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Navy Blue | 
 enlarge | Artist: Diane Renay
Label: Collectables
Category: Music
Buy Used: $49.99
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 166732
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
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| 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! |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 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.
 Another Fun CD April 3, 2005
John (NC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just receieved this CD in the mail today from Amazons buy new and used, fortunately I got a factory sealed new one from a seller. It is full of fun and easy listening songs. Ms. Renay has a sweet voice and it carries the songs well. I do wish the quality was better, but the package itself does say "Some Distortion may exist on CD due to the non-availiability of the original master tapes." On a couple of the songs you can tell this, but not badly enough to let it ruin the great songs on this cd. Try it, it is lot's of fun!!
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!
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.
From A Navy Wife January 26, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
While these classic songs are unmistakenly 60s-era, they still contain that longing that every sailor's/soldier's sweetheart feels when their serviceman leaves to go abroad. You've heard that there's truth in every joke--the same goes for these songs. If you're in the same position as I have found myself, you'll certainly relate to Diane's lyrics (certainly not offensive--my sailor-husband thinks these songs are great!). And even if you don't have someone in the service, you'll find the songs lighthearted, fun, and reminiscent of the time period. I do wish the sound quality were better, but this is the best I could find, so I'll take what I can get.
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