The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits [Import]

Grass Roots | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: July 24, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mca Int'l
• ASIN: B000002P1T
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,159 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #3 in Music > Imports > Rock
  • #48 in Music > Pop > Oldies > General
  • #55 in Music > Rock > Folk Rock

Track Listings

1. Let's Live for Today

2. Where Were You When I Needed You

3. Things I Should Have Said

4. Midnight Confessions

5. The River Is Wide

6. Bella Linda

7. Lovin' Things

8. Wait a Million Years

9. Baby Hold On

10. Heaven Knows

11. Come on and Say It

12. Temptation Eyes

13. Two Divided by Love

14. Glory Bound

15. The Runway

16. Sooner or Later

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

As a band the Grass Roots were always a shadowy bunch, a front for studio musicians and professional songwriters looking to get their songs on the radio. They scored 14 top 40 hits during their reign in the late '60s/early '70s and their hits were among the catchiest and most enjoyable of the AM radio era. "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Bella Linda," "Two Divided by Love," and a slew of others are shameless pop made brilliant by multilayered harmonies and arrangements that liberally borrowed from folk-rock and R&B. The Grass Roots may have been product, but what great product. --Rob O'Connor

Product Description

This low-priced disc is far & away the best single-CD compilation ever issued of the Grass Roots' work, 16 chart singles covering every phase of their history, from 1966's 'Where Were You When I Needed You' (in its actual hit version) thru 'Let's Live for Today' & 'Midnight Confessions' to their last hit, 1972's 'The Runway.' Originally released in 1996. MCA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

118 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Contains All the Essential Hits, October 17, 2001

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

The Grass Roots may not have been the hippest band to come out of the Sixties, but they produced a string of memorable singles from 1966 to 1972. Songs like "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions" and "I'd Wait a Million Years" are part of the soundtack of my high school years. This is the best single-disc collection of this uderrated band's work. All 14 of their Top 40 singles are here along with two lesser hits: 1969's "Lovin' Things" (No. 49) and 1970's "Come On and Say It" (No. 61), the latter co-written by lead singer Rob Grill. The only disappointment is that with a running time of only 45 minutes, MCA could easily have included the band's three other Hot 100 singles: 1967's "Wake Up, Wake Up" (No. 68), 1970's "Walking Through the Country" (No. 44) and 1973's "Love Is What You Make It" (No. 55). If you really need those other three singles, you'll have to spring for Rhino's two-disc Anthology, which also includes the band's last single, "Mamacita" (No. 71) from 1975 which they recorded for the Haven label after leaving Dunhill. But for most fans, this single disc collection has all the essentials. RECOMMENDED

71 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Compilation Of An Immensely Popular Sixties Group!, September 4, 2000

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Barron Laycock "Labradorman" (Temple, New Hampshire United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Although the Amazon reviewer contends this was not a "real' band with consistent membership, those of us that saw them in various venues on tour in the late sixties and early seventies were sure fooled! I bumped into them in an airport restaurant sitting with one-time megastar Dion in the early seventies when they were still touring. Wonder where the reviewer was back then? My guess is that he was still busy stealing marbles from his older brother. This is a great collection by one of the most successful groups in the mid to late 1960s, and they were best known for a series of counterculture songs with provocative lyrics, especially in their monster hit, "Let's Live For Today". Perhaps no other single song so well epitomizes the sixties notion rejecting mainstream convention as does this song. It, along with Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" and Scott MacKenzie's "San Francisco" became an anthem for the youth culture that sprang up in opposition to the stultifying conformity of older Americans. Many of their other songs like "Where Were You When I Needed You", "My Midnight Confessions", and "Temptation Eyes" were more conventional love songs. This is a great compilation of their music, and provides the listener with a terrific sampling of just why they were as popular and as successful as they became in the boiling cauldron of sixties music as they did. Enjoy!

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Toe Tappin' music, July 5, 2000

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R. Barnes "Music Collector/Science Fiction Re... (Greenwood, SC) - See all my reviews
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Let's Live For Today Was one of my first purchased singles. A few years later, Midnight Confessions went to number 1. Then the formula kept clicking out the hits with songs such as "Lovin' Things", "I'd Wait A Million Years" , "Baby Hold On", "Heaven Knows". If you are a 60's or 70's DJ, and Temptation Eyes is not on your list- SHAME ON YOU! This is a MUST item for a serious colletor of music from this period. THE GRASS ROOTS had to many top 20 hits to continue and be ignored by oldies shows which only play the top #1's and ignore the rest of the top 40. A good bargain compilation. MUCH CHEAPER THAN A PREVIOUS MULTI-CD SET.