Her Very Best

Gogi Grant | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000063VER
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,908 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Wayward Wind

2. Suddenly There's A Valley

3. You're In Love

4. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

5. All Of Me

6. Love Is

7. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

8. What's New

9. I Gave You My Heart

10. It Happens Every Spring

11. Love Is The Sweetest Thing

12. When The Tide Is High

13. Who Are We

14. The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)

15. We Believe In Love

16. I'll Never Be The Same

17. There Will Never Be Another You

18. I Don't Want To Walk Without You

Editorial Reviews

Gogi's classic Era recordings have indeed been "wayward," out of print for years at a time, but this 18-track collection's got the goods! Includes The Wayward Wind; Suddenly There's a Valley; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; It Happens Every Spring; I Don't Want to Walk Without You; When the Tide Is High; Love Is the Sweetest Thing; What's New; All of Me; Love Is , and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Go(gi ) Girl., July 15, 2002

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F. Gentile (Lake Worth, Florida, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Her Very Best (Audio CD)

This is a great collection from a memorable singer. I grew up hearing Miss Grants songs... she was always one of my moms favorites. Every time this little baby-boomer ambled up to the juke box at Barneys Drive -In, I always insisted on playing Gogi's "The Wayward Wind" to accompany my $1.10 hamburg, fries, and chocolate chill...oh, the good old days. So, I still find her songs not only great recordings, on each of which she puts her personal stamp, but they are also very nostalgic for me. That song, which rose to # 1 on the charts, is included in this collection, as are several of her other hits. This is an excellent quality c.d., and I recommend it for anyone who wants to appreciate a teriffic singer, or if you want to re-acquaint yourself with her memorable songs, from torch to ballad. I always considered Miss Grant, who also dubbed Ann Blyths voice in "The Helen Morgan Story, a wonderful artist, in the tradition of the great girl singers like Joni James and Jo Stafford, but definatley with her own style. I had the pleasure of meeting her at lunch a few years ago, and she is a lovely and gracious lady. And, as this c.d. attests, a wonderful artist, with songs that'll bring back great memories.

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gogi--a wonderful singer then and now, March 18, 2005

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Randal F. Kleine (Milford, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Her Very Best (Audio CD)

I first learned about Gogi recently during a re-play of a PBS special "Pop Stars of the 1950s" recorded in 2004. Many of the singers and groups were still very good (Patti Page, the Four Coins, the Maguire Sisters, etc), but 79-year old Gogi literally knocked my socks off with her rendition of her hit, "The Wayward Wind." Hers is a stage presence rarely equalled in this day of "American Idol." I immediately ordered "Gogi Grant--Her Very Best" (all 18 tracks are superb), and now have ordered her collection of country hits' "A City Girl in the Country." My parents and my wife's parents are entering their 80s, and I distinctly remember hearing Gogi sing over the radio in the mid 1950s. What a pleasure to know she's still singing, especially since she still sings so well! Read biographies of the singers of the 1940s and 1950s--you will be amazed at how hard they worked to achieve their success, and how little they often received monetarily (compared to the manufactured singers of today). And they achieved their tremendous sound with recording equipment that is primitive by today's standards. You'll never be sorry that you ordered Gogi's CDs.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Keep Going Back to The Wayward Wind, November 11, 2004

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Eclectic Revisited "Charlie" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Her Very Best (Audio CD)

I was just a kid, but "The Wayward Wind" bowled me over the first time I heard it; it still does. Few songs in the last 50 years compares to it;listening to it is an adventure. I wish I could thank Gogi personally. I was always interested in music and movies and recall reading in the local newspaper as a kid that Gogi Grant had done the songs for "The Helen Morgan Story". It was not a movie someone my age would see ordinarily; I STILL don't remember anything about Helen Morgan except what the movie offered but I did see it for the music. You can well see from listening to "The Wayward Wind" how it could easily compete with other "pop" artists' tunes (is that the correct expression here?) AND the emerging rock and rollers' exciting music. "The Helen Morgan Story" soundtrack is still available. Maybe I'll get that, if I ever get tired of "The Wayward Wind" (not likely). All the other tunes on this compilation are strong too. And look at that picture. Ain't she purty?