Annette Funicello - 20th Century Masters: The Best of
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Free Music Review: Not all of the best, but a good collection
Hit: 4 Stars
The Annette collection to have is the 2-CD set that is now sadly out of print. This collection is OK, although it omits some fairly large hits ("First Name Initial", "O Dio Mio") in favor of some of the "beach" tunes that occupy half this disk. There are some import CDs, if you're willing to spend some tracking-down time and a few more bucks, that will give you a better overview, but for the budget-conscious or those who desire immediate gratification, this CD is a pleasant and well-produced option.Free Music Review: good
Hit: 4 Stars
Received the c.d. in Australia this moring. The c.d. is good but lacks a few of her very best songs, 1 in particular is LONELY GUITAR written by Jimmy Dodd. But overall I give it 4 stars and is very enjoyable (Brings back my youth)thanks
Free Music Review: Pineapple Princess
Hit: 4 Stars
I did not know Annette, and but "Pineapple Princess "and "Let's Get Together" were good and knew it, they did smash hit in Japan.
However, she is cute.
Free Music Review: Hardly Her Best
Hit: 3 Stars
I have to agree with those reviewers who point out that this feeble effort from Disney hardly measures up in terms of offering her best selections.
From 1959 to 1961 she put ten songs into the Billboard Pop Hot 100, and here they give us all of three: Tall Paul, which was her best, going to # 7 early in 1959 on the Disneyland label; Train Of Love, a # 36 in summer 1960, along with its flipside, Tell Me Who's The Girl]; and Pineapple Princess, a # 11 in September 1960.
Left off this volume are her second- and fourth-best hits - O Dio Mio which reached # 10 in April 1960, and First Name Initial which hit the # 20 spot late in 1959. On that one, in fact, she did something The Beatles could not do - cross over to the R&B charts, reaching # 27. The flipside, My Heart Became Of Age, also charted at # 74 Hot 100.
Other missing hits are: Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy [# 73 in May 1959]; Lonely Guitar [# 50 in August 1959]; Talk To Me Baby [# 92 in January 1961]; and Dream Boy [# 87 in February 1961]. On all her hits except Jo-Jo, Lonely Guitar, and O Dio Mio the records showed "Annette with The Afterbeats" and, except for Tall Pall, all her hits were released on Disney's Buena Vista label.
Amazon does offer another Annette compilation from Disney, a 2-CD set under the title: Annette: a Musical Reunion with America's Girl Next Door [ASIN B00000EJUJ]. Even that one, however, comes up a bit short in that it does not include Talk To Me Baby, nor several of the B-sides of her hits.
I have what is likely the best Annette compilation on the market today, in terms of her hits, entitled Annette's Scrapbook - The 31 Greatest Hits Of Annette. This was released by Silhouette Music on SM CD 10011. Even here, however, they do not give you Talk To Me Baby nor Dream Boy (but inexplicably do provide the uncharted flipsides I Love You Baby and Please, Please Signore). Two other B-sides omitted are Love Me Forever (b/o Jo-Jo), and Luau Cha-Cha-Cha (b/o Pineapple Princess).
So it would seem that finding the definitive Annette "best of" remains impossible until, that is, Disney allows someone like Bear Family, Ace of London, or Eric Records to put together a proper compilation.
Free Music Review: Annette is Wonderful!
Hit: 3 Stars
This CD has alot of good music on it, and is really fun to listen to. I cannot give this CD 5 stars simply because it doesn't have all of her hits. She had 7 national hits, and I was really expecting this "best of" collection to include all of those hits. Unfortunately, there are several that are missing which makes the CD somewhat incomplete. Even "O Dio Mio" which was one of her biggest hits, was missing from this CD! Nevertheless, it is the ONLY Annette Funicello CD that is currently in print. All the previous Annette CD's have been out of print for years, and this is the first Annette compilation to be released "officially" in quite a while. It does have alot of good songs on it too, with a variety of different sounds, from 1959 right into the mid 60's. I say, BUY IT if you like Annette Funicello. Oh, it also has the song "Let's Get Together" which is a good record that is very difficult to find these days.