Lettermen - The Lettermen (Capitol Collectors Series)
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Artist: LettermenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-08-25
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- The Way You Look Tonight
- That's My Desire
- When I Fall In Love
- Come Back Silly Girl
- How Is Julie?
- Turn Around, Look At Me
- Silly Boy
- Be My Girl
- Theme From 'A Summer Place'
- Sealed With A Kiss
- Secretly
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- Our Winter Love
- Medley: Goin' Out Of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You
- Sherry Don't Go
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder
- Hurt So Bad
- Shangri-La
- Medley: Traces/Memories
- Everything Is Good About You
- Love
- Oh My Love
- If You Feel The Way I Do
Music reviews of The Lettermen (Capitol Collectors Series)
Music Review: Marvelous Harmonizing Trio - But Collectors Left Wanting
Rating: 4 Stars
When putting this one together for The Capitol Collectors series producer Ron Furmanek didn't quite take into consideration the "wants" of the significant portion of music lovers known as "completist collectors."
We are that anal-retentive part of the demography who simply have to have all charted hits for selected eras, and in this instance three legitimate Top 100 hits by The Lettermen were left off in favour of one B-side and a couple of singles that failed to chart.
The three missing hits from among the 20 they scored are: Where Or When which made it to # 98 Billbord Pop Hot 100 in January 1964, Hang On Sloopy which peaked at # 18 Adult Contemporary (AC)/# 93 Hot 100 in April 1970, and She Cried, which topped out at a solid # 6 AC and # 73 Hot 100 in June 1970.
Why Mr. Furmanek did this, and why he included the uncharted B-side of Where Or When - [Be My Girl] - instead of the hit, which wasn't even among their best at # 98 Hot 100 in January 1964, is not explained because the insert contains no liner notes whatsoever. It does, on the other hand, provide a complete discography of the 20 selections, and there are some very nice photos of the trio from L.A. - Tony Butala, Jim Pike, and Bob Engemann - including album, EP and singles cover reproductions.
Now that I got my gripes out of the way, let me hasten to add that the sound quality is excellent on the other 17 hits, all included here, beginning with their first - The Way You Look Tonight [# 3 AC/# 13 Hot 100 in the fall of 1961] to their last Hot 100, Love [# 8 AC/# 42 Hot 100 in late 1971 and written by John Lennon].
For the record, they also posted another 11 Adult Contemporary hits, the last coming in 1975 (You Are My Sunshine Girl - # 28 in July), four of which also scored on the Hot 100 "bubble under" charts.
Very popular at colleges and universities with their tight, harmonizing vocals, mostly romantic standards, they actually started out with Warner Brothers in 1960 before moving over to Capitol where, in 1961 and 1962, they put five songs into the Billboard Top 100 [tracks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7].
Shut out in 1963, and with the wonderful [and missing] Where Or When getting buried by The Beatles et al early in 1964, it looked for a time that they might have become another of the many victims of the British Invasion, as nothing else that year or in the first half of 1965 could get them back on the charts.
But their obvious appeal eventually shone through when The Theme From "A Summer Place" rose to # 2 AC/# 16 Hot 100 in July of 1965. They then went on to rack up thirteen more [including a change in personnel in 1968 when Pike's brother Gary took over from Engemann] before a drastically-changing music scene caught up to them in the mid-1970s.
Even so, The Lettermen hold the distinction of being the # 1 Adult Contemporary vocal group of the 1960s, and you only have to sample this album to see why.
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