Name: Our Day Will Come: The Very Best Of Ruby And The Romantics par Ruby And The Romantics
Brand: Ruby And The Romantics
SKU: 602567129967
Price: 9.9 USD
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Rating: 3 (294 reviews)

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Ruby & the Romantics have been poorly served by best-of collections, which are too brief and skimpy. This two-CD, 42-song set goes too far in the other direction, and not everything on here is exciting or worthy of multiple listens by any means. Still, too much is better than too little, and this does thoroughly cover the prime era of the original lineup at Kapp from 1963-1967. On the plus side, this convincingly demonstrates that there was more depth and quality than is commonly acknowledged to a group that is often remembered only for one song ("Our Day Will Come") or regarded as a lightweight pop-soul group. There are numerous good blends of girl group Brill Building pop and smooth soul (and, often, light to heavy touches of bossa nova) on disc one in particular. Star tracks include the soaring Van McCoy composition "When You're Young and in Love," the doo wop-indebted "Moonlight and Music" (penned by the Romantics' Leroy Fann), the obscure Bacharach/David ballad "I Cry Alone," the booming uptown soul production of "Does He Really Care for Me," the delicate bossa nova of "Our Everlasting Love," and, above all, the delicious "Hey There Lonely Boy," eventually reworked into a number two hit in 1969 by Eddie Holman as "Hey There Lonely Girl." Unfortunately, much of disc two is stuffed with dull covers of pop standards that filled out their early LPs. If the standards were omitted, this would be a highly credible and varied anthology, staking a fair claim for the band as an underrated outfit in the poppiest segment of early soul. For the record, all but one of these tracks date from their stint with Kapp; oddly, one post-Kapp cut, the 1968 ABC single "No More," is thrown in too. ~ Richie Unterberger

Our Day Will Come: The Very Best Of Ruby And The Romantics

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Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 1

1. When You're Young And In Love

2. Moonlight And Music

3. Till Then

4. Our Day Will Come

5. Every Day's A Holiday

6. Think

7. Lonely People Do Foolish Thin

8. My Summer Love

9. Much Better Off Than I've Ever Been

10. I Cry Alone

11. Sweet Love And Sweet Forgiveness

12. Remember Me

13. Does He Really Care For Me

14. No More

15. Dream

16. Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore

17. Our Everlasting Love

18. Hey There Lonely Boy

19. By The Way

20. Two Different Worlds

21. Nobody But My Baby

Volume 2

1. Baby Come Home

2. Day Dreaming

3. Not A Moment Too Soon

4. Young Wings Can Fly (Higher Thank You Know)

5. Moonglow

6. We Can Make It

7. Stranger On The Shore

8. The End Of The World

9. Till There Was You

10. What A Difference A Day Makes

11. We'll Love Again

12. Imagination

13. We'll Meet Again

14. My Prayer

15. Heartaches

16. I'm Sorry

17. The Masquerade Is Over

18. P.S. I Love You

19. Chances Are

20. Time After Time

21. How Deep Is The Ocean

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