Album Notes: 2 LPs on 1 CD: PRESENTING DION & THE BELMONTS (1959)/RUNAROUND SUE (1961).
Album Reviews: Q (6/00, p.132) - 3 stars out of 5 - \"...'59s PRESENTING [is] a cute slab of white doo-wop. 2 years later RUNAROUND SUE showed he could rock a little too and also featured 'The Wanderer', How innocent it all seems.\"
Advantages: Loads of Hits from the Golden Era of Rock N Roll Disadvantages: None
...have his offering, “RunaroundSue.”…”Keep away from that girl…!”
Del Shannon, the original rocker, with songs full of brooding, loss and rejection, features on this album with “Hats Off To Larry.”…
“…Hats off to Larry…he’s gone and broke your heart…just like you broke mine, when you said we had to part…”
Also “Runaway,” his 1961 hit…
“…As I walk along I wonder, what went wrong with our love….”
Del Shannon committed suicide in 1990 by overdosing on anti-depressants.
Ricky Valence’s song “Tell Laura I Love Her” was one of a number of so-called “death discs” and is about a man who dies in a stock car race, trying to get enough money to buy his girl a wedding ring…
…...
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helpful 23.04.2001
(11.04.2001)
The Best Of Review ofThat´s The Way It Is - Dion, Celineby
tommy7
Advantages: Excellent from beginning to end Disadvantages: If you dont like it you'll hate it
...“That’s the Way It Is” is a combination of Celine Dion’s greatest hits and seven new songs. It is the usual fare for the French-Canadian singer. The greatest hits part of the album makes it a good purchase for anyone who doesn’t have the previous albums but is there anything for the fan with the previous albums?
I love Celine Dion’s voice but my biggest criticism has been that on previous albums there are too many album filling tracks rather than songs being in there on merit. TTWIS actually benefits from this as there is only room for the cream of the new material.
If you like Celine buy this, if you don’t I don’t suppose you will be reading this!...
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Advantages: Erm... Cute band biog? Disadvantages: Cannot be accused of originality.
...of Céline Dion from time to time, or sometimes Britpoppers Alisha’s Attic. If only the album was as interesting as their biography.
If you were forced to listen to this CD, I would advise you to choose those sung mainly by Dragonetti. He has a vocal style less hard on the ear than that of his friend. However, if you enjoy listening to original songs, avoid it completely. They seem to have stolen their various styles from other artists past and present. And in songs like ‘Modern Invention’, not even Bob Dylan is safe.
As I said earlier, there are songs that remind one of such revered artists as Céline Dion and Alisha’s Attic – if you were to write a badly constructed album of your own, I’d hope that you would at least copy more respected artists than that! I suppose Bob Dylan can be counted as a respected artist, but A) the song that copies...
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somewhat helpful 18.06.2007
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