Greatest Hits

Tommy Roe | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (August 15, 1994)
• Label: Hollywood
• ASIN: B00005YF5M
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,025,762 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dizzy

2. Heather Honey

3. Jam up and Jelly Tight

4. Sheila

5. Sweet Pea

6. Everybody

7. Hooray for Hazel

8. Baby I Love You

9. Sugar Sugar

10. Crimson & Clover

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT the original versions!, October 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tommy Roe - Greatest Hits [Onyx] (Audio CD)

The song list is great - but these are not the versions we used to hear on the radio! Very disappointing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The most popular Bubblegum singer of all time? Tommy Roe, February 28, 2004

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tommy Roe's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Tommy Roe will be remembered as one of the primary artists associated with the birth of bubblegum music in the late 1960s, but he was also a decent rock 'n' roll singer, especially early in his career. The obvious comparison is to Buddy Holly, especially since his first #1 hit, "Sheila," sounds a lot like Holly's "Peggy Sue" (right down to Roe's hiccuping vocal). You get that 1962 single and twenty one other "big ones" (not to be confused with "hits" apparently), two thirds of which were written or co-written by Roe, including his other Top 10 hits: "Dizzy" (#1), "Jam Up Jelly Tight" (#8), "Sweet Pea" (#8), "Everybody" (#9), and "Hooray for Hazel." You also get a couple of interesting covers, with Roe doing Tommy James and the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover" as well as "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies. Tommy Roe certainly represented Bubblegum music at its best, and he actually ended up with twice as many Top 10 hits as the Patridge Family, a bit of Billboard history that certainly surprised me. With the vast majority of artists who recorded Bubblegum music you are talking one hit wonders like the Ohio Experess with "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" and Edison Lighthouse with "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)." Tommy Roe gets the honor of being the exception that proves the rule and if your choice is between a collection of Bubblegum tunes and a solid collection of Tommy Roe hits (or big ones), go with the kid from Atlanta, Georgia because even on this sparse collection of only 10 tracks he comes out way ahead.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Tommy Roe Collection, March 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tommy Roe's Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Although there are a number of "Greatest Hits" collections featuring Tommy Roe, this collection is by far the best. While this disc contains Roe standards "Sheila" and "Jam Up and Jelly Tight", it also features the wonderful "Baby I Love You," "Sugar, Sugar," and "Crimson and Clover" which are absent from the other collections. These songs were the bubble gum rock of the day and they are great fun to listen to.