Shooting Stars: Collection [Import]

shooting stars: collection [import]

Track Listings
1. Overture
2. Shooting Star
3. Who Were You With in the Moonlight
4. Ring Ring
5. Love's Got a Hold on Me
6. Oh l'Amour
7. I Want to Hold Your Hand
8. I Need Your Love
9. Love Street
10. Star Control
11. Tokyo
12. Sugar, Sugar
13. Living Each Day for You
14. Love Tonight
15. Platinum Rap
16. Dia y Noche
17. Talkin' Bout Love [*]
18. Love on Another [*]
19. B. Beat [*]
20. Don't Ask Ronnie [#][*]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Full title, 'Shooting Stars The Dollar Collection'. UK compilation for one of the most popular chart acts of the late 70's early 80's. Features all the hits from their early Carrere Records era. 20 tracks including the hits, 'Shooting Star', 'Who Were You With In The Moonlight'. Also includes 4 bonus tracks, 'Talkin' Bout Love', 'Love One Another', 'B. Beat' & the previously unreleased 'Don't Ask Ronnie'.

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Shooting Stars: Collection [Import]
Shooting Stars: Collection
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Ask WEA about Hand held, Videotech...
  • Important tracks missing
  • More important than you might think
 Shooting Stars: Collection
Dollar
Manufacturer: Castle Music UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005UBIG
Release Date: 2002-01-22

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. Shooting Star
  3. Who Were You With in the Moonlight
  4. Ring Ring
  5. Love's Got a Hold on Me
  6. Oh l'Amour
  7. I Want to Hold Your Hand
  8. I Need Your Love
  9. Love Street
  10. Star Control
  11. Tokyo
  12. Sugar, Sugar
  13. Living Each Day for You
  14. Love Tonight
  15. Platinum Rap
  16. Dia y Noche
  17. Talkin' Bout Love [*]
  18. Love on Another [*]
  19. B. Beat [*]
  20. Don't Ask Ronnie [#][*]

Album Description

Full title, 'Shooting Stars The Dollar Collection'. UK compilation for one of the most popular chart acts of the late 70's early 80's. Features all the hits from their early Carrere Records era. 20 tracks including the hits, 'Shooting Star', 'Who Were You With In The Moonlight'. Also includes 4 bonus tracks, 'Talkin' Bout Love', 'Love One Another', 'B. Beat' & the previously unreleased 'Don't Ask Ronnie'.

Album Details

Thereza Bazar and David Van Day Formed Dollar in the UK 1978. They Soon Charted their First Single 'shooting Star'. They Enjoyed a Successful Chart Career Over the Next Ten Years Selling Over Ten Million Records. This Collection Includes Two Previously Unreleased Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Ask WEA about Hand held, Videotech..........2005-08-26

A good CD, but as the reviewer above asked, where is Hand Held, Videotech, Mirror Mirror? Found the answer on the BBC Hitch Hickers Guide site h2g2 (a web attempt at a review of everything). Basically, WEA owned the rights, and has yet to release for a recording. Note - this info was removed a few months ago from the site, so we can hope for a release someday to complement the current collection?

3 out of 5 stars Important tracks missing.......2005-05-01

Where's "Hand Held in Black and White", "Videotheque" and "Give Me Some Kinda Magic"?

Where's "Give Me Back My Heart"?

Who put together this collection?

5 out of 5 stars More important than you might think.......2004-03-27

Guys 'n' dolls were a six-piece middle of the road pop group that had two UK top five hits in the early seventies with There's a whole lot of loving and You don't have to say you love me. David Van Day and the Canadian-born Thereza Bazar broke away and became the duo, Dollar. While their music had some similarities with the earlier group, it had a much more contemporary feel with plenty of synthesizers and other electronic wizardry, which will not necessarily appeal to the same fans.

Most of Dollar's UK hits, including three of their five top ten hits (Mirror mirror, Give me back my heart, Oh l'amour), were recorded for WEA beginning in 1980. This compilation focuses on the recordings they made for Carrere in the seventies and contains most of their recordings from that period (one album with a few bonus tracks) but none of the later stuff, which seems to be unavailable on CD as I write this.

These recordings include four UK hits. The first two (Shooting star, Who were you with in the moonlight) both made the top twenty. Love's got a hold on me made the top five. I wanna hold your hand (a Beatles cover) made the top five. Most of the other songs are originals but Sugar sugar is a cover of the 1969 Archies hit.

The liner notes are extensive and tell enthusiastically of their later recordings, explaining how they changed the direction of British pop music. It is clear that the record company would love to re-issue some of the later recordings, which are different again from what is here. The liner notes also tell of their romance - how it came about (interesting) leading eventually to engagement but not marriage. Thereza end up in Australia as a happily married mother while David ended up selling burgers. Such is life.

If you are interested in British pop music of the late seventies, you might enjoy this collection.

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