|
Navy Blue | 
 enlarge | Artist: Diane Renay
Label: Collectables
Category: Music
Buy Used: $40.00
Used (3) from $40.00
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 230267
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 090431587720
EAN: 0090431587720
ASIN: B00000094D
Release Date: January 5, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Tell A Friend
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Kiss Me Sailor - Diane Renay, Rambeau, Eddie | | • | Soft-Spoken Guy | | • | Please Forget Me | | • | Hello Heartaches | | • | Man of Mystery | | • | Navy Blue | | • | Bell Bottom Trousers - Diane Renay, Jaffe, Moe | | • | Soldier Boy - Diane Renay, Dixon, Luther | | • | A Present from Eddie | | • | Sooner or Later | | • | He Promised Me Forever More | | • | Unbelievable Guy | | • | Growin' up Too Fast - Diane Renay, Caugio, Bob | | • | Watch Out, Sally! |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 I was very pleasantly surprised December 4, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought this album around the time it was first released after hearing some of the singer on a girl group collection. I was unfamiliar with her work except for that collection, so I bought this album as somewhat of a shot in the dark. I'm very glad I did! My favorite songs on this album, and now some of my favorites from the early 60's, are "Unbelievable Guy" and "Soft-Spoken Guy", originally the navy singles' flip sides. If I hadn't bought this album, I would have missed out on those two songs. For me, they alone were worth the price of the album.
Diane Renay - Not at all forgotten wonder girl of the 60s August 6, 2004
uthungus (San Francisco, CA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Oh, leave "Ms. Renay" alone nay Sayers!! It's because of "the generic `popular' sound" associated with the 1960s singers like Diane Renay didn't get the appreciation and praise they so deserved until much later after throwing in the towel, unfortunately! This wonderfully talented singer and (back then a very beautiful young teen; now a lovely and proud mother) has her own website with lots of great photos, bio information and stories. It took a while, but she describes the experience of going to a music "Reunion" to be the place she rediscovered just how many legions of fans she actually still had that remembered her; thus inspiring her to build a fan site! Also winning my own respect for her as a "next generation" new fan, I was actually responded to very nicely within two hours of sending in an email fan letter to her site! I have the CD (purchased here) and love it very much! I probably shouldn't mention it, but when I went to a local store to buy a friend a copy, to my delight there were six additional tracks on that particular version (whether "authorized" or not I'm not touching!). Apparently many are out on her own second release of a 2 CD set, so by name they were: "Waiting for Joey", "I had a Dream", "A Dime-a-Dozen", "It's In Your Hands", "So Tender" and "Billy Blue Eyes". The last of these being one of the cutest, most mesmerizing and entertaining of "girl classics" ever written during that decade, IMO. Also released on another collection (mentioned in another review I did) was "The Company you Keep" which was lots of fun, too! I have no regrets and only delight in what I've collected of hers to date and glad I sought more of her works out!
Two Reviews Were Overly Harsh August 30, 2007
AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK, so Diane Renay [Renee Diane Kushner of Philadelphia] was no Connie Francis, nor even a Sue Thompson for that matter. But she wasn't as bad as a couple of reviewers paint her out to be.
I think a big part of her problem in being unable to achieve more than those two lonely hits was the fact she arrived at the same time as the British Invasion. Once The Beatles came on the scene in January 1964, followed by The Animals, Peter & Gordon, Manfred Mann, The Dave Clark Five, Herman's Hermits, Gerry & The Pacemakers, the Stones, and a host of others, all embraced enthusiastically by the North American audiences to the detriment of North American acts, there wasn't much room on the charts for any but the best North America had to offer. Like Bobby Vinton, The 4 Seasons, Beach Boys, Supremes, Shangri-Las, and Mary Wells to name a select few.
Most others simply got run over, including poor little Diane. So to make it to # 4 for the 20th Century label with Navy Blue [also a # 1 Adult Contemporary hit b/w Unbelievable Guy] at a time when we were inundated with the likes of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and Can't Buy Me Love, wasn't too shabby. Even her second hit, Kiss Me Sailor, coming that April when Britannia almost totally ruled the airwaves, didn't fare too badly, reaching a quite respectable # 29 Hot 100 b/w Soft-Spoken Guy. After that she joined a host of others brushed aside.
In this compilation Collectables avoids its usual pattern by giving us both hits and their B-sides and, on that basis alone, from the point of view of a completist collector, it rates the full 5 stars.
 Diane Renay "Navy Blue" CD March 24, 2000
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Great CD. Worth the purchase price if collector of "girl group" sounds. This CD is a time capsule of sixties heartbreak and found love songs. Not "serious" 60's music but WONDERFUL "bubble-gum" pop. OFFENSIVE? LETS GET REAL!
Reissue Of Diane Renay's 1964 Album November 13, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This a reissue of the original LP from the mid sixties. All songs are in mono. Sound quality is mediocre. A note on the back of the CD states the following:"Some distortion may exist on this CD due to the non-availability of the original master tapes." Interpret that how you want. Lost/destroyed. . . . . or someone won't release them? Diane Renay had several cute songs on this LP if you like this kind of stuff from the mid sixties. Too bad the sound quality wasn't better. Thanks to Collectibles for making it available at all. For the record, the original LP was issued in true stereo. However, I have been told by reliable sources that the stereo LP was a mixture of true stereo and re-channeled stereo. Navy Blue did not appear in stereo but other songs like Kiss Me Sailor did. Offensive? Oh, Paaaallleeeeese!
|
|
|
Navy Advancement Study Guide
Navy Store | |
