Okay, so this is really one of those threads that exists to show off a bulging Spotify playlist and encourage you to point out anything I’ve missed. But in truth I’m staggered that the Runaround Sue hitmaker doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. We’re talking someone who started in street corner doowop, who narrowly avoided being on the plane that killed Buddy Holly, was a junkie at 14, reputedly encouraged Dylan to go electric (and made some amazing similar-sounding records with Tom Wilson a few weeks earlier), and has collaborated with Phil Spector, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and Paul Simon. Even his four albums in the “contemporary Christian” genre aren’t wholly shit. So, is anyone else here a fan? And can anyone match Dion’s quality control over 66 years of making music?
Has anyone had as long, varied and consistently good career as Dion?
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She was good in Titanic.
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This is tremendous!
I always dust this off when Dion comes up. From a short-lived Dion and the Belmonts reunion in the mid-60s. Love it.
Never heard that before. It’s brilliant!
Dion wrote it too.
Annoyingly, that’s one of the albums not on Spotify. I’d also like to hear Inside Job, from his gospel period.
Jut listening to it now on YouTube, and it may. be up there with Kickin Child and Born to Be With You as his best work. Sort it out, Spotify.
Oddly enough was thinking about getting his lauded 70s comeback album last weekend.
Will retrieve from my AUK “save for Later” sluspile and order later today
Which was that? He never really went away in the 70s. I think Yo Frankie from 1989 was regarded as a comeback, as he’d had a decade making gospel records.
The one in my basket is Born to Be With You/Streetheart.
Is there a better place to start? Sounds like the sort of act who would benefit from a two-CD career overview a la John Prine’s Great Days or Warren Z’s A Quiet Normal Life
The Ace double CD The Road I’m On takes you from doowop to his mid 60s folk-rock stuff with the Wanderers. It’s a pretty solid collection.
Cheers, M
Might give that one a go
His album from a few years ago “Stomping Ground” was pretty good. I think it was produced by Joe Bonamassa.
Love Dion. I first heard of him on Angel Fingers and then a couple of his tracks popped up on compilations. That got me going. I love most of his stuff. I have some great live boots with him, Graham Parker and the Dave Edmunds Band.
Dion must be the last of the first that’s still active.
I never knew he did shows with Parker/Edmunds.