Lavender Blue / Very Best Of

Sammy Turner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00005B529
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,244 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lavender Blue

2. Honey

3. I'd Be a Fool Again

4. Fools Fall in Love

5. Paradise

6. I Want to Be Loved

7. The Things I Love

8. I Can Dream Can't I

9. Wrapped Up in a Dream

10. Falling

11. Symphony

12. Always

13. Goodnight Irene

14. Stay My Love

15. Love Keeps Calling

16. Little Sir Echo

17. Let's Donkey on Down

18. Starlight, Starbright

19. Raincoat in the River

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must For R&B Fans!, November 1, 2004

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Jerry Grigsby (cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lavender Blue / Very Best Of (Audio CD)

I had never heard of Sammy Turner until I recently bought a CD of east coast beach music (Grand Strand Gold), but Sammy Turner has quickly turned into one of my absolute favourites. I am highly impressed with not only his vocal talents, but also with the ambitious and complex string and horn arrangements on this CD. For the 50s, this must have been very daring. Listen to the complex chord progression on Always; it's amazing. I highly recommend this cd.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Vastly Underrated Artist, September 10, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lavender Blue / Very Best Of (Audio CD)

Listening to Sammy's sinuous, smoky tenor one can't help but wonder why he never went on to greater things. As it was, he managed to put five singles onto the Billboard Pop Hot 100 in 1959/60 for the Big Top label (which picked up his first few cuts from Pacific), backed by the saxophone of King Curtis and a smattering of violins and cellos. His first, billed to Sammy Turner and The Twisters, was Sweet Annie Laurie, and it was hardly what you could call an auspicious debut, only reaching # 100 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in March 1959 b/w Thunderbolt.

He made up for that, however, with Lavender-Blue which, b/w Wrapped Up In A Dream, made it to # 3 Hot 100 and # 14 R&B in the summer of 1959. His follow-up disc then saw both sides chart, with Always peaking at # 2 R&B/# 19 Hot 100 and the flipside, Symphony, reaching # 82 Hot 100 in December of 1959.

His last hit came in early 1960 when the lilting Paradise reached # 13 R&B and # 46 Hot 100 b/w I'd Be A Fool Again. With the exception of that first minor hit (this IS Collectables after all and par for the course), all are masterfully reproduced in this collection, along with the equally wonderful Raincoat In The River which, for some reason known only to the record-buying public [as you will see when you listen to it] failed to chart.

Born Samuel Black in New Jersey on June 2, 1932, Sammy would go on to record for a multitude of labels - including Motown, Verve, and SSInt'l - without any further chart success. And that is a mystery.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lavender Blue by Sammy Turner 45, January 3, 2012

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FancyG - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Lavender Blue / Very Best Of (Audio CD)

I loved this record as a child. It was hard to find until I looked on Amazon. Thank you for this record which brings back good memories for me.