Growing Up - The 1962 Recordings - Features 2 Complete Albums Tracks ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED

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Shelley Fabares did not want to be a Singer. Like her good friend Annette, she didn't thin she had the voice or the talent. Shelley was an actress on TVs DONNA REED SHOW and she was told that if she did not agree to make records, she would be written out of the show, so, she complied. The result was a number one hit, "Johnny Angel", probably one of the sweetest and most innocent girl group records of all time. She hit again with "Johnny Loves Me" and had minor hits with "The things we did last summer"; "Big Star" and "Telephone (won't you ring). This CD from Jasmine collects all her recordings for Colpix on one CD and, although she would cut a few sides for Vee-Jay, this is the only Shelley Fabares CD that you need. The sound quality is excellent. I recently saw a video clip of Shelley lip-synching "Johnny Angel" on the Donna Reed Show. It's charming, but in a disgraceful sign of the times, the vocal backgrounds were lip-synched by three white girls who were obviosly were supposed to be classmates of "Mary Stone", Shelley's character on Donna Reed. In reality, the vocal backgrounds which really "Made" this record were provided by Darlene Love and the Blossoms, who were Black! Shelly would have had no say-so in this project, but shame on the Network for denying the Blossoms a TV appearance because of the color of their skin. Stiil, the CD is fun, and hopefully, those days are gone forever.

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Shelley has no power and no range so you get fabulous background singers carrying the load. And there's something positively perverse about Shelley singing "The Loco-Motion."

She was favorite female singer in the early 60's. Very pretty and sweet voice. I could have listened to Johnny Angel all day long.

Very pleasant music ... back to simpler days

Oily substance in mail bag all over cdcase as well inside.Who thought it was okay to send cd in this condition. Washed everything but not happy . I will be returning it.

there was a few songs on there I did not know she had covered . I thought she did a great job covering them. I got it for the Johnny songs ,but loved all of them.