Search - Skeeter Davis :: The Pop Hits Collection, Volume Two

More Pop From the Country Queen

"Tee" | LA | 09/19/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is a sequel to the 2004 collection of pop crossover hits and pop recordings of country legend Skeeter Davis from the 1960's. That album apparently sold well enough to merit a second helping but as you might guess by looking over the song collection for the most part these aren't actual "hits" (only tracks 4 and 5 made the Billboard pop charts) a more precise title for this collection might have been "The Pop Years" or "Skeeter Davis Pop" or the like. Most of these were just album tracks although #10, 11, and 16 were country chart records for Skeeter.



But don't let that scare you away because this is a wonderful collection of "Nashville sound" country-pop from this talented star. Skeeter ventures all over the pop landscape with these tracks from the easy listening "It Was Only a Heart" to the amazingly dead-on intrepretation of 60s British pop in "Sad Sad World". "Timothy" has always been one of my favorite Davis cuts, the 30-plus Skeeter wonderfully capturing the obsessive ador of a lovestruck teenybopper. You can practically see her scribbling Timothy's name all over the lyric sheet with cartoon hearts! Skeeter earned two country top female vocal Grammy nominations for 1964's wistful "He Says the Same Things to Me" (always a favorite of Skeeterities) and 1972's "One Tin Solider", originally sung in the movie BILLY JACK by Coven. "Instinct for Survival", although a minor country charter, is a superb song penned by Jim Glaser. The remake of "End of the World" is somewhat controversial with fans with it's overly sugary "adult contemporary" production but it is interesting to hear Skeeter perform her most famous song in a new arrangement. The cover art on the CD is absolutely beautiful, the nicest of any Skeeter CD. I highly recommend this collection by one of the great female vocalists of her era in any genre.



TRACKS:

1. Blueberry Hill

2. Somebody Loves You

3. It Was Only A Heart

4. He Says The Same Things To Me

5. How Much Can A Lonely Heart Stand?

6. I Don't Want To Love You (But I Do) - (previously unreleased)

7. What I Go Thru (To Keep Holding On To You)

8. Sad Sad World

9. It'a A Crazy World

10. Instinct For Survival

11. There's A Fool Born Every Minute

12. Timothy

13. End Of The World (1969 album version)

14. I Didn't Cry Today

15. Both Sides Now

16. One Tin Soldier

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One more disc than necessary

M. D. Sullivan | Boston, MA USA | 03/30/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"The songs I bought this disc for were B sides to Skeeter's 2 biggest pop hits. The A sides were on Vol. 1, and it was necessary to buy Vol 2 to get the other sides. Skeeter was first and foremost, a country artist. She flirted only briefly with Pop in the early 60's. Her Pop collection could have been easily encompassed on a single CD, but it seems like a marketing device to split the sides of her hits onto 2 separately sold discs. My problem lies only with this aspect of the purchase, as Skeeter and her music are beyond reproach. Even though she left us way too soon, these discs give us a lasting memorial to her great talent."

Wonderful collection!

Paul.A | The Netherlands | 07/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Not her biggest pop hits but that's no problem at all! This CD is more than worth to have. After the first pop hits collection you might think you've heard it all and don't need this. Well, i thought that too at first but ordered anyway. Now its one of those CDs for me that you can keep on playing. Skeeter really shows once again that pop is her cup of tea just as country is. If there is ever gonna be a Volume 3, i'll be one of the first to get it."