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Where The Girls Are...

Various Artists Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (27 May 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Ace Records
  • ASIN: B0000009KH
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 131,465 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Condition Red - The Goodees
2. Look In My Diary - Reparata And The Delrons
3. Don't Drop Out - Dolly Parton
4. Little Things Like That - Suzy Wallis
5. Live And Learn - Joey Heatherton
6. I'm Thru - Carolyn Carter
7. Anything Worth Having (Is Well Worth Waitin' For) - Joan Moody
8. Love Kitten - Noreen Corcoran
9. Oo-Wee Baby - Doris Day
10. Please Don't Kiss Me Again - The Charmettes
11. How Much Is that Doggie In The Window? - Baby Jane & Rockabyes
12. Your Ya-Ya Is Gone - The Tren-Teens
13. Hula Hoppin' - Idalia Boyd
14. Push A Little Harder - The Avons
15. That Boy Of Mine - The Sherrys
16. Young Girl - Charmaine
17. Sometimes I Wonder - Barbara Brown
18. What Kind Of Girl (Do You Think I Am?) - Erma Franklin
19. Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl - Patty & The Emblems
20. Who's That Guy - The Kolettes
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5.0 out of 5 stars Obscure sixties pop for sixties fans only, 31 Aug 2003
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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Where The Girls Are... (Audio CD)
In common with the other volumes in this series, this collection consists of rare tracks that didn't make any significant impression when they were released and have largely been forgotten. If you are a casual fan of sixties music just looking for hits, you should look elsewhere. You won't find them here. There are a few familiar names here, but their famous songs are not included.

Of all the names here, Dolly Parton and Doris Day would seem to be the most unlikely inclusions, not just on this volume but in the entire series. In fact, these particular tracks sit comfortably here.

The Dolly Parton recording, Don't drop out, is from 1966 and even I (a devoted Dolly fan) didn't know this track existed until I came across this collection. To be honest, you could play this collection and not realize who the singer is. Dolly has recorded in many different styles, but this is the only time I've heard her in girl-group style.

The Doris Day track, Oo-wee-baby, is described in the liner notes as the best record Lesley Gore never made. I doubt that, but this track certainly sounds like something that Lesley might have recorded.

More conventional girl-group recordings include rare tracks by Reparata and the Delrons, the Avons, Erma Franklin and Ruby and the Romantics as well as many excellent songs by obscure acts who never made the big time, even briefly. Some are so obscure that even the researchers who compiled the extensive liner notes failed to find any information. All that remains of the Geminis is their recordings and a photograph. Even their names are forgotten.

The overall sound of this collection is early sixties girl-group. If you are already familiar with this type of music and you have a significant collection of such music, you may find this fascinating. If not, you are probably not ready for this.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars OO-wee baby, 1 Oct 2001
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This review is from: Where The Girls Are... (Audio CD)
The first volume of 'Where the girls are' starts and ends with car crashes. There are lots of songs about boys and dancing and kissing. They range from bluesy to popsy, but they're all full of bubble, bounce and confidence.
While you're listening, you can peruse the names of the bands on the sleeve - Ruby + The Romantics... Reparata + The Delrons...The Charmettes...and wonder at the group shots of the girls inside. These were times of matching suits, high hair and lips. Each of the tracks is a gem. Look out for 'How much is that doggie in the window'. Collect them all.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars My Sister, Squeezed between Dolly & Joey, 22 Mar 2004
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This review is from: Where The Girls Are... (Audio CD)
Found this by accident--squeezed in betwen Dolly Parton & Joey Heatherton on this CD is "Little Things Like That" recorded by my sister (then going by Suzy Wallis) when she was about 13 or 14. She had two other singles on RCA as well. Now in her early 50's, music degree from California Institute of the Arts, still singing professionally in L.A. under her real name, Suzanne Wallach. And amazingly, her voice still sounds the same.

The production value of these early songs must be appreciated--all of the top studio musicians were on sessions like these, no garage band players. The songwriters/producers on my sister's singles were names like David Gates, Mike Post, and Delaney Bramlett. The musicians are not known, but could have been people like Glen Campbell, Hal Blaine, and Carol Kaye--all of whom played on thousands of records, day in & out in the studios. A time capsule.


4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Mostly obscurities..., 3 Mar 2004
By Zub "Zubenelgenubi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Where The Girls Are... (Audio CD)
Girl-group compilation CD's abound in the marketplace but it is refreshing to see a collection with something other than "My Boyfriend's Back" and "He's So Fine", the usual staples of the genre. Though this piece goes well beyond the hits with the majority of the tracks being very obscure, there are at least a few tracks that may be familiar enough to keep the listener engaged. Among the better-known charting singles are Patty and the Emblems' "Mixed-Up, Shook-Up Girl" and "Hey There Lonely Boy", the Ruby and the Romantics original before Eddie Holman's gender-switching more commercially successful take on it. A couple of real rare yet charting entries appeal to the collector in the form of the Goodees' "Condition Red" and Baby Jane and the Rockabyes' version of Patti Page's "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window". One more interesting rarity here is the Charmettes' "Please Don't Kiss Me Again", a tune that barely touched the national top-100 but was much bigger hit in the New York area. However, disappointingly, the version here is not the original single version and no explanation is given for the substitution. Otherwise, there are some interesting, if not totally appealing tracks from big-name artists such as Doris Day and Dolly Parton.

Ace has done a decent production job here with a few tracks appearing in stereo (1,10,14,18,20,23) and to their credit they acknowledge that a few tracks have been lifted from vinyl and one from a damaged tape source. And in usual Ace fashion, there is a substantial liner notes booklet with info on the included tracks, although sometimes there is just not much known to tell about a few of the performers here.

Though interesting in not being just another rehash of the oft-compiled girl-group tunes, this piece could have been somewhat more appealing if there were a few more recognizable, chart-worthy tunes. There is certainly no lack of yet-to-appear-on-CD singles of the genre that would be candidates for a compilation such as this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff, 18 Oct 2003
By Christine Mccoy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Where The Girls Are... (Audio CD)
Although their are big names like Ruby and the Romantics, Doris Day and Dolly Parton, they sure aren't singing their usual hits. This is also the only cd where I found "Condition Red" by the Goodees. Much of the music here is obscure "CONDITION RED" by the Goodees is the biggest hit at #46 in 1968 and the only other is "How Much...Doggie in the Window" at #68 in 1963. These two songs are a must for your music collection and the rest are just good old extra songs so after you've gotten The Beatles, The Supremes,The Beach Boys, The Marvelettes, Elvis and the Stones give some girl-groups a TRY!
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