The Velvets CD: The Complete Velvets (CD)

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The Velvets: The Complete Velvets (CD)

(ACE Records) 30 Tracks - Monument 1960-1965 in Stereo - 12 page booklet of notes & photos; - essential!

The Velvets didn't conform to any of doo wop's norms.' says sleevenote writer Bill Millar They hailed, not from New York, but from Odessa, where the Texan panhandle meets the rest of the state. In the age of streetcorner amateur, they made records as polished as their patent leather shoes. Lead singer Virgil Johnson, the Velvets' Mr Sheen, didn't overdose when the hits stopped, he had aspirations outside music and never gave up his day job. Weirdest of all, the Velvets barely dabbled in R&B. LIke their mentor, Roy Orbison, they sang songs which straddled that increasingly invisible line between country and pop. The Velvets and Roy Orbison shared the same producer in Fred Foster and the same session musicians in Nashville's A-Team. In essence, the Velvets dusted Orbie's sombre, bel canto agonies with a faint but cheerful shot of proto-soul.Performing locally at sock-hops and campus functions, The Velvets were heard by Roy Orbison who was so impressed with them that he recommended the group to Fred Foster at Monument Records. Their second release Tonight took them into the Billboard Hot 100 at # 26 (UK chart at # 50) and, as Millar says, is as perfect as black pop music would get. The follow-up Lana, though it barely dented the American charts, went to No 1 in Japan! The Complete Velvets features all the singles they made through until 1966 plus all of the thirteen previously unreleased sides which have only been available on Japanese vinyl and CD. As befits such a group of oh-so-smooth singers, the tracks are transferred from original analogue master tapes.

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Interpret: The Velvets
Album titlle: The Complete Velvets (CD)
Year of publication 1996
Genre Doo-Wop
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667162524
weight in Kg 0.1

Velvets, The - The Complete Velvets (CD) CD 1
01	Tonight
02	Time And Again
03	Spring Fever
04	That Lucky Old Sun
05	Laugh
06	Lana
07	The Love Express
08	Don't Let Him Take My Baby
09	Let The Good Times Roll
10	The Light Goes On, The Light Goes Off
11	Crying In The Chapel
12	Dawn
13	Here Comes That Song Again
14	Nightmare
15	If
16	Let The Fool Kiss You
17	Baby The Magic Is Gone
18	Be Ever Mine
19	You Done Me Bad
20	Kiss Me
21	Alicia
22	Bird Dog
23	My Love
24	Who Has The Right
25	I'm Trusting In You
26	Almost But Not Quite
27	Husbands And Wives
28	I Can Feel it
29	Poison Love
30	That's Out Of My Line