Early Girls Volume 2 [Import]

Early Girls (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 7, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B0000009KM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,583 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #74 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Girl Groups

Track Listings

1. My Boy Lollipop - Barbie Gaye

2. Tell Him - The Exciters

3. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics

4. The Boy Next Door - The Secrets

5. Every Beat Of My Heart - The Pips

6. You Don't Own Me - Lesley Gore

7. The Street - Terry & The Tunisians

8. Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane

9. Sugartime - The McGuire Sisters

10. Cry Baby - The Bonnie Sisters

11. Tonight You Belong To Me - Patience & Prudence

12. The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - The Raindrops

13. Fever - Peggy Lee

14. September In The Rain - Dinah Washington

15. I'll Save The Last Dance For You - Damita Jo

16. Teach Me Tiger - April Stevens

17. I Just Don't Understand - Ann Margret

18. I Met Him On A Sunday (Ronde-Ronde) - The Shirelles

19. Lonely Blue Nights - Rosie & The Originals

20. Forgive Me (For Giving You Such A Bad Time) - Babs Tino

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This is a delightful 28-track compilation encompassing solo artists, girl groups and male backing groups fronted by a female lead singer. This second volume plows turf similar to the first, with an emphasis on Hot 100 hits like "Tell Him" by the Exciters, "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby and the Romantics, "Every Beat of My Heart" by the Pips, "Bobby's Girl" by Marcie Blaine, "A Thousand Stars" by Kathy Young, "Let Me In" by the Sensations, "Tonight You Belong to Me" by Patience and Prudence, and "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore. But just as important to the big picture are left-field delights like Barbie Gaye's 1956 original of "My Boy Lollipop," Rosie and the Originals' Highland Records version of "Lonely Blue Nights," Terry and the Tunisians' "The Street," Babs Tino's "Forgive Me (For Giving You Such a Hard Time)" and Ann-Margret's "I Just Don't Understand," replete with early fuzztone guitar, backup from the Jordanaires and harmonica from Charlie McCoy. Selections from Peggy Lee ("Fever"), the Raindrops ("The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget"), the McGuire Sisters ("Sugartime"), the Bonnie Sisters ("Cry Baby"), April Stevens ("Teach Me Tiger"), and the Shirelles ("I Met Him On a Sunday") round out this excellent -- though wildly scattershot -- package. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Fit With the Rhino "Girl Group" Series, July 18, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Girls Volume 2 (Audio CD)

While the song selection on this second volume is not as strong as volume one, this UK Ace release still makes a fine companion to Rhino's Best of the Girl Groups series. Factor in that this single-disc compilation has 28 songs (only two of which appear on the Rhino series) and this is a real bargain.

Like volume one, there are a few Fifties selections: the McGuire Sisters No. 1 smash "Sugartime" (1958), the No. 4 hit "Tonight You Belong to Me" (1956) by Patience and Prudence, the Bonnie Sisters 1956 version of "Cry Baby" (not the 1963 cover version by Garnett Mimms), and Peggy Lee's sultry reading of the Little Willie John classic, "Fever," from 1958.

Lee, who sang with Benny Goodman in the Forties, on the surface seems something of an odd choice, but hers is the definitive version of this song. Dinah Washington, who sang with Lionel Hampton in the Forties, also makes an appearance with "September in the Rain" from 1961.

Volume two also features more obscure artists like Babs Tino ("Forgive Me"), Terry and The Tunisians ("The Street"), Barbie Gaye ("My Boy Lollipop"--not the Millie Small hit version), the Hearts ("Lonely Nights"), the Pearlettes ("Duchess of Ear"), the Blossoms ("Move On"), and April Stevens without her brother Nino Tempo ("Teach Me Tiger").

There are also hits that rarely get anthologized like "The Boy Next Door" (No. 18) by the Secrets, "What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You) (No. 12) by Timi Yuro, "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" (No. 22) by Daminta Jo, and "I Just don't Understand" (No. 17) by movie starlet Ann-Margret.

Then there are the big hits like Ruby & the Romantics' No. 1 "Our Day Will Come," The Pips' first Top Ten from 1961 "Every Beat of My Heart," Marcie Blane's "Bobby's Girl," and the Sensations' "Let Me In."

If you love the girl group sound of the late-Fifties and early-Sixties, you can't go wrong with this second installment. And as one of England's premier re-issue labels, Ace provides excellent sound and informative liner notes on each of the songs and the artists. RECOMMENDED

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old gems from the fifties and sixties, January 27, 2003

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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: Early Girls Volume 2 (Audio CD)

This impressive collection of recordings by female singers, laid down between 1955 and 1963, is the second of three volumes. Few of the ladies featured here had a lot of hits, but Peggy Lee (Fever) and Dinah Washington (September in the rain) were very prolific.

The set begins with My boy lollipop, which was a huge hit for Millie in the sixties, but the unsuccessful Barbie Gaye version included here was recorded in 1956. Tell him was a number four American hit for the Exciters, while a cover by Billie Davis was a top ten British hit. There are two American number ones here, these being Our day will come (Ruby and the romantics) and Sugartime (McGuire sisters) - they also charted in Britain, where the McGuire sisters had to compete with a cover by Alma Cogan. Both ended up in the top twenty. Bobby's girl was a number three American hit for Marcie Blane, while Susan Maughan covered the song and had a British number three hit. In the eighties, Tracey Ullman, better known as a comedienne, covered the song.

Lesley Gore is represented by the feminist anthem You don't own me, which was an American number two but missed the British charts although it was covered by Dusty Springfield. I'll save the last dance for you is an answer song to Save the last dance for me. Among the less known gems, you get to hear Teach me tiger by April Stevens, who had an American number one when she sang Deep purple with her brother, Nino Tempo.

Gladys Knight and the pips are represented by two songs, one of them only credited to The pips. Both were American top twenty hits, with Every beat of my hear reaching number six.

There are many other great songs, mostly sung by long-forgotten one-hit wonders. Anybody interested in female singers of the era and looking for less obvious material should check this out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another strong effort, December 26, 2001

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Girls Volume 2 (Audio CD)

Ace rolls out its second volume of early girl and girl-led group sounds. This time, there are six tunes that did not make it into the top 100 and that may seem to be a bit of a letdown in content but when looking at the overall repertoire, this series still beats just about anything else of the genre out there.

With enough (ten) top-10 songs to keep the music familiar, there are lots of seldom-found sides making the listening much more interesting and not sounding like every other oldies comp. Between such monster hits as Lesley Gore's pre-womens' rights anthem "You Don't Own Me", the Exciters' go-and-get-him "Tell Him" and Kathy Young's barely pubescent "A Thousand Stars" are cradled such rarities as the Secrets' "The Boy Next Door" (a Madara-White, of "You Don't Own Me" and other Gore tunes fame, composition ), April Stevens' "Teach Me Tiger" (later with brother Nino Tempo striking it big with "Deep Purple") and Timi Yuro's (of "Hurt" fame) "What's A Matter Baby".

In this volume three of the tracks are acknowledged as having been lifted from disc but only track 10 is of substandard sound quality even so. Many of the tracks (2,3,6,8,12-15,17,23,25,28) appear in stereo, the remainder in mono. The 16-page booklet accompaning the disc provides pages of fascinating background to the artists represented. Ace again hits the mark with this new compilation.