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Released January 10, 2006

Like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and only a few others, Brenda Lee could sound equally wonderful whether she was tearing into an upbeat rock & roll number or crooning a melancholy countrypolitan ballad. The fact that she demonstrated ample knowledge of both even before getting halfway through her teenage years made her achievements much more special. MCA's The Definitive Collection befits its title in one area: it's the definitive collection of her Billboard chart history, where most -- but not all -- of her artistic excellence occurred. The disc includes a full 28 tracks, but dispatches her early history as a rock firebrand with only three songs (when even ten wouldn't have been overdoing it), and moves quickly to her decade-long mastery of the forlorn, love-scorned ballad. It's a fact that most new listeners with a potential appreciation for Lee's talents would be drawn to her earlier rockabilly material, not her balladry, so this is a lost opportunity that some other collection will have to remedy. (In fact, the two-disc Anthology [1956-1980] proves that there's enough excellent Brenda Lee material to fill two discs.) ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

TRACKS

1. Dynamite
2. Sweet Nothin's
3. I'm Sorry
4. That's All You Gotta Do
5. I Want to Be Wanted (Per Tutta la Vita)
6. Emotions
7. I'm Learning About Love
8. You Can Depend on Me
9. Dum Dum
10. Fool #1
11. Anybody But Me
12. Break It to Me Gently
13. Everybody Loves Me But You
14. Heart in Hand
15. All Alone Am I
16. Your Used to Be
17. Losing You
18. My Whole World Is Falling Down
19. I Wonder
20. The Grass Is Greener
21. As Usual
22. Is It True?
23. Too Many Rivers
24. Coming on Strong
25. Nobody Wins
26. Big Four Poster Bed
27. Tell Me What It's Like
28. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree [*]

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