Frankie Laine - The Frankie Laine Collection: The Mercury Years
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Artist: Frankie LaineEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-10-22
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- That's My Desire
- On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- Black And Blue
- It Only Happens Once
- All Of Me
- Mam'selle
- Put Yourself In My Place Baby
- Two Loves Have I
- Shine
- We'll Be Together Again
- That Ain't Right
- But Beautiful
- Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
- Georgia On My Mind
- God Bless The Child
- That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
- Satan Wears A Satin Gown
- Mule Train
- Swamp Girl
- The Cry Of The Wild Goose
- Music, Maestro, Please!
- I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
Free Music Notes for The Frankie Laine Collection: The Mercury Years
Free Music Review: 22 Hit Singles With Mercury - 8 Of Them Are NOT In A 22-Track Volume
Hit: 3 Stars
Outside of an expensive multi-disc box set it seems there are no Frankie Laine CDs on the market today which give us all of his hit singles covering his years at Mercury [22 hits from 1947 - 1951] and Columbia [40 hits from 1951 - 1963]. In 1996 Taragon did put out one entitled The Very Best Of Frankie Laine (ABC Years) covering all 8 he had with label from 1967 to 1969, but it seems to be out of circulation.
This one, for example, is a 22-selection CD entitled "The Mercury Years" which then goes on to omit eight of the hit singles he had for that label! Now, I realize that it doesn't say "his best" or "greatest hits" but come on folks - it was the hit singles that made him a star there in the first place, especially in that pre-LP era.
In place of any seven of tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 22 - none of which were hits for Frankie - could they have not inserted the following: Monday Again (# 23 in 1948); Ah But It Happens [# 21 in 1948], You're All I Want For Christmas [# 11 in 1948 and # 29 in 1949], Now That I Need You [# 20 in 1949], Stars And Stripes Forever [# 20 in 1950], Dream A Little Dream Of Me [# 18 in 1950 and the flip of Music, Maestro, Please], If I Were A Bell [# 30 in 1950], and Metro Polka [# 19 in 1951].
With the exception of the Christmas tune, which can be found on Crooners Christmas from North Star [available here], all the others are on the Spectrum CD "Early Classics" - also available through Amazon. Also, his duets, expecially the 6 he had with Jo Stafford in 1961/61, are on The Bear Family CD "Duets."
With just a little more research effort and imagination this could have been a 5-star collection. Instead, it's just one more in a long list of his compilations that either offer us weak re-makes of his hits, or come up short in delivering the goods.
Frankie Laine is in the Top 5 when it comes to naming the singers regarded as the most difficult to collect by those of us seeking original hit singles from his time. What is the problem?
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