Spanky & Our Gang - Spanky & Our Gang - Greatest Hits
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Artist: Spanky & Our GangEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-08-24
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Sunday Will Never Be the Same
- Making Every Minute Count
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Like To Get To Know You
- Lazy Day
- Prescription for the Blues
- Sunday Mornin'
- Stardust
- Anything You Choose
- And She's Mine
- Yesterday's Rain
- Without Rhyme or Reason
- For Lovin' Me [Live]
- Everybody's Talkin'
- Give a Damn
Free Music Notes for Spanky & Our Gang - Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: Nice Remastered Collection From An Underrated Group
Hit: 5 Stars
As harmony groups go, Spanky and Our Gang was quite a combination of talent. All six members contributed vocals to a blend of pop, rock, folk, country, blues, and jazz material. The hits included here were mostly upbeat sunshiny tunes that sounded great on 60's AM radio. Because of their smooth crossover sound and considerable comedic skills, Spanky and Our Gang were featured on many television variety shows of the day.
This Mercury CD features a remastered collection that includes several cuts that weren't on the original Spanky's Greatest Hit(s).
The three biggies are still here: "Sunday Will Never Be The Same", "Lazy Day", and "Like To Get To Know You", as well as lesser hits "Sunday Mornin'", "Making Every Minute Count", and "Yesterday's Rain". Of special interest is the wonderful "Give a Damn", a subtle beauty of vocal work and production that was used to promote the cause of the Urban Coalition League in New York.
There are two of Spanky's solo blues numbers- "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" and "Prescription For The Blues", and a group vocal workout on "Stardust" said to have provided inspiration for the Manhattan Transfer. A live harmony version of Gordon Lightfoot's "For Lovin' Me" reveals the group's folk roots. "Without Rhyme Or Reason" displays producer Bob Dorough's jazz influence on the group.
Of the fifteen tunes featured, four are from the debut LP; five from "Like To Get To Know You"; five from "Anything You Choose"; and one from the "Live" disc. If you want more than the hits, you'll have to explore more of the catalog on LP or Japanese import CDs.
Unfortunately for Spanky and Our Gang, their music was so vocally and instrumentally intricate that most cover groups can't reproduce their sound. Because of that, you don't hear these hits performed very often by others. As a result, they aren't remembered as much as they should be. Too bad, because Spanky and Our Gang were truly one of the more talented and sophisticated groups of the era.
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