A Great Comprehensive Selection of 70s Songs which can't help but bring back those sun filled days

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
2. Venus - Shocking Blue
3. Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
4. American Woman - The Guess Who
5. Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
6. Vehicle - The Ides of March
7. Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
8. Ride Captain Ride - The Blues Image
9. Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
10. Superstar - Murray Head
11. Give Me Just a Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board
12. Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - The Delfonics
13. O-o-h Child - The Five Stairsteps
14. ABC - The Jackson 5
15. Band of Gold - Freda Payne
16. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
17. Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian) - Raiders, Raiders, Paul Revere & the Raiders
18. Put Your Hand in the Hand - Ocean
19. One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
20. Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
21. Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
22. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
23. Wild World - Cat Stevens
24. Joy to the World - Three Dog Night

Disc 2:

1. Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
2. Family Affair - Sly & the Family Stone
3. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - The Dramatics
4. Treat Her Like a Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
5. Have You Seen Her? - The Chi-Lites
6. Want Ads - Honey Cone
7. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
8. Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
9. Maggie May - Rod Stewart
10. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
11. Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop
12. Brand New Key - Melanie
13. One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack) - Coven
14. School's Out - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
15. Popcorn - Hot Butter
16. Joy - Apollo 100, Tom Parker
17. I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
18. Horse with No Name - America
19. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
20. Everybody Plays the Fool - The Main Ingredient
21. I Gotcha - Joe Tex
22. I'll Be Around - The Spinners
23. Lean on Me - Bill Withers
24. Day by Day - Godspell

Disc 3:

1. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
2. Precious and Few - Climax
3. Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
4. Dancing in the Moonlight - King Harvest
5. Nice to Be With You - Gallery
6. Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr., Mike Curb Congregation
7. Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
8. Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
9. Rock & Roll, Pt. 2 - Gary Glitter
10. Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
11. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
12. Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
13. Freddie's Dead [Theme from Superfly] - Curtis Mayfield
14. Morning After - Maureen McGovern
15. That Lady, Pt. 1 - The Isley Brothers
16. I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby - Barry White
17. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
18. Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
19. Tell Her She's Lovely - El Chicano
20. Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealers Wheel
21. Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando
22. Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownsville Station
23. Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
24. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg

Disc 4:

1. Love Train - The O'Jays
2. Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & the Pips
3. Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
4. Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers
5. Brother Louie - Stories
6. Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
7. Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
8. Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
9. Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
10. Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
11. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
12. Billy, Don't Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods
13. Lady - Styx
14. Payback, Pt. 1 - James Brown
15. You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
16. Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
17. Rock the Boat - Hues Corporation
18. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
19. Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur
20. Streak - Ray Stevens
21. Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
22. Radar Love - Golden Earring

Disc 5:

1. Beach Baby - The First Class
2. Sideshow - Blue Magic
3. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
4. I'm Not in Love - 10cc
5. Bertha Butt Boogie, Pt. 1 - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
6. Black Superman - Muhammad Ali - Johnny Wakelin
7. Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
8. Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
9. Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
10. Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
11. Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
12. Feelings - Morris Albert
13. Miracles - Jefferson Starship
14. Magic - Pilot
15. Love Machine, Pt. 1 - The Miracles
16. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
17. Lady Marmalade - Labelle
18. Fame - David Bowie
19. Sky High - Jigsaw
20. Convoy - C.W. McCall
21. Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
22. Slow Ride - Foghat

Disc 6:

1. Get Down Tonight - KC & the Sunshine Band
2. Love Rollercoaster - The Ohio Players
3. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) - The Four Seasons
4. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
5. Rockford Files - Mike Post
6. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
7. Fly, Robin, Fly - The Silver Convention
8. Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra
9. Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross
10. Happy Days - Brother Love, Brother Love, Pratt & McClain
11. Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco
12. Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers
13. Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) - Parliament
14. Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
15. Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
16. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
17. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
18. I'd Really Love to See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
19. Disco Duck, Pt. 1 - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
20. Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
21. Car Wash - Rose Royce
22. More, More, More, Pt. 1 - Andrea True
23. You Are the Woman - Firefall
24. Fly Like an Eagle - Steven Miller

Disc 7:

1. Do You Feel Like We Do [Live] - Peter Frampton
2. Free Bird [Live] - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Ridin' the Storm Out [Live] - REO Speedwagon
4. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco
5. Disco Inferno - The Trammps
6. Brick House - The Commodores
7. Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
8. Feels Like the First Time - Foreigner
9. Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul
10. Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
11. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
12. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
13. I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges
14. Happy Anniversary - Little River Band
15. Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
16. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
17. Kiss You All Over - Exile
18. I Want Your Love - Chic
19. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
20. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33007 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-16
• Number of discs: 7
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
When this material originally resurfaced in an earlier Rhino-celebrates-the-'70s program, many rock scribes contorted themselves into revisionist pretzels: this isn't so bad, they argued--none too convincingly. There'll be none of that here: much of the music on this colossal box set is godawful. The world doesn't miss the likes of Sammy ("Chevy Van") Johns and Sammy ("Candy Man") Davis. Or at least it doesn't miss the records they cut during the decade of disaster flicks and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. That said, this elaborate box is something to behold. The lovingly compiled 92-page booklet provides background on the ridiculous (David Soul, C.W. McCall, Carl Douglas) and the sublime (Parliament, James Brown, the Staple Singers), and the music swings on the same pendulum, with Harry Chapin, Bill Withers, and Cat Stevens sitting amid Wayne Newton, The Captain & Tennille, and Meco's jittery electro-take on the Star Wars theme. Seven discs, 160 selections! To paraphrase a popular ad slogan of the era, you won't believe you listened to the whole thing. --Steven Stolder

