Anita Bryant - Anita Bryant Collection 1958-62 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Anita Bryant is a pop singer who had several big hits during the late '50s and early '60s and made several successful albums, becoming best-known for her 1960 US Top 10 hits InchPaper RosesInch and InchMy Little Corner of the WorldInch. She found fame as a beauty queen before starting to make records, and after her chart career waned in later years attracted attention as a controversial political and social activist. This great-value 56-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of all her singles for the Carlton and Columbia labels during this era, along with most of the titles from her Carlton and Columbia albums InchAnita BryantInch, InchIn My Little Corner Of The WorldInch and InchKisses Sweeter Than WineInch, which mainly comprised interpretations of well-known standards. It includes InchPaper RosesInch and InchMy Little Corner of the WorldInch along with her ten other Billboard chart entries from this era, notably her Top 30 1959 debut with InchTill There Was YouInch and the later Top 20 hit InchWonderland By NightInch. She was a singer who typified a particular strand of mainstream pop in the era before the British invasion had it's cataclysmic impact a couple of years later, but who also explored a more sophisticated pop style on her albums. Album Tracks 1. Be Good, Be Careful, Be Mine 2. Dance on 3. Till There Was You 4. Little George 5. Six Boys and Seven Girls 6. Blessings of Love 7. Do-Re-Mi 8. Promise Me a Rose 9. Paper Roses 10. Mixed Emotions 11. In My Little Corner of the World 12. Anyone Would Love You 13. Love Look Away 14. One of the Lucky Ones 15. Pictures 16. Wonderland By Night 17. A Texan and a Girl from Mexico 18. He's Not Good Enough for You 19. An Angel Cried 20. I Can't Do It By Myself 21. Lonesome for You Mama 22. Place Called Happiness 23. The Wedding (La Novia) 24. Seven Kinds of Lonesome