Dion The Road I'm On: A Retrospective (2-CD)

When Dion began his career, I was still in my single digits. (I was 9 when The Beatles hit Ed Sullivan to give some context here) Prior to this collection, I had about 6 of Dion’s early hits in my collection. When I came across this 2-CD set of 35 songs for $3.98, my shopper's eyes screeched to a halt. Hmmmm - let’s take a look at this - Dion? Run Around Sue? The Wanderer? Not my favorite songs, but the fun of shopping for low-priced music is being able to experiment and experience some different music for a few bucks here and there. And I'm glad I did!

This is not a collection of a bunch of third-rate, obscure tunes thrown together by a record label just to cash in. This is a thoughtfully put-together collection of work that Dion seemed to magically do "between hits". I'll bet that I could play at least five different tunes to most people and they wouldn't realize who it was - much less that it was the same person - and that person was Dion. I listened to all 35 tunes in a row without getting burned out by the same voice, style and musicians. I have new and great respect for Dion as a musician. Quite a voice and quite a musician.

If you think of Dion as simply Dion and The Belmonts, or even the Dion that recorded Abraham, Martin and John, in 1968 think again. This man is all over the map with song styles and vocals. This collection will not collect dust for quite some time in my collection. I highly recommend grabbing this while it's available.