Complete Recordings

Joan Weber | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0002ABUSO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #458,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Marionette

2. Let Me Go Lover

3. It May Sound Silly

4. Call Me Careless

5. Lover - Lover (Why Must We Part)

6. Tell the Lord

7. Don't Throw My Love Away

8. Anything, Everything for Love

9. Rock Talk

10. Goodbye Lollipops, Hello Lipstick (I'm Not a Baby Anymore)

11. What Should a Teen Heart Do?

12. Gone

13. A Love That's a Lie

14. Who'll Be My Judge

15. Saturday Lover - Sunday Stranger

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The day we thought would never come, July 14, 2004

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This review is from: Complete Recordings (Audio CD)

After Joan Weber shot to #1 with "Let Me Go, Lover," possibly the most-covered hit record of all time, there is no reason she could not have gone to a lasting hit-filled career. The followup, "It May Sound Silly," was terrific and the McGuire Sisters landed a hit with it. But the record slipped out with no promotion or attention. I've been told by disc jockeys who should know that the problem was Weber was pregnant at the time of "Let Me Go, Lover" and not in good condiition for touring or performing and that her marriage was going through difficulties. And that, for who knows what reasons, Mitch Miller was not ready to invest money and time in a career for her. The rest of her career at Columbia, which was a product of her intiial contract rather than any interest in giving her success, involved her recording some really low-quality songs and trying all sorts of singing styles.
There is no evidence of her ever getting any coaching for performing. She over-emotes, over-phrases and sings too close to the microphone and sobs to show emotion. All that easily could have been corrected.
There was one more great record, Ferlin Huskey's terrific song, "Gone," and it got radio play but again Columbia just neglected it until it died on the vine. Weber ended up a restaurant hostess and a tragic figure.
I've always thought it criminal that nearly 50 years after "Let Me Go, Lover" she never got an album, never got a C.D., as her work on Columbia is truly interesting and off-beat, for all the right and all the wrong , reasons. She certainly did not deserve the shabby treatment she got and certainly did not deserve musical oblivion. "Let Me Go, Lover," "Marionette" and "Gone" are reason enought to have this long, long overdue C.D.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Answers The Mystery, August 3, 2004

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Listening In North St. Paul (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Recordings (Audio CD)

This collection answers the question: why didn't Joan Weber have another chart record after the classic "Let Me Go Lover"? The next few records (all on this CD) are memorable - but definitely not commercial (even in 1955). Her last few singles are much improved, but the momentum was apparently gone. For any fan of 1950's female pop - this is really an interesting collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Music Industry's Shame, December 20, 2007

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K. W. Grossman "maidez" (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Recordings (Audio CD)

Joan Weber was a viable and talented artist whose carear was thrown away by the music industry in favor of other artists that were already "on their way and proven" (The McGuire Sisters, Doris Day, Teresa Brewer. to name two). Some of these artists were rerecording Joan's efforts in the same time frame and, therefore, redirecting her impact. Much has been made of her being pregnant at the time, but this is not the real reason. Nor was her not being able to tour for several months the real reason. After all, she had a #1 hit after she had performed this hit live on TV ,Studio One, well into her pregnancy. The music industry practice was to pay their artists as little as possible and it had a strangle hold on everyone. They had their favorites and that was that. Mitch Miller, head of A&R at Columbia, did not want to invest further in her carear. Joan Weber was not the first carear Mr. Miller had ruined nor the last. He was without boundaries and did as he chose with his personal priorities tainting the choices. Perhaps she was too good and would have given Doris Day and other invested favorites a run for their money. Perhaps some of the good old boys crowd attitude was in play. Whatever, I am truly grateful to finally own the only non single release she ever had, released way beyond her death, by Collectables and Sony in 2004. It is efforts like this that is finally reviving "lost" talent. One wonders if she would have died in such sad circumstances had she been allowed to blossom. I cried for her when I read her biography.