Hard to Find 45s on CD, Volume 8: 70's Pop Classics
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: Eric Records
Soundtracks:
- Kiss You All Over - Exile
- Stumblin' In - Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
- Which Way You Goin' Billy? - Poppy Family
- Last Song - Edward Bear
- Oh, Babe What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
- Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean
- Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
- Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
- You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
- My Angel Baby - Toby Beau
- Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea (Single Version)
- Emotion - Samantha Sang
- Right Time Of The Night - Jennifer Warnes
- After The Goldrush - Prelude
- Rivers Of Babylon - Boney M
- Beautiful Sunday - Daniel Boone
- Magic - Pilot
- Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch
- Driver's Seat - Sniff 'N' The Tears
- Love Is In The Air - John Paul Young
Free Music Notes for Hard to Find 45s on CD, Volume 8: 70's Pop Classics
Free Music Review: Belatedly adding my own quibbles to everyone else's
Hit: 5 Stars
Eric Records' "Hard to Find 45s on CD Volume 8: Seventies Pop Classics" is a rare bird. It is a collection which is very well thought out and put together with care. There are few labels anymore which put this much effort into a compilation (Varese Sarabande comes close, Rhino used to before they were bought out by Warner Brothers (and their continued use of the Rhino name, even though legally viable, is a sham), and Shout! Factory, founded by Rhino's former owners, don't seem to want to anymore).
That said, I agree with all other reviewers that most of these songs are readily available elsewhere. But how many other CDs would you have to collect just to get this playlist?
My quibble is with Eric Records' policy stated on the back cover: Original 45 RPM Single Versions.
Chris Rea's gorgeous "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" is from an album which sold to Gold Status in the US. But the Lp, "Whatever Happened to Benny Santini" is a far cry from available here, or anyplace else on CD. Would it have hurt to use the album version, which clocks in at another 1:15 edited for the single? (Thankfully, I scored the CD of Rea's album back in the late 80's, but it's from a time when CDs were still in their infancy - it could be remastered now and sound better than just good).
Same goes for Exile's "Mixed Emotions" Lp; the album is a Top-20, Gold selling album which isn't available. Couldn't Eric have used the almost five-minute version of "Kiss You All Over" on this CD, as opposed to the 3:28 edit?? You see where I'm going: Collectors want original single versions, where some of us just want the MUSIC as the artist intended us to hear it.
While we're here, just one quibble about the selection of the tracks themselves: Hurricane Smith's "Oh Babe, What Would You Say?" is readily available on a TON of compilations. Couldn't they have licensed his OTHER chart record in the US, a great version of Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Who Was It?" for a hard to find 45s compilation? (And gotten the multi-tracks so that it could finally be mixed into first-time Stereo???)
When all is said and done, the proof is in the grooves (or in this case, the computer pits) of the music, and this CD is one terrific listen, 45 versions or not.
Hard to Find 45s on CD, Volume 8: 70's Pop Classics Poster
20 tracks-all in stereo-that are, like the title says, hard to find on CD! Includes Which Way You Goin' Billy? Poppy Family; Fool (If You Think It's Over) (original single version) Chris Rea; After the Goldrush Prelude; Last Song Edward Bear; My Angel Baby Toby Beau; Rivers of Babylon Boney M, and more.Pop Music CDs
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