Skeeter Davis - Skeeter Davis sings Buddy Holly/ Skeeter sings Dolly
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Artist: Skeeter DavisEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1999-07-19
Music Label: Eagle Rock/Eagle
Soundtracks:
- Early In The Morning
- Maybe Baby
- Well...All Right
- That'll Be The Day
- True Love Ways
- It's So Easy!
- It Doesn't Matter Anymore
- I'm Looking For Someone T
- Heartbeat
- Oh Boy
- Think It Over
- Raining In My Heart
- Joshua
- Put It Off Until Tomorrow
- Gypsy, Joe & Me
- Fuel To The Flame
- Just The Way I Am
- Touch Your Woman
- Down From Dover
- In The Good Old Days (Whe
- Tomorrow Is Forever
- Daddy Was An Old Time Pre
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Country singer Skeeter Davis released scores of albums on RCA during her 20+ years with the label, this CD combines two of her three "tribute" albums, rock n' toll legend Buddy Holly, SKEETER DAVIS SINGS BUDDY HOLLY, released in 1967 eight years after his death, and 1972's SKEETER SINGS DOLLY, a full album of songs composed by the swiftly rising star Dolly Parton (barely four years after she first broke through to stardom!).
Like a true song stylist, Skeeter almost never sings these famous songs in their original arrangements but giving a completely new spin on them. The Buddy Holly tracks are quite adventurous because rather than being in the rock n'roll Holly tradition or even adapted to mainstream country, these new versions sound more like Broadway musical numbers, others seem pure Easy Listening. Indeed, the arrangements are so Hollywood/Broadway one might think they were done for Barbra Streisand or Liza Minnelli. The effect may be jarring at first but it ultimately works particularly "It's So Easy". And happily a few of the tracks are done in that solo "girl group" sound that Skeeter was so adept at capturing. Other highlights are a lovely take on "Raining in My Heart" and the 60's pop radio version of "Heartbeat".
The Dolly album is closer to the original source but then Skeeter and Dolly did record for the same label and at the same studio. Still, it's nice to hear Skeeter's double-track harmony wrapped around some of Dolly's earliest songs from the unromantic nostalgia of "In the Good Old Days When Times We're Bad" to the butterfly-chasing nature child of "Just the Way I Am". Another highlight is one of Dolly's most underrated songs, "Tomorrow is Forever".
Amazon for some reason lists only the Buddy Holly tracks on their listing - these are the songs from the SKEETER SINGS DOLLY album here - "Joshua", "Put it Off Until Tomorrow", "Gypsy Joe and Me", "Fuel to the Flame", "Just the Way I Am", "Touch Your Woman", "Down from Dover", "In the Good Old Days", "Tomorrow is Forever", "Daddy Was an Oldtime Preacher Man".
The CD contains reproductions of the original albums front and back covers inside but get out your magnifiying glass to be able to read the vintage liner notes written by Buddy Holly's parents and Dolly Parton herself, it's worth it. These albums are both great tributes to two unique popular music icons performed by a lady who was a pretty awesome talent herself.
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