Evelyn Champagne King - Greatest Hits

Evelyn "Champagne" King | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B0000584WS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,945 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Giving a wonderful singer a chance to revive, June 3, 2001

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Walter Rice (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evelyn Champagne King - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

This is RCA's second release of best hits by Evelyn Champagne King. The first one was in 1993, and the two are her only two albums released in the United States since 1990. (She does have a very worthwhile English album (that I like very much) of new Songs ("I'll keep a Light On", 1995, on the Expansion label.)

I think Evelyn is an extroadinary singer. She is a strong singer, but she also has a wonderful gift of bringing playfulness, happiness, and love to life in her music in a way that I do not quite find in any other singer. I love Evelyn's music. There is a tremendous amount of good popular music, but I think I could be satisfied enough to only listen to Evelyn Champagne King, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles, and be happy for the rest of my life.

This album contains a little booklet that has a very personal and powerful biograhical account of Evelyn's life. It penetrates far beneath the surface of what I have read about her before, and it contains a collection of some very nice pictures of her. The album does contain her most popular hits, and a few other hits to make it a little different from the last best hists album. It reintroduces some decent songs "Till Midnight", "Spirit of the Dancer" (that I did not think of as a hit, but always liked), and the very early song "Let's Get Funky Tonight". Unfortunately, it leaves out one of her very best "Get Loose".

I am just happy that RCA had the good judgement and courage (maybe) to bring out an Evelyn Champagne King album in 2001. I am not just a lover of greatest hits. To me some of her songs that I love the most are not the hits, and I love them as much. (I will just say she has a very deep talent, as is also true with many singers). Also, she had some beautiful songs with other record companies that could not appear on an RCA hits album (especially the "Flirt" EMI album and the "I'll keep a Light On". The biography, in fact, spread tremendous light on on some of her music after her RCA days, especially on "Kisses Don't Lie" and "Starchild". It made me appreciate, and it made me cry. I hope very much that this release will help bring Evelyn "Champagne" King back to life for music listeners, and that she can continue to develop, and that maybe some of her many earlier albums that I loved so much can be re-published also. I also would like also like her to be prominent enough to have a tour schedule, so I do not miss her when she does appear close by.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Queen Called King, April 25, 2002

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The Groove (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evelyn Champagne King - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

When people think of r&b staples of the 1980s, the first names that come up are Prince and Michael Jackson. But this hits collection shows that Evelyn Champagne King should get her props for releasing some of the most solid r&b hits of the 1980s. She may be best known to mainstream audiences for her 1970s disco anthem "Shame," but r&b fans also know her for her work with producer Kashif, the Babyface of his day. "I'm in Love" is a flawless dance number bursting with the kind of funk modern artists could only wish they could possess. "Love Come Down" and "Betcha She Don't Love You" also stand out as well. Unfortunately, the last third of the disc is made up of material of lesser quality, but this is overall a purchase that merits attention.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Mighty King, February 11, 2002

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muzyksohlchile (Orangeburg, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Evelyn Champagne King - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

A true talent whose singing abilities goes far beyond than that of being hailed one of disco's finest. True, King reigned supreme with ultimate dance classics "Shame," "I Don't Know If It's Right," and "Music Box," but in closing the chapter on one of music's greatest eras, Evelyn "Champagne" King successfully became one of '80's R&B premiere powerhouse female vocalists turning such hits as "Love Come Down," "I'm In Love," "Your Personal Touch," and "Get Loose," just to name a few, into instant and timeless classics. This definitive collection triumphantly showcases an amazing and dynamic voice.