Ronnie Dove should have been as big as Bobby Vinton. Both artists were seemingly untouched by the British Invasion and continued creating excellent retro-sounding pop/rock into the 1970s, but Dove never cracked the Top Ten despite placing nearly a dozen singles in the Top 40 between 1964-1966. Golden Classics contains most of Dove's '60s hits, a few non-hits, and the country charter "Rise and Shine" from 1987 -- Dove's final hit. Dove is an expressive balladeer whose distinctive and slightly country-sounding voice resembles ...
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Ronnie Dove should have been as big as Bobby Vinton. Both artists were seemingly untouched by the British Invasion and continued creating excellent retro-sounding pop/rock into the 1970s, but Dove never cracked the Top Ten despite placing nearly a dozen singles in the Top 40 between 1964-1966. Golden Classics contains most of Dove's '60s hits, a few non-hits, and the country charter "Rise and Shine" from 1987 -- Dove's final hit. Dove is an expressive balladeer whose distinctive and slightly country-sounding voice resembles Bobby Helms, and his updates of classic material like Johnnie Ray's "Cry" and Harold Dorman's "Mountain of Love" are simultaneously fresh and familiar. Chronological sequencing would have worked better, and more substantial liner notes wouldn't have hurt, but Golden Classics is a fine anthology of a major talent who enjoyed only moderate success. ~ Greg Adams, Rovi
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