Splish Splash: The Best of Bobby Darin, Vol. 1

Bobby Darin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 1991)
• Original Release Date: November 12, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Atco
• ASIN: B000002JOR
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,778 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Splish Splash

2. Mighty Mighty Man

3. Early In The Morning

4. Somebody To Love

5. Queen Of The Hop

6. She's Tanfastic

7. Moment Of Love

8. Dream Lover

9. I'll Be There

10. Beachcomber

11. Nature Boy

12. Smilau

13. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

14. Baby Face

15. Irresistible You

16. What'd I Say

17. Multiplication

18. Things

19. Lovin' You

20. If I Were A Carpenter

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Get your flip flops out because it`s about to get wet. Kristofer Weston brings you the boys of Buckshot for a wet and wild romp in the California summer sun. Naked, sun-tanned buddies escape the heat by hosing each other down both on top and the bottom. Each scene is a flip flop with the boys topping and bottoming for each other. Soaking and stroking the days of summer away these boys know how to play in the pool, and out.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty terrific, June 3, 1999

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B. W. Fairbanks "Brian W. Fairbanks" (Lakewood, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Splish Splash: The Best of Bobby Darin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

A pretty terrific collection of Bobby Darin hits with an emphasis on the pop/rock corner of his versatile career. By no means definitive (and completely overshadowed by the "As Long As I'm Singing" boxed set), it nonetheless includes such treasures as "Dream Lover," "Things," and the best available version of Darin's self-penned "Simple Song of Freedom," a "protest" song that ironically became the only hit single for folk singer Tim Hardin, the author of "If I Were A Carpenter," Darin's last major hit single which is also included here. The accompanying booklet with background on each of the songs and an insightful overview of Darin's career adds to the pleasures of this collection.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First hits volume has most of his hits, April 13, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Splish Splash: The Best of Bobby Darin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

This collection and the companion Mack the knife contain forty of Bobby Darin's finest songs from his peak years. Purely in terms of hits, this is the stronger volume, containing fifteen American hits, including six top ten hits, these being Splish splash, Queen of the hop, Dream lover, You must have been a beautiful baby, Things and If I were a carpenter.

Among the lesser hits, I'll be there later became a much bigger hit for Gerry and the pacemakers, while Early in the morning was also a hit for Buddy Holly.

Bobby's singles were sometimes covers of older songs. Here you can find his versions of Nature boy (Nat King Cole), What'd I say (Ray Charles) and Lovin' you (Lovin' spoonful).

This volume, with a lot of up-tempo songs and a few ballads, is generally more of a rock'n'roll collection than Mack the knife, which contains a few up-tempo songs and a lot of ballads. Taken together, the two volumes present a comprehensive collection of Bobby's A-sides from 1958 to 1961, plus three later songs - the last three tracks here.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, May 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Splish Splash: The Best of Bobby Darin, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

The CD has many great songs, especially I like Dream lover, Splish splash and You must have been a beautiful baby.