The Dixie Cups - The Complete Red Bird Recordings *

Artist:

Dixie-Cups (The)

UPC:

030206637526

See Also:

Ike & Tina Turner Marvelettes (The) Tall Dwarfs Shangri-Las (The) Love, Darlene Screaming Trees Ronettes (The) Wedding Present (The) Supremes (The)

Description:

The Dixie Cups: Rosa Lee Hawkins, Barbara Ann Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson.
Producers: Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller.
Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Bill Dahl.
Recorded in 1964-65. Includes liner notes by Bill Dahl.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Arrangers: Joe Craig Jones; Mike Stoller; Artie Butler; Wardell Quezergue.
Only three years before the release of this CD, another comprehensive Dixie Cups anthology, Chapel of Love: The Very Best of the Dixie Cups, had appeared on the Collectables label. This has a very slight edge, however, as in addition to including everything from that prior compilation, it adds two more tracks: the fair mid-tempo pop/rocker "Wrong Direction," previously only available on the 1979 import compilation Teen Anguish, Vol. 1, and a less notable mono single version of "Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright." In any case, it`s a very good collection, containing the A-sides and B-sides of half a dozen 1964-1965 singles they did for Red Bird, rounded off with less essential odds and ends (including an alternate version of "People Say" and an a cappella alternate version of "Iko Iko"). The Dixie Cups are usually remembered only for "Chapel of Love" and perhaps "Iko Iko," but as this disc demonstrates, there were a good number of solid girl group sides on their other Red Bird recordings. Many of them were written by the estimable Brill Building hitmaking team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and some are quite good despite almost total obscurity (such as "Little Bell" and "Another Boy Like Mine"); a few other tracks have a strong New Orleans R&B influence. It`s one of the better single-artist girl group anthologies, and makes one regret that such a likable, melodic act was unable to record longer for Red Bird, where the group teamed with such a suitable production and songwriting supporting cast. ~ Richie Unterberger

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Chapel of Love
2. Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright
3. I`m Gonna Get You Yet
4. Girls Can Tell
5. All Grown Up
6. Iko Iko
7. Gee Baby Gee
8. Ain`t That Nice
9. People Say
10. Little Bell
11. No True Love
12. You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me
13. Another Boy Like Mine
14. Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa
15. Wrong Direction
16. Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright - (mono, single version)
17. People Say - (alternate version)
18. Iko Iko - (a capella alternate version)

Album Information

Release Date:

08/13/2002

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Oldies

Subgenre:

Girl Groups

Label:

Var¿se Sarabande (USA)

Catalog Number:

066375

Original Release Year:

2002

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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