Super Hits of the '70's: Have a Nice Day Vol. 1

It's got songs from some great, under-rated bands like the Shocking Blue and the Poppy Family (NOT just one-hit wonders, by the way). The music still has that '60s feel, but an intro to the top 40 of the very early '70s. It's a feel-good mix! I listened to it last night while deep- cleaning my garage, which is a job that requires some mood music! The audio quality is excellent. This is a must for your CD collection! And yes-CDs are fresh again- gen. Z cleaned out the Goodwill's 99 cents rockcollections, and now they are at the boutique records stores STARTING at $17.99 used, and a lot of them, labeled "out of print", are close to a hundred dollars used! And isn't pretty much everything on CD out of print?Anyway, this is a great 1970 mix CD, and you should get it now, before it ends up way over $20.00. It's worth it!

If you love the music of the 60's and 70's you need this!

It was here where Rhino Records started out its Super Hits Of The '70s compilations. Technically speaking the hits on this first volume actually kicked off in mid 1969 with "More Than Yesterday" by Spiral Staircase. Actually half of this collection was in 1969-"Tracy" by The Cuff Links[The group didn't exist mainly due to overdubbed voices by Ron Dante, who sang lead on The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar"]; A remake of the Shirelles' hit "Baby It's You" by Smith[whose lead singer Gayle McCormick was influenced by Janis Joplin];The Flying Machine soars with "Smile A Little Smile For Me"[No, it wasn't one of Dastardly And Muttley's Flying Machines(!)];Billy Joe Royal roars back with "Cherry Hill Park" and Steam wows with "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".The other half of this collection is definitely 1970-Vanity Fare rises with "Early In The Morning"; Shocking Blue[whose song "Love Buzz" would be the debut single of Nirvana in the late '80s]gives us "Venus"(I'll take this version over Bananarama's any day!);Mark Lindsay breaks away from The Raiders with "Arizona"; The Jaggerz enthrall with "The Rapper"; The Sandpipers fly once again with the Oscar-nominated song from The Sterile Cuckoo "Come Saturday Morning" and, finally, Mountain rocks out with "Mississippi Queen" featuring the guitar of Leslie West and the bass playing of Felix Pappalardi, who previously produced albums by Cream.So there you have it. The true beginning of this seventies series that Rhino Records has ever produced and would run through twenty-five volumes in all. I'm just lucky to have the first ten now I have this first installment. I don't know why I hadn't got this one when this started in 1990 but I'm glad I did. I strongly recommend this volume of Have A Nice Day. Just look for that smiling face cookie jar on the cover and that'll say it all. Really!

Rhino kicks off its salute to AM radio culture of the 1970s with an album that starts with songs released in 1969. That's no real problem, simply an acknowledgment that pop culture developments do not always follow arbitrary calendar dates. Surely the song "Arizona," about a young girl's bad trip in Haight Asbury, was a clear cultural marker that the 1960s hippie society celebrated in "San Francisco" just two years earlier was dead and gone and a more disillusioning time was settling in. The "Have a Nice Day" series perfectly captures this what-just-happened? mood of the early 1970s, built with the bricks of one-hit wonders, novelty acts, studio-only groups, and semi-talented hanger's-on that filled the airwaves in the 1970s between the latest Elton John and Fleetwood Mac hits, commercials for Palisades Park and your local Ford dealer, and news from the Nixon Administration front. Volume 1, which gets the series off to a running start, is no exception. None of the songs on Volume 1 can be called classics by any measure, especially when heavyweights such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Joplin and Hendrix were topping the charts at the time. Still, Volume 1 is a no-weak-link collection of pop songs which prove the point that a well-crafted, well-written, professionally-performed musical number basically designed to fill one side of a 45 can transcend its roots and recapture not just the zeitgeist of an era but also a time in one's life often referred to as youth. I was looking forward to meeting up again with two old but never forgotten friends "Smile a Little Smile for Me," and "Come Saturday Morning," thinking the rest would be filler, but was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the other 10 songs, even upon repeat listening. Technically the album is fine, two songs, "Venus," and "The Rapper" sound better than on their appearances on a Billboard 1970 C.D. The album notes are incisive and witty, setting the proper tone for this excursion into bubble gum kitsch. If you could only take one "Have a Nice Day" record to that proverbial desert island, I would recommend one from 1973 or 1974, but for anyone who was around a radio or turntable in 1969-70, or wish that they were, Volume 1 is a must-have.

Great music

good series of cds

どこかで聴いた曲が多く入っています。時代を感じるけれど、古くならない音楽たちです。

このシリーズの他のCDレビューにも書いていますが、発売当時揃えきれなかったCDを今になって急に揃え始めまています。その一環で購入しました。このVOL.1は当時も購入したはずなのですが、たぶん貸したか何かでなくなってしまったようで、改めての購入です。さすがにVOL.1だけあって、ツボを押さえた選曲ですね！！４３歳の私としてはビートルズのレパートリーとして記憶している「BABY IT'S YOU」のSMITH（モリッシーのではない）バージョン、バナナラマで知った「NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOOD-BYE」のオリジナル（ですよね？）STEAMバージョン、日本人ならきっと好きなVANITY FAIRの「EARLY IN THE MORNING」、更には万人ウケのSHOCKING BLUE「VENUS」、MOUNTAIN「MISSISSIPPI QUEEN」など、聴いていて楽しくなる楽曲のオンパレード。おすすめです。

Ok- seems sound quality is not as I remember it, but has the feel of it. There is slight but perceptual disconnect from the original version on a couple of the songs. And, I do not know why but spoils the other songs in the process because I am sensitive to that flaw and sublimely, at least, being a bit picky when listening to all the tracks. But I recommend buying it anyway- it is a good collection of songs.