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The Best Of Marty Wilde
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Track Listing
- A Teenager In Love
- Donna
- Sea Of Love
- Endless Sleep
- Bad Boy
- Rubber Ball
- Put Me Down
- Danny
- Johnny Rocco
- Ever Since You Said Goodbye
- Don't Pity Me
- Splish Splash
- High School Confidential
- Wild Cat
- Blue Moon Of Kentucky
- Teenage Tears
- Tomorrow's Clown
- Little Girl
- Are You Sincere
- The Fight
- Hide And Seek
- Jezebel
- Honeycomb
- Dream Lover
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #11958 in Music
- Released on: 1995-11-20
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
- Running time: 54 minutes
Customer Reviews
50�s Brit-Rock or Cover-Up?
In the days of steam radio, those chaps at the BBC were rather unwilling to let American rock 'n' roll and R&B music loose on an unsuspecting British public. Instead it was left to the likes of Cliff, Marty and Billy to be our Elvis. In his time Kim's dad was mean and moody along with the best of them. A quick count reveals that this output from Marty includes at least a dozen cover versions - very respectable ones at that. At his mean best Marty sings "Danny", a song written for, but not included in, the Elvis movie King Creole. The album is quite a mixture and on Marty's last hit from '62 "Ever Since You Said Goodbye" the whole feel is very Cliff and the Shadows and the Bobby Vee sound comes in between with "Rubber Ball" and "Teenage Tears"
Marty had 13 hits from '58 to '62 and they're all here along with couple of self-penned tracks like "Tomorrow's Clown" and "Wild Cat". Although without the angst of Fury Marty's output is nonetheless very worthy of a place in British Rock 'n' Roll history. A must for true UK rockers and your chance to replace that battered '45 of "Teenager in Love" at last!
The sound issue
Pretty good selection of songs with ALL relevant hits (I don't understand why not in chronological order, though). But, when it comes to the sound on this cd, I'm not happy. Songs on this cd are NOT newly mixed and/or digitally remastered (my god, it's been a 45 years since these songs were recorded).
The sound is flat and (in some songs) very hissy.
I was saving when I bought this cd instead of BGO's 2 albums on one cd edition (with the same songs). Wrong choice. Don't get me wrong, this is a very nice 'best of' with a very nice price published in 1995.
But, it's 2006, and we all know how great the sound on such old recordings can be. Not here on this cd.
a must
on this cd you find all big hits and many other fine recordings by Marty Wilde, in best quality; everyone who likes the British kind of music of the late fifties and the early sixties should have this cd.
