You Don't Have to Be a Baby [Import]

The Caravelles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Marginal
• ASIN: B000BITC5K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,694 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry

2. Tonight You Belong To Me

3. I Really Don't Want To Know

4. My How The Time Goes By

5. I Was Wrong

6. Last One To Know

7. Have You Ever Been Lonely

8. Half As Much

9. Gonna Get Along Without You Now

10. Don't Sing Love Songs

11. Don't Blow Your Cool

12. Forever

13. A Dream Of You

14. Georgia Boy

15. So Sad

16. I Depend On You

17. True Love Never Runs Smooth

18. Other Side Of Love

19. I Hear A New Kind Of Music

20. I Want To Love You Again

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars From The Office To The Pop Charts, July 22, 2008

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Kert Conrad (DENVER, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Don't Have to Be a Baby (Audio CD)

According to the liner notes on this import, The Caravelles were a couple of young British office workers who were signed to a recording contract and had a fairly big hit with YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A BABY TO CRY in 1963. Their sound has been described as "whispered harmonies", and listening to the 25 songs on this disc, the closest way to sum up their style would be to say that it feels as if you're listening to an early demo tape of The Chordettes. Their harmonies are in fact quite nice, but the arrangements are very pedestrian and the instrumental accompaniment is very sparse, to say the least.

Most of the songs in this collection are simple pop tunes of the type you'd expect to hear from teen singers in the early sixties. The girls also cover a number of songs made popular by other artists ranging from Rosemary Clooney to the Everly Brothers. Unfortunately, it's on these tracks that their limited singing abilities come up shortest, and the marginal sound quality doesn't help matters any. I'm not enough of an audio expert to tell if the fault lies in the way the songs were originally recorded or in the mastering of the material for compact disc, but the sound has a muddy quality with the instruments often only barely discernable.

High fidelity or not, it's still pretty neat that SOMEBODY has taken the time to release a collection by The Caravelles. The girls may be just a footnote in pop music history, but they put together some nice melodies and it's cool that that their work has been preserved, if rather shabbily, on this CD.

For the record, The Caravelles took their name from a stylish French jet airliner, which is pictured on the back cover of this collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 3 parts spooky and 1 part corny, April 18, 2009

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: You Don't Have to Be a Baby (Audio CD)

This CD has a great vibe with a big reverb, distant, jazzy creepy harmonies, easy-to-listen-to, early 60s atmosphere. There aren't any paint peelingly great lost pop songs, but it's a very pleasant listen that I will play again.

Their greatest tune "Hey Mama, You've Been On My Mind" does not appear here (Dream Babes Volume 5), but if you dig that tune, this is worth exploring. Don't expect anything quite that heavenly, though.