that, by comparison, Linda made that other "sparkling" sixties pop singer, Leslie Gore, seem unfemininely aggressive. Whatever. But... what a stunning collection of 45's Linda released over a two-year period!

Back in the early sixties,I remember my mother buying two of Linda's first few hits - I've Told Every Little Star and I Don't Know Why - and I played them over and over and over. In my world, I was a male Linda Scott; but we won't go there. Linda had further hits in New Zealand, including Yessiree, Count Every Star, I Left My Heart on the Balcony and the superb Never In A Million Years. The Eric Records CD, The Complete Hits of Linda Scott, resurrects and restores the incomparably magic sound of Linda's sixties 45s. This CD is simply one of the best anthologies of an American sixties girl singer I've ever heard. The quality of the sound of the 22 tracks is consistently excellent. After ordering the CD, I had worried that the tracks might be fresh re-recordings and thus be devoid of the magic of the orginals. I'm pleased to say there is not one single re-recording on the CD(Bobby Rydell, please, please take note). That beautiful, clear, natural voice of Linda's is there, unadorned and expressively captivating. Listen to her achingly beautiful rendition of the forgotten gem by Jeff Barry/Artie Resnick, I Left My Heart on the Balcony (The orchestral accompaniment adds a further spine-tingling dimension).

Without hesitation I recommend this CD to all lovers of early sixties American pop. I'd like to think that some enterprising person will find a way to bring Linda's original sixties music to a wider audience and that it won't be too long before the name Linda Scott will find its rightful place alongside her sixties sisters, Brenda Lee and Leslie Gore.

This collection opens with the million-selling hit I've told every little star, which was Linda's first and biggest hit. She had two other big hits, Don't bet money honey and I don't know why and several minor hits.

All these hits together with some B-sides are included here. Linda recorded an album full of star songs and some tracks from that are also included. Among them are You are my lucky star, When you wish upon a star, Stardust and Stars fell on Alabama.

Linda was a natural talent who, with better management, might have had a long and successful career. As it was, she became disillusioned before the sixties ended and quit the music business altogether.

This is a remarkable collection and one can only wonder at what might have been.

Eric records, the small independent label known previously for its high-quality 45's reissues has brought to market this outstanding compilation of Linda Scott's material which has been up to now totally ignored by domestic CD marketers. With a generous 22 total tracks, including all eleven of her charted sides, the disc lives up to its name.

All tracks save one (22) appear in true stereo and several were remixed from the original session tapes by the renowned Little Walter DeVenne. This tidy package includes an 8-page booklet detailing Scott's musical career.

This welcome CD collection is a superbly constructed CD that fills what was a large void in the availability of 60's pop stars on CD.

I have to agree with one of the reviewer, "mettlebeats", the lovely ballad "This is my prayer" is missing (it was not included in the Rhino CD as mentioned by mettlebeats), so as "The loveliest night of the year". This is an usual phenomenon to some of the artists which had minor hits in the U.S.A. as the market is different. Just like Johnny Nash, everyone knows he has a #1 Hit "I can see clearly now" in the States, but who knows his biggest hits in Hong Kong are "The voice of love" and "As time goes by". Even Paul Anka does not have a decent greatest hits CD release in the States. Back to Linda Scott, I grew up listening to two of her songs, I've told every little star and Never in a million years. In the 60's, who wouldn't like the verse "Dum da la la la la, dum da la la", and Linda has a sweet voice that you can't resist.

Linda Scott was unfortunately an underrated talent by the media. She had a great vocal instrument and she knew how to utilize it to its fullest capacity. Her bright sparkling voice has an instant appeal. She knew how to phrase the lyric and deliver the melody in stunning fashion. She had many hits including the million seller, "I Told Every Little Star" which was recently featured in David Lynch's film, "Mulholland Drive". She was originally signed to a recording contract by the Winnipeg record mogul, Neil Galligan, who produced all the songs on this release. I treasure the fact that a local personality was responsible for bringing this great talent to a wider audience. I always felt that she should have had a broader following like Petula Clark. The arrival of The Beatles really put a damper on the American Pop Rock Ballad Singer. Woman singers like Lesley Gore, Connie Francis, Connie Stevens et al went into a sharp decline and had to find other venues for their talent. The British invasion had their pop rock ballad singer equivalents like Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Petula Clark and Dusty Springfield but their American counterparts like Gene Pitney, Bobby Vee, Ricky Nelson, Dionne Warwick and many others were relagated to the backburner. But now here is Linda Scott once more sounding great in a state-of-the-art compact disc. Eric Records deserves our deepest gratitude and highest praise for this superlative release. Perhaps, they might consider releasing more or all of her recordings as she never made a bad record. An artist of Linda Scott's calibre deserves to have her releases in public domain once more. I am certain her great song stylings will be appreciated by many old and new fans alike. It's wonderful that these songs are available again by this great singer. Linda Scott's time has finally come again!

THIS WAS A LONG AWAITED ITEM AND IS AN ALMOST PERFECT C.D. IT WAS JUST MISSING "THIS IS MY PRAYER" WHICH WAS A BIG HIT FOR THEOLA KILGORE. I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH OTHER THAN I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO PEOPLE WHO APPRECIATE THE GIRLS OF THE 50'S AND 60'S. LINDA SCOTT WAS ONE OF THE BEST AND SANG HER SONGS WEEKLY ON DICK CLARK'S "WHERE THE ACTION IS". OLDIE'S STATIONS PLAY "I'VE TOLD EVERY LITTLE STAR'' ALOT , BUT ONE HAS TO LISTEN TO "COUNT EVERY STAR" "I DON'T KNOW WHY" AND "TOWN CRYER" TO REALLY APPRECIATE HER. SHE WAS AN EXCELLENT BALAD SINGER AND I LOVED DANCING SLOW AT THE SCHOOL "SOCK HOPS" TO HER MUSIC, WHICH ALSO GOES FOR BRENDA LEE, SHELLEY FABARES, ANNETTE FUNICELLO,CONNIE STEVENS,DODIE STEVENS ETC.GEE I MISS THAT ERA, BUT THIS C.D HELPS BRING IT BACK!

I first heard Linda's big hit I've Told Every Little Star when I was only ten years old before I came to speak and write good English. This was truly memorable how her voice echoed in my ears. Unforgettable! When I came of age I went hunting for her LPs and I got a number of LPs. My most favourite numbers are Bermuda, Count Every Star, The Loveliest Night of the Year, Blue Star, Little Star...wow man to name. During the late eighties I went abroad and stayed there for a year. At the meantime, I left my big collection of Linda's and others' LPs in a big cabinet in my abandoned photographic dark room. When I came back I went broken hearted to find all of Linda's LPs were destroyed by white ants. Since then I kept asking friends abroad to find Linda's Lps (CDs) but in vain.
The songs in this CD, although I have not purchased it, are just marvellous. I've been looking for it for my whole life.