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This two-disc set, which collects all of the singles, both A and B sides, that Dion released as a solo artist during his two stays at Laurie Records, does a good job of showing Dion's own restless instincts as a singer and musician, instincts that have served him well during his five-decade career, and his supplementary willingness to listen to his record label's wishes at the same time, a balancing act that gave Dion three distinct commercial phases on the pop charts from the late '50s through the end of the 1960s. He began as the lead voice for the Bronx Italian street corner doo wop group the Belmonts, producing hits for Laurie Records like "I Wonder Why" (none of Dion's Belmonts-era singles are included here) before going solo in 1960, the point where this collection picks up the story. His solo work for Laurie cast him as a teen idol, and he scored hits with the likes of "Lonely Teenager," "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer," and "Little Diane" before leaving the label to sign with Columbia Records late in 1962. His hits with Columbia ("Ruby Baby" and "Donna the Prima Donna") continued in the teen idol vein, but by the time Dion returned to Laurie Records for a second go-round in 1968, his sound and style had changed into a kind of pop-oriented folk-rock, which gave him a Top Five hit that same year with "Abraham, Martin and John," and led to interesting near-misses with his covers of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," Fred Neil's "The Dolphins," and a barely recognizable version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Amazingly, the two distinct phases of his time with Laurie Records as a solo artist have never been released side by side like this before, so this set from Real Gone Music fills a huge hole. Everything is in mono, the way the singles were mixed and originally appeared. If there is even one small complaint about this collection, it would have to be that room couldn't be found for Dion's singles with the Belmonts.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Bob Mersey, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Alfred Di Paolo, Composer - Silvio Faraci, Composer - Salvatore Pippa, Jr., Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion, MainArtist - Bob Mersey, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ron Isle, Composer - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1960 Capitol Records, LLC
Doc Pomus, Composer - Mort Shuman, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1960 Capitol Records, LLC
Otis Blackwell, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
TERRY PHILLIPS, Composer - Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Jerry Vance, Composer - Stan Applebaum, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Phil Medley, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Cathy Lynn, ComposerLyricist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Sylvia Dee, Composer - Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - George Goehring, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Bob Mersey, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Doc Pomus, ComposerLyricist - Mort Shuman, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Maresca, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Ace Records, Ltd., Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Glen Stuart, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Eliot Greenberg, Composer - Robert Michael Schwartz, Composer - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Barbara Baer, Composer - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Brenda Jones, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Ace Records, Ltd., Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Welton Young, Composer - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Ernest Maresca, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, Composer, MainArtist - Ace Records, Ltd., Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
ERNIE MARESCA, Composer - Dion DiMucci, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Ace Records, Ltd., Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Donna Joan Productions, Producer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1962 Capitol Records LLC
Dion DiMucci, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - John Fablo, Composer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Eliot Greenberg, ComposerLyricist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Barbara Baer, ComposerLyricist - Robert Schwartz, ComposerLyricist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, Composer, MainArtist - Steve Brandt, Composer - Ace Records, Ltd., Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1991 Capitol Records, LLC
Ted Murry, ComposerLyricist - Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Edna Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1963 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Clarence Quick, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1962 Capitol Records LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Barbara Jones, Composer - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Welton Young, Composer
℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
ERNIE MARESCA, Composer - Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, Composer, MainArtist - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Eliot Greenberg, Composer - Robert Michael Schwartz, Composer - Glen Stuart, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Barbara Baer, Composer
℗ 1957 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - ROBERT ALLEN, ComposerLyricist - Joseph Meyer, ComposerLyricist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Arthur Schwartz, Author - E.Y. HARBURG, Author - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dion, MainArtist - Ronald Isley, Composer - RUDOLPH ISLEY, Composer - O'Kelly Isley Jr., Composer
℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Ernest Maresca, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Gene Schwartz, Producer
℗ 1961 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion DiMucci, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Sweet, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dion, MainArtist - Phil Gernhard, Producer - John Abbott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Richard Louis Holler, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1994 Capitol Records, LLC
Tony Fasce, Composer - Dion, Composer, MainArtist - John Abbott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Jimi Hendrix, ComposerLyricist - Dion, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Fred Neil, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Joni Mitchell, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion, Composer, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Ivory Joe Hunter, Composer - Stevie Wonder, Composer - Dion, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Dion, Composer, MainArtist - Laurie Productions, Producer - Bruce Staple, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC
Album review
This two-disc set, which collects all of the singles, both A and B sides, that Dion released as a solo artist during his two stays at Laurie Records, does a good job of showing Dion's own restless instincts as a singer and musician, instincts that have served him well during his five-decade career, and his supplementary willingness to listen to his record label's wishes at the same time, a balancing act that gave Dion three distinct commercial phases on the pop charts from the late '50s through the end of the 1960s. He began as the lead voice for the Bronx Italian street corner doo wop group the Belmonts, producing hits for Laurie Records like "I Wonder Why" (none of Dion's Belmonts-era singles are included here) before going solo in 1960, the point where this collection picks up the story. His solo work for Laurie cast him as a teen idol, and he scored hits with the likes of "Lonely Teenager," "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer," and "Little Diane" before leaving the label to sign with Columbia Records late in 1962. His hits with Columbia ("Ruby Baby" and "Donna the Prima Donna") continued in the teen idol vein, but by the time Dion returned to Laurie Records for a second go-round in 1968, his sound and style had changed into a kind of pop-oriented folk-rock, which gave him a Top Five hit that same year with "Abraham, Martin and John," and led to interesting near-misses with his covers of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now," Fred Neil's "The Dolphins," and a barely recognizable version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Amazingly, the two distinct phases of his time with Laurie Records as a solo artist have never been released side by side like this before, so this set from Real Gone Music fills a huge hole. Everything is in mono, the way the singles were mixed and originally appeared. If there is even one small complaint about this collection, it would have to be that room couldn't be found for Dion's singles with the Belmonts.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 36 track(s)
- Total length: 01:35:23
- Main artists: Dion
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2012 Capitol Records, LLC This Compilation ℗ 2012 Capitol Records, LLC
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