30 Original Hit Records

Bobby Rydell (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: PARK
• ASIN: B000A39JGI
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,796 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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30 TRACKS

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good bobby rydell collection,with 30 tracks.The sound could be better,as the songs are not off the original masters., January 25, 2006

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stewart L (flushing ,ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 30 Original Hit Records (Audio CD)

This is a nice album if you are just looking for the hits.For top notch sound,go with the cameo parkway edition of bobby rydell,its much better.I bought the marginal disc,because it had a couple of songs missing from the cameo release...The sound on this disc is compressed and dull sounding,and was not mastered off the original master tapes...A better choice is the cameo 25 song release...Thank you Stewart L.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent collection of ORIGINAL recordings, March 21, 2008

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 30 Original Hit Records (Audio CD)

Until 2005, over twenty years into the history of CD reissues, the only sources for ORIGINAL recordings of any of the Cameo-Parkway label artists were various gray-market import pressings. All the domestically generated CD's for the likes of Rydell, Chubby Checker, the Dovells, etc. were dodgy rerecords offered by mostly budget or one-off labels and often this information was only discovered after purchase.

Though many of the original Cameo-Parkway recordings are FINALLY available on CD, there are a number of these earlier foreign CD's still in the market. And while they have been lifted from less then pristine sources, often they contain tracks still not available from ABKCO, the owners of the C-P catalog. In this Bobby Rydell piece, while many of the tracks are now available on the ABKCO Bobby Rydell "Best-of", there are 30 tracks including seven top-100 charting tunes not on the ABKCO CD. Not being of master tape quality notwithstanding, the additional tracks make this disc, rather than merely redundant, a useful adjunt to the C-P piece. While sonically superior, the C-P CD was still a disappointment in that it did not offer any new stereo.

Until, if ever, ABKCO releases Rydell's remaining hits on domestic CD, this piece, shortcomings aside, offers the completist collector the only viable source for these missing Rydell tracks. In any event, this piece is far more worthwhile than the ubiquitous collections of rerecordings still making the rounds in the CD marketplace.