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The Teddy Bears - The Teddy Bears Sing! (Japanese re-issue Toshiba EMI)

Track listing:
  1. Oh Why 2:33
  2. Unchained Melody 2:22
  3. My Foolish Heart 2:27
  4. You Said Goodbye 2:00
  5. True Love 2:08
  6. Little Things Mean A Lot 2:33
  7. I Don't Need You Anymore 2:44
  8. Tammy 2:06
  9. Long Ago And Far Away 2:08
  10. Don't Go Away 2:28
  11. If I Give My Heart To You 1:59
  12. Seven Lonely Days 2:00
  13. If You Only Knew [bonus track] 2:43
  14. Oh Why [stereo version] 2:32
  15. Unchained Melody [stereo version] 2:21
  16. My Foolish Heart [stereo version] 2:26
  17. You Said Goodbye [stereo version] 2:00
  18. True Love [stereo version] 2:08
  19. Little Things Mean A Lot [stereo version] 2:32
  20. I Don't Need You Anymore [stereo version] 2:44
  21. Tammy [stereo version] 2:06
  22. Long Ago And Far Away [stereo version] 2:08
  23. Don't Go Away [stereo version] 2:28
  24. If I Give My Heart To You [stereo version] 1:59
  25. Seven Lonely Days [stereo version] 1:57

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The Teddy Bears - The Teddy Bears Sing ! [Limited Release]



Catalog No.: TOCP-67982

Release Date: 2006/05/24


Cardboard sleeve reissue from The Teddy Bears featuring 24bit remastering, cardboard sleeve jacket design, and the bonus track "If You Only Knew." Album originally released in 1959 and available now for the first time ever on CD.


From Wikipedia
With three friends from high school, Marshall Lieb, Harvey Goldstein, and singer Annette Kleinbard, Spector formed a group, The Teddy Bears. During this period, Spector also began visiting local recording studios, and he eventually managed to win the confidence of record producer Stan Ross, co-owner of Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, who began to tutor the young man in record production and who exerted a major influence on Spector's production style.

By the spring of 1958, Spector and his bandmates had raised enough money to buy two hours of recording time at Gold Star. With Spector producing, the Teddy Bears recorded the Spector-penned "Don't You Worry My Little Pet," which helped them secure a deal with Era Records. At their next session, they recorded another song Spector had written — this one inspired by the epitaph on Spector's father's tombstone[5]. Released on Era's subsidiary label, Dore Records, "To Know Him Is to Love Him" went to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, selling over a million copies by year's end.
Following the success of their debut, the group signed with Imperial Records, but their next single, "I Don't Need You Anymore," only reached #91. While several more recordings were released, including an album The Teddy Bears Sing!, the group never again charted in the Hot 100. The Teddy Bears went their separate ways in 1959.