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Laverne & Shirley Sing

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This CD is quite a fun listen. As a huge fan of their TV show, I bought this on vinyl when it was first released back in late 1976, and absolutely loved it! I found it very entertaining, listenable, and surprisingly charming, especially since I am a fan of this type of music. I was quite taken by their vocals, and the musical arrangements are excellent. I didn't think it would ever be released on CD, though! I only wish they had made more records of this kind.

Laverne and Shirley thanks for the memories
Reviewer: Mary M McNulty from Canton, MA United States
I watched Laverne and Shirley faithfully. They made me laugh so very hard. The fact that they brought enjoyment to millions of homes is all that needs to be said. Their side kicks Lenny and Squiggy were crazy funny, you had to love them.

Thanks Amazon for having the CD, I had the original album. You smile the whole time you listen to their recordings because of them not their musical ability.

Thanks again..

Don't listen to this recording expecting excellent vocals. It ain't that kind of party. Instead, it's a lot of fun, brings back fond memories of that show and the great characters it featured. Guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.

Admittedly, I was a fan of this show when I was in junior high and I actually bought this album when it came out. However, when I got it home and listened to it, it made me wise up and realize just how ridiculous the Hollywood system is--peddling two actresses as singers and then doing a terrible job at it. The production on this is skimpy and Penny Marshall can barely warble a tune. Case in point--when she sings "each time that I look him in the eye" on "Easier Said Than Done," she goes off tune in a way that lets you know she could truly NOT sing the phrase correctly if she tried. I'm amazed this even got released into CD and MP3 form as it's truly one of those bad recordings that I'm sure the actresses would rather forget. I loved the show when it first came out but they tried too hard to be like Lucy and Ethel and were not half as funny. And then they recorded this CD so they could be like Sonny and Cher and the results are staggeringly bad. A bad trip down memory lane.

This is great that they have a cd of their songs, but where is the DVD? Laverne and Shirley fans need the release of the Laverne and Shirley DVD and soon! PLEASE!

This album was released in 1976 to cash in on the popularity of Laverne & Shirley's TV show. The producers wisely used L.A.'s top session musicians, like Hal Blaine, Plas Johnson and Steve Douglas. So, the music here is expertly played. But there is one unfortunate problem... Laverne & Shirley can't sing! Actually, Cindy Williams isn't too bad of a singer. She sounds like an average person does, but certainly not like a professional. But Penny Marshall is an awful singer, one of the worst I've ever heard. She kind of reminds me of a goose. So the album has those two stikes against it. For the material, they used nine "oldies", two new songs and one lame "comedy" track. "Da Do Ron Ron" sounds the best of the oldies, mainly because the professional background singers, like Melissa Manchester, cover up most of the flaws of the actresses singing. That song probably would have been released as the single, if Shaun Cassidy hadn't had a huge hit with it a few months before. Instead, the semi-novelty "Sixteen Reasons" was released as the single, and stalled at #65 on the charts. The new songs are "Five Years On", which is a decent song that would have fared better with professional singers, and "Oh Gee", which is not a good song. As for the "humor" track, it is called "More From Our Yearbook", and it consists of Laverne & Shirley reading supposedly funny things that their supposed friends supposedly wrote in their yearbook. This CD is for Laverne & Shirley's most devoted fans only.