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Title: Ever so Wild
Review: Two of Frankie Laine's great albums with Johnny Williams are reissued on one disc- to excellent effect! Although the arrangements and style of these 60s albums resemble Laine's and William's work on "Hell Bent for Leather," in this case the songs are not cowboy songs, but, in the case of "Dueces Wild," gambling songs, and, in the case of "The Call of the Wild," klondike-adventure songs. No popular singer has ever explored this rough and ready terrain with Frankie Laine's success, and it's a thrill to hear him charge through such masculine songs as "Call of the Wild" and "Roving Gambler." Even songs that had proved major hits for other artists are remade in Laine's image: Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska" comes to mind. Some may find these selections and arrangements trite and old-fashioned- and they are- but the sheer strength and passion exhibited here is hard to dislike.
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