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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Bobby Darin |
| Record Label: |
Rhino Records (USA) |
| Genre: |
Pop Vocal |
| Subgenre: |
Classic Pop Vocals |
| Release Date: |
April 16, 2002 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Splish Splash 2. Early in the Morning 3. Queen of the Hop 4. Plain Jane 5. Dream Lover 6. Mack the Knife 7. Beyond the Sea 8. Clementine 9. Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey 10. Artificial Flowers 11. Lazy River 12. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby 13. Irresistable You 14. Multiplication 15. What'd I Say 16. Things 17. You're the Reason I'm Living 18. 18 Yellow Roses 19. If I Were a Carpenter 20. Lovin' You |
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Personnel includes: Bobby Darin (vocals); Richard Wess, Jimmie Haskell, Jack Nitzche, Richard Behrke (arranger, conductor). Producers include: Herb Abramson, Ahmet Ertegun, Nesuhi Ertegun, Dick Jacobs, Jerry Wexler, Nik Venet, Charles Koppelman, Don Rubin. Compilation producer: James Austin. Recorded between 1958 & 1966. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl. All tracks have been digitally remastered. While Bobby Darin was an unpredictable sort who ventured from 1950s rock & roll to swing to country and folk-rock over the course of his career, THE HIT SINGLES COLLECTION does as good a job of touching all the Darin bases as any single-disc anthology possibly could. Darin's '50s pop period is covered here ("Splish Splash," et al), as is his neo-Sinatra big-band crooner work (as on the signature song "Mack the Knife"). Subsequent musical detours for Darin included a turn down the country road ("Things," "18 Yellow Roses") and eventually his re-invention as an introspective folk-rocker ("If I Were a Carpenter").... |
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