Entertainment Weekly
Rhino retools its Have a Nice Day ... and goes legit in the process. This time, accompanying '70s cheeseballs like Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" are nods to classic rock (David Bowie's "Fame"), soul (James Brown's "The Big Payback"), and Motown ("Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye).

USA Today
[T]he 160-song set is upholstered with avocado green shag carpet--sculpted shag, in fact, in a smiley-face pattern--and sheathed in a clear plastic slipcover. It includes everything from No. 1 hits to one-hit wonders, and sprinkled throughout are sound bites ranging from Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon to news reports about streaking.

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Customer Reviews

A Lot Of Songs, A Lot Of Soundbites
I don't want to lay a bum trip on you all, but I have some major problems with this box set. First of all, Rhino, probably the best independent label to specialize in archive music restoration, had the best of intentions to tackle this compilation of the 1970's and dress it up to make the package as appealing as possible with the wonderful sound quality, the shag rug, the soundbites, and an admittedly cool booklet with the history of the recording artists, their songs, and their perspective along with various events in world history. But by using the soundbites in between the songs it disturbs the flow of the songs; it also makes repeated listening a chore to sit through. The soundbites (usually lasting for 30 seconds) lead to the second problem; to make room for them a number of songs (Ride Captain Ride, for example) had to be shortened in length. Is it asking too much to leave the songs alone and complete? We're paying a lot of money for the songs, NOT for the soundbites! And we also get the pleasure of listening to a ghastly Jim Jones soundbite telling his followers to "get your medicine" and "don't be afraid to die" with people weeping in the background. Someone sure is sick at Rhino to include that. And for those of you who have the 25 volume series of Have A Nice Day who also want this box set you're gonna get some repetition big time. 80+ songs. We're talking over half of this package. For those who don't have the Have A Nice Day series and who, like me, grew up in the '70's listening to AM radio, you're gonna have some major flashbacks listening to this. If you can tolerate the soundbites and don't mind the shortening of some songs (shades of Ktel!) you'll enjoy this package. Just keep that in mind and approach it from there. Have a nice day.

This is one release that is hard to review
Rhino Records has tried to hit a home run and maybe only wound up getting to second or third base. Baseball analogy aside, this review cannot only focus on the music as it's not cheap. The packaging is amazing, the inserts are hilarious and informative, it includes timely sound bites of the era, and the 7 CDs do not skimp on the music.

Is it worth your time and money? Maybe. Out of the 7 CDs I wound up making a 4 CD mix (adding others that were not here)and I think it more than covers the best of this selection. My point here is that there is a lot of filler that is neither fun because it was great or because it was so cheesy. My best of would consist of the collections best songs and songs that although may not have been loved by the critics, were representative of the period.

So if money were not a consideration one could say go for it; however money is generally a consideration and it's not too fun to keep fastforwarding through songs that don't appeal to you. On the other hand the collection has songs that you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere.

The are some serious problems in that some songs were cut off or butchered for either space consideration or due to the focus on the single edits. This is particularly annoying in the live songs on the 7th CD.

This may be one of my least persuasive reviews because there is a lot to like, but almost as much that should have been inlcuded or have been left out. I enjoyed it but all in all it's not worth the price unless you have a lot of disposable income and are a collector of box sets.

A great way to revisit to joys of '70s AM radio
Perhaps my favorite box set. This reminds me so much of listening to KYA or KFRC (two top-40 stations in San Francisco in the 1970's), when you would here rock, then country, then pop, then novelty songs. A fantastic blend. Favorite songs include: Popcorn, Chick-A-Boom(hadn't heard this since the '70s), Love Goes, More More More, Love Rollercoaster, School's Out, Dueling Banjos, Candy Man, Rose Garden, and I could go on. One star is missing due to

a. Some songs are cut
b. Some songs I would have liked to see(licensing would have been an issue on some) include
My Sharona by The Knack(biggest hit of 1979)
Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees
Bennie & the Jets by Elton John
Escape(The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes
I Think I Love You by The Partridge Family
Gonna Fly Now(Theme From Rocky)
Silly Love Songs by Paul McCartney and Wings
Beth by Kiss
If You Leave Me Now by Chicago
Dancing Queen by Abba
We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters
(Take Me Home) Country Roads by John Denver
Nadia's Theme

All of the above were major top 10 hits(most were big number #1s)