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Re-recorded songs with "original" artists

R. Hull | 03/24/2007

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Somewhere in small print it should have stated most songs are re-recorded using the original artists....problem is although the artist is alive, his/her/their voice passed away years ago. The background music is fairly "original" but many of the artists have lost the vitality in their voice they had in the '60s. Ben E King's "Spanish Rose is a good example. "Sunday Will Never Be THe Same" by Spanky is another. You begin to feel sorry for the artist (and yourself) after just a few moments. Some songs must have been originally stereo as they are not marked as re-done but retain the original sound ("Laugh Laugh" is a good example). It can be argued that there are a lot of songs for the money, but don't expect the music to be what you remembered from the greatest of music years; 1960's."

6 OUT OF 100 ORIGINAL HITS

Gale M. Green | Madison, WI | 08/01/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I WISH I HAD READ THE BOTTOM OF THE JEWEL CASES BEFORE I WASTED MY TIME LISTENING TO

THESE FIVE CDS (THEY NOTED WITH AN ASTERISK WHICH SONGS WERE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS)

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO ENJOY. PERHAPS SOMEONE WHO HADN'T HEARD THESE SONGS

IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM COULD ENJOY THESE, I CERTAINLY DID NOT (WITH THE EXCEPTIONS

OF 5 of the 6 ORIGINAL SONGS THAT I DID LIKE. WITH "JINGLE JANGLE" BY THE ARCHIES NOT

MAKING THE CUT). UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT APPEARED TO GOOD TO BE TRUE, WAS EXACTLY

THAT."