Patty Duke is remembered by an aging generation of fans as a mid-1960s teen idol for her starring roles on The Patty Duke Show, <\/i>in which she played the dual look-a-like characters of Patty Lane and her cousin Cathy Lane. Movie fans will remember her for winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker <\/i>at the age of 16. After the series ended, she played the very adult role of Neely O\u2019Hara in the movie Valley Of The Dolls.<\/i><\/p>\n
Like many actors and actresses, before and since, she decided to try her hand at singing. On the strength of her television show she released two commercially success albums; Don\u2019t Just Stand There <\/i>(1965) and Patty <\/i>(1968), which spawned two hit singles, \u201cSay Something Funny\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Just Stand There.\u201d\u00a0 Real Gone Music has released re-issued those two albums as a two-for-one CD.<\/p>\n
Duke has what could be termed an acceptable voice. It was probably better than Hayley Mills and Shelley Fabares and about equal in quality to Annette Funicello. She basically sang lightweight pop and her vocals could carry the songs, although they seem very dated today and in many ways would have fit better in the pre-Beatles era. <\/p>\n
The accompanying booklet is well done as it gives a nice history of her and the music, plus contains a number of classic pictures from the era. <\/p>\n
Don\u2019t Just Stand There <\/i>and Patty <\/i>were very typical of many pop albums of the day. Take a couple of singles and surround them with a number of cover songs. Let\u2019s face it, songs such as \u201cYesterday,\u201d \u201cDowntown,\u201d \u201cA World Without Love,\u201d \u201cWhat The World Needs Now Is Love,\u201d \u201cSave Your Heart For Me,\u201d and \u201cAll I Have To Do Is Dream\u201d were all covered dozens of times and usually much better, without even taking the originals into consideration. Duke\u2019s two hits are by far the best tracks here, \u00a0catchy pieces of pop. All in all, this collection is deeply rooted in the 1960s, though with a positive memories for a lot of people , and the young woman on the CD cover is still appealing. <\/p>\n
In the last analysis, this is a release that will probably only appeal to Patty Duke fans or collectors of the era. If you fall into either of those categories then this new release of these long-out-of-print albums is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":31540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9180],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-43243","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-patty-duke","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43243"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}