The Best of the Girl Groups, Vol. 2
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Free Music Review: Group Leaders
Hit: 5 Stars
Girls vol 2 speaks volumes on the tough (almost male only)society of the early rock years , when girl groups not only had to prove themselves more
but also they had to succeed with almost every release.This cd tells the tale.
Free Music Review: The Best Of The Girl Groups, Vol. 2
Hit: 5 Stars
If your a fan o f the 60's music, this CD is a must to have in your collection.Free Music Review: Best of the Girls Group Vol. 2 Review
Hit: 4 Stars
The sound quality is good and I thoroughly enjoy the music. Yet, I like the selection of songs in Best of the Girls Group Volume 1 than Volume 2. It may be my bias, but I thought that there were other songs by various Girl Groups (i.e. the Crystals) that could have been included.Free Music Review: Girl Groups Vol 2
Hit: 5 Stars
more great sixties music, i play it in the car and sing all the time when i am not playing vol 1Free Music Review: More from the Great Age of Girl Groups
Hit: 5 Stars
Rhino Records finishes what it started with "The Best of the Girl Groups, Vol.2," giving us another good-sounding, good collection of girl group standards, some better-known than others, from the Great Age of the Girl Groups,the early 1960's, before the British Invasion drove the girls from the charts. And once again, the melodic hand of those Brill Building songwriters is much in evidence.
The collection opens with The Angels' hit, "My Boyfriend's Back." This is a pretty white bread-sounding song; and believe me --I've seen them-- the Angels were kind of a white bread group. But the lyric is pretty flavorful: legend says the songwriter, at a diner, just wrote down a waitress's outburst at a guy who'd obviously pushed her too far. "Sweet Talking Guy," by the Chiffons, follows; plenty of Bronx flavor to this one. I've also seen them perform, and let me tell you, these were girls who still got a kick out of singing, and hitting those notes. Then follows a great dancing song, "The Locomotion," sung by Little Eva, whom, legend says, was the maid of Carole King, who wrote it with her usual partner, Gerry Goffin. Carole King also sings "It Might As Well Rain Until September," the only one of her many creations on which she, herself, had the hit. Ellie Greenwich, another Brill Building regular, much better known as a songwriter than performer, sings her own "You Don't Know." The Toys give us a song I particularly loved, and still do, "Lovers Concerto;" legend says the immortal classical composer Friedrich Handel ("Music for the Royal Fireworks") gave them the music for that one. The Cookies contribute two more dance numbers -- those girls could rock: "Chains," and "Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby." Those perennial favorites, the Shirelles, give us "I Met Him on a Sunday." The Exciters give us another good dancing song, "Tell Him," and Essex comes in with another one, "Easier Said Than Done."
Once again, there are no representatives from Motown, Phil Spector's Gold Star Studios, or Philadelphia's Cameo Studios, and that leaves out a lot of great songs. The selection of songs on Vol. 2 is also not quite up to that on the first volume, but it still brings together a lot of songs that a lot of people love, and haven't been able to find. Worth getting if the budget allows.