Grooviest Hits Ever

grooviest hits ever

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Sealed With a Kiss - Gary Lewis & the Playboys,
2. I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & the Dreamers
3. Sunday Will Never Be the Same - Spanky & Our Gang
4. Crimson & Clover - Tommy Roe
5. Smile a Little Smile for Me - Flying Machine
6. Along Comes Mary - The Association
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Disc: 2
1. Wild Thing - The Troggs
2. Never My Love - The Association
3. Tossin' & Turnin' - The Ivy League
4. Groovy Kind of Love - Wayne Fontana
5. Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie
6. Spooky - Dennis Yost
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Disc: 3
1. Windy - The Association
2. Sugar & Spice - Mike Pender's Searchers
3. Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
4. Just a Little - The Beau Brummels
5. Bang Shang-A-Lang - The Archies
6. You're the One - The Vogues
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Grooviest Hits Ever,Various Artists,St. Clair Records,British Invasion,Pop,Pop/Rock,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop Collections,V/A Compilations

Grooviest Hits Ever
Grooviest Hits Ever
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • NOT THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS.
 Grooviest Hits Ever
Various Artists
Manufacturer: St. Clair Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music
British InvasionBritish Invasion | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008L40S
Release Date: 2003-02-13

Tracks:

  1. Sealed With a Kiss - Gary Lewis & the Playboys,
  2. I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & the Dreamers
  3. Sunday Will Never Be the Same - Spanky & Our Gang
  4. Crimson & Clover - Tommy Roe
  5. Smile a Little Smile for Me - Flying Machine
  6. Along Comes Mary - The Association
  7. Needles and Pins - Mike Pender's Searchers
  8. I'm Henry VIII, I Am - Herman's Hermits
  9. Devil With the Blue Dress On - Mitch Ryder
  10. Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens

Tracks:

  1. Wild Thing - The Troggs
  2. Never My Love - The Association
  3. Tossin' & Turnin' - The Ivy League
  4. Groovy Kind of Love - Wayne Fontana
  5. Lightnin' Strikes - Lou Christie
  6. Spooky - Dennis Yost
  7. Love Is All Around - The Troggs
  8. Cherry Hill Park - Billy Joe Royal
  9. Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee, The Starlighters
  10. Sheila - Tommy Roe

Tracks:

  1. Windy - The Association
  2. Sugar & Spice - Mike Pender's Searchers
  3. Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
  4. Just a Little - The Beau Brummels
  5. Bang Shang-A-Lang - The Archies
  6. You're the One - The Vogues
  7. Early in the Morning - Vanity Fair
  8. Hooked on a Feeling - B.J. Thomas
  9. Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens
  10. This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & the Playboys,

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars NOT THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS........2006-03-17

First of all, these are not the original recordings. I have the original recordings of the Herman's Hermits songs, The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens, and Tobacco Road by the Nashville Teens. A side-by-side comparison clearly demonstrated to me that the songs on this compilation are NOT the originals.

Some of the tunes on this compilation are done well, for example, the tunes by The Association. But other songs are crusty sounding, murky, and coarse.

A little written message on the package states that the songs were done by the original artists. Perhaps they were. Perhaps they weren't. Perhaps they were done by one member of the original band 25 years after the original recording. What often makes a pop song successful is the producer and sound engineer. Thus, unless you have the original producer and sound engineers, it is unlikely that the remake will be able to capture the original essence, of what made the song a popular one.

The cover of this compilation shows a photograph of a girl in a miniskirt sitting on the hood of an automobile, where the radiator grill has two signs, one reading HAIGHT and the other ASHBURY (referring to territory of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Moby Grape). However, with the exception of the Beau Brummels, none of the bands in this compilation are from San Francisco, and none utilize any discernable "psychedelic" style. Thus, the cover might be a form of misrepresentation. ("Misrepresentation" is a tort, punishable in a court of civil law.) A more accurate cover might feature a stick of bubble gum, since much of what is found on the compilation is in the genre of "bubble gum" rock'n'roll music. What we find is bubble gum music, and not even the original bubble gum recordings.

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