Happiest Girl in the Whole Usa

Donna Fargo | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca Special Products
• ASIN: B00000HY5Q
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #85 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Nashville Sound

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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT THE ORIGINAL!, December 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Happiest Girl in the Whole Usa (Audio CD)

As much as I love the music of Donna Fargo, this is *NOT* the original "Happiest Girl in The Whole USA" album that was originally released in 1972 on DOT records. It's a good thing the track listing was posted here, otherwise I might have been fooled into thinking I was purchasing the original version. Fortunately, I still have my old vinyl copy, though after 30+ years, it's getting pretty tired. I don't understand this concept of "remaking" old albums and re-issuing them on CD. I feel this is deliberate deception on the part of the label to mislead the public. This is becoming quite a routine for some reason. Thankfully, those of us who remember our old 8-tracks and LP records aren't easily fooled. The ORIGINAL track listing for "Happiest Girl in The Whole USA" is as follows:

1. The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA
2. Manhattan Kansas
3. The Awareness of Nothing
4. Funny Face
5. A Little Somethin'(To Hang On To)
6. Daddy Dumplin
7. How Close You Came To Being Gone
8. Society's Got Us
9. It Would Have Been Just Perfect
10 Johnny B Goode.

That's the way I remember it folks, and that's the way it should have been reissued. I'm sorry, but either release the album in its entirety without butchering it up or omitting songs, or just don't even bother. I'm sick and tired of wasting time and money on deceptive and sly business practices on the part of the music industry, and until such time as it cleans up its act, I'll continue to treasure my old records and tapes.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Another misleading title, July 23, 2002

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Michael Carley (San Joaquin Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happiest Girl in the Whole Usa (Audio CD)

This is NOT Donna Fargo's 1972 album, "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA". Rather, this is a compilation album with several of her more popular songs. If you want a greatest hits collection, there are better ones available. If you want the original album, as I did, you're out of luck, at least for now. Not a single one of her original albums are available. If you want to know what songs were on the original "Happiest" album, that information is available on her web site. The review guidelines do not allow me to post the url, but it should be pretty easy for you to guess.

This has become a fairly common marketing trick. Labels will release compilation albums, but give them the title of an original studio album, leading fans to purchase the wrong product. You have to be very careful to not be deceived by this tactic. Usually I am, but this time I got burned. Hopefully writing this will keep this from happening to some of you. A few of my other reviews are of similar deceptive albums.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A., April 1, 2010

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J. Cornutt (Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Happiest Girl in the Whole Usa (Audio CD)

I realy enjoyed the CD, I play it every day and almost all day long. I got my granchilden liken it too. It was a good buy. I had one just like it in the "70" but lost it, in the move. But Yes I'm realy enjoying it. Thank-you. Jan