Vickie Carr - Vikki Carr - Greatest Hits
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Free Music Review: Vikka Carr....Greatest Hits
Hit: 4 Stars
This album has Vikki's biggest hits but why is The Lesson..not included. To me, this was one of her biggest hits...yet it's not on the album. That may be one reason why I will not purchase this album...I would rather wait for a larger compilation of her music to come out...with ALL her hits included.Free Music Review: Not a complete collection
Hit: 4 Stars
Vikki Carr sounds terrific on all these tracks (when doesn't she sound terrific?), but with only 10 songs here, this is hardly representative of her fantastic, wide-ranging career. I wish Capitol (and Columbia) would reissue her English-language material, giving it the respect it deserves.Free Music Review: For Music Lovers
Hit: 4 Stars
Very good. It has added another dimension to the scores of tracks of the greatest vocalists of a bygone era. Much better than the blathering that is currently being offered.Free Music Review: Not representative of the best of her Liberty/UA years!
Hit: 2 Stars
Even though Vikki Carr only had 2 real hits during her Liberty/UA tenure, this budget set does not contain the highlights of that phase of her career. Where are the good songs like "Sunday Mornin' Coming Down","The Lesson","San Francisco","Singing My Song" and last but not least "Eternity"? While these songs were not hits, they were songs that were immediately identified with Vikki and should be included in any comprehensive collection. I would recommend the British releases over this CD. Will someone please get Sony Music to re-release Vikki's English albums of the 70s on CD? Great stuff like "One Hell Of A Woman", "Ms America","I'd Do It All Again" and last but not least "Six Weeks Every Summer, Christmas Every Other Year" remain unavailable on CD!!Free Music Review: The Curb We All Know And Hate
Hit: 1 Stars
If you've been searching the catalogue for Vikki Carr CDs containing her greatest hits and have stopped at this one because of the price, my advice is to move on. Fast. There is much more material available that is superior in every respect.
I have come to the conclusion that Curb likes to play foot-loose and fancy free with the term "greatest hits" by using it to signify, not the greatest hits of the artist in question, but rather "greatest hits SUNG by that artist." There is a huge difference, and this one is an archetypal example of the kind of flim-flam Curb put out at the advent of the CD.
Here you get ten selections gathered together under the banner "Greatest Hits" which, logically, most might regard as Vikki's best. Then you find that exactly two of them were hers, while the others - tracks 3 to 10 - were never hits for Vikki. Not on the Billboard Pop Hot 100 nor on the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts. Not anywhere.
What makes this even more ludicrous is the fact she only HAD seven Billboard Hot 100 hits, three of which made Top 40, and they even contrived to leave off one of those - 1968's The Lesson which rose to # 35 in January [it was a # 1 Adult Contemporary (AC) along with It Must Be Him which reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1967]. She also had another 11 AC entries, so it wasn't as if they could not have filled out the CD with some bona fide Vikki Carr hits!
That this kind of junk is still available while so many other excellent compilations have fallen out of print is a crime. But then, come to think of it, it's likely still available simply BECAUSE people are too smart to fall for the swindle. May they forever remain on the shelf.