Hard To Find 45s On More 70's

The Hard to Find series has often thrown up some interesting obscurities but it rarely offers a completely satisfying listening experience - there's always the odd clunker, given the diversity on offer.Volume 19 is no different. Some may think Joan Baez waving the Confederate flag while singing about Driving Dixie Down, or the Sugar Bears warbling You Are The One, are lost gems; I beg to differ. The liner notes even sheepishly admit this! There's also a clutch of maudlin love songs in the last third of the tracklist that threaten to drown the whole experience in AOR misery.The saving grace is always the long-unheard (or even new discovery) that triggers dormant memories. I mean, play this to anyone under 40 and the best you could hope for is a blank stare.On the whole this is a good series, though. The sound quality is the best you'll find for this vintage (and most of it really does sound vintage now) and Eric Records (through Rhino) seem to go the extra mile in research and annotation. If you see something in the tracklist that intrigues, chances are there'll be plenty of happy discoveries waiting.

This album is based on the original US 45 single releases and not the UK ones. Disappointed that the US single of the Hustle is not the same as brilliant UK single that was out on Avco Records over here. On the British release, the into was slightly shorter but the fade out was longer than the US version and in my opinion we had the better single version here in Britain in 1975.Also Timmy Thomas UK single version was longer running at nearly 4 minutes - US Version run at 3.30 minutes.Rose Royce - love dont live here any more - our Brtitish single version runs to 3.56 minutes but the US version here is only 3.48 ! . Also wishing on a star - UK Single version is 4.50 minutes but the US version is nearly a minute shorter at 3.56Sound quality not bad though, however couldn't get it right by the Climax Blue band has better sound quality on the album version rather than the US single version they have included here

T Rex fans note - this is easily the best that I've heard Get It On. It's fun getting the Hot Chocolate track - I've heard it on the radio numerous times over the years and never known what it was. It sounds superb on here.

Another great Cd from Eric Records