Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to

Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to

Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to
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Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Needle in a Haystack
  2. He's Got the Power
  3. Nobody Know What's Goin' On (In My Head But Me)
  4. I'd Much Rather Be with the Girls
  5. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
  6. Nothing But a Heartache
  7. You Don't Know
  8. Boys
  9. Big Bad World
  10. Out in the Streets
  11. Is It True
  12. Please Don't Wake Me
  13. I'll Keep Holding On
  14. Oh No Not My Baby
  15. May My Heart Be Cast into Stone
  16. Magic Garden
  17. I Never Dreamed
  18. He's a Bad Boy
  19. Happy, That's Me
  20. Dream Boy
  21. Try the Worryin' Way
  22. I Can't Let Go
  23. Go Now
  24. You're No Good
  25. Opportunity
  26. Life and Soul of the Party
  27. Break-A-Way
  28. What Am I Gonna Do with You
  29. He Did It
  30. Baby That's Me
Music CD 2
  1. I Adore Him
  2. Train from Kansas City
  3. Please Go Away
  4. Let Me Get Close to You
  5. I Have a Boyfriend
  6. I'm into Something Good
  7. I'll Come Running
  8. If There's Anything Else You Want (Let Me Know)
  9. When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
  10. It Comes and Goes
  11. Baby, Baby (I Still Love You)
  12. Girl Don't Come
  13. That's When the Tears Start
  14. What a Lonely Way to Start the Summertime
  15. Don't Drop Out
  16. One You Can't Have
  17. I'm Nobody's Baby Now
  18. You're So Fine
  19. When You're Young and in Love
  20. My One and Only, Jimmy Boy
  21. Friend of Mine
  22. Chico's Girl
  23. Cause I Love Him
  24. Bye Bye Baby
  25. First Cut Is the Deepest
  26. I Won't Tell
  27. Egyptian Shumba
  28. I Sold My Heart to the Junkman
  29. Walking in Different Circles
  30. Hideaway
Music CD 3
  1. Trouble with Boys
  2. Lookin' for Boys
  3. Dream Baby
  4. Condition Red
  5. Should I Cry [Alternate Take]
  6. I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
  7. I've Been Wrong Before
  8. Love's Gone Bad
  9. Nightmare
  10. She Don't Deserve You
  11. Will You Be My Love
  12. Take Me for a Little While
  13. Funnel of Love
  14. I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy
  15. Terry
  16. Untrue Unfaithful (That Was You)
  17. Sophisticated Boom Boom
  18. Saturday Night Didn't Happen
  19. Don't Ever Leave Me
  20. Don't Forget About Me
  21. Wanna Make Him Mine
  22. Only to Other People
  23. Big-Town Boy
  24. Daddy You Gotta Let Him In
  25. After Last Night
  26. How Can I Tell My Mom & Dad
  27. Too Hurt to Cry, Too Much in Love to Say Goodbye
  28. Up Down Sue
  29. When I Think of You
  30. Good, Good Lovin'
Music CD 4
  1. When the Boy's Happy (The Girl's Happy Too)
  2. Don't Drag No More
  3. I'm Afraid They're All Talking About Me
  4. That's How It Goes
  5. Some of Your Lovin'
  6. Peanut Duck [#]
  7. Thank Goodness for the Rain
  8. Steady Boyfriend
  9. He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
  10. I Know You Love Me Not
  11. Whatever Happened to Our Love
  12. Heart
  13. I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You
  14. He Makes Me So Mad
  15. I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face
  16. Crying in the Rain
  17. We Don't Belong
  18. You Don't Love Me No More
  19. Hey, Tell Me Boy
  20. Brink of Disaster
  21. Who Do You Love
  22. I'm 28
  23. They Never Taught That in School
  24. Dressed in Black
  25. Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya
  26. Every Little Bit Hurts [Del-Fi Version][Version]
  27. Mister Loveman
  28. Make the Night a Little Longer
  29. Mixed Up, Shook Up, Girl [Live]
  30. Good Night Baby

Free Music Notes for Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to

Free Music Review: Girl group heaven
Hit: 5 Stars

I've been in seventh heaven listening to Rhino's latest boxed set, One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds, Lost and Found. I'm a long-time fan of the early-60s Girl Group/Brill Building/Wall of Sound genre (and of Rhino Records, of course), and this boxed set is perhaps the finest representation to-date of the Girl Group part of that equation.

First, the details. This is a 4-CD set, each CD with 30 songs each, for a total of 120 girl group classics. It comes with the kind of in-depth liner notes, in a separate booklet, that one expects from the folks at Rhino. And it's all wrapped up in what looks to be a 60s-era hatbox, very cute.

The recordings are all first-rate, fully remastered in glorious mono (in most cases). Many of the songs here are available on other collections (such as K-Tel's long out-of-print The Brill Building Sound boxed set), but the sound here is much superior to what I've heard elsewhere. Take, for example, the forgotten gem "My One and Only, Jimmy Boy" by The Girlfriends. This song first got rediscovered on The Brill Building Sound, then later was included on one of Ace Records' Early Girls compilation CDs. In both those instances, the sound was muddy, without a lot of headroom; it sounded as if it had been recorded in a trashcan. Not so on Girl Group Sounds. Here the sound is bright and clear, almost as if it had been recorded last year instead of forty years ago. (It first hit the charts in February of 1964, where it got swept away by the Beatles invasion.) You can hear every footstomping beat, every crack from Hal Blaine's snare drum, and all the glory of Steve Douglas' rockin' sax solo. The sound is so vibrant, so joyous, you just want to get up and dance along.

