Shalamar - Greatest Hits [Right Stuff] [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Shalamar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: The Right Stuff
• ASIN: B00000JMXA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,133 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Uptown Festival, Pt. 1 [Medley]

2. Take That to the Bank

3. Second Time Around

4. I Owe You One

5. Make That Move

6. This Is for the Lover in You

7. Somewhere There's a Love

8. Sweeter as the Days Go By

9. A Night to Remember

10. I Can Make You Feel Good

11. Dead Giveaway

12. Over and Over

13. You Can Count on Me

14. Dancing in the Sheets

15. Don't Get Stopped in Beverly Hills

16. Games

17. Why Lead Me On

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Perfect, But Pretty Darn Close, February 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Shalamar - Greatest Hits [Right Stuff] (Audio CD)

The lovely and funky pop Shalamar produced in the early '80s still holds up amazingly well, and it's great to see a compilation that finally does them justice -- I can finally put to rest the original Solar compilation on cassette (taped from LP) that I used to play endlessly. Though a number of import compilations have popped up over the years, I usually found they omitted key songs and had too much of the group's later music, when the group essentially lost all its talent and reason for being.

The pop Shalamar produced at first sounds catchy but frothy, but listening to their entire string of hits and the transcendent voices of Hewett, Watley and Daniels, all driven by the propulsive, sexy Solar sound, make it clear this is music for the ages. Fans will quibble with a choice or omission (I wish "Full of Fire" and "Go For It" had been included, I prefer the mix of "Second Time Around" included on other compilations, and the last two songs don't mean much to me), but this pretty much includes almost all of the highlights. I'm especially happy with the choices from the group's last good album, "The Look", when they moved away from their traditional sound toward one more influenced by rock and synthesizers, and which tends to be overlooked by some traditional fans -- "You Can Count On Me", with its falsetto harmonies, is one of their best songs, an unbelievably beautiful ballad.

As a former DJ, I continue to listen to (and enjoy) tons of current music, from rap to techno to rock to jazz to R&B...Beasties, Beck, Moby, Slick Rick, R Kelly, Coltrane, etc etc But this music has a special place in my heart, and makes me very happy every time I listen to it, no matter what my mood. I'm thrilled such a sublime collection is on CD at last.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a superb album! Had it for a few years, August 28, 2004

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Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shalamar - Greatest Hits [Right Stuff] (Audio CD)

I recently got their just released double CD anthology. But this single CD really covered that 10-year period of hits that Shalamar had. They really created that classic slow Jam For the Lover in You that's still played to this day. I still like Second time Around, Take that to The Bank, Dancing in the Sheets, Games and others. But one of my favorites is I Can Make You Feel Good and its many bridges and peaks swinging all across the song. I can't believe that it peaked at no. 33--should have gone top 5 to me. Maybe they're not into those kinds of songs for radio. But this album was a benchmark to the successful future solo careers of Jody Watley (whom I still love) and Howard Hewitt (one of the best male R&B singers of the '80s). I remember when Solar Records had hits left and right with some 3 or 4 artists--were the Bad Boy and Motown of its time. They could still be doing it now if they had to. But Shalamar was a major part of that period with their different lineups. They made quality songs and hits and this album proves that.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not true to form, August 20, 2001

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Ann (ATL., GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shalamar - Greatest Hits [Right Stuff] (Audio CD)

I was a little disappointed with this compilation. True Shalamar was Jodi Whatley, Jeffrey Daniels, and Howard Hewitt. I guess I'm going to have to buy Three For Love. I was looking for the CD that was out in 1981 when I graduated from high school. That was all that we pumped at all the summer parties that year. The first song, I have no idea why it's even on here (and I read the inside jacket) and the last five songs mean nothing to me. It was okay. I just have always associated their sound with the first three memebers. Anything after that just didn't sound right to me.