The Complete Red Bird Recordings

by The Dixie Cups

Overview

Only three years before the release of this CD, another comprehensive Dixie Cups anthology, Chapel of Love: The Very Best of the Dixie Cups, had appeared on the Collectables label. This has a very slight edge, however, as in addition to including everything from that prior compilation, it adds two more tracks: the fair mid-tempo pop/rocker "Wrong Direction," previously only available on the 1979 import compilation Teen Anguish, Vol. 1, and a less notable mono single version of "Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright." In any case, it's a very good collection, containing the A-sides and B-sides of half a dozen 1964-1965 singles they did for Red Bird, rounded off with less essential odds and ends (including an alternate version of "People Say" and an a cappella alternate version of "Iko Iko"). The Dixie Cups are usually remembered only for "Chapel of Love" and perhaps "Iko Iko," but as this disc demonstrates, there were a good number of solid girl group sides on their other Red Bird recordings. Many of them were written by the estimable Brill Building hitmaking team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and some are quite good despite almost total obscurity (such as "Little Bell" and "Another Boy Like Mine"); a few other tracks have a strong New Orleans R&B influence. It's one of the better single-artist girl group anthologies, and makes one regret that such a likable, melodic act was unable to record longer for Red Bird, where the group teamed with such a suitable production and songwriting supporting cast. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	08/13/2002
Label:	Var?Se Sarabande / Varese
UPC:	0030206637526

Tracks

1. Chapel of Love
2. Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright
3. I'm Gonna Get You Yet
4. Girls Can Tell
5. All Grown Up
6. Iko Iko
7. Gee Baby Gee
8. Ain't That Nice
9. People Say
10. Little Bell
11. No True Love
12. You Should Have Seen the Way He Looked at Me
13. Another Boy Like Mine
14. Thank You Mama, Thank You Papa
15. Wrong Direction
16. Gee the Moon Is Shining Bright
17. People Say
18. Iko Iko

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Dixie Cups   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jeff Barry   Composer
Marty Wekser   Producer
Artie Butler   Arranger
Bill Pitzonka   Design,Art Direction
Barbara Anne Hawkins   Composer
Rosa Lee Hawkins   Composer
Joan Marie Johnson   Composer
Joe Craig Jones   Arranger,Producer
Bill Dahl   Liner Notes,Producer
James "Sugar Boy" Crawford   Composer
Ellie Greenwich   Composer
Evren Goeknar   Mastering
Cary E. Mansfield   Producer
Steve Massie   Project Assistant
Wardell Quezergue   Arranger
Robert Mosely   Composer
Jerry Leiber   Producer
Mike Stoller   Arranger,Producer
Phil Spector   Composer
Peter Miller   Composer