Joan Regan - Best of
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Artist: Joan ReganEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-08-19
Music Label: Polygram UK
Soundtracks:
- Ricochet
- Danger Heartbreak Ahead
- If I Give My Heart To You
- That Old Feeling
- Till I Waltz Again With You
- Croce Di Oro
- This Old House
- Someone Else's Roses
- For All We Know
- Good Evening Friends
- Second Fiddle
- Prize Of Gold
- Cleo & Me
- I May Never Pass This Way Again
- Wait For Me Darling
- Jilted
- Love Me To Pieces
- Till They've All Gone Home
- Open Up Your Heart
- Wonderful Wonderful
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Free Music Review: A lovely collection of fifties music
Hit: 5 Stars
Joan was one of several excellent British female singers around in the fifties, most of them now largely forgotten. In one way, it's easy to understand, as most of their repertoire (including their hits) was made up of covers of Amercican songs, but it's a shame because the quality of their music was just as good as the American originals.Joan had two American hits (Till they've all gone home, a cover of a song previously recorded by Gisele McKenzie) and Croce de oro, both included here.
Here you will also find Joan's versions of two Doris Day songs (Someone else's roses and If I give my heart to you) which were both top five British hits for Joan, together with two Teresa Brewer songs (Till I waltz again with you - Joan's first single - and Ricochet, another huge British hit for Joan) and a nice cover of This ole house, a huge hit for Rosemary Clooney, revived in the eighties in Britain by Shakin' Stevens.
Joan had a lovely voice and could sing all types of song - brilliantly. With more original material, she could have been a big star in America and her music would be more widely available now than it actually is.
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Ms. Regan made achieved her greatest fame in the 1950's, first on the TV series "Quite Contrary" and then on four of her own "Be My Guest" programmes. Her resemblence to actress Anna Neagle and her vocal resemblence to Vera Lynn didn't hurt either, as Decca had signed her to a long term contract. She recorded many solo hits as well as successful duets and appeared in many shows at the London Palladium (having been married to the manager of the facility). After a messy divorce and nervous breakdown in the early 60's, she picked up again in the late 60's and moved to Florida, remarried and sang only occasionally. In 1984, she slipped in the shower and suffered a deblilating brain hemorrage, leaving her paralyzed and speechless. After years of therapy and recovery, she triumphed once more in the late 80's and early 90's, taking to the stage and thrilling her many longtime fans.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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