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Helen Shapiro Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (7 Feb 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: EMI Gold
  • ASIN: B004D5H2LS
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,007 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  4. Tell Me What He Said (2003 Remaster) 2:45£0.89
Listen  5. Let's Talk About Love (2003 Remaster) 1:55£0.89
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Listen  8. Queen For Tonight (2003 Remaster) 2:09£0.89
Listen  9. Woe Is Me (2003 Remaster) 2:00£0.89
Listen10. Not Responsible 2:41£0.89
Listen11. Look Who It Is (1998 Remaster) 2:13£0.89
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Listen13. Look Over Your Shoulder (1998 Remaster) 2:46£0.89
Listen14. Shop Around (2003 Remaster) 2:47£0.89
Listen15. I Wish I'd Never Loved You (1998 Remaster) 2:40£0.89
Listen16. Tomorrow Is Another Day (1997 Remaster) 2:21£0.89
Listen17. Here In Your Arms 2:40£0.89
Listen18. Something Wonderful 2:40£0.89
Listen19. Forget About The Bad Things 2:27£0.89
Listen20. In My Calendar 3:20£0.89
Listen21. Make Me Belong To You 2:33£0.89
Listen22. She Needs Company 3:13£0.89
Listen23. When I'm With You 1:51£0.89
Listen24. Marvellous Lie (1997 Remaster) 2:23£0.89
Listen25. Kiss 'N' Run (1998 Remaster) 2:08£0.89
Listen26. I Apologise (1997 Remaster) 2:37£0.89
Listen27. I Don't Care (2003 Remaster) 2:31£0.89
Listen28. Ole Father Time (1997 Remaster) 1:54£0.89
Listen29. Sometime Yesterday (1998 Remaster) 2:51£0.89
Listen30. An Empty House 2:31£0.89
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Listen11. A Teenager In Love (2003 Remaster) 2:19£0.89
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Listen18. My Guy (2003 Remaster) 2:51£0.89
Listen19. All Alone Am I 2:45£0.89
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Listen21. Move Over Darling (2003 Remaster) 2:33£0.89
Listen22. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby (1998 Digital Remaster) 2:21£0.89
Listen23. Remember Me 2:06£0.89
Listen24. Walk On By (2003 Remaster) 2:50£0.89
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Listen26. It Might As Well Rain Until September (2003 Remaster) 2:21£0.89
Listen27. Baby It's You 2:45£0.89
Listen28. Please Mr Postman (2003 Remaster) 2:37£0.89
Listen29. It's In His Kiss (2003 Remaster) 1:58£0.89
Listen30. Stay 1:45£0.89


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Listen12. Blues In The Night (2003 Remaster) 4:04£0.89
Listen13. A Teenager Sings The Blues (1998 Remaster) 3:15£0.89
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Listen19. Basin Sreet Blues (1998 Remaster) 3:34£0.89
Listen20. I Believe In Love 2:19£0.89
Listen21. I Can't Say No To Your Kiss (Take 4 B/D + Take 5 + Studio Conversation) 2:13£0.89
Listen22. A Dozen Other Boys (Take 4 B/D + Take 5 + Studio Conversation) 2:12£0.89
Listen23. You're My Remedy 2:58£0.89
Listen24. I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In) (Take 8) 2:46£0.89
Listen25. Just A Line 2:40£0.89
Listen26. It's So Funny I Could Cry (1997 Remaster) 2:14£0.89
Listen27. Frag' Mich Nicht Warum 2:48£0.89
Listen28. Parlons D'amour 2:00£0.89
Listen29. Stop and You'll Become Aware 2:38£0.89


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(3CD) Awesome 90-track anthology from the great British singer, all the hits & a whole lot more...great price too!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Eunice
Format:Audio CD
Each time I hear a recording of Helen Shapiro I am taken back to when I heard it 50 or so years ago. It is like a time warp. I remember distinct details of where I was, who I was with, and what I was doing at the time as if I was there at that moment. This recording is a brilliant nostalgia trip for me.

Helen's phenomenal rise was also her downfall as her audience grew up. Everything about her was iconic, her beehive hairdo, crinoline dresses with cinched waists. Although very age appropriate, like leg warmers and blossom hats, within a year she was "so last year". In my opinion she was also a victim of very bad management and arrangements. Unable to make her own career decisions due to her youth, she was exploited and milked for all they could get by people who did not seem to understand her phenomenal and unique talent and could not see further than the current pop scene. Rather than being carefully nurtured for a lifetime as a sultry torch, blues and ballad singer, she was recording virtually identical bouncy pop rock with a strong beat and yea, yea, yea, backing group. Fortunately her crystal clear diction overrode the backing because you could hear and still remember every word.

