 |  | Shelley Fabares is Shelley Fabulous |  |
Shelley is here at her best. She is oozing with charm - she has Charm Plus.
I think that the best track is "How Lovely to be a Woman" from Bye Bye Birdie.
The tracks are all soft pop often with strings backing plus a chorus.
February 26, 2004| | | Gosh, this is Great Stuff | |
I've always loved Fabares, this is a great collection.
June 26, 2003 | | Also known as "The Best of Mary Stone" | |
In 1958 Shelley Fabares appeared on the hit ABC domestic comedy "The Donna Reed Show" as Mary Stone, the young teenage daughter, whose younger brother Jeff was played by former Mousketeer Paul Petersen. Mary Stone was the personification of the perfect daughter ("Princess" whined too much on "Father Knows Best" to be really beloved) and was eventually asked by the show's producers to work with Colpix Records, the label for Columbia Pictures Television. Fabares's debut release was "Johnny Angel," a typical girl group type of song that atypically reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts in early 1962.
Of course, a hit single meant an album and Fabares released two during that year, "Shelley!" and "Things We Did Last Summer," with a third album "Teen-Age Triangle" a year later. Several of the songs on this collection appeared on none of those albums because in the Sixties lots of artists released singles that were never put on albums (just think of the Beatles with their two volumes of "Past Masters"). After her big hit "Johnny Angel" Fabares only had a few more singles that did anything: "Johnny Loves Me" (#21), "The Things We Did Lat Summer" (#46), and "Ronnie Call Me When You Get a Chance" (#72), all of which appear in this hits collection.
Those titles alone tell you exactly what sort of songs you are going to find on a Shelley Fabres album, although none of her covers of other hits like "Johnny Get Angry" and "Sealed With a Kiss." The appeal here is simply unpretentious "girl group" songs about the poignant pain of teenage yearning. Shelley Fabares was not trying to be Leslie Gore, so the comparisons are unfair. Fabares was never really serious about a music career and was more interested in parlaying her television acting career into doing movies with Elvis Presley, although most people remember her today from playing Craig T. Nelson's girlfriend and wife on "Coach." Still, all this considered her songs stand up better than a lot of other albums recorded by television stars. June 13, 2003
SHELLY FABARES WAS ANNETTE FUNICELLO'S BEST FRIEND AND THUS YOU'LL HEAR A SIMILARITY IN THEIR TYPE OF SINGING."JOHNNY ANGEL" WAS #1 FOR A LONG TIME ON 60'S CHARTS BUT THERE WERE OTHER FOLLOW UP RECORDS LIKE "JOHNNY LOVES ME" AND "LOST SUMMER LOVE" THAT ALSO RECEIVED AIR PLAY(THEY ARE FEATURED IN THIS C.D ) . MOST OF HER SONGS, LIKE ANNETTE'S WERE IN THE CHA-CHA CALYPSO DANCE RANGE AND LIKE ANNETTE, HER VOICE WAS ALSO DOUBLED WITH VERY NICE RESULTS!IF YOU LIKE THE GIRL SINGERS OF THE 60'S YOU WILL LOVE THIS C.D. AND HER OTHER C.D'S AS WELL!! I RECOMMEND IT!
October 22, 2002| | | It's just a great collection of her stuff! | |
If you love this type of fun 60's music and have been trying to find some of these impossible to get songs on old 45's, this is the CD to buy! It has a few surprises like "Welcome Home" and "Big Star". Shelley sounds great on this CD and this will bring back a few memories, especially if you grew up watching her on The Donna Reed Show and then going on to star with Elvis in three of his movies during the 1960's. So, if your heart still skips a beat whenever "Johnny Angel" comes on the car radio...even today....so many years later... here is your chance to have a clean copy of it! I highly recommend this collection.
June 25, 2000More reviews at Amazon.com ...
