Get Ready Here Come the 70s

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B000SQKZQA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,412 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Rare Earth--Get Ready

2. Rod Stewart--Maggie May

3. Fleetwood Mac--Don't Stop

4. Norman Greenbaum--Spirit In The Sky

5. Redbone--Come And Get Your Love

6. KC & The Sunshine Band--Get Down Tonight

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Disc: 2

1. Emotions--Best Of My Love

2. Maxine Nightingale--Right Back Where We Started From

3. Labelle--Lady Marmalade

4. Stealers Wheel--Stuck In The Middle With You

5. Lee Michaels--Do You Know What I Mean

6. Crystal Gayle--Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

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Disc: 3

1. Mungo Jerry--In The Summertime

2. O'Jays--Love Train

3. The Four Seasons--December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

4. Trammps--Disco Inferno

5. Andrea True Connection--More, More, More Pt. 1

6. Elton John--Crocodile Rock

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Editorial Reviews

Get Ready, Here Come ... The '70s is a flashback-inducing overview of the best rock, pop, disco and soul the '70s had to offer. The 3-CD collection features timeless songs from Elton John, The Commodores, Jim Croce, Rod Stewart, KC & The Sunshine Band, Fleetwood Mac, Bread, The Isley Brothers, The Four Seasons, O'Jays, Labelle and many others.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars + 1/2 stars...A Satisfying If Not Definitive Look at the 70s, December 8, 2009

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Ready Here Come the 70s (Audio CD)

Where's the Eagles? Where's the Jacksons? Where's the Bee Gees? Where's Paul McCartney? Where's Stevie Wonder? Waah! Waah! Waah! Sure, these were all major artists of the seventies, but kwitcherbitchin', already. Do you have any idea how expensive it would have been to buy the rights to their songs? What Shout! Factory has done is to assemble over three and a half hours of some of the biggest songs of the decade. Twenty-three of these songs reached No. 1, and all but one made the Top 10. [The lone exception was the Marshall Tucker Band's "Can't You See," which peaked at only No. 108.]

The seventies ushered in the era of the singer-songwriter, represented by such artists as Jim Croce, Janis Ian and Harry Chapin. And no seventies collection would be complete without a heavy dose of disco from artists like the Andrea True Connection, the Trammps and the Hues Corporation.

Sure, you could kvetch about all the great songs that got left off. Instead, focus on all the great music that IS here. Song-for-song, this is a satisfying collection. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED [Disc 1 - 64:47, Disc 2 - 73:43, Disc 3 - 74:06]

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better Collection Available, August 14, 2007

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S. Sokoll (Manassas, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Ready Here Come the 70s (Audio CD)

While this seems to have the pop and rock covered pretty well, there are better overall collections of 70's music available. Check out Rhino's "Have a Nice Decade". For $10 to 20 more you get twice as much music with extensive liner notes and sterling sound quality.

5.0 out of 5 stars All of the songs I remember from my high school/college years!, December 5, 2010

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E. Cusac (SW Ohio) - See all my reviews
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I have been searching for a CD containing the original recording of "Precious and Few" by Climax. This group of CD's contained that recording plus MANY more that take me back to a simpler time in my life. I love this set of CD's and will get many hours of listening out of it.