Bobby Darin - Things: The Bobby Darin Singles Collection 1956-1962 (2017)

This 2CD set anthologises Bobby Darin's singles releases between 1956-1962, and includes two rare-as-hens-teeth promo's, and a couple of equally rare UK-only B-sides. Darin was by far the classiest, most versatile singer of his era, and carved out parallel careers as an R&R singer, a teen idol and an interpreter/updater of show tunes, and what is now referred to as The Great American Songbook. 30 of the titles on this 64-track compilation were major US and/or UK chart records. Includes R&R hits like 'Splish Splash', 'Early In The Morning', 'Queen Of The Hop', 'Mighty, Mighty Man', 'Plain Jane' and 'Dream Lover', alongside finger-snapping hit revivals of 'Mack The Knife', 'La Mer', 'Clementine', 'Bill Bailey', 'Lazy River', 'Nature Boy', 'You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby', and 'Baby Face'. Plus classy mainstream Pop hits like 'I'll Be There', 'Artificial Flowers', 'Somebody To Love', 'Sorrow Tomorrow', 'Irresistible You', 'Multiplication', 'Things' and 'If A Man Answers', and finally, even R&B, viz his cover of Ray Charles' 'What'd I Say'. The promo's and many of the rarer B-sides on this collection are exceptionally hard to find elsewhere on CD.

TRACKLIST

CD 1:

01. Rock Island Line
02. Timber
03. Silly Willy
04. Blue-Eyed Mermaid
05. Hear Them Bells
06. The Greatest Builder
07. Dealer In Dreams
08. Help Me
09. I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
10. Talk To Me Something
11. Don't Call My Name
12. Pretty Betty
13. Just In Case You Change Your Mind
14. So Mean
15. Splish Splash
16. Judy, Don't Be Moody
17. Early In The Morning
18. Now We're One
19. Queen Of The Hop
20. Lost Love
21. Mighty, Mighty Man
22. You're Mine
23. Plain Jane
24. While I'm Gone
25. Dream Lover
26. Bullmoose
27. Mack The Knife
28. Was There A Call For Me
29. La Mer (Beyond The Sea)
30. That's The Way Love Is
31. Clementine
32. Tall Story

CD 2:

01. She's Tanfastic!
02. Moment Of Love
03. Down With Love
04. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
05. I'll Be There
06. Beachcomber
07. Autumn Blues
08. That's How It Went, All Right
09. Artificial Flowers
10. Somebody To Love
11. Christmas Auld Lang Syne
12. Child Of God
13. Lazy River
14. Oo-Ee Train
15. Nature Boy
16. Look For My True Love
17. Come September
18. Walk Bach To Me
19. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
20. Sorrow Tomorrow
21. Irresistible You
22. Multiplication
23. What'd I Say, Pt.1 & Pt. 2
24. Ain't That Love
25. Things
26. Jailer, Bring Me Water
27. If A Man Answers
28. A True, True, Love
29. Baby Face
30. You Know How
31. I Found A New Baby
32. Keep-A-Walking