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| | The Best of Little Anthony & the Imperials | | | Music Artist : | | Little Anthony & The Imperials | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1989-10-05 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.96 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Tears on My Pillow
2. Two People in the World
3. So Much
4. Diary
5. It's Not for Me [#][*]
6. Wishful Thinking
7. Prayer and a Juke Box
8. I'm Alright
9. Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop
10. My Empty Room
11. I'm Taking a Vacation from Love
12. Please Say You Want Me
13. Traveling Stranger
14. I'm on the Outside (Looking In)
15. Goin' Out of My Head
16. Hurt So Bad
17. Take Me Back
18. I Miss You So
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 The Best of Little Anthony & The Imperials
Submitted on: 2009-06-01 |
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| Terrific CD with all the great Little Anthony & The Imperials songs plus many others that were not as familiar. Great product and great value. |
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 Good but "Hot-ta"
Submitted on: 2009-05-27 |
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The Best of Little Anthony & the Imperials has all of their hits and most of their charted songs, plus a few that did not chart. And there are NO remakes.
That's the good news. The bad news is that some of the cuts are still distorted at times. The engineering is as good as it can be, but the original master tapes are apparently to blame. I guess we'll never know why pieces of some songs are over-modulated...whether the mics were overpowered, if the equipment was cheap, or the original engineers simply recorded too "Hot".
All that said, the newer songs sound cleaner than the older pieces. "Take me Back" sounds pretty good, but "Tears on My Pillow" will always have some distortion. As soon as Anthony sings "You don't remember me" ... I have to turn down the volume a tad. To quote my brother's first word when he was a baby .. "Hot-ta"! |
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"THE BEST OF LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS"
Submitted on: 2008-01-10 |
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This compilation of "Little Anthony & The Imperials" includes most of their very best hits. "Take me Back", my all time favorite hit of that wonderful group and their all time blockbuster classic "Tears On My Pillow" are absolutely fantastic, the vocals are just superb.
Do not miss this great CD by who I choose to call "the monarchs of doo wop". |
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An OK Compilation But With A Few Bumps In The Road
Submitted on: 2007-09-01 |
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After reading Zubenelgenubi's review I have to think it has been misplaced and should perhaps accompany another CD for Little Anthony & The Imperials. First of all, he says this release "does not include any of their End label sides." In fact, of the 18 tracks 14 are End label cuts, including all six that made the Billboard Pop Hot 100. He also mentions a promo at the end of the disc. No such promo appears on my copy of the Rhino release. And it is considerably longer than 32 minutes.
If I have a complaint it's the inclusion, in a "Very Best Of" set, tracks 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, and 13 - all End selections that either never charted or were previously unreleased. With the DCP label he had six hits, and five of these are at tracks 14 through 18. Instead of those six End failures they should have included his final DCP hit, Hurt, which reached # 51 Hot 100 in 1966, along with the best five from his three Veep, three United Artist, and one Avco charters.
When Anthony Gourdine began singing in his native Brooklyn in 1955 he was part of a doo-wop group known as The Duponts. When they broke up he formed The Chesters with Tracy Lord, Ernest Wright, Glouster Rogers, and Clarence Collins and was snapped up by George Goldner's End label [he had a penchant for hauling groups literally "off the streets" and into the recording studio]. He also renamed the group The Imperials and this actually appeared on many of the End 45s of Tears On My Pillow, their first hit in 1958 (# 2 R&B/# 4 Hot 100 that fall). The flip, Two People In The World, is at track 2.
Part way through the release Alan Freed began calling the group leader Little Anthony and it stuck, appearing on all subsequent printings. After they split in 1960, Gourdine, Wright, Collins and Sammy Strain [later with The O'Jays]re-formed the group in 1964 and, of course, came up with 13 more charted hits to 1974, including the seminal Goin' Out Of My Head (# 6 Hot 100/# 22 R&B in early 1965).
One curiosity about the group was the fact that three of their End Pop Hot 100 hits - Wishful Thinking [# 79 in 1959], A Prayer And A Juke Box [# 81 in 1959], and My Empty Room [# 86 in 1960], made absolutely no impact on the R&B charts, whereas their other hits made both. Curious because this was, above all else, a R&B group right from the start.
I should also mention the excellent liner notes - four pages by Steve Kolanjan and two by Richard Barrett - which are chock-a-block full of interesting details and group photos, along with seven pages presenting their COMPLETE sessionography with all labels they worked for, including Janus [1971]. Normally I would deduct two stars for a "very best of" with so much obscure stuff, but the insert is worth one star on its own.
If you are not as hung up on "hits" as I am (especially when advertised as a "best of") you will enjoy this offering very much. |
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LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES~BRAVO LITTLE ANTHONY!!!
Submitted on: 2007-08-09 |
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| Little Anthony & The Imperials are Pop & Soul legends and seeing Little Anthony in concert makes one wonder why he was not a huge solo success as Anthony Gourdine possesses one of the greatest voices in the history of popular music and great songs (to name a few) like "Tears On My Pillow", "I'm On The Outside (Looking In)", "Hurt So Bad", "Going Out Of My Head", "Better Use Your Head", all bear this out as they are timeless classics that sound great to this day...a new 2007 release "You'll Never Know" show this legend in great form and check out the duet with Deniece Williams for a rare musical treat! Get both great collections for the finest in soul-satisfying music and anything by Little Anthony & The Imperials is a must have for any true music lover!!! |
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