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23 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent cd of great songs from a great singer !,
By A Customer
This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)
Most people probably recognize Anita Bryant more for her 1970's orange juice commercials on t.v. and for her outspokenness on the subject of gay rights, but most folks who know Anita for only those two things are really missing out on Anita's great voice. Anita had several hits in the early 1960's-"Paper Roses", "Till There Was You", "My Little Corner of the World", etc. Those are 3 fine songs and Anita's versions are the best. Also here are standouts such as "Pretty Lies", "The World of Lonely People", "Cold, Cold Winter" "The Unopened Letter" and the plum silly "Sleepin' at the Foot of the Bed". Then there's the lovely "The Wedding ( La Novia)" and "Step by Step, Little by Little". Anita Bryant had a great voice like Patsy Cline, and like Patsy recorded some darn good songs! This is a great cd. it wolud have benefited from the inclusion of a few more songs. Anita 's music is romantic and swings!
15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I may not like her politics but boy, I love her music,
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This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)
In this album, Anita Bryant takes us back to the days when life was simpler and songs were still meant to be sung. What better way to celebrate and trek back to that golden age than through her songs. Paper Roses, My Little Corner of the World, The Wedding, Pretty Lies, The Unopened Letter...these are just some of the gems awaiting the listeners.
Unfortunately for Anita Bryant, looks like as an artist, she's being judged - and crucified - not for her music but for her politics! And it's just plain unfair. It appears quite obvious that many reviewers give Anita Bryant negative ratings not because her performance is mediocre or falls short of their expectation but rather because, well, they disagree with her political beliefs! Jeez, where does it say in the U.S. Constitution, or in the constitution of any other nation on earth for that matter, that an artist must be politically correct before she could be considered a good artist? If an artist must always be on good behavior before she could truly be appreciated as an artist, then Ludwig van Beethoven, sour, choleric and insufferable that he was, should not even have merited a second's attention in the music world. I consider myself a liberal and I just strongly disagree with Ms. Bryant's politics which borders on bigotry no matter how I look at it. But, hey, do I have to be in agreement with her political leanings before I could start appreciating her as an artist? I just don't see the connection. I surely would hate it if, say, Barbra Streisand, an artist I so greatly admire - and whose politics I agree with, by the way - is given bad ratings by reviewers from the conservative right simply because of her liberal political leaning. Why, that would be Anita Bryant's case in reverse! If we allow our biases to affect our judgment as reviewers, it's an easy bet that our ratings will always either be one-star or five-star, determined solely by the rater's politics - rather than by the music's effect on him as listener - which would be truly bad. Besides, suppose we rate an artist based on her politics, where goes our rating if we agree with her about certain political points but disagree on some other points? More importantly, by negatively rating her artistic performance based on her exhibited bigotry, aren't we as raters in effect revealing our own bigotry as well? Let's cool it a bit, folks. How about if we just separate Anita Bryant's politics from her music and instead just focus on her artistic merits or lack of it? Surely an artist's political leaning and her artistic performance are two different things. Or aren't they?
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Yet Another Collectables Disappointment,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Golden Classics (Audio CD)
Anita Bryant had exactly eleven Billboard Pop Hot 100 single hits, only one of which also made the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts and, in a 14-selection compilation entitled "Golden Classics", Collectables manages to give us all of four. Big whoop! Well actually five if you count Step By Step, Little By Little which was a Hot 100 "bubble under" at # 106 in 1962.
Now, one could be charitable and say that the title reflects, as in the Curb fashion, not necessarily Anita's golden classics, but rather a mix of hers and others. After all, The Wedding, Free, A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed, Cold, Cold Winter, and God Bless America were solid hits for other artists. But then you get tracks 5, 10, and 12 which were "classics" for no one that I know of, least of all Anita. Hurry Home To Me (track 11) was a minor Country hit in 1970 for Bobby Wright. The four hits included are: Till There Was You from the Broadway musical The Music Man (# 30 Hot 100 in late summer 1959) b/w Little George (Got The Hiccoughs) and Paper Roses (# 5 Hot 100 in May 1960 b/w Mixed Emotions), both hits with the backing of Monty Kelly's orchestra; In My Little Corner Of The World (# 10 Hot 100 in August 1960 b/w Anyone Would Love You); The World Of Lonely People (# 17 AC/# 59 Hot 100 in June 1964 and her last charted single, b/w It's Better To Cry Today Than To Cry Tomorrow). With the exception of the last, which came on the Columbia label, all her hits were released by Carlton. A much better "Golden Classics" compilation would have contained the four just mentioned plus: Six Boys And Seven Girls [# 62 in 1959]; Promise Me A Rose (A Slight Detail) which reached # 78 in 1959 and its flipside, Do-Re-Mi which made it to # 94 - all three with the backing of Monty Kelly; One Of The Lucky Ones [# 62 in 1960]; Wonderland By Night [# 18 in 1961 with Lew Douglas & His Orchestra]; A Texan And A Girl From Mexico [# 85 in 1961]; and I Can't Do It By Myself [# 87 in 1961]. And, perhaps, her other "bubble under" - 1964's Welcome, Welcome Home [# 130]. I don't subscribe to the theory expressed in some other reviews that Anita's tumble from the spotlight was precipitated by her controversial comments. Rather, she was just one more in a long list of recording artists who found themselves shunted aside by the British Invasion in 1964. That, and the fact she was just not as good as some of the other female non-R&R pop artists who were competing for attention at the time, such as Barbra Streisand, Dusty Springfield, Betty Everett,Dionne Warwick, and Nancy Wilson, to name a few. As for this release, I found it highly disappointing from the point of view of us collectors of hit singles.
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