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Bobby Darin - If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out Audio CD

A fair review of the Bobby Darin "If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bobby Darin reviews here, or go back to the Bobby Darin tabs.

Bobby Darin Band: Bobby Darin
Title: If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-07-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: If I Were a Carpenter 2: Reason to Believe 3: (Sittin' Here) Lovin' You 4: Misty Roses 5: Until It's Time for You to Go 6: For Baby 7: Girl Who Stood Beside Me 8: Red Balloon 9: Amy 10: Don't Make Promises 11: Daydream 12: Lady Came from Baltimore 13: Darling Be Home Soon 14: Bes' Friends 15: I Am 16: Me About You 17: I Think It's Gonna Rain Today 18: Whatever Happened to Happy 19: Black Sheep Boy 20: Hello Sunshine 21: Lady Fingers 22: Back Street Girl 23: Easy Rider [*] 24: Everywhere I Go [*] 25: I'm Going to Love You [*] 26: Long Time Movin' [*] 27: My Baby Needs Me [*]

One of my favorite Bobby Darin CD's
Once again, as he was prone to do, Bobby recorded a selection of music from different genres than previous albums. This is one of my favorite Bobby Darin CD's. As usual, there are many gems on these 2 albums. . . the CD is a treasure.
If you're only familiar with Bobby's more popular hits such as Mack the Knife, Dream Lover, etc, then you owe to yourself to explore the rest of his music because those hits were only the tip of the iceberg as far as his talent was concerned. You'll hear a different Bobby on this CD.
If you're already a Bobby Darin fan, I'd consider this CD a must-have for your collection. Enjoy!.


Unfocused song choices, poor recording quality
In fact, I would much rather hear these songs on a vinyl record, since deep vinyl grooves produced a more robust sound than you get here. While this is the product to get if you are looking for the original Darin recordings of "Lady Came From Baltimore" and "If I Were a Carpenter," the recording quality is very murky, not cleaned up noticably from the original analog recordings. Bobby Darin was, of course, a great singer of pop and early rock'n'roll (Dream Lover, Mac the Knife, etc. ) whose heyday was the early 60's. This material was recorded in the "Death of Pop" mid-60's era when the British Invasion was firmly on shore, and psychedelia was around the corner. The record company was trying to market Bobby as a folk singer, but they seemed unsure of themselves, and the choice of songs reflects that. For example, a couple of Lovin' Spoonful covers, blended with some pop standards, some vaudeville (!) and a little folk. The album covers, as you can see, were straight pop in their appearance. This musical schizophrenia produced two LP's which were murky both in recording quality and song selection. Enough good material to be worth 3 stars, but that's about it.


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