It's So Fine [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 4, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B0009HL0OO
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #547,596 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gotta Tell The World

2. Something To Give

3. Silly Boy

4. Colour My World

5. You Got Me So I Don't Know

6. Nobody Knows What's Goin' On

7. As Long As I Know He's Mine

8. Only One Such As You

9. Ev'ry Day

10. Leave My Baby Alone

11. My Heart Cries

12. B.A.B.Y

13. Don't Hesitate

14. Live For Life

15. Such A Small Love

16. Now That You've Gone

17. No More To Fall

18. Pay You Back With Interest

19. Come On Home

20. You Can Be Wrong About Boys

See all 50 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mainly obscure sixties music - brilliant, April 1, 2009

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It's So Fine (Audio CD)

A lot of the tracks here sound like they could have been hits at the time, but very few of them actually were hits. Some of the non-hits were hits for other singers, but most of the songs here were unfamiliar to me when I bought this compilation at the time of its original release in 2005.

Petula Clark performs two tracks here (Gotta tell the world, Life and soul of the party), either of which could have been hits for her if released as singles and properly marketed. I don't think they were released as singles, but they did appear as album tracks. One song that was a hit for her (Color my world) is here via a cover by Two of Each, a four-member group that included Mally Page, sister of Jackie Trent. Mally is represented via a solo recording (You can be wrong about boys) while her more famous sister is here on two tracks (Only one such as you, Such a small love). Another song first recorded by Petula (Have another dream on me) is here covered by Dilys Watling.

Of the other artists featured, the most famous among them are Helen Shapiro (Silly boy I love you, Take me for awhile), Anita Harris (London life), Billie Davis (Ev`ry day, Last one to be loved), Pickettywitch (You got me so I don`t know), the Paper Dolls (Something here in my heart keeps a-telling me no) and Jackie Lee (Everybody needs a little loving). With the exception of the Paper Dolls, who are surprisingly represented by their big hit, all these artists are represented by less obvious tracks, avoiding the big hits. Unless you're really into their music, you probably haven't heard these songs before.

Songs you might have heard before include Pay you back with interest (originally by the Hollies, here covered by Dana Gillespie), B-A-B-Y (originally by Carla Thomas, here covered by Ferris Wheel), Take away the emptiness too (also recorded by the Foundations, but here sung by Tina Tott) and L David Sloane (a top ten American hit for Michele Lee, then unknown in Britain but who later became famous as an actress, here covered by Kay Garner). You probably haven't heard Words written on water (here performed by the Baker Twins) as the original was also an obscure track - by the Avons. Actually, I love this song and it's one of my favorites here.

There are many other wonderful tracks here, by great singers such as Julie Grant, Barbara Ruskin, Sandra Barry, Nita Rossi and others. If you enjoy music by female singers of the sixties and you're not preoccupied with charts, you'll love this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT REALLY IS FINE. GO GET IT, December 4, 2007

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Edward Brydalski (Buffalo New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: It's So Fine (Audio CD)

This CD is really good and it sounds great.
Get it if you can!!!!