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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:
6 stars deserved, June 24, 2001
While there have been numerous Dion/Dion w/Belmonts CDs that have come and gone, this effort out of the German Repertoire label is a suberb accomplishment. This single-disc greatest hits collection is the first true gathering of greatest hits for Dion's entire career. While there are some minor charted records not included here, these twenty tracks represent every invasion of the top 40 by Dion, solo and with the Belmonts. Proof of the completeness of this set is the inclusion of "Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw", a tune consistantly ignored in other Dion collections. Sound quality is excellent - on a par with the work that Ace records did with the Dion Laurie catalog some time ago. All tracks except 4, 6 and 8 are in true stereo. Liner notes are sparse - a half page brief synopsis of Dion's career in English and German. A six-star rating in deserved to some degree simply because Repetoire has produced exactly what it calls this disc - Dion and the Belmonts Greatest Hits - and has done it extremely well. If only one Dion CD is going into a collection, this is unquestionably the one.
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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
Great Compilation Of Dion's Hits!, July 31, 2002
One very talented artist from the late 1950s and 1960s that has slid from public notice is Dion Dimucci, more popularly known simply as Dion. Starting with a group of neighborhood pals as Dion and the Belmonts, he rose literally from the streets of New York to become one of the most successful pop recording artists of the era. Competing against other perpetual hit machines like Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Dion produced a steady stream of chart busters throughout the early and mid 1960s. All of that music, as well as his return to public acclaim with the fabulously successful Abraham, Martin, and John near the end of the decade after the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Most of his chartbusters are here, from his initial success with the Belmonts with Teenager In Love to The Still Of The Night to Where Or When to his fabulously popular The Wanderer, which touted the smarmy style of swaggering, wildly pompadoured teenage males playing the irresistible male stereotype as best they knew how, with skin tight Levis and form-fit white tees shirts, rolled-up sleeves and all. And the flood of similar songs also making the top ten are also here, including Runaround Sue, Ruby Baby, Donna The Prima Donna, The Majestic, Drip Drop, and on and on. Here we find such gems as Sandy, This Little Girl, Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw, and Little Dian. Listening to this collection is like stepping back in time to my own adolescence, when life was simpler and the radio was filled with a stream of non-stop hits from a plethora of artists, who, like Dion, seemed to be able to just keep pumping them out, one after another, with almost monotonous regularity. Enjoy!
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic!!, April 23, 2002
If you're looking for a quintessential collection of Dion & The Belmonts music on a single disc, then look no further than this German import of Dion & The Belmonts Greatest Hits! Let me tell you, the pristine sound quality on this disc has to be heard to be believed, especially when considering that most of these songs were recorded at least 35 years ago! You'd swear they were recorded yesterday! The fine packaging and the fact that every one of Dion & The Belmonts Top 40 singles spanning three different record labels are included on this disc make it WELL worth the value price! My question is, why can't U.S. labels ever seem to put out high quality single disc collections like this??? I've gotten to the point where I'm turning exclusively to import titles to get all my oldies music compiled and remastered the way I want it!!
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
All the hits on one album--Finally!, July 1, 2000
It's a pure delight to finally have all of Dion's major hits, solo and with The Belmonts, on one CD. This import album truly delivers the goods. There is currently (and never been before) a U.S. compilation that matches this one, seeing as how Dion's solo hits between 1961 and 1968 were on 3 different labels, thereby making licensing more difficult for a single disc compilation. It's the best collection available for those who want just the biggest hits from Dion & The Belmonts and Dion solo. I would also put it in the category of one of the all-time best "Greatest Hits" albums ever made.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
For Dion Fans This CD is IT!, February 1, 2001
If you're looking like I was for Dion's hits that sound like the oldies stations play them, this is it.I play this one so much, loving those goldies: "Wanderer" "Donna the Prima Donna" "Ruby Baby"etc. Even has some more which I have become fond of hearing, such as "Love Came To Me" and "Drip Drop."
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
first class sound with Dion's hits, June 26, 2006
Here is Dion & Dion and Belmonts in a wonderful series of hits. Great fun for those new to the music and great memories for those who remember.
After Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and, Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock music fell into the doldrums of 58-63 and the Italian American doo-wop groups went into the gap. (There were really two '60's - the later wild '60's, after '65, that everyone knows, and the totally different early 60's). No money for instruments, they developed 4 part harmonies singing acapella on the streets corners on Phildelphia and New York. Many of them were not very talented, Fabian Forte, Frankie Avalon, etc. But head and shoulders above the rest of them was the alternately sensitive or swaggering baby-faced Dion DiMucci, the Swinging King of the Bronx. Originally Dion's soaring tenor with his greaser friends from Belmont Avenue.
Dion had (still has) a great voice. This collection has all his great hits and a few lesser ones. Many cautionary tales about Dion getting cheated on by a variety of sl_tty girlfriends (Runaround Sue, Little Diane), gold digggers like Donna the Prima Donna or Dion feeling sad about being alone. But there is also a lot of fun and swagger, with songs like "The Wanderer".
The sound reproduction here is astonding! Really three-dimensional soundstage, the Germans did a much better job remastering this than any of other CD's that contain this same music. It starts good with four chords songs like "the Wanderer" and gets better and better, reaching it's peak with "Ruby Baby", "Donna the Prima Donna" and the sideways sea-sick "Drip Drop". These pressings sound like they could have been recorded yesterday!
Compare Dion's "Ruby Baby" with Donald Fagen's (Steely Dan) classic cover on "Nightfly". Then compare this music to Dion's masterful Dion's new acoustic blues release "Bronx In Blue". Great, truly memorable music on all three albums. You need these albums in your collection.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Sing it, come on, you know the words..., July 27, 2002
Working in a health care facility, I was amazed that I did not think of using this CD sooner to make my patients happy. Of course I grew up with this sound, but so did many others. When I introduced this CD into the program, it reached so many. We all sing along, the staff and patients alike, and it makes things just a little bit better. I keep a copy in the car just for me too. This is a real feel good CD and I highly recommend it!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
What a Voice!, May 10, 2003
This is perhaps the best collection of Dion songs ever produced on one CD. Sure, as always, there's some good stuff missing, and there are some songs on it that just don't cut it. But, that's why you can program tracks you want to hear. The Wanderer, Ruby Baby, This Little Girl, Runaround Sue, and Lovers Who Wander were among the great Dion songs that were made to dance to and to have fun singing along. This is a keeper for your collection.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
It's Not All Here, February 8, 2005
My only bone to pick with this release is what it leaves out. As a teenager in New York in the sixties, it was impossible to be a serious Dion fan without loving "Sandy" and any one of his versions of "That's My Desire". Try looking for a Laurie/Columbia release that has great sound quality (especially on vinyl and it's much cheaper) that includes his work with the Belmonts. If you were a kid then, you never really could separate the group and solo work - that's what makes Dion an all-timer.
Larry from Brooklyn
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
There is Only One Dion, June 2, 2006
This is an absolutely irreplaceable collection of some of the real themes of another era. If you are trying to evoke the mood of the 1950s, who better than Dion?
This collection spans a long period of time, indeed. Dion was criticized for recording the same song over and over again. There are strong thematic resonances in his music, all right, but this collection takes us al the way up to somethings which sound totally different, too.
Dion's talent and originality will last for decades to come. If you need a reminder, this collection is really first-rate.
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