Let the Music Play: Best of

Shannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B00066VUNO
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

1. Let The Music Play

2. Sweet Somebody

3. Give Me Tonight

4. My Heart's Divided

5. One Man

6. Do You Wanna Get Away

7. Stronger Together

8. Urgent

9. Love Goes All The Way

10. Prove Me Right

11. It's Got To Be Love

12. Do The Wrong Thang - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force Featuring Shannon

13. Move Mania - Sash! featuring Shannon

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

Editorial Reviews

First-ever best-of album from this legendary dance floor diva!

With Let The Music Play: The Best of Shannon, this legendary dance floor diva’s biggest hits—from her ’80s heyday and her successful ’90s comeback—are finally available on a single disc. This album is a boon to collectors, since much of her material as been out of print for years, and completely unavailable in the CD era.

In 1983, the then unknown singer sang on a dance track produced by neophytes Mark Liggett and Chris Barbosa. Within a few weeks, the 12-inch of "Let The Music Play" was being spun by every DJ in New York City. Shannon followed this success up with a string of chart-topping dance singles, but soon left the music business for a successful stage-acting career. In 1995, she returned to music with the European-only single "It’s Got To Be Love" and appearances on singles by Afrika Bambaataa and Sash!, the latter of which made the U.K. Top Ten in 1998.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Why include a severly truncated version of her biggest hit??, June 8, 2005

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JoJo (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let the Music Play: Best of (Audio CD)

Shannon's biggest hit, the one enduring song in her catalogue, is "Let The Music Play," one of the 1980s' most immortal dance songs. Finally, a greatest hits is issued and one can have these songs on CD...but the version of "Let The Music Play" included her is a severely edited version, not even the single version, which I used to have on a 45!! What on earth was the logic behind that? And yet we get the full length versions of her non-hits. What a bummer. Also missing is "It's Over Love," her late 1990s collaboration with Todd Terry which was a NUMBER ONE HIT on the dance charts. What were the people who put this together smoking????

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Best is "still" yet to come., December 2, 2004

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A. Marchese (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let the Music Play: Best of (Audio CD)

I was so excited to see Shannon's Greatest hits, but was not to happy with the song selection. First of all, there are no remixes here to be found. Shannon had some of the best remixes of the eighties. You would think they would had at least put the remix of "Let the Music Play" on this collection. Secondly, The sound quality on the song "One Man" is awful. There's distortion threw out the song. I guess there was problems with the remastering of this track, but all the other songs sound excellent. and finally, there were many of her tracks omitted from this collection such as "Stop the Noise,"" Dancin'," "You Put a Spark in my Life," "It's Over Love" and "Believe in Me." It was nice to see some of her newer material here though. Over all, I am disappointed with this collection.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish the music was playing right, April 10, 2005

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Bobby J. Truong (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let the Music Play: Best of (Audio CD)

Shannon was one of my favorite artist from the 80s. Her strong vocal combined with the genius of Chris Barbosa and Mark Liggett production team made the Let the Music Play album timeless.

And just out of the blues, I found out that Shout Factory was releasing a best of album and I was excited. Well I bought the CD and I was bitterly disappointed. The sound quality is good but not excellent. They could have at least remastered it.

And also there was a MAJOR blunder. How did this album pass Quality Inspection?? One of my favorite energized songs "One Man" is not transfered correctly. There's an annoying noise flickering at 2.11 min