Growin Up Too Fast: Girl Group Anthology

Growin Up To Fast | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 18, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001EGK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels

2. Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) - The Shangri-Las

3. My Best Friend Barbara - Connie Francis

4. Navy Blue - Diane Renay

5. She Doesn't Deserve You - The Honeybees

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

7. It Comes And Goes - Sadina

8. Maybe I Know - Lesley Gore

9. It's Gonna Take A Miracle - The Royalettes

10. The Boy Next Door - The Secrets

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Disc: 2

1. Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las

2. I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield

3. Dumb Head - Ginny Arnell

4. Cold, Cold Winter - The Pixies Three

5. Don't Ever Leave Me - Connie Francis

6. You're Welcome Back - The Sham-ettes

7. I Want That Boy - Sadina

8. I Adore Him - The Angels

9. One Wonderful Night - The Honeybees

10. Sometimes I Wish I Were A Boy - Lesley Gore

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Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its Imperfections Make It Perfect, October 12, 2003

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Wayne Ferrier (Endicott, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Growin Up Too Fast: Girl Group Anthology (Audio CD)

This is my all time favorite Oldies CD. The two songs by Ginny Arnell alone are worth the price of the set. This quality recording does not waste your money on songs everyone has heard too many times before. Nor is it a collection of obscure songs that ought to remain obscure-this is a collection of forgotten gems that deserve rediscovering.
Another great find in this collection are a couple of songs sung by Kenni Woods, a.k.a. Kendra Spotswood, a.k.a. Sandi Sheldon who recorded with The Four Buddies, The Pacettes, Jack & Jill, The Vonettes and The Fantastic Vantastics. Kendra's voice ranks right up there with the beautiful timbre of Karen Carpenter and Marilyn McCoo.
Not everything on here is great but most of it is. And if it isn't that wonderful it was intentionally included to illustrate something. This set teaches as well as entertains. If you have any interest at all in the music of the early sixties you should give this album a listen, and if you are into the Girl Group era than this album is essential.
Hey Dianne, you were wrong. We did indeed grow up too fast, but a least we have memories. See you on Glenwood Avenue!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good News / Bad News, August 1, 1998

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This review is from: Growin Up Too Fast: Girl Group Anthology (Audio CD)

First the bad news: I was disappointed that only two tracks out of the fifty are in true stereo. I have never heard of about half of these songs so I don't know whether some of these were ever recorded/released in true stereo. However, I know for a fact that many of these songs were released in stereo. Example, all five Leslie Gore songs on the CD set are in mono. This is inexcusable. Leslie Gore re-issues have easily been available in stereo for over thirty years. The same goes for many others songs on this CD set. If stereo is not important to you, then of course this is not bad news.

Good news: There is some rare stuff on this CD set that you would have trouble finding anywhere else. "Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard" by Diane Ray is very rare and it is one of the two songs in true stereo. I have never heard this song re-issued domestically since it was released in 1963. This is a favorite of mine. I have only heard it re-issued on a ! couple of imports that sounded horrible. However, the sound quality here for this song is good enough to have come from the master tape. Also, "442 Glenwood Avenue" (mono) is also a rare find, as are the other Pixies Three songs. I will assume many of the other songs are rare since I have never heard them before. The only other song in true stereo is "Can't He Take A Hint?"

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!!, January 14, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Growin Up Too Fast: Girl Group Anthology (Audio CD)

This 2-CD set full of girl group classics and oddities is, quite simply, one of the best and most enjoyable girl group comps out there. A sweet cross-slice of a particular brand of American teen culture... If you don't have it in you to spring the big bucks for the all those fetishistic European imports, but still want something that'll make you crank the volume and turn up the treble, this is about as good a collection as you could ask for. Plus it's got Ginny Arnell's super-dooper backlash anthem, "Dumb Head", a deliciously sexist novelty tune which is worth the price of admission alone. Highly recommended.