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Bobby Darin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000DQON
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BOBBY DARIN = GREATEST GENTLEMAN OF SONG!!!!, January 2, 2004

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Bradly Briggs (TOLUCA LAKE, CALIFORNIA) - See all my reviews
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In the late 1950's, God bless my older sister for all of the great singers she turned me on to and none better than Bobby Darin!!! Sis must have played "Beyond The Sea" hundreds of times and I never tired of it!!! We loved Frank, but Bobby was it!! When the compact disc started I decided to complete my Bobby Darin collection and have purchased every release available on this great under-appreciated artist!! When I came to this collection I was completely amazed and blown away!! From the boarding on "Alabamy Bound", you know that you are in for a great ride and it is a wildly exciting one!!! "Blue Skies" are beautiful and clearer than ever before and the pathos of "You'll Never Know" may draw a tear!! Who could take something corny like "Standing On The Corner" and make it great??? Another lightweight "I'm Beginning To See The Light" becomes really great to listen to and you soon realize there is no stopping this giant!!! "The Good Life" and "I Wanna Be Around" were Tony Bennett (who is a really fine singer!) singles but are more gutsy and soulful in Bobby's versions. Bobby does "Just In Time" haunting and ethereal and never before has this song had an interpretation like this! Standards such as There's A Rainbow On My Shouldler" and "All By Myself" will have you humming these tunes for months (in my case years!) on end and every song in this incredible collection is dynamite and done to the max...don't miss this classic as never again will a singer or collection equal this level of greatness...thank you Bobby Darin!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A soundtrack for your good life, June 18, 2001

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Kelly Dillman (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

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If you're looking for the best collection of Darin's swing songs at the most affordable price -- baby, you've found it! Every one of these songs from Bobby's Capitol days are extraordinary, thanks in part to Billy May's wonderful arrangements, and Darin's fun interpretations. The previously unreleased tracks, (which I usually find to be of poor quality and just cheap additions to fill up the collection or attract long time fans) are very good in this case! The wonderful JUST IN TIME arrangement is almost worth the price of the CD. My other favorites are at two opposite ends of the spectrum, I WANNA BE AROUND, the best breakup song, and I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT, perhaps the sexiest song ever recorded. Ok, so FLY ME TO THE MOON is more than a little on the sappy side, but we can look past that, right?

Take if from me, I own 6 Darin CDs, and this is the only one I play without skipping any of the tracks. Fun arrangements, unreleased tracks that actually add to the recording, and, well, Bobby Darin! -- anyone who wants more than that out of a CD is just, plain evil.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bobby was Incapable of the Second Rate!!!, December 16, 2001

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S. Henkels (Devon, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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In fact, it's tough to find anyone, who died at such a young age (37),and left behind such an oeuvre of popular songs! The question is,"Why is Bobby so underrated today?" True,other sounds come and go,and he did pass on in 1973. Still,he covered just about every type of tune, from teen-age, adult jazz/pop, folk-rock,and wrote some of his best material. This "Great Gentlemen" collection shows him at his swingin best.True, some of the material is not first rate (could you imagine Sinatra doing "Standing on the Corner? No,that's a Dino type.) But everything here is top of the line,even given some less than superior songs.My favorite is "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" dating from WWII England,and just about always done as a ballad. The arrangement here flies right along with some of the best swinging horns ever. The Billy May arrangements do fly,and Bobby was smart (and lucky) to get such veterans. This is essential Bobby,along with his GREATEST HITS, II,which includes the phenomenal "Beyond the Sea", "Mack the Knife", and "Artificial Flowers". Try to get them both at some point in the near future.