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| | Tommy Roe - Greatest Hits [MCA] | | | Music Artist : | | Tommy Roe | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Mca | | Release Date : | | 1993-09-28 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sheila
2. Folk Singer
3. Everybody
4. Come On
5. Party Girl
6. Everytime a Bluebird Cries
7. Sweet Pea
8. Hooray for Hazel
9. It's Now Winter's Day
10. Dottie I Like It
11. Dizzy
12. Heather Honey
13. Jack and Jill
14. Jam up and Jelly Tight
15. Stir It up and Serve It
16. Pearl
17. We Can Make Music
18. Stagger Lee
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Tommy Roe will never be forgotten--just listen to this music !!!
Submitted on: 2009-05-18 |
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Tommy Roe - Greatest Hits has an awful lot of great music by Tommy Roe. Tommy brought happiness to millions of people; and his CDs still sell so he still spreads the happiness around! These tunes hit the airwaves and made them sizzle when they were originally released; and that's terrific. The quality of the sound is excellent and I like that artwork, too.
"Sheila" starts the album with a number that definitely has Tommy Roe tipping his hat to the great Buddy Holly. "Sheila," which topped the Billboard chart at #1, gets the royal treatment from Tommy; he delivers this faultlessly and the music perfectly complements his vocals. Great! "The Folk Singer" has a very pretty melody; and "Everybody" was always one of my favorite Tommy Roe tunes. "Everybody" has Tommy squarely front and center--right where he belongs! The backup effect is quite good although I don't think Tommy truly needed it; he could take anything and make it sound very special using just his own voice. "Everybody" also has a side dish of light rock to go with that bubblegum flavor. "Party Girl" uses the guitars very well in the musical arrangement; Tommy sings this with panache and "Party Girl" even has a countrified feel to it that makes it a stand-out of this album.
"Sweet Pea" has a great sound and Tommy aces this as effortlessly as if it were mere breathing--of course, we know it really wasn't all that easy; Tommy's talent carries him through very well. "Hooray For Hazel" is actually a song I haven't heard too many times before; but it's really very good and I think you'll like it, too.
"It's Now Winter's Day" stuns me; I really like "It's Now Winter's Day" and it's a huge, huge highlight of this CD. "It's Now Winter's Day" proves just how much talent Tommy had. "Dizzy" was one of Tommy Roe's biggest hits ever; it even topped the Billboard chart at #1! "Dizzy" has everything going on at once and it all holds its own very well. "Dizzy" has some psychedelic flavoring added into it and it remains timeless. Awesome!
"Heather Honey" uses the guitars and percussion to great advantage; Tommy sings this without letting go of a single superfluous note. "Jam Up And Jelly Tight" has quite a punch to it; the drums sound great and Tommy sings this with lots of positive energy and enthusiasm. "Jam Up And Jelly Tight" is one hit nobody could do better than Tommy Roe.
"Stir It Up And Serve It" has a good rockin' beat with some female backup; they all harmonize flawlessly--I'm impressed. "We Can Make Music" has a country feel to it that makes it almost instantly memorable; and the album ends very nicely with Tommy Ros performing "Stagger Lee." "Stagger Lee" has a fantastic piano arrangement and Tommy does this one up right! It leaves me wanting more, too.
Tommy Roe - Greatest Hits certainly has quite a few nonstop excellent tunes to keep Tommy's fans happy; and this also makes a great place to start for people new to Tommy Roe. People who like bubblegum music in general will also like this album.
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Tommy's best..
