I'm stumbling through the crawlspace in our home looking for God knows what and amidst the rubble I come across a somewhat sealed and tattered box of long forgotten vinyl Lp's that for some inexplicable reason I had never been able to part with and always took up a dusty place in the storage area of the many places I have called home.
These old Lp's date back to my late elementary/ early junior high years in the early to mid 70's and they have trailed along after me ever since.
These old Lp's date back to my late elementary/ early junior high years in the early to mid 70's and they have trailed along after me ever since.
I have a copy of this in mint condition which I bought from a fantastic record store in Edmonton called called "Millers" which specialised in deleted and obscure albums and was based in a rather spooky but huge old warehouse near Jasper Avenue. Somehow these guys used to buy up huge quantities of overstocked albums from the States - often called "cut-outs" in respect of the way the record companies "cut out" part of the cardboard cover to stop the albums retailing for full price - and would sell them for peanuts. It was heaven for the teenage me.
I remember the check-out guy's face as I once dumped nearly 20 albums on the counter (I counted them!), the fruits of a whole day's digging and delving. Extravagant? No - I got change from a 20 dollar bill!
Did I ever play them? Hell, no, not all of them but they were nice to have!
"Sounds Spectacular" cost me all of 50 cents and it's an eclectic mix.
This one is a 1975 K-Tel collection from the USA - the Canadian version has a very different tracklisting - which contains the usual odd bedfellows. An album which mixes Bachman Turner Overdrive, Frankie Valli, Disco Tex, the Charlie Daniels Band, the Rubettes and Fanny has got to be interesting! Unlike the '75 vinyl edition, these songs all run full length and don't skip! Re-live your mis-spent youth all over again ...Enjoy...and cry your nostalgic eyes out.
1. Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
2. The Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride
3. Ohio Players - Fire
4. Bachman-Turner-Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway
5. Golden Earring - Radar Love
6. Redbone - Come & Get Your Love
7. Polly Brown - Up In A Puff Of Smoke
8. Fanny - Butter Boy
9. Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love
10. B.T. Express - Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)
11. Frankie Valli - My Eyes Adored You
12. Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame
13. Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Get Dancin'
14. Nothing From Nothing – Billy Preston
15. Atlanta Rhythm Section - Doraville
16. The Charlie Daniels Band - The South's Gonna Do It Again
17. New Birth - It's Impossible
18. William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
19. The Main Ingredient - Just Don't Want To Be Lonely
20. B.W. Stevenson - My Maria
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