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Artist:
VALENTE, CATERINA
Title:
Sweet Beat -- The Legendary 60s Pop Session
Label:
BUREAU B (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
BB 002CD
Originally reissued by the Bureau B label in 2005. Born in Paris to Italian parents,
Caterina Valente
became an international songstress and entertainer in the mid-late '50s, and broke through in the U.S. on
Perry Como
's TV show in 1961. She co-hosted shows alongside
Carol Burnett
and
Bob Newhart
in 1964, and in 1968, the TV special
Caterina From Heidelberg
was watched by over 50 million viewers in the U.S. That same year, as she was elaborating the concept for her new international album in 1968, the radio speakers were still blasting out
Scott McKenzie
's 1967 hymn of praise for the flower generation of San Francisco. The new "swinging London" became the birthplace of new recordings by artists such as
The Beatles
,
The Kinks
and
Petula Clark
. And so, Caterina Valente and
Eric Van Aro
, who was her husband and manager at that time, decided to do a tribute album of '60s pop. The album was recorded at Teldec studios in Berlin in1968, and according to the recording minutes, the 13 songs were recorded within 12 hours. Originally titled
Sweet Beat
and released by Decca in 1968, arranged by the legendary
Heinz Kiessling
and produced by Eric Van Aro.
Artist:
VALENTE, CATERINA
Title:
The Hi-Fi Nightingale
Label:
EL RECORDS (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
ACMEM 087CD
"Caterina Valente was the first international girl pop star and has much in common with the yé-yé girls of the '60s, Francoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Sylvie Vartan and Anna Karina currently so beloved in Japan and in underground European pop circles. Her vocal range was often compared to that of Yma Sumac and it was her distinctive voice, allied with great charm and intelligence, which brought her immediate commercial success, and this compilation of her brilliant early work includes the three million selling hits 'The Breeze and I,' 'Malaguenńa' and 'Love Paris.' This compilation has serious export potential to Europe, Japan and Australia where she toured extensively and was consistently successful. She was so successful in Germany she is often mistakenly thought to be a German singer. In the '60s and '70s Caterina recorded four albums with her second husband, the gifted British jazz pianist Roy Budd."
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