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A truly amazing production and lots of liner notes. I originally gave this 5 stars but after listening to the entire collection it now as 4 because of some sound problems and there are a number of inaccuracies in the liner notes which is to be expected in this kind of project.
All My Love IS NOT BASED ON RAVEL'S BOLERO! The original French song was titled Bolero ( a musical form). It has nothing to do with Ravel's composition with the same title. The Patti Page song 'Release Me' is not the song which was a hit by Engelbert, KittyWells, Esther Phillips and various others. That Release Me was written by Eddie Miller and S W Stevenson. The Song talked of in the notes and recorded as a duet with Rusty Draper was written by Corky Robbins. Belonging To Someone was not released twice. If it is for some reason listed in a Patti discography as such it is a mistake. It may have been a planned release which was shelved. Also With My Eyes Wide Open is not the late 50s Mercury recording but the remake from the mid 60s which was recorded for Columbia's Patti Page Greatest Hits LP.
There are a number of technical sound glitches which would be noticed by someone who grew up with the original records. Many times the endings of songs are very abrupt, faded when there were not fades or faded too fast. A few examples of endings which were faded and were not faded originally are A Poor Man's Roses, Another Time, Another Place and The Sound of Music. There is also an excessive sibilancy (slushy S sounds) on I Wish I'd Never Been Born, Don't Read the Letter and A City Girl Stole My Country Boy. These difficulties may have been a result of the sources used in the transfers.
The previous reviewer listed all of Patti's chart positions on the 3 major national music charts as compiled by Cashbox, Billboard and Music Vendor/ Record World so I will not have to do that. Each publication compiled charts using slightly different information. Cashbox based its best selling singles chart on store sales only and had a Top 40 listing in 1950 and as early as 1952 increased that chart to 50 positions. Billboard had 3 separate charts: Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes. These charts numbered between 20 and 30 positions at the same time that Cashbox listed 40 to 50 records. Music Vendor (later Record World) began publishing their charts in November of 1954 with between 71and 93 positions which became a Top 100 in August of 58 (still called popular programming guide). This will help you to know why chart numbers are sometimes very different for 1 of Patti's records between publications. Two of Patti's late 1962 singles (after she had left for Columbia) are not listed or included because the Music Vendor/Record World chart data was not available at the time this set was put together. Thanks to Joel Whitburn and Record Research we have all of the data now available. Everytime I Hear Your Name charted in Music Vendor October 27, 1962 and reached No. 87. High On The Hill of Hope (recorded in 62) charted in Music Vendor on January 12, 1963 and again reached No. 87. Mercury would later release a cut from Patti's Golden Hits of the Boys album: I'm Walkin' which charted in Billboard June 1, 1963 for 2 weeks at No. 127. The previous reviewer has listed at least 7 B sides which were also hits on the Music Vendor charts which are not included in this compilation. Also the flip side of Would I Love You which was Sentimental Music charted for 8 weeks in Cashbox and reached No. 17. That is not here.
Anyway, this is a great set. Had the information from Music Vendor/Record World been available as it is now in Joel's book form, this set would
have been 4 CDs!
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