Submitted on: 2008-10-18 |
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| This is the most complete package of Tommy's great hits. All original, with liner notes that tell the story of Tommy's career. This is the one to buy. |
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The ORIGINAL Hit Versions
Submitted on: 2008-06-10 |
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| I had the " 12 IN A ROE " greatest hits LP , and waited years for a TOMMY ROE " GREATEST HITS " CD that had the original ABC label hits. THIS ONE IS IT. Don't be fooled by cheap, budget collections with songs like " Yummy Yummy Yummy ", which wasn't his hit anyway. This CD is great, with 18 songs, including the big ones, and also later mid-chart hits, like the awesome " PEARL " , " WE CAN MAKE MUSIC ", and his last hit " STAGGER LEE ". Raves on this CD. Love those 60's hits from " SHEILA " to " JAM UP & JELLY TIGHT ". |
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 Never A Major Player ... But Consistently On The Charts During The British Invasion
Submitted on: 2007-09-29 |
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A great many North American singers who were household names during the first three years of the 1960s suddenly found themselves either bumped off th charts completely when the first waves of the British Invasion hit the shores in 1964, or relegated to the lower regions of the charts. Not so Tommy Roe who, although never immediately recalled when a discussion turns to the biggest stars of that era, was nevertheless there, especially in 1966.
He first hit it big for ABC-Paramount in summer 1963 when the self-penned Sheila got all the way to # 1 on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 and # 6 R&B. Not a bad debut, and that fall he was back with a cover of the 1958 Robin Luke hit, Susie Darlin', which he took to # 35. This was around the time he came back from a tour of the U.K. and brought along a tape of a group that had appeared as a warm-up at some of his appearances. Some suit at ABC-Paramount told him that that was the worst thing he had ever heard and to concentrate on his own singing. They'd find the talent. The group was The Beatles. You have to wonder how long that twit kept his job!
In May 1963 the Merle Kilgore-penned The Folk Singer staggered to a # 84 and while that's included here, they chose to omit Susie Darlin'. Go figure. He then came back strong in the fall when Everybody, which he also wrote, peaked at # 3. Ironically, his next hit, Come On, which came in early 1964, was relegated to # 36 primarily by those same Beatles who seemed to hold down every chart position from 1 to 20. He then tried another cover, this time of Chuck Berry's Carol, but could only manage to get it to # 61 in May 1964. Even so, it too should have been included here rather than Everytime A Bluebird Cries or Dottie I Like It, neither of which can be counted among his best.
When Party Girl struggled to a # 85 in December 1964, and no further hits ensued in 1965, it appeared as though Tommy was indeed a victim of the British Invasion. But in 1966 he came back strong with another of his own compositions, seeing Sweet Pea rise to # 8 erly that summer, followed by the equally-solid Hooray For Hazel which hit # 6 that fall. He then closed out a pretty good comeback year when It's Now Winter's Day made it to # 23 in late December/early January 1967. 1967 was a bit of a bust, however, as both Sing Along With Me (# 91) and Little Miss Sunshine (# 99) struggled, and when he was again shut out through all of 1968, once more he was written off.
But then in early 1969 he was back to # 1 with Dizzy, which he co-wrote with Freddy Weller of Paul Revere & The Raiders fame, and it stayed there for four solid weeks. A few months later his own Heather Honey finished at a respectable # 29, followed that summer by Jack And Jill (also written with Weller) which peaked at # 53, and in December by another written collaboration by the same duo, Jam Up And Jelly Tight, which topped out at # 8.
1970 produced three medium hits, Stir It Up And Serve It (# 50 in March) and Pearl (# 50 in July) - both written by Roe & Weller - and We Can Make Music, which got to # 49 in October. His last Top 40 then came in late summer 1971 when his cover of the Lloyd Price classic, Stagger Lee, roe to # 25 Hot 100/# 34 Adult Contemporary. His final two hits, in 1972/73, came with MGM South, and both were minor entries (Mean Little Woman, Rosalie - # 92, and Working Class hero - # 97).
The AAD sound quality of this album is excellent, and with the insert are eight pages of background notes by Todd Everett, several more photos of Tommy, and a partial discograpjy of the contents (no chart details).
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Fun, Fun, Fun
Submitted on: 2007-07-26 |
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| This is a great compilation of Tommy Roe's hits and near misses. While much of his music carries the bubble gum tag, the tunes are light and his voice is good. I especially liked the final cut, Stagger Lee, which surprised me because he did a great cover. As for the bubble gum songs, Sweet Pea, Hooray for Hazel, and Dizzy are cute songs for the era. Jam Up and Jelly Tight is bouncy and Pearl is a hidden gem. For the older baby boomers, the CD brings back lots of pleasant memories. |
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