Early Girls Volume 3 [Import]

Early Girls (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B00004Y32E
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,300 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My One And Only, Jimmy Boy - The Girlfriends

2. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March

3. He's Mine - Alice Wonderland

4. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares

5. Dumb Head - Ginny Arnell

6. Please Love Me Forever - Cathy Jean And The Roommates

7. At Last - Etta James

8. What Are Boys Made Of? - The Percells

9. Don't You Know? - Della Reese

10. I Want You To Be My Baby - Lillian Briggs

11. With All My Heart - Jodie Sands

12. I'm Available - Margie Rayburn

13. Old Cape Cod - Patti Page

14. Angel On My Shoulder - Shelby Flint

15. Hurt - Timi Yuro

16. Johnny Get Angry - Joanie Sommers

17. Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard - Diane Ray

18. Birthday Party - The Pixies Three

19. Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes) - Carla Thomas

20. Shake A Hand - Faye Adams

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Amazing As the First Two Volumes!, January 26, 2001

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Girls Volume 3 (Audio CD)

England's ACE Records has become the premiere reissue label in the world. They have done everything Rhino has done for years. Used top grade source tapes, excellent sound, well written and informative liner notes and top-notch song selection. And for my money, they've upped the ante. The booklet is a 20-page, full-color collection of publicity stills, handbills and notes on each artist and song. And you get 28 songs! No other label is this generous.

And these are all wonderfully chosen songs. All but one of these (Suzie Clark's "Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya") made the pop or R&B charts. There are No. 1 hits like Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel" and Little Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him." Faye Adams topped the R&B charts with the rousing "Shake a Hand," and Etta James' hit No. 2 with "At Last." And then there are other forgotten pop gems sprinkled throughout this collection, like the Chantels' highest charting hit "Look In My Eyes," and Cathy Jean and the Roommates' hit version of "Please Love Me Forever" (six years before Bobby Vinton returned it to the charts).

Unlike Rhino's Girl Group series, which focused on the early Sixties, the ACE series spans the years 1953 to 1964. So there is very little overlap between the two. In fact, only Joanie Sommer's "Johnny Get Angry" is duplicated from the Rhino series, so these two series complement each other very nicely. If you already own the two earlier volumes (or even the two volumes of the Rhino series), this latest installment is a welcome addition. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better..., August 18, 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 3 (Audio CD)

While there are a number of quality early rock and roll girl-group compilation CD's around (Rhino and Varese Vintage), Ace really does it best. Here, in the third installment of the "Early Girls" series, Ace has presented a massive 28-track collection that includes a few very familiar tunes mixed in with a wealth of seldom-found major and minor hits from the golden age of American rock and roll. Cradled between big hits like Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel" and Esther Phillips' "Release Me" are gems like Margie Rayburn's "I'm Available" and Shelby Flint's "Angel On My Shoulder". Among the rarities are "He's Mine" from Alice Wonder Land and the Pixies Three's "Birthday Party".

Sound quality is excellent for many of these obscure recordings with tracks 2,4,7,9,15-17,21,22,25 and 27 in true stereo. Tracks 23 and 27 are acknowledged as coming from disc but sound clean and full. A 24-page booklet with lots of pics and background info on the tracks anthologized completes this excellent CD.

This new volume in Ace's continuing reissue series of the genre is a superb effort and worthy of collectors' and casual fans' attention.

5 of 5 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 3 (Audio CD)

This impressive collection of recordings by female singers, laid down between 1955 and 1964, is the third of three volumes. Few of the ladies featured here had a lot of hits. Patti Page, best remembered for Tennessee waltz but represented here by Old Cape Cod, was the most successful.

There are two American number one hits - I will follow him (Little Peggy March) and Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares). Peggy's hit was a cover of a song recorded by Petula Clark. Other big American hits included Don't you know (Della Reese), Hurt (Timi Yuro), Johnny get angry (Joanie Sommers) and Release me (Esther Phillips), Release me began life as a country song in the early fifties, but although Esther's top ten cover re-launched her career, it would be Engelbert Humperdinck who would make the song his own, having an even bigger American hit with it as well as a British number one.

Etta James' cover of Glenn Miller's At last only scraped into the American top fifty, but it gave her career a direction to go in.

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.