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Bill Haley: Greatest Hits

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A re-recording. To quote from the back of the CD: "Tracks that feature groups may not include all the original members." This is junk.

You won't get original recordings here, so proceed at youir own risk, or if you just want to hear the Comets live.

Bill Haley would shoot the producer for calling this CD, his greatest hits albeit it does include three biggies such as Rock Around the Clock, See You Later Alligator and Shake, Rattle and Roll plus The Saints Rock n Roll which is Bill's rendition of When the Saints Come Marching In. The other six tracks are fair to mundane.

If you are buying for your MP3 player, you are paying with shipping, slightly less than what you would pay for the downloads. So, I would not dismiss this album as some reviewers suggest.

However, there are various oldies compilation albums that have these hits and much other and therefore are a better bargain.

The first four tracks are very memerable because I liked them since I was round about 6. The rest is rubbish. This is also not much of a Greatest Hits Collection as it only contains 10 tracks. Do not buy.

I haven't listened to this particular CD, but I do have a Bill Haley CD and two LPs. He is one of my absolute favorite bandleaders. People forget how good he really was.

He does a really mean version of "the Saints Rock and Roll." It's one of my fave Bill Haley numbers.