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Title: Tab Hunter Artist: Tab Hunter
Back in its early days, the Warner Brothers label traded off its success as a film and television studio by taking its up-and-coming young stars and having them record singles and albums (and you thought the teen star phenomenon was new?). We’ve reissued albums by such teen idols as Connie Stevens, Ed "Kookie" Byrnes and Joanie Sommers, but now we turn to the first and greatest of Hollywood’s golden boys, Tab Hunter! Tab’s film and recording career was in full swing by the time he recorded his debut album for Warners in 1958—in fact, the studio abruptly yanked him from Dot when he had his hit Young Love for them in 1957—and it’s chock-full of his breezy, blond, blue-eyed charisma. Another exclusive pop culture artifact from 'Collectors’ Choice Music'!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Tab Hunter's First Album,
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With a sound that works for today's popular "Lounge Music";Tab Hunter hits a home run!The CD has a pristine clear sound,and enjoyable versions of classic songs such as "My Baby Just Cares For Me","Time After Time",and "After You're Gone".K.Nolting
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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For The Longest Time The ONLY Tab Hunter CD Available - And No Hits Included,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tab Hunter (Audio CD)
Collector's Choice, as a distributor of CDs, is noted for offering some of the most obscure stuff you are ever going to find. This is one of them.
First of all, Arthur Andrew Kelm was an athlete who took the stage name Tab Hunter when he began making movies - Island Of Desire, Battle Cry, Damn Yankees (his best in my opinion), Ride The Wild Surf, and Lust In The Dust [look it up if you don't believe me]. What he was NOT was a singer. And he knew it. Like fellow-actor contemporaries Sal Mineo and Anthony [Tony] Perkins, he was pressed into the music business by studio bosses anxious to cash in on the "heart-throb" craze sweeping the nation. The big surprise was, he actually scored a # 1 Billboard Pop Top 100 in 1957 with Young Love, edging out the superior (by a country mile) Sonny James version [which also hit # 1] by remaining at that position for six weeks, as opposed to one week for James. However, whereas the Hunter version also scored at # 8 R&B, Sonny saw his go to # 1 Country (where it stayed for 9 weeks) AND # 3 R&B. The Hunter flipside, Red Sails In The Sunset, is probably THE worst rendition of that old standard, and it also charted at # 57 Top 100, illustrating the power of promotion. His follow-up hit didn't come for a full year when Ninety-Nine Ways reached # 11 Top 100 b/w another butchered classic, Duke Ellington's Don't Get Around Much Anymore [# 74]. After that he had three hit singles, none of which were exactly memorable. Indeed, what made any of them interesting were the musical arrangements of Billy Vaughn and Don Ralke. All of which is to say, why did Collector's Choice give us a CD version of an old album that contains more old standards poorly done by, and which hardly sold in its vinyl format? Forget this and go to the Eric release which gives you all seven hits, and one of the three non-charting flipsides.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Tell me your songs, Tab,
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I have 5 Tab Hunter old 45's namely Young Love,Ways, I'll be with you in apple blossom time, Red Sails in the Sunset and Don't get around much anymore" , all of these I love, but I need to know if all of these tracks are on the CD. In fact I only rated this CD with one star,because no track listing is given. Can anyone out there write in this column, listing all of the tracks? PLEASE,PLEASE??I cannot play the old 45's as they are too scratched,and would love to buy the CD on this site,once I know ALL the tracks. Apart of this, Tab Hunter has always been one of my favourite matinee singing idols(alongside Bobby Darin,Bobby Rydell,Bobby Vee, Ricky Nelson and of course Steve Lawrence and Mel Torme) with his clear-cut voice and the supurb backing arrangement,he had the edge over other artists of his day.I remember back in 1957 that great song "Red Sails in the Sunset" (I was a 10 year old at the time) with the "B-side" of that Nat King Cole Hit "Don't Get Around Much Anymore". This B-side I loved to hear had a great backing arrangement with the opening bars of saxaphones. Great stuff! One never hears this Tab track on radio. Anyway, that's it. So don't forget to tell me the TOTAL LIST OF TRACKS which is sadly omitted of this web-site. Ta... A great backing arrangement,with the blast of saxes in the opening bar!! Just great stuff!
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