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| ARTIST: | Bobby Darin |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Atlantic |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Mack the Knife, Lazy River, That's the Way Love Is, Beyond the Sea, Was There a Call for Me, I Guess I'm Good for Nothing But the Blues, Don't Dream of Anybody but Me, Guys and Dolls, Down With Love, Black Coffee, Pete Kelly's Blues, Clementine, Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home, Artificial Flowers, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, What a Diff'rence a Day Made, Skylark, Just Friends, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, Christmas Auld Lang Syne |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 075679179524 |
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Customer Reviews of Mack the Knife
Beyond the Sea... What a tragedy that Bobby Darin died so young at 37. He is under-appreciated today and dwarfed by the huge shadow cast by Frank Sinatra. Though Darin didn't have the poignant and unmatched ability of Sinatra to phrase a lyric, his uptempo songs are nearly as good as the Chairman of the Board. He is cool, hip, has fine range and has an innate jazzy feel that infuses all of his swingier songs. The musical arrangements and musicianship displayed here is also exemplary. The orchestra that backs up Darrin is fantastic.
My personal favorite is "Beyond the Sea," one of the great swing pseudo-ballads of the 50's, recently resurrected as the backdrop of a TV commercial. Darrin proves he was the natural successor to Sinatra with his masterful vocal here. "Guys and Dolls" and "Down with Love" are nearly as good and showcases Darrin's talent. The best ballad is probably "Was There a Call for Me?" which reproduces the boozy hangover feeling of being dumped about as well as any song.
Darrin's later work was never as hip and contemporary-sounding as the music on this disc. This is an exceptional collection with many catchy, memorable tunes, and proves beyond a doubt that Darrin was an amazing talent.
Second hits volume has few hits but high quality
This collection and the companion Splish splash contain forty of Bobby Darin's finest songs from his peak years. Purely in terms of hits, this is weak, containing only seven American hits, but anybody who judges the quality of the music by the size of the hits alone misses out on a lot of great music. And so it is with this collection.
Mack the knife, an American chart-topper, is the biggest hit here, while Beyond the sea, a translation of the French song La mer, also reached the top ten. The other American hits here are Lazy river, Clementine, Bill Bailey won't you please come home, Artificial flowers and Christmas Auld lang syne.
Among the unsuccessful singles here are covers of Black coffee (Peggy Lee), What a difference a day makes (Dinah Washington), Skylark (Dinah Shore) and Don't get around much anymore (Duke Ellington), all done in Bobby's unique style.
This volume, with a few up-tempo songs and a lot of ballads, is generally mellower than Splish splash, which contains a lot of up-tempo songs and a few ballads. Taken together, the two volumes present a comprehensive collection of Bobby's A-sides from 1958 to 1961, plus (on Splish splash) three later songs.
It has his swingers, but too many ballads, which Darrin
Daris was many things a 50's rock'n'roller teeny bopper, a rockon' cowboy, and a vegas swingin' lounger, but he COULD NOT sing ballads. He just doesn't do well with songs like Black Coffee, when he sings a 3 minute ballad it seems like 10 minutes of terror. This cd does however have his greatest swinger son one cd Artificial Flowers, Beyond The Sea, and Mack The Knife, with a few midtempos taht he handles well by rockin' and rollin' hsi way thru swing standards liek Bill Bailey, Down With Love and Clemintine. A good cd, if only there were no ballads and all swingers! Still a good disc!