Call me crazy, I'm 27 years old and The Vogues are by far and away one of my favorite groups. Their sound and melodies seem to be unmatched by any group I'd ever heard. A mainstay on the top 40 charts from September 1965 with their debut smash "You're The One" until early 1969 when they seemed to disappear, The Vogues produced many memorable hits such as "Five O'clock World", "Magic Town", "Land of Milk and Honey", "Turn Around Look at Me" and "My Special Angel". Guess I fell in love with "Five O'clock World" ,easy for me to relate to, but was overall very pleased with the entire compilation.
Unfortunately I didn't think to come here to Amazon and went to my local music store and paid lol $23.99. If you are a big fan of The Vogues I suggest you buy this album, but buy it here at Amazon don't make the same mistake I did.

The Vogues are a superlative group from the sixties. Their choice of material is superb and the orchestration is magnificent. Of my hundreds of CDs from that era, this is one of my top 10 favorites.

The Vogues, a vocal harmony group, had their roots in the doo-wop music of the fifties although they failed to achieve any significant success until 1965, when they recorded a cover of a Petula Clark song. Whether Petula's version was intended to be a single is a moot point - her version was a minor UK hit in November 1965, some time after the Vogues had a top five American hit with it. It is not the first time that a cover of a Petula recording had been successful in America - Little Peggy March topped the charts with I will follow him - but the difference is that Petula co-wrote You're the one, unlike I will follow him. I prefer Petula's recording (and that will surprise nobody who knows what I think of her music) but the Vogues do it a little differently and I enjoy their version too.

Following that breakthrough, the Vogues repeated their success by also taking Five o'clock world, a blue-collar anthem about working in a factory but thinking of home, into the American top five. Two lesser hits followed, these being Magic town (about Hollywood) and Land of milk and honey, but that seemed to be it. Lovers of the world unite (a top ten UK hit for David and Jonathan) wasn't seriously marketed and the Vogues moved to the Reprise label.

With their first Reprise single, Turn around look at me (originally been recorded by Glen Campbell in 1961, long before he became famous), the Vogues returned to the American top ten. They then had further American hits with covers of songs from the fifties and early sixties including My special angel (Bobby Helms), Till (Angels), No not much (Four lads) and Moments to remember (Four lads) and one original song, Woman helping man.

Their American hits finally dried up in 1970. They never made the British charts but that is no real surprise - their music is far removed from the kind of music the British public wanted at the time. But having discovered their music via the Petula connection, I can say that I am one Brit who enjoys their music.

This appears to be an album from the original and true Vogues not the fake group that runs around the country today pretending to be the guys who actually created all the hits (beware: the phony group tries to sell most of the same songs on their website and elsewhere).

Whether hitting it big with an original song like 5 O'Clock World or remaking a classic like Special Angel, Chuck Blasko and group could harmonize with the best of them. They still do, at least in Western Pennsylvania, which is the only place they are allowed to use the name Vogues while the thieves who stole the name through legal maneuvering claim to be the original everywhere else.

Regardless, all the hits are here including the ones mentioned above and other classics like Turn Around Look At Me, Magic Town, You're the One, and Earth Angel.

Whether remaking classics or creating their own hits, the Vogues are truly an original group and this is a fine collection.

Back in 1968, when I was 17 years old, most of my contemporaries were into music by people like Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Rolling Stones. While I enjoyed all kinds of music, my preference during that time was for much tamer music. In the summer of that year, The Vogues released "Turn Around, Look At Me" a remake of a relatively obscure Glen Campbell tune from several years earlier. I immediately fell in love with the song and the group. The Vogues had been around for awhile, having achieved significant chart success on Pittsburgh's Co&Ce label with songs like "You're The One", "Five O'Clock World" and "The Land of Milk and Honey". But this sound was different. Fifties rocker Ernie Freeman had become the producer/arranger for the group. His combination of lush production values and impeccable harmonies produced an incredibly pleasing sound that proved wildly successful. "Turn Around" was a huge hit for the group and was followed in swift succession by remakes of "My Special Angel", "Earth Angel", "Till", "Moments to Remember", "Green Fields" and others. I bought every one of these singles. In fact, I enjoyed the Vogues so much that I used to even play the flip sides frequently.
This collection from Rhino contains all of the Vogues singles from both the early Co&Ce years and the Reprise years. There is not a bad track on the disc! It is an absolute joy to listen to and I never get tired of hearing these songs. I realize that some people might find the material a bit too tame, but those who dig great harmony are sure to enjoy this fine collection. A big thumbs up!!!