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Vikki Carr - Greatest Hits

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Vikki Carr sounds terrific on all these tracks (when doesn't she sound terrific?), but with only 10 songs here, this is hardly representative of her fantastic, wide-ranging career. I wish Capitol (and Columbia) would reissue her English-language material, giving it the respect it deserves.

Even though Vikki Carr only had 2 real hits during her Liberty/UA tenure, this budget set does not contain the highlights of that phase of her career. Where are the good songs like "Sunday Mornin' Coming Down","The Lesson","San Francisco","Singing My Song" and last but not least "Eternity"? While these songs were not hits, they were songs that were immediately identified with Vikki and should be included in any comprehensive collection. I would recommend the British releases over this CD. Will someone please get Sony Music to re-release Vikki's English albums of the 70s on CD? Great stuff like "One Hell Of A Woman", "Ms America","I'd Do It All Again" and last but not least "Six Weeks Every Summer, Christmas Every Other Year" remain unavailable on CD!!

This is an EXCELLENT compilation of songs that could not be sung more beautifully than by Vikki Carr. The moment she touches a song, any song, it becomes her own. No one else can touch you like this woman can. Truly, when it comes to the instrument of voice, no one does it better than Vikki!!! She is the ULTIMATE VOCALIST!!!

This budget disc on the Curb label presents a small sampling of Vikki Carr's earlier hit recordings, including "It Must Be Him", and "With Pen in Hand".

Equally enjoyable are the Broadway standards "So in Love", and "Surrey With the Fringe on Top", which Vikki performs with an energetic verve. These were staples in her nightclub act for many years. "Bluesette" (one of my personal favourite Vikki Carr numbers) is also happily included here.

For fans of the vivacious Vikki, this disc is a very nice surprise!

[Curb/WEA 77677]

I ordered this CD for my sister! We had this as an album when we were growing up and just loved it. I have listened to the CD and now I remember why we love the songs. All the songs on this CD are great and just as I remember them!

Vikki Carr magestically manages the art of singing the "spanish bolero" with romanticism and professionalism. She involves the listener in the "extassy" of transporting you to the scenes of traditional and real slow bolero dancing. Must have in your collection.

This is a great CD for Vikki fans. Many have been released before, but several have never been released on CD format! This CD was marketed back in 1994 and it is still selling. I am sure sales are UP again with it being featured in Vanilla Sky. If you are looking for Vikki's 70's pop music, go to her website and see all the releases of Vikki's music finally making it to CD format!

If you've been searching the catalogue for Vikki Carr CDs containing her greatest hits and have stopped at this one because of the price, my advice is to move on. Fast. There is much more material available that is superior in every respect.

I have come to the conclusion that Curb likes to play foot-loose and fancy free with the term "greatest hits" by using it to signify, not the greatest hits of the artist in question, but rather "greatest hits SUNG by that artist." There is a huge difference, and this one is an archetypal example of the kind of flim-flam Curb put out at the advent of the CD.

Here you get ten selections gathered together under the banner "Greatest Hits" which, logically, most might regard as Vikki's best. Then you find that exactly two of them were hers, while the others - tracks 3 to 10 - were never hits for Vikki. Not on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 nor on the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts. Not anywhere.

What makes this even more ludicrous is the fact she only HAD seven Billboard Hot 100 hits, three of which made Top 40, and they even contrived to leave off one of those - 1968's The Lesson which rose to # 35 in January [it was a # 1 Adult Contemporary (AC) along with It Must Be Him which reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1967]. She also had another 11 AC entries, so it wasn't as if they could not have filled out the CD with some bona fide Vikki Carr hits!

That this kind of junk is still available while so many other excellent compilations have fallen out of print is a crime. But then, come to think of it, it's likely still available simply BECAUSE people are too smart to fall for the swindle. May they forever remain on the shelf.

I ordered this product for my wife before Christmas. It came in plenty of time. Upon opening and playing it we found the cd had errors so I exchanged the item for another. The exchange also had errors, so I returned it for a refund. Shipping and handling over all were great but the product itself was of poor quality

I bought this as a gift for my mom and when she opened it and we put into the player the first song skipped like crazy. When I looked at the CD the entire edge had multiple semi-circle scratches. Now that it was open we could not get a replacement or refund. Talk about a waste of $20.