I grew up listening to the Frankie Avalon album, "A Whole Lotta Frankie" on a vinyl LP. I still have that original record, but have recently sought CD copies of some of the records in my collection. "25 All Time Greatest Hits" contains all but one of the songs on the original "A Whole Lotta Frankie" LP. All that is missing is "Talk, Talk, Talk".

The recordings on the CD are all from the original master tapes. Unlike the vinyl LP, many of these have been mixed in stereo. This is a good quality CD that will satisfy any Frankie Avalon fan.

This CD provides all of the best "oldies" from Frankie! Even if you didn't catch his 2007 performances, you'll be happy to hear these favorites again and again. Now, if he would only give us a CD of the old standards as his contemporaries have done, we'd have the best of both music worlds!

Outstanding collection, with long forgotten gems like "Young and In Love," "Where Are You," "You Are Mine," and "Beach Party." Venus" was so successful that it overshadowed Avalon's other work, but many of his other songs are masterpieces of '60's pop!

Want to turn back the hands of time. This will do it

This is a great cd set. People think this is just an expanded version of Varese's last Frankie Avalon cd set, theyre highly mistaken.

The tracks on this cd were ALL taken from the original first generation tapes where available, the master they used for Venus on this cd corrects the dropouts found on ALL previous cds, and the tape they used for this cd hadn't been played in over 40 years.

This cd also has some tracks in first time stereo, plus the very first cd issue of the original hit 45 rpm version of Two Fools. The later stereo version (which sounds totally different, but probably recorded around the same time) is on plenty of other cds, and varese was going to use it for this cd until myself and a few others persueded them to use the original 45 version.

At the time, I had been told that no 3-track tape exists for the original 45 version, so i assumed at the time that they were going to go with the mono version of the song because of it. When the discussion of using the mono hit vs. the stereo remake, the people who asked for the true 45 version on cd were given a lot of crap from those who wanted to have the song in stereo on the cd.

Well, the original 45 version of Two Fools made it onto this cd. That alone should make this cd worth buying as the 45 version is definitely superior to the later stereo re-recording. As an added bonus the 45 version does actually appear in a narrowed 2-track stereo mix, which should make the cd a winner for both those who wanted the 45 version on cd, and those who wanted the song in stereo on cd.

If you purchase this cd, there is not a need for any other Frankie Avalon hits package. If you own any other Frankie Avalon hits packages, throw them out and buy this one.