Many of her cover versions were better than the hits with which other long gone singers enjoyed success. Just listen to "Will You Still Love me Tomorrow?" and "The End of the World." I would have preferred her version of "Beyond the Sea (La Mer)" if it had been sung more slowly, evoking waves breaking on the shore as the singer wistfully remembers a love beyond the sea, rather than paced with a rat-a-tat beat like a marching band. Even more so if it had been sung in French. Just because Bobby Darin sang it to a strong beat doesn't mean everyone has to. Listen to Charles Trenet's original recording for comparison. One of the loveliest songs ever and one that brings tears to the eyes; although; I doubt that Bobby Darin's version made anyone weep other than with despair.

Helen would have been wonderful with the types of songs popularized by Patsy Cline, Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink: the slow heartbreaking torch numbers, but this was not to be. She never caught on in the US because she was given the same pop drivel to belt out as hundreds of other singers were doing, rather than focusing on her unique sound. Her brief fall from top of the charts may have been an advantage in the end as she diversified into theatre and had a 50 year career. We should be thankful that we now have this recording to cherish.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
While there's no denying the wonder of Helen's voice even as a fan I'm a little disappointed by this collection. Musically it would get five stars but the booklet, such that it is, is woefully inadequate. EMI could take lessons from Ace, RPM and Cherry Red on how to put a package together. As a DJ I like to impart knowledge on the tracks, especially the rarities of CD3, but there's nothing to say where these gems come from, bar the minimal writing credits. Helen's music deserves better than this. The little information contained within would seem to suggest that this package may have appeared previously in 2003.

Worth it for CD one alone. CD3 is good too but CD2 is mostly filler covers.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
More or less complete 24 Jun 2011
By Richard
Format:Audio CD
The booklet advertises "unseen photographs" which is inaccurate-all the pics (shown as thumbprints) are not only known of but the one of her sat on the steps has been cut off.If this had been on Bear Family you would have got a 50 page book.
I don't know about "mismanagement"-EMI DID send her to Nashville where she was able to claim making the original version of Its My Party but the singles they lifted off it were not good enough-the songs after all were all Nashville rejects.It was also a strange choice to issue a downer song like Woe Is Me when EMI had junked the song Misery (which says the same thing) so in spite of her solid Beatles connections she was prevented from having the first Beatles cover.
However her management got it right with the idea of her recording American flops rather than a straight cover of a hit so she had the only version of the Ginny Arnell song Tell me What He Said and the same with Babs Tino's Keep away from other girls.
All her singles were issued in the States on about 8 different labels including Capitol but there's no answer to why she never climbed any higher than the bottom rung after appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show (which should have made some difference)
As for her original hits by U K writers they stand as authentic sounding high school pop-clearly her record company had some idea just how high school worked in the States.
The color photo as the sleeve is one of the finest I've seen and should have been shown inside the booklet full length as well as some stills from the movies she was in
The music though is fine-all the singles in chronological order less the B side and the entire Helen In Nashville on Disc 3
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helen shapiro the ultimate years
i didn't know that disc one in THE ULTIMATE HELEN SHAPIRO BOX SET was the same as the disc HELEN SHAPIRO THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION. i needed only to buy the box set.
Published 1 month ago by barbara seymour
Shapiro
Great music. Nostalgic. Bring back old memories with the good singing. The whole set is great value for money.
Published 2 months ago by Andy
Ultimate Helen Shapiro
Helen Shapiro had one of the finest and unique voices of the 60's. I had all her early hits on single 45rpm discs and thought that this compilation was great for the price. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dennis Smith
The Ultimate Helen Shapiro
I bought this CD for my wife and she absolutely loves it, when I bought it I thought it was just one CD, but when it arrived I discovered that it wasn't just one, but three CD's. Read more
Published 4 months ago by charliefarley
Loved this album
just recieved this boxed set and loved it. She has a marvalous voice and I very much liked her cover of other peoples hits. excellent.
Published 6 months ago by barb
Helen Shapiro - The EMI Years.
This 3 CD collection is very good value, packed with many familiar hits from the early 60's,many jazz standards and numerous cover versions of very popular songs from the 60's... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Paul Blue Eyes.
fabulous
This album beats all others of Helen Shapiro.It covers all her hits ,non hits,other peoples hits and then rarities including some of her fantastic jazz recordings . Read more
Published 8 months ago by Musicman
Most comprehensive compilation of Helen Shapiro's music yet released
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Helen Shapiro's first hit single, this is an excellent collection featuring 89 tracks that she recorded as a teenager. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Peter Durward Harris
Why MONO??
The downside is that all the major hits are mono, disappointing when you consider that most of these were originally recorded in stereo and featured in compilation albums released... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. David John Cole
A Great Collection
This is a really excellent three disc c.d. of Helen Shapiro's EMI years. There are all the early hits from 1961 - "Don't Treat Me Like A Child" (a song about a mild early teen... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Appleblatt
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