As I said, most of the songs on the Rhino set have been available in other collections, although you had to look hard for them. Rhino's mid-1980s The Best of the Girl Groups compilations offered some of these tunes, as did K-Tel's late, lamented 1993 The Brill Building Sound box. More recently, U.K. reissue label Ace Records had dug up several of these cuts for their Early Girls and Where the Boys Are compilations, although both the sound and the liner notes are superior in this new Rhino set.

My favorite tunes? There's a bunch. "He's Got the Power," by The Exciters. "You Don't Know," a rare solo singing turn by songwriter Ellie Greenwich. "Please Don't Wake Me," by The Cinderellas. "I Never Dreamed," by The Cookies. "Break-A-Way" by Irma Thomas. The Bacharach-like "Girl Don't Come," by Sandie Shaw. "The One You Can't Have," by The Honeys, written and produced by Brian Wilson in his best better-than-Spector mode. The aforementioned, "My One and Only, Jimmy Boy," by The Cinderellas, a rollicking Wall of Sound-alike by future Bread-winner David Gates. "Dream Baby" by a very young Cher, where producer Sonny Bono shows that he learned something when he used to work for Phil Spector. "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)" by the Ikettes, recently revived in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1. "Peanut Duck," an irresistibly odd dance number by an anonymous singer billed as Marsha Gee. A somewhat obscure Dusty Springfield number titled "I Can't Wait Till I See My Baby's Face." A rare live version of Patty & The Emblems' "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl." And too many more to mention.

The Girl Group sound was inspired by the popular female pop singers of the 1950s (Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney, et al), the burgeoning R&B genre (Ruth Brown, Etta James, et al), and various female doo-wop groups. The fire was lit by early rock 'n' roll, and the fuel provided by the era's best producers, songwriters, and studio musicians. Its birthplace was New York, but it quickly migrated to Los Angeles, Detroit, London, and beyond. At its best, the Girl Group sound mixed bits of Brill Building pop, Phil Spector Wall of Sound, sassy Motown soul, and the sound of swingin' London -- although it doesn't fall squarely into any of these camps. After all, Brill Building songwriters also wrote for male teen heartthrobs and manufactured groups like the Archies and the Monkees; the Wall of Sound powered hits by The Righteous Brothers and Ike & Tina Turner; Motown was at least as much Temps and Tops as it was Supremes and Marvelettes; and London pop eventually devolved into schmaltzy Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck. So the Girl Group sound was more than the sum of its parts -- it was its own distinct sound, whether fronted by a real group or a solo singer with backups.

To many critics, the post-Elvis, pre-Beatles era was a musical wasteland, but they just weren't listening hard enough. The best of the Girl Groups (and solo singers working with backup groups) transcended the factory-like approach to the music, working with the best songwriters, producers, and studio musicians to create classic tracks that bear their unique imprint. I'm talking about groups like The Shangra-La's, The Chiffons, and The Shirelles, and solo singers like Ronnie Spector (of The Ronettes), Darlene Love (of The Blossoms), Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Leslie Gore, and, of course, Diana Ross (and The Supremes). These are great songs, great performances, and great records. I can listen to them all day long -- and often do.
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Girl Group Sounds: One Kiss Can Lead to Poster

Girl groups have enchanted humankind since the era of the ancient Greeks, when legend has it the Sirens attempted to lure wayfarers Odysseus and Jason to their fates; Persephone's chanteuses would eventually even lose a battle of the bands to the Muses. A couple millennia later, female singers would become a dominant force in the pop and rock of the ?60s, the era anthologized on this four-disc, 120-track collection from Rhino. If the "group" tag is something of a misnomer (many of the acts here are solo artists), the vibrant female pop spirit of the times gets showcased in rare fashion by a collection that eschews the obvious to revel in showcasing rarities and surprises at every turn: the bittersweet, life-is-over-when "I'm 28" musings of a two-decades-pre-"Mickey" Toni Basil; a healthy sampling of gems by the Cookies and their various alter-egos, including the Palisades' fervent ode to uber-necking, "Make the Night Just a Little Bit Longer"; the Shangri-Las' mini-epic, "Out in the Streets"; hit songwriter Ellie Greenwich's solo turn on the haunting "You Don't Know." An impressive collection with an inclusive bent, its tracks range across the classic r&b of the Marvelettes, Chiffons and Irma Thomas, country-crossovers Skeeter Davis and Wanda Jackson, the blue-eyed soul of Jackie DeShannon and Dusty Springfield and wounded white-girl pop of Lesley Gore and Connie Francis. It's all contained in one of Rhino's most elaborately designed packages yet: each disc comes in a mock compact; its extensive liner notes and track info printed as a mini-diary; all housed in a smart replica of a vintage hat box--a treasure-packed delight for lovers of the genre and curious novices alike. -- Jerry McCulley

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