Playin' Hard to Get: West Coast Girls [Import]

Various Artists - Rock - Vintage Rock & Roll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B0000009J8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,030 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You're So Fine - Dorothy Berry

2. A Little Bit Of Soap - Yvonne Carroll

3. Stop Shovin' Me Around - The Delicates

4. Dream World - Donna Loren

5. Crying On A Pillow - Dorothy Berry

6. He's A Big Deal - Renee Medina

7. Goodbye Jimmy - Panda Berry

8. You Haven't Seen Nothing - Dee Dee Young

9. Don't Mess Around With Me - Sister Rachel

10. Nothing To Write Home About - The Francettes

11. Love Bells - The Galens

12. Date Bait - Diane Maxwell

13. You Better Watch Out Boy - The Accents

14. Chinese Lanterns - The Galens

15. The Boy I Love - Renee Medina

16. Write Me A Letter - The Blossoms

17. I've Been Hurt - The Delicates

18. How Long Must This Fool Pay - Yvonne Carroll

19. I'll Wait - The Blossoms

20. I Want To Get Married - The Delicates

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Featuring 28 tracks by 'West Coast Girls', including The Blossoms, Donna Loren, The Delicates, Dorothy Berry, Yvonne Carroll, & more. Ace. 1995.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Donna who? Let's hear it for "the rest"!, July 22, 2005

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uthungus (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playin' Hard to Get: West Coast Girls (Audio CD)

Now don't get me wrong by my title - I do love Donna Loren and her many singing works (see my other review of her "at this CD's time, yet unreleased" set). But I think the makers of this collection felt they needed to mention her as a "feature" here (along with the Blossoms and others) to give it a boost. Not necessary at all! Her two contributions - "Muscle Bustle" and "Dream World" aren't even two of my favorites of hers by selections.

But you know what? There is so much other fun and great stuff here by lesser-known names (all tracks here being from the Challenge Label), you don't have to care that much! This is the biggest set of works by the Blossoms (6 of 28 overall tracks) and the cleanest cuts of the Delicates I've heard - my only samples of them being from the scratchy "Poodle Skirts/Pony Tails" sets to date. It seems many were catching on to the "Wall of Sound" and lots of great interpretations! Among my favorites "The Boy I Love" - Renee Medina; "Come on Everybody" - Delicates; "Crying on my Pillow" - Dorothy Berry and the powerful cover of 50s pop tune "A Little Bit of Soap" - Yvonne Carroll. I really expected another enormous "explosion" with the gigantic beat buildup from "I Want to Get Married" - Delicates, but then this trails off in to a beautiful soul tune.

Also very cute and peppy songs too, like: "You Haven't Seen Nothing (till you've seen my new boyfriend)" - Dee Dee Young; "Good-Bye Ginny" (mistitled "Jimmy") - Panda Berry; "Love Bells" (ting-a-ling-a-ling!) - The Galens; "I Gotta Tell it" - Blossoms and the sweetest of all being "Date Bait" - Diane Maxwell. The only track here credited from the late 1950s ('59) and you can easily tell by the beat. "...I hear your motor comin' down the street, so I rush to the door with lightin' on my feet...!" Even the "Un-PC risky" track "Chinese Lanterns" fails to offend where many songs crossed some lines of ethnic slur, IMO.

Lastly and always fun to me as a collector are those "sound-alike" songs that seemed to be separated at birth from others...! The one that succeeded here is "How Long Must This Fool Pay?" - Yvonne Carroll sounding suspiciously a lot like "Every Little Bit Hurts"! Oh well! If a good song can go around once more in another form, why not?

5.0 out of 5 stars You will want to add this to your collection!, March 8, 2010

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Richard Alan (Spring Lake, N. J.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Playin' Hard to Get: West Coast Girls (Audio CD)

The people at ace records have done it again with this terriffic compilation of the Challenge label. Some of the ballad standouts are write me a letter by the blossoms featuring Darlene Love before the Phil Spector days. Chinese lanterns by the Galens is more on the popular side and I've Been Hurt by the Delicates is more bluesy. For me the stand out and reason enough to buy this cd was the never before released How long must this fool pay by Yvonne Carroll. The arrangement is soulful and lush. I can't believe this was never released back in the day.