Vikki Carr - The Best of Vikki Carr
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Artist: Vikki CarrEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Music Label: EMI
Soundtracks:
- Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
- You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
- Strangers In The Night
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- It Must Be Him
- Baby Face
- For Once In My Life
- Everybody's Talkin
- Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate The Positive
- I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
- My Melancholy Baby
- For All We Know
- If You Love Me, Really Love Me
- The House That Jack Built
- Tears On My Pillow
- Unforgettable
- Alfie
- With Pen In Hand
- He's A Rebel
- Carnival
Free Music Notes for The Best of Vikki Carr
Free Music Review: Best Bet If You're Looking For Her Hit Singles
Hit: 4 Stars
If you are seeking the hit singles of Vikki Carr this is likely your best bet - if you can find a copy. It seems that most of the EMI Legendary Masters Series are currently out of circulation [a Bobby Vee compilation is another example], and one can only hope this is a temporary thing.
Since Amazon does not yet list the contents I have provided them here for your information: 1] He's A Rebel; 2] I Got My Eye On You; 3] San Francisco; 4] Look Again (Theme From Irma La Douce; 5] There Goes My Heart; 6] Unforgettable; 7] Theme From Peyton Place (For Those Who Are Young); 8] The Silencers (From the Columbia Pictures film The Silencers); 9] Santiago (From The Columbia Pictures Film The Silencers); 10] Can I Trust You? (lo Ti Daro Di Piu); 11] My Heart Reminds Me (And That Reminds Me); 12] Nowhere Man; 13] So Nice (Summer Samba); 14] It Must Be Him; 15] (Walk In The) Sunshine; 16] A Bit Of Love; 17] Can't Take My Eyes Off You; 18] The Lesson; 19] For Once In My Life; 20] She'll Be There; 21] Your Heart Is Free Just Like The Wind; 22] Don't Break My Pretty Balloon; 23] With Pen In Hand; 24] Eternity
Vikki, who was a regular performer on the 1962 Ray Anthony TV variety show, along with Lisa Marne, Kellie Greene, and The Bookends, was signed to a Liberty contract that year and, almost from the start, it appears they didn't quite know which type of song she should sing. R&R was given a brief experiment with her first single, a cover of The Crystals' hit He's A Rebel. That went nowhere as did San Francisco in 1963, a mellow variation on the old rouser which is, actually, quite nicely done [as is her ballad treatment of the Lennon-McCartney tune Nowhere Man]. The flip of that was Look Again (Love Theme From Irma La Douce).
Both 1964 and 1965 also failed to produce the much sought-after hit single, with two notable failures being the old Joni James hit There Goes My Heart b/w Theme From Peyton Place (For Those Who Are Young), and the Nat "King" Cole smash Unforgettable, and so the company excecutives decided to push her more as an album artist.
But they did not give up totally on singles, although the first few in early 1966 fared no better than the previous ones - The Silencers b/w Santiago and Can I Trust You? And when she did finally score with one it seems as though she was destined solely for the Easy Listening (Adult Contemporary - AC) charts. The breakthrough of sorts was another golden oldie, My Heart Reminds Me (And That Reminds Me) which had been a hit in the 1950s for Kay Starr and Della Reese. Vikki's went to # 31 AC in September 1966.
Later that fall she had a # 32 AC with So Nice (Summer Samba), losing out on the Billboard Hot 100 to Walter Wanderley, and early in 1967 she had a double-sided AC hit with Now I Know The Feeling [# 28] b/w Until Today [# 39], the latter from the Broadway musical A Joyful Noise. Neither is included here, but her next hit is, and this was the big break they had been looking for since 1962.
A re-working of the B-side to So Nice, and a variation on the Gilbert B?caud French song Seul Sur Son Etoile, It Must Be Him shot to # 1 AC and # 3 Hot 100 in late September, followed early in January 1968 with The Lesson, also a # 1 AC and a # 34 Hot 100.
With her next four releases, however, it was back to Hot 100 oblivion - or almost so. Both sides of She'll Be There/Your Heart Is Free Just Like The Wind [from the French song Le vent et la jeunesse] were hits, the A-side reaching # 13 AC but just # 99 Hot 100, and the flip # 32 AC but only # 91 Hot 100 in April/May 1968, while Don't Break My Pretty Balloon topped out at # 7 AC in July and "bubbled under" on the Hot 100 at # 114. That Octobet A Dissatisfied Man made only the AC charts [# 18], and that too is omitted here.
In the spring of 1969 she took the Bobby Goldsboro tune, With Pen In Hand, to # 6 AC/# 36 Hot 100 b/w Can't Take My Eyes Off You, failed completely with For Once In My Life, and then hit # 5 AC/# 79 Hot 100 in November with Eternity, whose opening bars borrow from Mozart's 40th Symphony. Her last Liberty hit then came in September 1970 when she took the Tammy Wynette 1969 # 1 Country hit, Singing My Song, to # 30 AC. That is another omission from this set.
A move to Columbia in 1971 did not improve her Hot 100 results with just five hit singles to 1974, only one of which - I'll Be Home - made the lower regions of the Hot 100 at # 96, but again did well on the AC charts, reaching # 7 in the spring of 1971. Later that summer she had a # 28 AC with Six Weeks Every Summer (Christmas Every Other Year), and at the end of the year I'd Do It All Again topped out at # 39 AC. Her one hit in 1972 was a cover of the Miss Toni Fisher hit, The Big Hurt, which made it to # 31 AC, and her last hit came in late 1974/early 1975 when Wind Me Up settled at # 45 AC.
These results are, in retrospect, strange because Florencia Martinez Cardona [her birth name on July 19, 1941] certainly had a powerful, resonant voice which puts one in mind of Jane Morgan [who also used re-worked French songs to propel her to stardom] and Shirley Bassey.
The sound reproduction is excellent, you get three full pages of liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo, a few nice shots of Vikki, including album cover reproductions, a full Liberty/United Artists discography covering her singles, EPs, and LPs, and full details on the contents. I deducted one star for the omission of those hit singles mentioned in favour of tracks 1 to 10 [2 was previously unreleased], 12, 15, 16 and 19 which were not hits. Even so, this is miles ahead of that Curb release.
The Best of Vikki Carr Poster
A diverse mixture of jaunty pop, jazz crossover, and easy listening ballads, this album is a collection of her finest tracks, recorded for Liberty in the 1960s. EMI. 2004.Latin Music Music CDs
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