A few weeks ago I posted about Women & Songs: Beginnings (you can read my review here) and now I’ve listened to the sequel: Women & Songs: Beginnings 2. Like the first collection of songs, the choices include several musical eras. It’s not often that I hear “Johnny Angel” by Shelly Fabares (who I had a crush on back in 1961). I want to get up and dance whenever I hear “The Loco-Motion” by Little Eva. And who can resist “Your Precious Love” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell!
Women & Songs: Beginnings 2 presents several hit songs like Carly Simon’s “Anticipation” which was the theme song for Heinz Ketchup commercials from the 1970s to the 1980s. “You Made Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” was one of Aretha Franklin’s biggest hits. And Dionne Warwick’s version of “Walk On By” has always been one of my favorites.
On the minus side, I was never an Edith Piaf fan. Do you remember these songs? Any favorites here? GRADE: B+
TRACK LIST:
Disc 1
- You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
- (performed by Aretha Franklin)
- Walk On By
- (performed by Dionne Warwick)
- You’ve Changed
- (performed by Billie Holiday)
- I’m Sorry
- (performed by Brenda Lee)
- You Don’t Own Me
- (performed by Leslie Gore)
- You Don’t Know How Glad I Am
- (performed by Nancy Wilson)
- End Of The World
- (performed by Skeeter Davis)
- Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- (performed by Crystal Gayle)
- Private Dancer
- (performed by Tina Turner)
- MacArthur Park
- (performed by Donna Summer)
- Love Is Like A Heatwave
- (performed by Martha Reeves)
- Release Me
- (performed by Esther Phillips)
- Who’s Sorry Now
- (performed by Connie Francis)
- It That All There Is
- (performed by Peggy Lee)
- Whatever Will Be Will Be
- (performed by Doris Day)
- Mister Sandman
- (performed by Emmylou Harris)
Disc 2
- Anticipation
- (performed by Carly Simon)
- Rose Garden
- (performed by Lynne Anderson)
- Baby Don’t Go
- (performed by Sonny & Cher)
- What The World Needs Now Is Love
- (performed by Jackie DeShannon)
- Goldfinger
- (performed by Shirley Bassey)
- Mangos
- (performed by Rosemary Clooney)
- Johnny Get Angry
- (performed by Joanie Sommers)
- I Cried A Tear
- (performed by Lavern Baker)
- The Loco-Motion
- (performed by Little Eva)
- Easier Said Than Done
- (performed by The Essex)
- Johnny Angel
- (performed by Shelley Fabares)
- Your Precious Love (with Tammi Terrell)
- (performed by Marvin Gaye)
- What’s New
- (performed by Linda Ronstadt)
- Cry Me A River
- (performed by Julie London)
- Love Me Or Leave Me
- (performed by Lena Horne)
- La Vie En Rose
- (performed by Edith Piaf)