The Complete Recordings

RELEASE
October 03, 2000
LABEL
Preserved Recordings
GENRES
Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop

Album Review

A 20-song teaser featuring recordings by the Velours and the Pearls. While it does include some of both groups' memorable recordings (i.e., the Velours' "Can I Come Over Tonight" and the Pearls' "Ice Cream Baby"), it doesn't bother with some others that fans and collectors will quickly notice. So the title is misleading -- these aren't their complete recordings. The Pearls' "Shadows of Love" and "Let's You and I Go Steady" are missing in action, as are many of the Velours' -- who reinvented themselves in the '60s and '70s as the Fantastics -- recordings. But taken for what it is and overlooking the grandiose claim, these are archetypal examples of doo wop by New York groups from Detroit.
Andrew Hamilton, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Can I Come Over Tonight
  2. Honey Drop
  3. This Could Be the Night
  4. Remember
  5. What You Do to Me
  6. My Love Come Back
  7. Hands Across the Table
  8. Where There's a Will
  9. Romeo
  10. Can I Walk You Home
  11. Let's You and I Go Steady
  12. I Sure Need You
  13. Tree in the Meadow
  14. Ice Cream Baby
  15. It's Love, Love, Love
  16. Yuz a Ma Tuz
  17. Your Cheatin' Heart
  18. My Oh My
  19. Wheel of Love
  20. Zippity Zippity Zoom