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| | The Best of the Flamingos | | | Music Artist : | | The Flamingos | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1990-05-10 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $11.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. That's My Desire
2. Golden Teardrops
3. Jump Children
4. Dream of a Lifetime
5. Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
6. I'll Be Home
7. Kiss from Your Lips
8. Vow
9. Ladder of Love
10. Lovers Never Say Goodbye
11. I Only Have Eyes for You
12. Mio Amore
13. Nobody Loves Me Like You
14. Your Other Love
15. If I Can't Have You [*]
16. Love Walked In [*]
17. Goodnight Sweetheart [*]
18. Time Was [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Fav Oldies
Submitted on: 2009-10-11 |
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| I am so happy to hear the Flamingos again. It has been years since I've had a turntable to play my oldies on. And now that they been re-recorded on CD's it wonderful. Thank you for keeping them around. |
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 Disappointing at best
Submitted on: 2009-10-03 |
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The better songs are at the end.
The first dozen or so are all flip side material.
Somebody needs to mix a Flamingos meet the Moonglows.
Then you would have enough good do wops for a useable CD.
rgds..
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 Only a few
Submitted on: 2009-03-10 |
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| I obtained a loan of this album, and I'm certainly glad that I did not buy it. It has "I Only Have Eyes for You" but that's about the only great song on the album. Still, if that's the only manner in which you can get a copy of this version of that great song of the late 1950's, then go for it. That one cut is priceless. The other great Flamingos hit, "Only You," is not on this album. |
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The Best of the Flamingos
Submitted on: 2009-02-23 |
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| Other than "Mi Amore" and "I Only Have Eyes For You" I couldn't get into the rest of them. Plenty of songs though. |
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 From One Of George Goldner's Most Famous To One Of His Most Successful
Submitted on: 2007-10-03 |
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Having just done a review on a Rhino CD covering George Goldner's most famous clients, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, it's appropriate I also do one on a Rhino CD covering, perhaps, his most successful group. Commercially speaking.
After recording unsuccessfully for the small Chance Records of Chicago in 1953, followed by an equally-dismal stint with Parrot (not the same label that would later record Tom Jones) in 1953/1954, this group moved hooked up with the marginally larger Checker/Chess operation and, in 1956, had two solid R&B hits with I'll Be Home (# 5 in March b/w Need Your Love, and A Kiss From Your Lips (# 12 in June b/w Get With It).
After going hitless from then until early 1959, they scored on Goldner's End label with Please Wait For Me - that is, after the pressings were changed to show the new title, Lovers Never Say Goodbye. One of my favourite Flamingos cuts, this only reached a modest # 25 R&B and # 52 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in March 1959 b/w That Love Is You. But the follow-up, a cover of a 1934 hit by Ben Selvin, did very well indeed, as I Only Have Eyes For You peaked at # 3 R&B/# 11 Hot 100 that summer b/w At The Prom.
Since that oldie worked well, they did it again with Love Walked In, a 1938 hit for Sammy Kaye, only this time the best they could do was a # 88 Hot 100 in October 1959 b/w Yours. Early in 1960, I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You) topped out at # 71 Hot 100 b/w Heavenly Angel, neither side included here (in 1962 Connie Francis would take the A-side to # 24).
Later that spring they recorded a Sam Cooke composition, Nobody Loves Me Like You, and saw it rise to # 23 R&B/# 30 Hot 100 b/w You, Me And The Sea on some pressings, and Besame Mucho on others. Later that summer Mio Amore got to # 27 R&B/# 74 Hot 100 b/w At Night. They then closed out 1960 with You Other Love, which hit # 54 Hot 100 early in 1961 b/w Lovers Gotta Cry. Their final two End hits came in 1961. Kokomo, which they originally had released on Parrot in 1955 (that's the version heard here), only to lose out to the Gene & Eunice and Perry Como versions, struggled to a # 92 Hot 100 in March b/w That's Why I Love You, while in July, Time Was (a Mexican tune written as Duerme and a hit for Jimmy Dorsey in 1941), almost made the Hot 100 Top 40 before settling in at # 45 b/w Dream Girl.
Their remaining hits came in 1966 with Philips (The Boogaloo Party - # 22 R&B/# 93 Hot 100), 1969 with Julmar (Dealin' [Groovin' With Feelin'] - # 48 R&B), and 1970 with Polydor (Buffalo Soldier - # 28 R&B/# 86 Hot 100).
This release gives you almost all their End hits, but none of the flipsides, and it seems to me that, in a release labeled The Best Of The Flamingos, some of those other failed releases on Chance and Parrot could have been sacrificed for that one missing End hit, and some of their B-sides at least.
The insert contains four pages of interesting background notes written by music historian Donn Fileti, along with the complete Flamingos sessionography on all but those last three labels.
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