Lee Dorsey: The Definitive Collection [Import]

Lee Dorsey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Camden International
• ASIN: B00000JR4K
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,569 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ya Ya

2. Do-Re-Mi

3. Ride Your Pony

4. Work, Work, Work

5. Can You Hear Me

6. Get Out of My Life Woman

7. Confusion

8. Working in the Coal Mine

9. Holy Cow

10. Operation Heartache

11. Gotta Find a Job

12. Love Lots of Lovin'

13. My Old Car

14. Go-Go Girl

15. I Can't Get Away

16. Lottie Mo '68 [#]

17. A Lover Was Born

18. Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On)

19. Give It Up

20. Candy Yam

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lee Dorsey's 1960s, August 24, 2007

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This review is from: Lee Dorsey: The Definitive Collection (Audio CD)

One of the best compilations to spotlight New Orleans' soul/funk legend Lee Dorsey, this German import is the very same album as Arista's out-of-print 1997 "Wheelin' and Dealin". Unlike most available Dorsey comps, this one is both a fine sampler and is distinguished by excellent remastering by Bob Irwin, who heads Sundazed Records, and is responsible for lots of quality work on Legacy reissues (Jefferson Airplane, Byrds, Sly & The Family Stone, etc). This set opens with two of Lee's hits for Bobby Robinson's Fury label - 'Ya Ya'(1961) and 'Do-Re-Me' (1962). The rest of this 20 track sampler is gathered from the prolific 1965 - 70 period, when Allen Toussaint was producing one gem after another for Lee on the Amy/Sansu labels. We get the classic singles 'Working In A Coal Mine,' 'Holy Cow', 'Ride Your Pony' and other hits as well as lesser known gems, Arista was unable to license anything from the work Toussaint and Dorsey produced at Polydor (1970 - 73) , especially the essential album "Yes We Can" (1970). For me, the better deal is to get the two Dorsey CDs ("Ride Your Pony" and "The New Lee Dorsey") on Sundazed (Bob Irwin's label) which together collect a generous 47 tracks from that fertile Amy/Sansu period. Then go for the Polydor material. For casual fans, this is an enjoyable and inexpensive introduction that will likely whet the appetite for more. Plus the rarely reproduced photo of Lee at his body-and-fender shop (in 1974) on the back of the booklet is priceless.