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Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 9 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 61258
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227092924
EAN: 0081227092924
ASIN: B0000032RL
Release Date: April 4, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - Lurie, Elliot | | • | Beautiful Sunday - Boone, Daniel | | • | Rock & Roll, Pt. 2 - Glitter, Gary | | • | Speak to the Sky - Springfield, Rick | | • | Popcorn - Kingsley, Gershon | | • | I'd Love You to Want Me - LaVoie, Kent | | • | I Believe in Music - Davis, Mac | | • | American City Suite - Cashman, Terry | | • | Thunder and Lightning - Coltrane, Chi | | • | Something's Wrong With Me - Hart, Bobby | | • | Clair - OSullivan, Gilbert | | • | Frankenstein - Winter, Edgar |
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good--but Rhino could have and should have done better December 22, 2007
Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 9 has some pretty awesome songs on it. The quality of the sound is great but I still have my usual complaint that with this series the CDs only have twelve tracks on them. Nevertheless, what you do get is very high quality music! This ought to bring back some memories!
Looking Glass starts off the album with their excellent story/rock ballad, "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)." They perform this flawlessly and the tune still shines like gold! Daniel Boone's "Beautiful Sunday" follows; this tune has a standard but solid `70s rocking beat to it and Daniel sings this very well. Moreover, Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll Part 2" rocks hard and sounds as awesome today as it sounded when I first heard it all those years ago. What a great guitar treatment on "Rock And Roll Part2!"
"Popcorn" by Hot Butter sports a type of early disco/dance flavor so typical of `70s pop music; and Gallery's "I Believe In Music" has a triumphant, upbeat sound to it. Gallery does a smash-up job on "I Believe In Music."
Gilbert O' Sullivan performs "Clair" to perfection; I always thought Gilbert O'Sullivan had an excellent voice that was able to convey any subtle nuance of any song.
The artwork is very nicely done.
I recommend this CD for people who want to remember the great songs of the `70s. This album is also rather good for the casual fan or the newcomer to `70s music who doesn't want to buy too many CDs of this genre of music. This CD gets four stars because of the limit this series has of putting only twelve songs on a disc. Rhino could have and should have done better by adding a couple more songs.
 Definitely a mixed bag for this one September 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A mixture of hits and misses here for the 9th entry in Rhino's take of 70s Top 40 music. Far and away the 3 smash hits here are Looking Glass' tale of a sailor's widow ("Brady (You're a Fine Girl)") and classic rock tour-de-force "Frankenstein". As others have noted, it's an eviscerated version of the Edgar Winter stomper that appears here missing most of its instrumental flash. In Rhino's defense, this WAS the version you'd have heard on A.M. radio at the time but in purely artistic terms it robs it of much of its power. Closing out the biggies is one shot wonder glam rocker Gary Glitter's sports arena mainstay "Rock and Roll Pt. 2" (bah-da-da-daaah-daah-HEY!-duh duh duh...)
Beyond those, 3 others make the grade. Hot Butter's "Popcorn" has found new vitality recently in a remix version by dance artist Crazy Frog so it's a welcome chance to revisit the original. Gallery's "I Believe in Music" may be the last gasp of hippie thought ("I believe in music/I believe in love" sung earnestly over an acoustic guitar) and barely veiled sex anthem "Thunder and Lightning" gets Chi Coltrane honorable mention for salacious pop in the 70s (alongside Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move" and Maria Muldaur's sensual "Midnight at the Oasis" found elsewhere in this series..)
Most of the rest are pleasant but nothing that would make you stop the dial these days if they did actually get airplay. Several reviewers have heaped praise on Cashman and West's "American City Suite" but I found it yawnworthy. I'll stick with their better known "Talkin' Baseball", thank you.
BOTTOM LINE:
OK if you want one of the 6 'hard to get' cuts on the CD but if you just want a 70s pop anthology choose one of the other discs in the series instead.
Solid entry in the Have a Nice Day series July 28, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm usually a fan of the hodge-podge track sequences on this series, because they provide a good glimpse at a variety of music on the charts in a given year of the 1970's. There are only a few skippable tunes on this volume. The Looking Glass' "Brandy" is a wonderful song, one of the best of 1972, in fact. "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone is a simple, fun tune with a good guitar hook. I will always remember "Popcorn" from the drive-in trash epic SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED, and it's still kinda fun today, as the Moog has completely disappeared from the musical scene (isn't it time for a comeback?). Lobo was one of many sensitive songwriters who made it big in the 70s, a harmless guy whose light vocals endeared him to adoring female fans. "I'd Love You to Want Me" is his biggest hit, and sure, it's maudlin and cheesy, but it's a great time capsule song. The Brady Bunch did a good cover version, too! "I Believe in Music" has one of the best synthesizer breaks in any pop song, and Gallery's cover of the Mac Davis song one-ups that version. Too bad it isn't played on the radio too often, today, and you have to love that cowbell. Chi Coltrane's strong vocals on "Thunder and Lightning" are incredibly infectious! Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Clair" sounds oddly similar to "Hello It's Me", and any number of Paul McCartney songs, but it's a breezy tune worth hearing, and I actually prefer it to "Alone Again Naturally", his previous #1 hit. Another harmless male vocalist/songwriter of the early 70s. And you can never go wrong with Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein", though this is the shortened radio version.; it features one of the most recognizable guitar intros in rock history (even most of today's generation knows it, though they probably can't identify the song title).
Now for the not so hot selections: Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll Part 2" has become a sports anthem, and thus is incredibly overplayed and irritating in 2006. It may have been great listening in 1972, but because it's everywhere now, it's a little too obvious an inclusion here. "Speak to the Sky", Rick Springfield's early hit pre-"Jessie's Girl", sounds like Brotherhood of Man sans the ladies, and is only worth having for completists' sake. Some reviewers on here have gone ga-ga for "American City Suite", but it's not the masterpiece they've hailed it as. It may hold memories for those who heard it in 1972, but today, it's just not much fun to listen to, as it's very meandering and not memorable in the least.
All in all, a solid 4-star outing walking down memory lane in 1972.
 Best Way To Get Full-Length AMERICAN CITY SUITE October 29, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This gets a 5 star rating for one simple reason: This is about the only way I know of the get a copy of the full-length version of American City Suite. No Cashman & West CD currently available (to my knowledge) has this version on it. So if you've been looking for this hard-to-find gem, here it is!
Some more obscure trivia October 2, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I mostly jumped into this discussion to add a bit of fun trivia, however since I was asked to rate this CD, I give it 4 stars. It has an EXCELLENT variety of music types all on one CD, and I am proud to have it in my collection (actually, I have it in vinyl form, as I bought the record album back in the early '80s).
I have read a few postings here discussing the Cashman and West song "American City Suite." Now, I had never heard this song on the radio growing up in the '70s either, and I actually like the lyrics quite a lot. When I first heard the song over 20 years ago on my album, I had no idea who Cashman and West were, but then, one day in the late '80s, I heard a song called "Talking Baseball (Willie, Mickey and the Duke)" which sounded to me an awful lot like "American City Suite" in many ways. The singer sounded very similar and the lyrics and tempo of the song were also similar to ACS. I then discovered "Talking Baseball" was written and performed by a man named Terry Cashman. Hmmmm, Cashman and West..... Terry Cashman.
Yep, same dude. This isn't earthshaking stuff, but I found it interesting, and it sort of put a new face to Cashman and West for me. Peace.
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