Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)

Impalas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000008Y5
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)

2. Fool, Fool, Fool

3. Woodchuck Song

4. Sandy Went Away

5. Chum

6. The Loves We Share

7. Mommy-O

8. All but the Memory of You

9. Oh, What a Fool

10. (You Want) Too Much Too Soon

11. She Belongs to Me

12. Cupid

13. Peggy Darling

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost A One-Hit Wonder, July 29, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) (Audio CD)

The Impalas avoided being included among that dreaded collection known as "The One-Hit Wonders" by one lonely little charter.

Like The Jive Five, this foursome hailed from Brooklyn, but unlike the Eugene Pitt-led group, they became the second most prominent (for a short while at least) racially-mixed group following in the wake of The Dell-Vikings. Lead singer Joe Frazier (not the boxer) was black, while the others - Richard Wagner, Tony Carlucci, and Lenny Renda - were white.

After they secured a contract with the small Cub label in 1959, yet another prominent Brooklynite, Aristedes Giosasi, gave them a song he wrote called Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home). Giosasi was no stranger to hit songs, having taken (It's Been A Long Time) Pretty Baby to # 14 R&B and # 20 Billboard Top 100 in June 1958 with his sister Irene under the billing Gino & Gina.

This one also had "hit" written all over it, and sure enough - b/w Fool, Fool, Fool - it gained the # 2 Hot 100 spot in May and stayed there for two weeks, being kept from going # 1 only by a little ditty called Kansas City by Wilbert Harrison. It also gained the # 14 spot on the R&B charts.

Unfortunately, the follow-up Oh, What A Fool was nowhere as good, and it stalled at # 86 Hot 100, although it kept them from being technically a one-hit wonder. Because, although the group tried their luck at other labels such as 20th Century and Checker, they could never again grab the brass ring.

I can only recommend this compilation to those completists who have to have everything charted by everyone in the Fifties/Sixties because, while you can certainly find Sorry on any number of mixed compilations, chances are this is the only place you're apt to find. not only Oh, What A Fool, but both flipsides as well. That's what gives this a 5-star rating in my book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The originals, August 3, 2009

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M. Garland (Seattle, Wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) (Audio CD)

This is one of the few cd's that contain the original versions of these songs. I find "I Ran all the Way Home" all over the place but they are mostly "Sorry" sounding remakes. You pretty much have to buy this cd to get the original.