Best of: Original Hits [Import]

Smokie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 14, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Paradiso
• ASIN: B000060MEP
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If You Think You Know How to Love Me

2. Poor Lady (Midnight Baby)

3. Mexican Girl

4. In the Heat of the Night

5. Living Next Door to Alice

6. For a Few Dollars More

7. Wild Wild Angels

8. Don't Play Your Rock'n'Roll to Me

9. Oh Carol

10. Changing All the Time

11. Something's Making Me Blue

12. Lay Back in the Arms of Someone

13. I'll Meet You at Midnight

14. Needles and Pins

15. Baby It's You

16. It's Your Life

17. Liverpool Docks

18. Stumblin' In

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars British pop group of the seventies, March 16, 2005

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of: Original Hits (Audio CD)

The group had eleven UK hits between 1975 and 1978, all of them making the top twenty. In 1980, they had a lesser (top forty) hit with Take good care of my baby, a cover of Bobby Vee's classic. Of their UK hits, four made the top five, these being If you think you know how to love me, Living next door to Alice, It's your life and Oh Carol (not a cover of the old Neil Sedaka song), all up-tempo songs. I like all those songs but my favorites are the ballads - Something's been making me blue, I'll meet you at midnight and Lay back in the arms of someone. Their other essential UK hits are Don't play your rock'n'roll to me, Needles and pins (a cover of the sixties classic) and For a few dollars more.

Mexican girl (which only just made the UK top twenty) is a good song but not essential. Like the previously mentioned Take good care of my baby, it is sometimes included in Smokie collections and sometimes not. Chris Norman also had a minor duet hit with Suzi Quatro and this is also sometimes included in Smokie compilations but, again, it's not essential. Of course, you might think one or more of these songs are essential, in which case make sure you select a Smokie compilation that contains whichever tracks you want.

Lead singer Chris Norman has a soulful, smoky voice (is that how the group got its name?) that you either love or hate. So if you're unfamiliar with Smokie's music, perhaps you should listen to some of it before committing yourself. Assuming you like Chris's distinctive voice you will enjoy this if you enjoy seventies soft rock music.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars LIGHTWEIGHT SEVENTIES POP, May 20, 2003

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of: Original Hits (Audio CD)

Smokie were regular visitors to the UK charts in the latter half of the 1970s with their catchy pop tunes. Living Next Door To Alice was their remake of an earlier hit which they took into the top ten, while Oh Carol is a bouncy number which went top 5 in 1978. If You Think You Know How To love Me, I'll Meet You At Midnight and Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone are in the same vein, as is Don't Play Your Rock `n Roll To Me - all these aforementioned were a type of middle of the road pop ballad that did well commercially but haven't stood the test of time very well. Their version of the classic Needles And Pins is just digestible, but their uptempo pop sound has best stood the test of time. This collection also includes Stumblin' In, Chris Norman's duet with Suzi Quattro. Overall this an enjoyable album of lightweight pop with hummable tunes and professional playing, but nothing remarkable or innovative.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Of Smokie, February 27, 2003

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Zdenek Drejsl (Czech Republic) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of: Original Hits (Audio CD)

I know this title from LP (vinyl) and i like it...