George Maharis - Maharis Sings Potrait in Music (26 tracks) +Album Reviews

I have loved George Maharis for 40 years!

Linda Corbiere | Swanton, VT | 09/28/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I loved him on Route 66 when I was a little girl and I watched everything he was on from the early 60's up to when he retired from show business in the 90's. His acting was wonderful and he was always under-rated as an actor. And his singing was just as good as his acting. He has such a smooth, easy listening voice and I have all of his albums. I am also fortunate enough to have gotten a few letters from him he recently emailed me!! I was thrilled of course!! I have been a devoted fan for so long and never ever got over him!"

Renewed fan,

F. M. Stone | New York, New York SA | 08/29/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I remember oohing and ahhing over Maharis in Route 66. I even bought one of his albums. But I was so "in love" with Buz Murdoch that I didn't realize what a great voice George Maharis had. He comes close to Sinatra in sound. It's great music to sit back and enjoy or work to."

George Maharis

Sanford J. Langa | Kahului, Hawaii USA | 07/05/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Maharis was too good a singer to deserve the put down in the review I just read. His LPs have long been treasured possessions for those of us fortunate enough to still have them, and his absence from the CD catalog has been a function of the untimely termination of his career rather than any deficiency in his performance. Of course, he represents a type of popular music that now is sadly out of date, and if you prefer what passes for music in today's juvenile delinquent circuit, that's your problem."

Another TV Star Turned Into A Singer

Sanford J. Langa | 08/04/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Better known for his role on the Sixties TV series "Route 66", Maharis was another from that era whose series masters decided it would be good publicity for the show if he cut a few records.

The same ploy had been used by executives associated with The Rifleman (Johnny Crawford), The Donna Reed Show (Shelley Fabares & Paul Petersen), Dr. Kilgare (Richard Chamberlain), and Ben Casey (Vince Edwards). However, like Chamberlain and Edwards, Maharis didn't fit into the teeny-bopper image, and so the songs handed to him on the Epic label were more in the line of ballads and old standards. And he wasn't bad at all.

His first, and biggest, was a re-make of the early Fifties smash, Teach Me Tonight, which he took to # 8 on the just-introduced Adult Contemporary (AC) charts as well as # 25 Billboard Hot 100 in June 1962 b/w After The Lights Go Down Low, which made it to # 104 Hot 100 "bubble under." A couple of months later Love Me As I Love You peaked at # 17 AC/# 54 Hot 100 b/w They Knew About You, another entry in the "bubble under" charts, reaching # 104.

Around Christmas 1962 he had Baby Has Gone Bye Bye toppig out at # 62 Hot 100 b/w After One Kiss (not included here), and early in 1963 he reached all the way back to an old Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters hit for Don't Fence Me In, which reached # 93 Hot 100 b/w Alright, Okay, You Win. Neither of these sides is included here either. On all of his hits to this date the backing orchestra was that of Robert Mersey, who also backed many of Andy Williams' biggest hits.

His last charter, with the backing of Don Costa & His Orchestra, came in September 1963 when That's How It Goes levelled off at # 88 Hot 100 b/w It Isn't There (it isn't here either). Coincidentally, the end of his hit singles string also marked the end of his series which ran out of gas somewhere along the Route in 1964.

Not a bad entry from Collectables but one that would have been so much better by the inclusion of that one missing hit and those overlooked flipsides."

I love George

Patti | Tracy,CA | 09/15/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I grew up listening to George Maharis because my Mom has all his LP's. I am from St. Louis and my Mom used to work for him as his secretary when he was filming Route 66 in St. Louis. This was in the early 60's. He even gave my older brother an apple one time when my mom brought him to work with her one day. I want to get my mom his music on a CD, and I was looking for his older music, EI: Where can you go with a broken heart? If anyone can help me, please send help to my email address. If Linda C. from Vermont reads this, please let me know where you got his email address from, I know if I emailed him, he would remember my Mom. Thanks."

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