Over the Rainbow / Atlantic Years

Patti LaBelle | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ichiban
• ASIN: B000003T3I
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,514 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

1. Over The Rainbow

2. Patti's Prayer

3. Groovy Kind Of Love

4. All Or Nothing

5. You Forgot How To Love

6. Family Man

7. I'm Still Waiting

8. Always Something There To Remind Me

9. I Don't Want To Go On Without You

10. Take Me For A Little While

11. Tender Words

12. Dreamer

13. Oh My Love

14. I Need Your Love

15. He's My Man

16. Wonderful

17. Dance To The Rhythm Of Love

18. Pride's No Match For Love

19. He's Gone

20. Loving Rules

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Patti doing her thing even at very the begining, February 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Over the Rainbow / Atlantic Years (Audio CD)

This is a great cd of Patti Labelle and Bluebelles music while they were at Atlantic records. Unfortunately they didn't have great success with them, but this CD exemplify the powerhouse vocals of Miss Patti Labelle. Nobody can touch Miss Patti. Patti and her group should have gotten the same push Aretha Franklin was getting when she was with Atlantic records. This CD contains the Bluebelles original recording of "Somewhere over the Rainbow". The recording doesn't sound anything like the version Patti does at her live concerts. She usually split the house in half when she sing this song. She is vocally over powering her singing partners on "Patti Prayer". I'm still waiting is great song. Number 9 "I don't want to go one without you" is my absolute favorite. The Bluebelles do a knock out version of Dionne Warwick's "something there to remind me". From tracks 13 until the end of this CD are songs group member Cindy Birdsong don't appear on. She left the group to replace Florence Ballard in the Supremes in July 1967. When she was in the group the Bluebelles didn't sound like a four harmony part group. After she left you can here three distinctive voices in the group. Patti Labelle with her soaring first soprano, Sarah Dash with her sweet but powerful second soprano, and Nona Hendryx with her soulful deep alto. It's a shame these girls never attain the success they deserve. I sometimes wonder what it was like for Nona and Sarah to sing with powerhouse diva like Patti Labelle. I surprise that Patti was ever a part of a group ensemble. The last two songs on this CD are great especially Suffer with Sarah doing her operatic backing vocals. Great singers. Great Cd.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Patti & The Bluebelles Rare Atlantic Singles !, February 26, 2009

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This review is from: Over the Rainbow / Atlantic Years (Audio CD)

This CD is a godsend, as it contains all the non-LP singles that Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles released on Atlantic from 1965-1969. The group recorded some GREAT records. It contains the excellent hits that charted like ALL OR NOTHING [ which was Luther Vandross' personal favorite ], TAKE ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE, and I'M STILL WAITING. One of this CD's biggest strengths, apart from the amazing vocal talents of Patti, Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash & even Cindy Birdsong before she left for The Supremes in 1967 , is the inclusion of the many, many rare singles , including B-sides that never made it on their only 2 Atlantic albums, OVER THE RAINBOW and DREAMER. The compiler, David Nathan, a noted writer & historian on soul music, expertly collected all the rarest sides, and wisely left off album material from the 2 released albums. It's nothing but prime Patti here. Earlier singles like the first version of OVER THE RAINBOW , A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE [ it's been said that they were the first artists to do this song ], and I DON'T WANT TO GO ON WITHOUT YOU are ballad oriented soul/pop. They group could also wail on gutbucket soul like FAMILY MAN and HE'S MY MAN . OH MY LOVE is a very emotional drenched ballad, not unlike UNCHAINED MELODY in sound , which is on the OVER THE RAINBOW LP. Also, you get the first ever song written by Nona Hendryx that the group did, I NEED YOUR LOVE, a beauty with nice harmonies & melodies. Sarah Dash also wrote her first song ever on the Philly sounding, LOVING RULES. On later songs like PRIDE'S NO MATCH FOR LOVE and HE'S GONE , you can clearly hear the blend of Patti/Sarah/Nona more distinctly - the sound that would in 2 years or so, evolve into LABELLE. The vocal acrobatics that Patti is known for are here, but more subdued , and the gospel combination of their voices together can especially be heard on HE'S MY MAN, HE'S GONE and PRIDE'S NO MATCH FOR LOVE. How these singles did not chart at all is a mystery, as soul was huge in the 60's and Atlantic was having giant success with many of their artists. This CD collects together all the lone-singles that have been forever hard to collect. It is soul music delivered by one of the greatest singers ever. Don't miss out on this collector's item. It was done the right way, a totally perfect package of hard-to-find music, expert liner notes , with a lot of love and care.

5.0 out of 5 stars Patti in excelsis, November 13, 2010

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This review is from: Over the Rainbow / Atlantic Years (Audio CD)

This is a useful anthology of Patti Labelle and The Bluebelles' suberb and alas sadly neglected Atlantic recordings, but fans are also recommended to get hold of her two great Atlantic albums 'Over The Rainbow' and "Dreamer'. Happily it includes the sublime 1965 'All Or Nothing' which remains one of the greatest single tracks of the era.