Audio CD review:
Skeeter Davis - The Pop Hits Collection, Vol. 2

Skeeter Davis - The Pop Hits Collection, Vol. 2

Band: Skeeter Davis Title: The Pop Hits Collection, Vol. 2 Rating: Release Date: 2006-09-12 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Somebody Loves You - Skeeter Davis, Tobias, Charles 2: Blueberry Hill - Skeeter Davis, Lewis, Al [1] 3: It Was Only a Heart - Skeeter Davis, Crutchfield, Jerry 4: How Much Can a Lonely Heart Stand - Skeeter Davis, Rhodes, Sandra 5: He Says the Same Things to Me - Skeeter Davis, Geld, Gary 6: I Don't Want to Love You (But I Do) - Skeeter Davis, Mann, Barry 7: Sad Sad World - Skeeter Davis, Rhodes, Sandra 8: What I Go Thru (To Keep Holding on to You) - Skeeter Davis, Rhodes, Sandra 9: It's a Crazy World - Skeeter Davis, Dees, Bill 10: Instinct for Survival - Skeeter Davis, Glaser, Jim 11: There's a Fool Born Every Minute - Skeeter Davis, Parnes 12: Timothy - Skeeter Davis, Cornelius, Erasmus 13: I Didn't Cry Today - Skeeter Davis, Davis, Skeeter 14: Both Sides Now - Skeeter Davis, Mitchell, Joni 15: The End of the World - Skeeter Davis, Kent, Arthur

Wonderful collection! After the first pop hits collection you might think you've heard it all and don't need this. Not her biggest pop hits but that's no problem at all! This CD is more than worth to have. Well, i thought that too at first but ordered anyway. Now its one of those CDs for me that you can keep on playing. Skeeter really shows once again that pop is her cup of tea just as country is. If there is ever gonna be a Volume 3, i'll be one of the first to get it. More Pop From the Country Queen That album apparently sold well enough to merit a second helping but as you might guess by looking over the song collection for the most part these aren't actual "hits" (only tracks 4 and 5 made the Billboard pop charts) a more precise title for this collection might have been "The Pop Years" or "Skeeter Davis Pop" or the like. This CD is a sequel to the 2004 collection of pop crossover hits and pop recordings of country legend Skeeter Davis from the 1960's. Most of these were just album tracks although #10, 11, and 16 were country chart records for Skeeter. But don't let that scare you away because this is a wonderful collection of "Nashville sound" country-pop from this talented star. Skeeter ventures all over the pop landscape with these tracks from the easy listening "It Was Only a Heart" to the amazingly dead-on intrepretation of 60s British pop in "Sad Sad World". "Timothy" has always been one of my favorite Davis cuts, the 30-plus Skeeter wonderfully capturing the obsessive ador of a lovestruck teenybopper. You can practically see her scribbling Timothy's name all over the lyric sheet with cartoon hearts! Skeeter earned two country top female vocal Grammy nominations for 1964's wistful "He Says the Same Things to Me" (always a favorite of Skeeterities) and 1972's "One Tin Solider", originally sung in the movie BILLY JACK by Coven. "Instinct for Survival", although a minor country charter, is a superb song penned by Jim Glaser. The remake of "End of the World" is somewhat controversial with fans with it's overly sugary "adult contemporary" production but it is interesting to hear Skeeter perform her most famous song in a new arrangement. The cover art on the CD is absolutely beautiful, the nicest of any Skeeter CD. I highly recommend this collection by one of the great female vocalists of her era in any genre. TRACKS: 1. Blueberry Hill 2. Somebody Loves You 3. It Was Only A Heart 4. He Says The Same Things To Me 5. How Much Can A Lonely Heart Stand? 6. I Don't Want To Love You (But I Do) - (previously unreleased) 7. What I Go Thru (To Keep Holding On To You) 8. Sad Sad World 9. It'a A Crazy World 10. Instinct For Survival 11. There's A Fool Born Every Minute 12. Timothy 13. End Of The World (1969 album version) 14. I Didn't Cry Today 15. Both Sides Now 16. One Tin Soldier . You can see a complete list of all Skeeter Davis discography, or go back to the Skeeter Davis tabs