The Four Lads - 16 Most Requested Songs

history lesson!

We bought this to supplement our study of world history believe it or not!! Istanbul and Constantinople has become a familiar tune around our home!! The rest of the CD is not my choice for car tunes but we have had lots of fun listening to it and reminiscing about days gone by with our grandparents and great grandparents. My husband and I even discovered we knew many of the songs but didn't realize the 4 Lads were the original singers! June 27, 2008

give these guys a spotlight !!!

The Four Lads 16 Most Requested Songs is an excellent CD and I am so sorry that this is currently out of print! This is a fine CD of great tunes by The Four Lads and you will really like this if you like other groups like The Four Aces and others from back in the day. The sound quality is excellent and the artwork is very nicely done, too.

"Standing On The Corner" is a fine number that Dean Martin often liked to sing; and when The Four Lad sing it this tune is full of pep and the woodwind instruments do a lot to enhance the musical arrangement. The Four Lads harmonize to perfection and it really makes this album shine when they have numbers like this one on it! "Who Needs You" has more great harmonizing and the strings are used to great advantage. I love it! The Four Lads sing this pretty love song with heart and soul; and just one listen proves it! These songs are truly timeless; they still sound good today and lovers everywhere will still enjoy slow dancing to music like this all alone in their living rooms late at night.

"The Mocking Bird" has another pretty melody that has just a very slight twist of country to make this shine; and The Four Lads come in at all the right times to make "The Mocking Bird" glisten like gold! "The Mocking Bird" is a very fine tune and I predict that you'll enjoy it. "Not So Much" is a tender song and The Four Lads were born to sing songs like this! "Not So Much" is a passionate love song and it adds a lot to this album.

"Tonight" is from the musical entitled West Side Story; and The Four Lads sing this with a great deal of passion, heart and soul. The Four Lads harmonize well and the individual lyrics are equally bright. "Tonight" is yet another timeless love song and it clearly is a major highlight of this album. Great! There's also "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words);" now THIS was always my idea of a splendid love ballad and I could never tire of hearing The Four Lads singing "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)."

"Moments To Remember" is another classic tune that shines so bright when The Four Lads sing it to perfection--and beyond! "Moments To Remember" is a wonderful song that I seem to have always known--I remember hearing it that long ago. This is one of those songs that once you hear it you can never forget it. It's all THAT good, especially when The Four Lads handle it with all their great style!

"Time After Time" is a tender love song that I love so very much; now THIS is anything but elevator music! The Four Lads sing this with heart and a great deal of feeling; and this is easily another major highlight of this album. "Why Can't You Behave" has a fine musical arrangement that uses the brass well; and when The Four Lads sing this I am convinced that no other group could ever do this one better! The album ends very well with The Four Lads singing "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing;" "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" shins brighter than silver and gold put together.

The Four Lads can never be truly forgotten--look at what they could do! Hopefully this CD will be back in print soon; and meanwhile people can still enjoy the singular talents of this group. I highly recommend this for fans of classic pop vocals as well.
June 17, 2008

A Mix Of Their Hit Singles And Album Cuts

Until the 2000 release by Taragon of their excellent "The Very Best Of The Four Lads - Moments To Remember" finding many of their 28 hit singles registered for Columbia from 1952 to 1959 was like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

This one in Columbia's 16 Most Requested series, first issued in 1991, teased us with eight of the hits coupled with eight more that were either failed singles or were culled from their many LPs (i.e., tracks 3, 7, 9, and 12 to 16 inclusive).

The AAD/ADD sund quality is excellent, and with the insert you get three full pages of background notes written by author Will Friedwald (Jazz Singing, among others). September 19, 2007

Nostalgia through music

The Four Lads were offered songs that I heard when I was in college and you could understand every word. The melodies and lyrics could be remembered almost as soon as you heard them.

I'll take that kind of singing and harmony over any of the offerings of today, all right I'm an old codger but we have our likes and dislikes as do the younger generations. And again those songs were easily singable. 'Nuff said. June 12, 2007

For followers of Good Music.

Very good. I would have given it a 5 but my interest was in some tracks that that did not duplicate others previously purchased. For anyone interested in music from an era of great artists - this is one to have.
Angelo (USC) November 11, 2006

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