Dion & Belmonts - Greatest Hits

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Album Description
20 of the teen idol's biggest chart hits for the Laurie & Columbia labels from 1958-68, both with & without his group The Belmonts. All tracks are digitally remastered & include 'The Wanderer', 'I Wonder Why', 'Runaround Sue', 'Donna The Primadonna', 'A Teenager In Love' & 'Abraham Martin And John'. 1999 release.

Album Details
Superior digitally remastered collection that has all his greats from 'The Wanderer', 'Teenager in Love' and 'Runaround Sue' to 'Abraham, Martin & John'.

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5 out of 5 stars

6 stars deserved June 24, 2001
95 out of 98 found this review helpful

While there have been numerous Dion/Dion w/Belmonts CDs that have come and gone, this effort out of the German Repertoire label is a suberb accomplishment. This single-disc greatest hits collection is the first true gathering of greatest hits for Dion's entire career. While there are some minor charted records not included here, these twenty tracks represent every invasion of the top 40 by Dion, solo and with the Belmonts. Proof of the completeness of this set is the inclusion of "Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw", a tune consistantly ignored in other Dion collections. Sound quality is excellent - on a par with the work that Ace records did with the Dion Laurie catalog some time ago. All tracks except 4, 6 and 8 are in true stereo. Liner notes are sparse - a half page brief synopsis of Dion's career in English and German. A six-star rating in deserved to some degree simply because Repetoire has produced exactly what it calls this disc - Dion and the Belmonts Greatest Hits - and has done it extremely well. If only one Dion CD is going into a collection, this is unquestionably the one.

4 out of 5 stars

Great Compilation Of Dion's Hits! July 31, 2002
56 out of 59 found this review helpful

One very talented artist from the late 1950s and 1960s that has slid from public notice is Dion Dimucci, more popularly known simply as Dion. Starting with a group of neighborhood pals as yDion and the Belmontsy, he rose literally from the streets of New York to become one of the most successful pop recording artists of the era. Competing against other perpetual hit machines like Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Dion produced a steady stream of chart busters throughout the early and mid 1960s. All of that music, as well as his return to public acclaim with the fabulously successful yAbraham, Martin, and Johny near the end of the decade after the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.

Most of his chartbusters are here, from his initial success with the Belmonts with yTeenager In Lovey to yThe Still Of The Nighty to yWhere Or Wheny to his fabulously popular yThe Wanderery, which touted the smarmy style of swaggering, wildly pompadoured teenage males playing the irresistible male stereotype as best they knew how, with skin tight Levis and form-fit white tees shirts, rolled-up sleeves and all. And the flood of similar songs also making the top ten are also here, including yRunaround Suey, yRuby Babyy, yDonna The Prima Donnay, yThe Majesticy, yDrip Dropy, and on and on. Here we find such gems as ySandyy, yThis Little Girly, yBe Careful Of Stones That You Throwy, and yLittle Diany. Listening to this collection is like stepping back in time to my own adolescence, when life was simpler and the radio was filled with a stream of non-stop hits from a plethora of artists, who, like Dion, seemed to be able to just keep pumping them out, one after another, with almost monotonous regularity. Enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars All the hits on one album--Finally!   July 2, 2000
20 out of 20 found this review helpful

It's a pure delight to finally have all of Dion's major hits, solo and with The Belmonts, on one CD. This import album truly delivers the goods. There is currently (and never been before) a U.S. compilation that matches this one, seeing as how Dion's solo hits between 1961 and 1968 were on 3 different labels, thereby making licensing more difficult for a single disc compilation. It's the best collection available for those who want just the biggest hits from Dion & The Belmonts and Dion solo. I would also put it in the category of one of the all-time best "Greatest Hits" albums ever made.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic!!   April 24, 2002
20 out of 20 found this review helpful

If you're looking for a quintessential collection of Dion & The Belmonts music on a single disc, then look no further than this German import of Dion & The Belmonts Greatest Hits! Let me tell you, the pristine sound quality on this disc has to be heard to be believed, especially when considering that most of these songs were recorded at least 35 years ago! You'd swear they were recorded yesterday! The fine packaging and the fact that every one of Dion & The Belmonts Top 40 singles spanning three different record labels are included on this disc make it WELL worth the value price! My question is, why can't U.S. labels ever seem to put out high quality single disc collections like this??? I've gotten to the point where I'm turning exclusively to import titles to get all my oldies music compiled and remastered the way I want it!!

5 out of 5 stars For Dion Fans This CD is IT!   February 2, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

If you're looking like I was for Dion's hits that sound like the oldies stations play them, this is it.

I play this one so much, loving those goldies: "Wanderer" "Donna the Prima Donna" "Ruby Baby"etc.

Even has some more which I have become fond of hearing, such as "Love Came To Me" and "Drip Drop."

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