Hits of Shakin Stevens

Hits of Shakin Stevens Artist: Shakin Stevens
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5099746626525
ASIN: B000007WAF


Release Date: 2002-08-29

Hits of Shakin Stevens


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Tracks:

  1. This Ole House
  2. You Drive Me Crazy
  3. Its Late
  4. Green Door
  5. Teardrops
  6. Oh Julie
  7. Love Worth Waiting For
  8. I'll Be Satisfied
  9. Marie Marie
  10. Its Raining
  11. Give Me Your Heart Tonight
  12. Shirley
  13. Cry Just a Little Bit
  14. Rockin Good Way to Mess
  15. Letter to You
  16. Why Do You Treat Me This Way

Album Description

1996 compilation for the Welsh rockabilly influenced pop/rock star features 16 tracks. Highlights include his cover of the Blasters' 'Marie Marie' & Rosemary Clooney's 'This Ole House'.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars love that Shaky.......2005-05-07

I was lucky enough to see a video on MTV in the very early 80's of Shakin' singing "This Ole House" and was hooked instantly. It was hard to get anything by him here in the USA but I was able to get my hands on quite a few of his albums. I was also able to get a copy of most of his videos. I highly recommend this CD and my favorite tracks are "A Love Worth Waiting For" and "You Drive Me Crazy".

5 out of 5 stars Shaky - The Real Deal.......2000-07-07

Shakin' Stevens was one of the biggest stars in the U.K. in the early 1980's. Unfortunately for us Yanks, he missed being a star of the MTV/British Invasion at that time. I say unfortunately because Shaky was one of the most original-sounding acts of the era. Paradoxically so, because his sound hearkened to the fifties. There was a short-lived U.K. rockabilly craze in 1980 and 1981, featuring acts like Matchbox, the Stray Cats, Queen (remember "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"?), and the King of them all, Shaky.

This collection contains not only his first U.K. Top Twenty hit, "Marie Marie," written by Dave Alvin of the L.A. group the Blasters, but also almost all of his U.K. chart toppers - "This Ole House" (a remake of the Stuart Hamblen (country)& Rosemary Clooney (pop) hit from the fifties), "Green Door" (a remake of the fifties hit by Jim Lowe), and "Oh Julie" (co-written by the man himself and covered in the States by Barry Manilow).

It contains my favorite, "You Drive Me Crazy," a U.K. number two. This collection contains the following gems: his remake of the Rick Nelson hit "It's Late," with backing vocals by the Jordanaires (sp?); his lone stateside chart entry, "Cry Just A Little Bit," which, although it did not make the Top Forty, did make the country & western Top Ten when it was remade by Sylvia, of "Nobody" fame; and his U.K. Top Five duet with Bonnie Tyler (billed there as Shaky and Bonnie), "A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)." Other worthwhile mentions include "It's Raining," "I'll Be Satisfied," and "Give Me Your Heart Tonight."

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