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SKU/Barcode: 029667293426
This 32-song compilation stretches from 1954 to 1962 -- from their 'Mr. Sandman' chart-topper through their flirtation with rock material in the late '50s and their final discs in the early 1960s. The liner notes view the Chordettes as a link between the Andrews Sisters and the girl groups of the rock era, and while there's some truth in that, the Chordettes undoubtedly owe much more to the Andrew Sisters. The rock & roll flavor in some of their hits sounds more like a nod to necessary incorporation of commercial trends than genuine inspiration. The pop material is executed with a cleanliness that is both impressive in its virtuosity and innocuous, even a little sterile, in a family-entertainment sort of way. Still, this has all that almost anyone will need to hear by the group, including all of their big hits and many misses. For a while in the late 1950s they dipped into the rock & roll repertoire often, with covers of 'Lonely Boy' (the lyric changed to 'He's just a lonely boy' for gender compatibility), LaVern Baker's 'I Cried a Tear,' 'Charlie Brown,' 'Pink Shoelaces,' Annette Funicello's 'Tall Paul,' and 'To Know Him Is to Love Him,' with unimpressive results. 'A Girl's Work Is Never Done' and 'No Wheels' even have King Curtis on sax, resulting in the raunchiest (relatively speaking) Chordettes tracks. 'Pink Shoelaces' actually isn't bad.
1. True Love Goes On And On
2. Mr Sandman
3. Lonely Lips
4. Humming Bird
5. The Wedding
6. Eddie My Love
7. Born To Be With You
8. Lay Down Your Arms
9. Teenage Goodnight
10. Echo Of Love
11. Just Between You And Me
12. Soft Sands
13. Photographs
14. Lollipop
15. Baby Come A Back A
16. Zorro
17. Love Is A Two Way Street
18. No Other Arms No Other Lips
19. A Girls Work Is Never Done
20. No Wheels
21. Lonely Boy
22. Charlie Brown
23. I Cried A Tear
24. Pink Shoelaces
25. Tall Paul
26. To Know Him Is To Love Him
27. My Heart Stood Still
28. For Me And My Gal
29. A Broken Vow
30. Never On Sunday
31. Faraway Star
32. In The Deep Blue Sea