Carole King, Gerry Goffin - Goffin & King: A Gerry Goffin and Carole King Song Collection 1961-1967
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Music CD Cover Artist: Carole King, Gerry Goffin Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Import CD Release Date: 2007-10-30 Music Label: Ace Records UK Soundtracks:
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Free Music Review: Nice Goffin & King compilation of mostly unknown songs
Hit: 4 Stars
Besides all the big hits this wonderful couple wrote in the early part
of the 60's and that form part of the teenage dreams we lived through
by then, they wrote a lot of other beautiful songs that never hit the
charts and whose interpreters were completely unknown. Almost 45 years
later we now know that there were singers like Richard Wylie, The
Satisfactions, Bertell Dache, Jill Jackson, Ramona King, The Honey Bees
and Dee Dee Warwick. As always is the case with ACE, the liner notes
are extensive and inform us about every detail of each song and its
interpreter. There are some real beauties that when you listen to them,
you just don't understand why this song was never a hit. The Chiffons
"The First and Last" is better than any of their biggest hits. The
completely unknown songs by famous artist such as Bobby Vee, Bobby
Rydell, The Drifters, The Crickets, The Righteous Brothers etc. make
you wonder why they never hit the TOP 100. Some of the songs of this
compilation written by Goffin & King have been produced by Phil Spector
and Jack Nitzsche. Is there anything better than this "cocktail" of
super writers and super producers?? The song by P.J. Proby is just
a sample of this explosive encounter! ACE does not only give you MUSIC
with capital letters but they also give you all the information you've
never had or read before. I can't give it 5 stars, however, because
there are some 5 songs at the end that sound like "fillers up". It would have been a wise idea to reduce this compilation to 20.