5つ星のうち1.0Elevator music...and not very good at that!
2021年9月19日にカナダでレビュー済み
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Purchase=waste of money. There is a sameness to the arrangements that borders on boring. If this was intended as a tribute to Bob Crewe, it is a catastrophic failure. The man deserved better!
the 2005 rerelease of the long out print "the best of Bob Crewe generation brought back allot of fond music memories. When it first came out in late 1966 on the heels of the smash Pepsi theme "Music to watch girls by", I had the album, like so many of us we whore out the LP. This compilation has extra cuts from the follow up Crewe LP's, "Music to Watch Birds by 1968, and 1970's Let me Touch You, and the seldom heard Theme(1969's, Jane Fonda's flop( Barbarella, this also includes Winter Warm, Melachony Serenade, Theme from Moulin Rouge, and the version of Brother Dan(Danny Boy"). The generation, featured New York and LA best session men and Hutch Davie which were featured on many Four Season's recordings. Bob Crewe couldn't read music ,but he the gift to be able sing and scant his musical thoughts to his crack musicians and arrangers. This CD compilation features the best of the late great maestro. Enjoy
5つ星のうち4.0BOTH MUSIC AND THE MAN DESERVE TO BE BETTER KNOWN
2017年5月1日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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I was about 13 when I heard Freddy Cannon's Okefenokee--yeah, Patty Baby--and stood there stunned--how'd they get that SOUND on the record? I was a few years older when Palisades Park and Abigal Beecher grabbed my ears. Yeah, yeah, Freddy Cannon's singing, but...who DID that SOUND? I got shivers, goosebumps and, even, sometimes, tears in my eyes, when I heard Rag Doll, Big Man in Town,Walk Like a Man, Dawn. Four Seasons, sure, but there HAD to be somebody else responsible for what I was hearing. When Music to Watch Girls By hit the chart, I saw the name Bob Crewe. By Then, I might have learned he was in part--a BIG part--responsible for what I loved about Freddy Cannon and The Four Seasons. I was old enough and enough of a music nut to see his name attached to Mitch Ryder's hits. Then came his own "Generation" hit and I learned there was much, much more. How wrote and produced the soundtrack for Barbarella movie? What group performed it? Yeah, him. And them. Wow. Just wow. Now, they've made the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, giving Crewe his due. Well, somebody should have interviewed the guy for hours before he died in 2014 (I think), written the book and done the movie about HIM. He is that fascinating.
Anyway, I'm a little weird because I also like so-called "easy Listening" instrumental music (a long-gone pop music genre that died as the 70s zipped into the 80s) so, it's great to have this ... compilation. Really great. I almost called it a "relic" (my kids would) but it's not, of course. Not if you really like this stuff.