Digitally Remastered Best [Import]

Sandpipers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal/a&M
• ASIN: B000009G1Z
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Guantanamera

2. Louie, Louie

3. For Baby

4. Glass

5. Quando Sali De Cuba (The Wind Will Change Tomorrow)

6. Quando M'Innamoro

7. Let Go

8. Wonder Of You, The

9. Kum-Ba-Ya

10. Come Saturday Morning

11. Free To Carry On

12. Sound Of Love, The

13. Chotto Matte Kudasai(Never Say Goodbye)

14. An Old Fashioned Love Song

15. Gift Of Song, A

16. Angelica

17. Misty Roses

18. Drifter, The

19. Never My Love

20. Cast Your Fate To The Wind

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered Japanese reissue of A&M's 'best of'for this '60s pop vocal trio from Los Angeles. 24 tracks,including 'Guantanamera', 'Louie, Louie' and 'Come SaturdayMorning'. 1998 A&M release.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT MEMORIES FROM THE 1960'S, July 24, 2001

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RAFA "rafa" (MEXICO, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digitally Remastered Best (Audio CD)

I WAS TWO THE YEAR 1966 WHEN GUANTANAMERA AND CUANDO SALI DE CUBA (WHEN I LEFT CUBA) WERE GOING AROUND THE WORLD. GUANATANAMERA IS THE MOST FAMOUS POEM WRITTEN BY CUBAN JOSE MARTI. HE REFLECTS HIS FEELING OF FREEDOM FOR HIS COUNTRY AND FEELING NECESSARY TO GIVE HIS OWN LIFE, HE DID SO, BUT NOT WITHOUT GIVING OTHERS A WORD OF HOPE. CUANDO SALI DE CUBA IS SIMILAR, BUT THIS TIME THE AUTHOR REFLECTS THE SADNESS AND HURT OF HAVING TO LEAVE HIS HOMELAND BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT MAKING HIM TO LOOSE HIS FREEDOM AND HAVING TO GO TO OTHER PLACES TO REACH HIS FREEDOM, BUT KEEPING IN MIND TO GO BACK TO HIS HOMELAND LIVING IN FREEDOM. THESE ALBUM CONTAINS VERY WONDERFUL SONGS, SOME OF THEM IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, THIS IS THE CASE IN GUANTANAMERA, CUANDO SALI DE CUBA AND THE ITALIAN HIT QUANDO M'INNAMORA ( WHEN I FALL IN LOVE ). THE SWEETNESS OF THE VOICES IN THE SANDPIPERS ARE NOT ONLY ROMANTIC, THEY GIVE A SPECIAL FEELING TO EVERY SONG. MAY I ALSO COMMENT ABOUT THE BRASILIAN BOSSA NOVA BY BADEN POWELL LET GO, A SONG THAT LETS YOU SEE YOU ARE VERY VALIOUS TO EVERYONE AROUND. I RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM, BY THE SWEETNESS OF THE VOICES AND FOR A GOOD TIME TO RELAX. ALL THE SONGS ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL AND VERY WELL SELECTED. DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE IT IN YOUR COLLECTION.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The easy listening male vocal trio of the late 1960s, June 10, 2003

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digitally Remastered Best (Audio CD)

The Sandpipers were an easy listening male vocal trio (Jim Brady, Mike Piano, and Richard Shoff) who had a couple of Top 20 hits in the late 1960s. "Guantanamera," with its Spanish lyrics translated in a spoken section, made in higher on the Billboard charts (#9) but the song most identified with the group was "Come Saturday Morning" (#17), which was the theme song for the film "The Sterile Cuckoo." The songs personify the group's sound, which were light harmonies sung over the delicate sounds of strings. The group was signed by Herb Alpert to the trumpeter's own label, which explains why in addition to the South American folk song "Guantanamera" there did other songs with a Latin flair, such as "Cuando Sali De Cuba" and "Quando Sali de Cuba." There are also an Italian song, "Quando m'Innamora ("When I Fall in Love") to expand the group's international flavor as well as cover versions of a slew of other hits, such as "Louie Louie," "Kumbaya," "Never My Love," "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart," and La Bamba."

Harry Belafonte and Hector Acosta were two of the group's name arrangers, which was rather surprising, but what I was most interested in learning was that the name of the female vocalist who supported the group by singing wordlessly in and around the group's main harmonies, was named Pamela Ramcier. It never dawned on me that it would be the same singer or that she performed with the Sandpipers in concert. But I have always liked that sound, both on these songs and on the soundtrack of "Once Upon a Time in the West," which is the other notable example of this style that comes to mind. The Sandpipers were not a great group, mainly because their easy listening sound comes across as being one of the main influences on Muzak (a.k.a. elevator music), but the collection of "The Best of the Sandpipers" shows them at their best. If you remember their sound, or at least their hits songs, then you should already know if you would like to listen to two dozen of their tracks.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars At last I found it!, December 19, 2000

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"lasignora" (Hudson, Ma United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digitally Remastered Best (Audio CD)

I really wanted it for 'Quando Sali de Cuba' which I loved long ago.My other favourite tracks are 'Quando M'Innamoro','Kumbaya' and 'Free to carry on'.It is gentle soothing harmony. The Sandpipers sing so well in English, Spanish and Italian....I haven't guessed where they are really from! Just so you know...'La Bamba' is sung slowly to a different tune...not the famous one of Los Lobos.