The Chordettes: 25 All-Time Greatest Recordings

Chordettes

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 8, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 8, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00004C4PB
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,043 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mr. Sandman

2. Eddie, My Love

3. Teenage Goodnight

4. Just Between You and Me

5. Love Never Changes

6. Oh, Baby Mine (I Get So Lonely)

7. No Other Arms, No Other Lips

8. Come Home to My Arms

9. Hummingbird

10. Love Is a Two Way Street

11. True Love Goes on and On

12. That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be) [#]

13. Born to Be With You

14. Soft Sands

15. Lollipop

16. Your Wild Heart [#]

17. Echo of Love

18. Lay Down Your Arms

19. Zorro

20. Wooden Heart [Stereo]

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a find!, December 29, 2001

By A Customer

This C.D. of one of the outstanding vocal groups of 50s and 60s, has terrific sound quality. All of the hits that I'm familiar with sounded even better than I recalled. I would highly recommend this to anyone with a strong appreciation for the harmony and genre of the 50s sound.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Sandman...do that again, May 5, 2006

By	Master Pauper "Rick" (Frisco, TX, USA) - See all my reviews

This CD is great if all you want is Mr. Sandman but, we get so much more. The harmony and precision that these ladies put into their act is remarkable, very much like the best Barbershop quartet of all time, the Buffalo Bills.

This CD is worth the cost. Just beware, I am allowed to sing along if I am alone but others want it quiet so they can appreciate the music. Did I say I am a bad singer?

Anyway, Take a chance on this one.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't Quite Deliver The Goods, September 6, 2007

By	A Customer - See all my reviews

With all due respect to the other reviews, this CD doesn't quite measure up to the title. When you say "25 all-time greatest recordings" and the artist had exactly 14 charted singles hits [the goal of any recording artist at that time was a hit single], you should expect ALL fourteen, plus most of their B-sides.

In this they exclude their second charter, The Wedding [and its flipside I Don't Know - I Don't Care] which went to # 91 Billboard Pop Top 100 in January 1956, as well as 1959's A Girl's Work Is Never Done which, b/w No Wheels [also excluded], peaked at # 89 Hot 100 in August.

While nice renditions of other's hits, tracks 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 never charted for The Chordettes. They may have been included originally on some of their LPs, but to claim them as "all-time greatest" is stretching things a bit.

Better bets would have been I Don't Wanna See You Cryin' [the flip of Mr. Sandman], Whistlin' Willie (Our Melody) [the B-side of Eddie My Love], Baby Come-A Back-A [the reverse of Lollipop], We Should Be Together [back of No Other Arms, No Other Lips], along with the two mentioned above. That would STILL have left some room for six LP cuts or failed singles and made this a true 5-star CD.

You're far better off with the release by Collectables with the title "They're Riding High Say Archie."