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    09/17/1996 | Gnp Crescendo 

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    All Music Guide Review

    GNP Crescendo's Divas of Pop collection compiles 16 hits from the '60s, '70s, and '80s from the "Divas" who put them on the map. All in all, it's a pretty good spread, with icons like Dolly Parton ("9 to 5") and Aretha Franklin ("Spanish Harlem") rubbing shoulder pads with post-"new wavers" like the Go-Go's ("We Got the Beat"), Blondie ("Heart of Glass"), and Quarterflash ("Harden My Heart"). Toss in a little Dionne Warwick, Judy Collins, and Carly Simon and you've got yourself a decent outline of women in popular music in the late 20th century, though swapping out Bananarama's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" with the superior "Cruel Summer" would have made the end results a tad sweeter. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • You're So Vain
  • Simon, Carly
  • 4:18
  • 2
  • 9 to 5
  • Parton, Dolly
  • 2:46
  • 3
  • Wedding Bell Blues
  • Fifth Dimension [1]
  • 2:44
  • 4
  • Venus
  • Bananarama
  • 3:50
  • 5
  • Don't Sleep in the Subway
  • 2:59
  • 6
  • I Am Woman
  • Reddy, Helen
  • 3:24
  • 7
  • Both Sides Now
  • Collins, Judy
  • 3:14
  • 8
  • Spanish Harlem
  • Franklin, Aretha
  • 3:30
  • 9
  • Heart of Glass
  • Blondie
  • 3:26
  • 10
  • Brand New Key
  • Melanie
  • 2:26
  • 11
  • I'll Never Fall in Love Again
  • Warwick, Dionne
  • 3:03
  • 12
  • Heaven Is a Place on Earth
  • Carlisle, Belinda
  • 4:13
  • 13
  • Love Will Keep Us Together
  • 3:23
  • 14
  • Harden My Heart
  • Quarterflash
  • 3:35
  • 15
  • La Bas Two Step
  • 2:44
  • 16
  • We Got the Beat
  • 2:30

  • Credits



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