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Product Details

Artist : Eartha Kitt
Format : Best of, Box set, Original recording remastered
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0743218810527
Label : Balboa
Number of Discs : 3
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-08-20
UPC : 766487846325

ASIN : B00005NQQN

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Memphis Blues
2. I Want to Be Evil
3. Monotonous
4. Chantez-Les Bas (Sing 'Em Low)
5. Beale Street Blues
6. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
7. Mambo de Paree
8. Lilac Wine
9. Day That the Circus Left Town
10. Lisbon Antigua
11. Do You Remember?
12. Fascinating Man
13. Angelitos Negros
14. Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bells (Who's Got de Ding Dong)
15. Avril au Portugal (The Whispering Serenade)
16. Careless Love
17. Jonny, Wenn de Geburtstag Hast

Disc-2
1. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)
2. Lovin' Spree
3. Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore
4. Uska Dara-A Turkish Tale
5. Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
6. Under the Bridges of Paris
7. Santa Baby
8. Mink, Schmink
9. Hey Jacque
10. Je Cherche un Homme (I Want a Man)
11. Heel
12. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
13. Lullaby of Birdland
14. Apres Moi
15. Thursday's Child
16. Lazy Afternoon
17. Looking for a Boy

Disc-3
1. Woman Wouldn't Be a Woman
2. Toujours Gai
3. Just an Old Fashioned Girl
4. Mademoiselle Kitt
5. I'm a Funny Dame
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Oh John (Please Don't Kiss Me)
8. If I Love Ya, Then I Need Ya; If I Need Ya, Then I Want Ya Around
9. Strangers in the Starlight
10. If I Was a Boy
11. I've Got That Lovin' Bug Itch
12. My Heart's Delight
13. If I Can't Take It With Me (When I Go)
14. Proceed With Caution
15. Cha Cha Heels - Bronski Beat, Eartha Kitt
16. I Will Survive [Live]

Customer Reviews

Everything Eartha (2003-01-04)

This is an amazing collection. Three full length wonderfully remastered cd's containing 50 of Eartha's best. The set contains most of the tracks found on Miss Kitt, To You, Purr-fect: Greatest Hits, and The Bad Eartha/Down to Eartha, plus a whole lot more. This is the best compilation you can get, short of buying the 5 cd Eartha Quake box set.

Disappointing (2002-06-15)

I've listened to the complete set four times now, hoping that my initial judgment was mistaken. On first hearing my reaction was, "That is not the voice of Eartha Kitt." I read the notes, thinking that some lesser singer was doing a tribute to Eartha. Nope, the voice is supposed to be Eartha's. I fished out my old 45's bought when I first heard that wonderully sexy, playful voice back in the '50's, and compared the disc renditions of "C'est Si Bon," "Monotonous," and "Let's Do It" with those on the records. Memory had served me correctly. The brief set notes do not indicate from what originals these songs were remastered. If they were done from the same masters that my 45's are from, some sound engineer really goofed by "improving" the voice to what his ear prefers, perhaps not knowing what the voice fans loved sounded like or not himself liking the voice. Sadly, that happens with some CD reissues. Adding to the disappointment is that the collection has 50 interesting songs, some old favorites and many new to me, that I would love to hear by the real voice of Eartha Kitt.

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