Claudine Longet - Very Best of
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Artist: Claudine LongetEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-09
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Product features:
- 2000
- Hello, Hello
- We've Only Just Begun
- God Only Knows
- Here, There and Everywhere
- Aint No Mountain High Enough
- You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry
- Small Talk
- (They Long to Be) Close to You
- Sleep Song
- Guess Who I Saw in Paris
- Walk in the Park
- Every Night
- All Alone Am I
- Look What They Done to My Song, Ma
- As If You Walked Away
- Sugar Me
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Free Music Review: The Guilty Pleasure Of A Forgotten Artist
Hit: 5 Stars
Claudine Longet is one of the great guilty pleasures of pop music--and not just because of the controversy behind the 1976 death of Spider Sabich, the scandal for which she is best remembered. Claudine belonged to the legendary 1960s roster of Herb Alpert's A&M Records, a group of loungecore artists horribly reviled by "hip" music critics for bucking the music and image trends of the pot-and-acid era. Alpert's acts included The Carpenters, The Sandpipers, Sergio Mendes, Alpert's own Tijuana Brass, Burt Bacharach, and Chris Montez. As Alpert himself explains: "I think people were bugged with hearing music which had an undercurrent of unhappiness and anger, even sadism." Claudine made five albums for A&M, and then went on to ex-husband's Andy Williams' Barnaby label for three early 1970s releases--and faded into musical obscurity. Until this compilation, Claudine's music was only available through costly Japanese imports or scratchy old vinyls at the thrift shop. Varese Sarabande has done a nice, if incomplete, job of presenting her music. The selections are mostly from the later Barnaby releases, leaving off some gems like "Wanderlust" from her first album and her incredibly beautiful version of the Everlys' "Let It Be Me" from her best album "Colours" and completely ignoring her most obscure album "Run Wild, Run Free." But since Claudine never made a bad record, any 16 of her tracks would be a very listenable "best of" collection. Ethereal, innocently sexy, free-spirited, Claudine sang like she looked on some of the jacket sleeves--the gorgeous, young lady in the diaphanous dress on the beach. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Nobody ever made records like these!
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16 tracs: Hello Hello, We've Only Just Begun, Here There and Everywhere, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry, Small Talk, (They Long to Be)Close to You, Sleep Song, Guess Who I Saw In Paris, Walk In the Park, Every Night, All Alone Am I, Look What They've Done to My Song Ma, As You Walked Away, Sugar MeBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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