I Wish I Were a Princess [Import]

Janis Martin (Artist), Joy Lane with Carl Jenkins (Artist), Rita Pavone (Artist), Diane Renay (Artist), Bernadette Carroll (Artist), Little Peggy March (Artist), Linda Scott (Artist), Kathy Linden (Artist), Damita Jo (Artist), Connie Stevens (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Collector's Choice Music
• ASIN: B00006CTDN
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,215 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Will You, Willyum

2. Your Wild Heart

3. I'm Available

4. Billy

5. After School

6. Sixteen Reasons

7. Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye

8. A Thousand Stars

9. I'll Save the Last Dance for You [Stereo]

10. Angel Baby

11. I've Told Ev'ry Little Star

12. Happy Birthday Blues

13. Triangle

14. Let's Get Together

15. That Greasy Kid Stuff

16. Johnny Jingo

17. I Wish I Were a Princess

18. Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard

19. Navy Blue

20. Dumb Head

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lost Female Teen Idols, June 1, 2007

By 

Music & Movie Luver (Hollywood, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Wish I Were a Princess (Audio CD)

I love this type of music & I bought the CD for it's more obscure songs. Stand out tunes are "I'm Available" by Margie Rayburn, Damita Jo's "I'll Save The Last Dance For You", which is an answer song to The Drifter's "Save The Last Dance For Me", "Angel Baby" by Rosie & The Originals, "Triangle" by Janie Grant, the super-silly "That Greasy Kid Stuff" (Janie Grant), "Please Don't Talk To The Lifeguard" (Diane Ray), "Dumb Head" (Ginny Arnell), & "My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut" (Donna Lynn). I love Diane Renay's "Navy Blue" & her soundalike followup single "Kiss Me Sailor", which is actually better than "Navy Blue", & Linda Scott's "I've Told Every Little Star" (stars were her gimmick in the 60's, recording several songs about stars). I really hate the horrid Hayley Mills songs "Let's Get Together" & "Johnny Jingo", & the awful "Remember Me" by Rita Pavone. I cringe when these three songs come on!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doo-ee doo-ee Do yourself a favor and enjoy this one!, December 14, 2004

By 

uthungus (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Wish I Were a Princess (Audio CD)

I disagree with what was said about being able to find a lot of these tracks elsewhere! Maybe the "standard" pop stuff like that of more famous names here (Connie Stevens, Linda Scott, Peggy March, Diane Renay, etc.). But some of these recordings are extremely rare and are from singers not really heard from since, which makes this a must have for collectors! I like too, that the span of time here was from late 50's to early 60's (although the title track actually belonging in the heart of the 60's girl singer genre).

OK, so if you compare some better versions of some tunes - Diane Ray's "Please Don't Talk to the Lifeguard" being the "harsh" version compared to Andrea Carroll's softer one; Helen Shapiro doing a much more elegant version of "Remember Me?" than Rita Pavone - who sort of sounds like a drag queen with an accent (though I still love the novelty value of Pavone's!); and "Dumb Head" covered in a space-age sound warp by Joe Meek's protégées "The Sharades". They still fit in well with silly stuff on this by Hayley Mills, Ginny Arnell and Donna Lynn.

Also the first five tracks really stand out as the last of the fifties "doo-wop/shoo-wop" jargon being figured out before that all changed entirely. Especially the "doo-ie doo-ee doo-ee doos" of "I'm available"; the "bomp, bomp-ba-bomps" of "Billy" and the outright "doo-wop, doo-wop doo-wop" of "After School". This is nothing less than a very fun collection overall. The details of where these tracks charted too is impressive and makes up for the somewhat lackluster graphics of the CD, IMO.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unique Mix of Pop and Kitsch, February 26, 2003

By 

Melinda Bruno "brunobaby" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: I Wish I Were a Princess (Audio CD)

I bought this CD for Rita Pavone's "Remember Me," the Italian pop star's 1964 appearance on the American charts. My intention was to make a mix tape of tracks from that era that went above and beyond the stuff that gets played over and over on the oldies stations.

Listening to the rest of the disc, it occurred to me that this was the best way to listen to the rest of the disc, as well. Mix it with the tried and true and get a feeling for what Top 40 Radio was really like back in rock's first decade.

I'd skip "Dumb Head," which is kind of a [poor copy] of the Shirelles' "Foolish Little Girl," the way that movie with the Village People and Bruce Jenner dancing was kind of a [poor copy] of "Saturday Night Fever."

Hey, sound-alike female pop singers and a Disney sweetheart turned singing sensation -- sounds like now!