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Track List
01) Splish Splash
02) Early in the Morning
03) Queen of the Hop
04) All the Way Home
05) Plain Jane
06) Dream Lover
07) Somebody to Love
08) Mack the Knife
09) Beyond the Sea
10) The Right Time
11) I Got a Woman (live)
12) Baby Face
13) Things
14) Multiplication
15) Irresistible You
16) You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
17) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
18) Clementine
19) Guys and Dolls
20) Lazy River
21) It Had to Be You
Cd 2
01) How About You
02) What'd I Say
03) Minnie the Moocher
04) Artificial Flowers
05) Nature Boy
06) Two of a Kind
07) That's All
08) That's the Way Love Is
09) It's You or No One
10) Don't Rain on My Parade
11) Beautiful Things
12) Lover, Come Back to Me
13) Mame
14) Milord
15) The Shadow of Your Smile
16) Lovin' You
17) If I Were a Carpenter
18) Reason to Believe
19) I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (live)
01) Splish Splash
02) Early in the Morning
03) Queen of the Hop
04) All the Way Home
05) Plain Jane
06) Dream Lover
07) Somebody to Love
08) Mack the Knife
09) Beyond the Sea
10) The Right Time
11) I Got a Woman (live)
12) Baby Face
13) Things
14) Multiplication
15) Irresistible You
16) You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
17) Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
18) Clementine
19) Guys and Dolls
20) Lazy River
21) It Had to Be You
Cd 2
01) How About You
02) What'd I Say
03) Minnie the Moocher
04) Artificial Flowers
05) Nature Boy
06) Two of a Kind
07) That's All
08) That's the Way Love Is
09) It's You or No One
10) Don't Rain on My Parade
11) Beautiful Things
12) Lover, Come Back to Me
13) Mame
14) Milord
15) The Shadow of Your Smile
16) Lovin' You
17) If I Were a Carpenter
18) Reason to Believe
19) I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (live)
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First Released
2004
Rock & Roll
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There is no question that if Bobby Darin were still alive today, he would be an enormous star, alongside Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams and other 50s Rat Packers. But what made Darin different was his incredible diversity. Beyond the Sea: The Very Best of Bobby Darin is a collection of this sometimes overlooked icon of the 50s and 60s.
During his all too brief career, Darin had rock & roll hits, including "Splish Splash" and "Dream Lover" (number 1 and number 18 in the UK charts respectively) and classic versions of "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea" (charting at 1 and 8 respectively). He also touched on country, folk and show tunes on the way. His version of "Guys and Dolls" gives Frank a serious run for his money, and "Don't Rain on My Parade" swings as well as anything from Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr or any of the 50s legends that were Darin's contemporaries. All these and more are contained on this classic retrospective.
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Posterity has not been kind to Bobby Darin. In the league tables of popular male singers, Elvis was sexier, Sinatra glossier, Buddy Holly more precociously doomed. But Darin's easy charm, relaxed singing style and broad range made him one of the popular Americansingers of the 1950s and 60s. This 40-track double-disc compilation helps restore some of his faded lustre.
Darin was above all a protean singer, moving through genres and styles throughout his 17-year career. He began as an exuberant young pup setting teen hearts aflutter with his homely good looks. "Splish Splash," his first hit, features gurgling plugholes, rock 'n' roll yelps and plenty of Miss Molly. "Dream Lover", his other early success, was a yearning standard for bedroom-bound adolescents 30 years before Morrissey.
Darin moved on to lounge and swing standards, sharing a repertoire with the Rat Pack. He even expanded it. Darin was the first to take Kurt Weill's thug satire "Mack the Knife" and make him sound like the kind of guy youd want to knock back cocktails with. From Sinatra to Robbie Williams, the song hasn't been out of service since.
Sassy and stylish, Darin moved like a showman through the Great American Songbook: "It Had To Be You", "Irresistible You", "Clementine". He even manages to make "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" sound half-way decent, whooping it up with a gravelly voice and twisting sax.
Darin's handling of narrative was superb. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at "Artificial Flowers", the tale of an orphan child scraping a living selling paper blooms. In Darin's hands, though, it becomes a jaunty social satire on the ladies of society who wear the flowers while little Annie waters them with her tears. It's a glimpse into Darin's politics. An idealist who worshipped Robert Kennedy, Darin adopted yet another genre in the early 1970s. He was covering Dylan songs ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") and writing his own folksy ballads, such as "If I Were A Carpenter" before dying aged 37 from a weak heart.
Politics and an unpredictable style are perhaps the reasons Darin's star does not burn brighter today. As this selection confirms, Bobby Darin was definitely Premiership material. --Jack Smith
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There is no question that if Bobby Darin were still alive today, he would be an enormous star, alongside Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams and other 50s Rat Packers. But what made Darin different was his incredible diversity. Beyond the Sea: The Very Best of Bobby Darin is a collection of this sometimes overlooked icon of the 50s and 60s.
During his all too brief career, Darin had rock & roll hits, including "Splish Splash" and "Dream Lover" (number 1 and number 18 in the UK charts respectively) and classic versions of "Mack the Knife" and "Beyond the Sea" (charting at 1 and 8 respectively). He also touched on country, folk and show tunes on the way. His version of "Guys and Dolls" gives Frank a serious run for his money, and "Don't Rain on My Parade" swings as well as anything from Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr or any of the 50s legends that were Darin's contemporaries. All these and more are contained on this classic retrospective.
User Album Review
Posterity has not been kind to Bobby Darin. In the league tables of popular male singers, Elvis was sexier, Sinatra glossier, Buddy Holly more precociously doomed. But Darin's easy charm, relaxed singing style and broad range made him one of the popular Americansingers of the 1950s and 60s. This 40-track double-disc compilation helps restore some of his faded lustre.
Darin was above all a protean singer, moving through genres and styles throughout his 17-year career. He began as an exuberant young pup setting teen hearts aflutter with his homely good looks. "Splish Splash," his first hit, features gurgling plugholes, rock 'n' roll yelps and plenty of Miss Molly. "Dream Lover", his other early success, was a yearning standard for bedroom-bound adolescents 30 years before Morrissey.
Darin moved on to lounge and swing standards, sharing a repertoire with the Rat Pack. He even expanded it. Darin was the first to take Kurt Weill's thug satire "Mack the Knife" and make him sound like the kind of guy youd want to knock back cocktails with. From Sinatra to Robbie Williams, the song hasn't been out of service since.
Sassy and stylish, Darin moved like a showman through the Great American Songbook: "It Had To Be You", "Irresistible You", "Clementine". He even manages to make "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" sound half-way decent, whooping it up with a gravelly voice and twisting sax.
Darin's handling of narrative was superb. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at "Artificial Flowers", the tale of an orphan child scraping a living selling paper blooms. In Darin's hands, though, it becomes a jaunty social satire on the ladies of society who wear the flowers while little Annie waters them with her tears. It's a glimpse into Darin's politics. An idealist who worshipped Robert Kennedy, Darin adopted yet another genre in the early 1970s. He was covering Dylan songs ("I'll Be Your Baby Tonight") and writing his own folksy ballads, such as "If I Were A Carpenter" before dying aged 37 from a weak heart.
Politics and an unpredictable style are perhaps the reasons Darin's star does not burn brighter today. As this selection confirms, Bobby Darin was definitely Premiership material. --Jack Smith
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