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From all appearances, Razor & Tie's 2007 compilation The Definitive Collection surely seems to live up to its title. It weighs in at 22 tracks and the back cover claims that it is a "celebration of Neil Sedaka's 50 years making music, from his first recordings in 1957 to his most recent work. The first career-spanning collection of its kind." Well, that's true to a certain extent -- it is the first to attempt to survey everything Sedaka's done from 1957 to 2007, so in that sense it is a first, and it's also a celebration since it has his biggest songs, from "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" through "Bad Blood." However, it doesn't have the original versions of these songs from the '50s and '60s: it has re-recordings from 1991. They're hardly terrible recordings -- Sedaka is in good voice, thankfully -- but they're still a little stiff and overly polished, not as effective as the originals and they're certainly a disappointment for anybody who purchases The Definitive Collection believing they're going to get a Sedaka disc with all of the original hits. But for those who realize this Definitive Collection is a combination of re-recordings and originals, and do not care that his earliest and biggest songs are present in latter-day versions, this isn't a bad disc, since it does have all of his biggest songs and it does have good notes by Gene Sculatti. And for hardcore fans, there is a couple of enticements: demos of "Where the Boys Are" and "It Hurts to Be in Love," plus "What a Surprise" and "Junkie for Your Love" making their CD debut.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Alan Lorber, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Alan Lorber, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Philip Cody, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Neil Sedaka, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Neil Sedaka Music
Philip Cody, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Philip Cody, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Phil Cody, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1972 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1973 Neil Sedaka Music
Neil Sedaka, Composer, MainArtist - Phil Cody, Author
℗ 2007 Neil Sedaka Music
Howard Greenfield, Author - Neil Sedaka, Composer, MainArtist
℗ 1974 Neil Sedaka Music
Philip Cody, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Dara Sedaka, MainArtist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Helen Miller, ComposerLyricist - Howard Greenfield, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Philip Cody, ComposerLyricist - Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Neil Sedaka, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Craig Balsam, Producer, Executive Producer - Cliff Chenfeld, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
Album review
From all appearances, Razor & Tie's 2007 compilation The Definitive Collection surely seems to live up to its title. It weighs in at 22 tracks and the back cover claims that it is a "celebration of Neil Sedaka's 50 years making music, from his first recordings in 1957 to his most recent work. The first career-spanning collection of its kind." Well, that's true to a certain extent -- it is the first to attempt to survey everything Sedaka's done from 1957 to 2007, so in that sense it is a first, and it's also a celebration since it has his biggest songs, from "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" through "Bad Blood." However, it doesn't have the original versions of these songs from the '50s and '60s: it has re-recordings from 1991. They're hardly terrible recordings -- Sedaka is in good voice, thankfully -- but they're still a little stiff and overly polished, not as effective as the originals and they're certainly a disappointment for anybody who purchases The Definitive Collection believing they're going to get a Sedaka disc with all of the original hits. But for those who realize this Definitive Collection is a combination of re-recordings and originals, and do not care that his earliest and biggest songs are present in latter-day versions, this isn't a bad disc, since it does have all of his biggest songs and it does have good notes by Gene Sculatti. And for hardcore fans, there is a couple of enticements: demos of "Where the Boys Are" and "It Hurts to Be in Love," plus "What a Surprise" and "Junkie for Your Love" making their CD debut.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:49
- Main artists: Neil Sedaka
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Razor & Tie
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings. ℗ 2007 Razor & Tie Recordings.
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