Critic's Review
Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
A New Jersey quintet that pretty much sounded like a doo wop group singing in front of a classic big-band orchestra, the Duprees were built to inspire nostalgia, and although they had a handful of hits, their sound, even when they stripped it down when rock & roll hit, didn't translate well to an audience in the midst of Beatlemania. This brief compilation of their Coed Records era has some of the Duprees' best and most distinctive tracks, including their covers of Jo Stafford's 1952 hit "You Belong to Me" and Joni James' "Have You Heard" from 1953, as well as an unusually sparse arrangement of "The Exodus Song" (simply called "Exodus" in the Coed version), but other key tracks are missing, like "My Own True Love" and "Why Don't You Believe Me," making this at best a glancing introduction to an intriguing vocal group.
