Dion & Belmonts - Greatest Hits [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Dion

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 27, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 8, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Repertoire
• ASIN: B000025AZ7
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,049 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
20 of the teen idol's biggest chart hits for the Laurie & Columbia labels from 1958-68, both with & without his group The Belmonts. All tracks are digitally remastered & include 'The Wanderer', 'I Wonder Why', 'Runaround Sue', 'Donna The Primadonna', 'A Teenager In Love' & 'Abraham Martin And John'. 1999 release.

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89 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 6 stars deserved, June 24, 2001

By	Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (North Plainfield, NJ) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

While there have been numerous Dion/Dion w/Belmonts CDs that have come and gone, this effort out of the German Repertoire label is a suberb accomplishment. This single-disc greatest hits collection is the first true gathering of greatest hits for Dion's entire career. While there are some minor charted records not included here, these twenty tracks represent every invasion of the top 40 by Dion, solo and with the Belmonts. Proof of the completeness of this set is the inclusion of "Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw", a tune consistantly ignored in other Dion collections. Sound quality is excellent - on a par with the work that Ace records did with the Dion Laurie catalog some time ago. All tracks except 4, 6 and 8 are in true stereo. Liner notes are sparse - a half page brief synopsis of Dion's career in English and German. A six-star rating in deserved to some degree simply because Repetoire has produced exactly what it calls this disc - Dion and the Belmonts Greatest Hits - and has done it extremely well. If only one Dion CD is going into a collection, this is unquestionably the one.

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Compilation Of Dion's Hits!, July 31, 2002

By	Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

One very talented artist from the late 1950s and 1960s that has slid from public notice is Dion Dimucci, more popularly known simply as Dion. Starting with a group of neighborhood pals as Dion and the Belmonts, he rose literally from the streets of New York to become one of the most successful pop recording artists of the era. Competing against other perpetual hit machines like Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Dion produced a steady stream of chart busters throughout the early and mid 1960s. All of that music, as well as his return to public acclaim with the fabulously successful Abraham, Martin, and John near the end of the decade after the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.

Most of his chartbusters are here, from his initial success with the Belmonts with Teenager In Love to The Still Of The Night to Where Or When to his fabulously popular The Wanderer, which touted the smarmy style of swaggering, wildly pompadoured teenage males playing the irresistible male stereotype as best they knew how, with skin tight Levis and form-fit white tees shirts, rolled-up sleeves and all. And the flood of similar songs also making the top ten are also here, including Runaround Sue, Ruby Baby, Donna The Prima Donna, The Majestic, Drip Drop, and on and on. Here we find such gems as Sandy, This Little Girl, Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw, and Little Dian. Listening to this collection is like stepping back in time to my own adolescence, when life was simpler and the radio was filled with a stream of non-stop hits from a plethora of artists, who, like Dion, seemed to be able to just keep pumping them out, one after another, with almost monotonous regularity. Enjoy!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!!, April 23, 2002

By	Paul Edwards (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

If you're looking for a quintessential collection of Dion & The Belmonts music on a single disc, then look no further than this German import of Dion & The Belmonts Greatest Hits! Let me tell you, the pristine sound quality on this disc has to be heard to be believed, especially when considering that most of these songs were recorded at least 35 years ago! You'd swear they were recorded yesterday! The fine packaging and the fact that every one of Dion & The Belmonts Top 40 singles spanning three different record labels are included on this disc make it WELL worth the value price! My question is, why can't U.S. labels ever seem to put out high quality single disc collections like this??? I've gotten to the point where I'm turning exclusively to import titles to get all my oldies music compiled and remastered the way I want it!!