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The Best of Pussycat

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Pussycat were a pop group (four men, three women) from the Netherlands whose music was (for the most part) mainstream seventies pop, mainly recorded in English. They wrote most of their own material but they also recorded a few covers including It's the same old song (Four Tops). They recorded a well-balanced mix of up-tempo and slower songs.

Their claim to fame is a country-styled up-tempo pop song that they wrote about the American heartland - Greenville, Mississippi to be exact. They released the song in the UK, where Dutch pop singers had no previous record of success, and took it all the way to the top of the charts, knocking Dancing queen (Abba) off the top. It sat there for four weeks, eventually being replaced by another classic (If you leave me now - Chicago). The song was covered in America by Barbara Fairchild, a country singer who learned about Pussycat's song on a visit to Europe. Her version became a minor hit on the country charts but deserved to do much better.

Pussycat never repeated the success of Mississippi in the UK, though the follow-up, Smile, made the top thirty. Other songs that I particularly like include Georgie, If you ever come to Amsterdam and Mexicali lane.

Pussycat are not essential to a collection of seventies music but there is more to their music than Mississippi.

It's hard to know with such a poor presentation of the product by Amazon, but it appears that all of these Pussycat CDs seem to be nothing more than the "gold" stuff with a new cover.

But without a more detailed content description, who's to know? And not one of these iterations contains all of the Pussycat selections from the 70's/80's. I've got the cassette from the 80's and there's more to it than these CDs are offering.

Have been after their music for some time and was thrilled when found on Amazon. I ran an hotel in the 1970s and the song 'Mississippi' was the most played on the jukebox. This album brings back many happy memories.