Have a Nice Day 11

Super Hits Of The 70's: Have A Nice Day (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1990)
• Original Release Date: October 30, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032MY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,841 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Playground in My Mind

2. The Morning After

3. Dueling Banjos

4. Funny Face

5. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey) - Deodato

6. Big City Miss Ruth Ann

7. Daisy a Day [*]

8. Get Down

9. The Free Electric Band

10. Uneasy Rider

11. My Maria

12. Tell Her She's Lovely

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Little Bit Of Everything - And More Than Enough Of It!, February 4, 2001

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Anthony Brancato (San Francisco, CA (USA)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Have a Nice Day 11 (Audio CD)

The songs featured here range from No. 1 smashes ("The Morning After") to an entry that neglected to even crack the Top 40 ("The Free Electric Band"); from country ("Funny Face") to novelty ("Uneasy Rider"); from pop with attitude ("Big City Miss Ruth Ann") to death-pop ("Daisy A Day"). The Hot 100 was sure a mixed bag in 1973, and this edition conveys the essence of that almost perfectly. The finale could have been better - nothing terribly wrong with "Tell Her She's Lovely," except for the fact that chances are, if you grew up on the East Coast this will be the first time you have ever heard it. Would have been six stars if Keith Hampshire's "Big Time Operator" had closed out this disc instead!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars some mighty fine tunes--and let's reduce that price, OK?, January 7, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have a Nice Day 11 (Audio CD)

Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 11 gives us twelve more songs in this fairly good series of hits of the 1970s. The sound quality is rather good and there is a good variety of songs.

Clint Holmes starts the CD off strong with his adorable "Playground In My Mind." Clint sings beautifully of how he wants children to enjoy a good life as kids. The musical arrangement uses the percussion very nicely, too. "The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern is easily another highlight of this album; Maureen sings passionately of how she wants to save a love affair from going awry. I always liked this classic ballad by Maureen McGovern and I think that you will like it, too.

"Funny Face" by Donna Fargo isn't the strongest number on the album although it is very sweet. Unfortunately, I think it's a little bit syrupy. This country flavored ballad gets the royal treatment from Donna Fargo and her excellent diction helps her performance.

"Also Sprach Zarathustra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey)" by Deodato still sounds as good as it ever did; and I love that funky beat! In addition, listen for "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan; Gilbert sings with panache and I always considered him to be one of the best male vocalists of the 1970s. Wow, how he can sing! The song rocks and Gilbert handles the tempo and key changes like a pro!

"Uneasy Rider" by The Charlie Daniels Band is most definitely a country ballad that they perform very, very well. The album ends nicely with El Chicano singing out their awesome tune "Tell Her She's Lovely." El Chicano delivers this number with a lot of heart and soul.

Of course, here comes my traditional gripe against Rhino as to how they put out this series of CDs. Rhino should have added at least one more song--and why not two songs at that? Every CD in this series has a uniform twelve songs--and that does disappoint me. I will take off one start for this to make this a four star review.

Overall, Super Hits of the `70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 11 is a solid album with some pretty awesome music on it. I recommend this CD for people who remember these fine tunes from these artists back in the 1970s; and people who want to get to know more about `70s music may want to start with this album.

As of this writing the price of the CD is extremely expensive and overpriced so I hope that more people start to sell it. That way I hope the price will come down.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A swiss cheese of a disc. . . ., July 6, 2000

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John A. Kuczma "RogueUlfric" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have a Nice Day 11 (Audio CD)

Unfortunately, I must disagree with previous reviewers of this disc. Volume 11 of the "Have a Nice Day" series is terribly inconsistent. When four of twelve cuts are marginal at best, you have a bit of a quality problem.

Volume 11 is a study in contrasts. There are two instrumental tracks; the superb "Dueling Banjos" and the overlong, overplayed Deodato version of "Also Sprach Zarathustra." Gilbert O'Sullivan and Clint Holmes add a light touch with "Get Down" and "Playground in My Mind", and Maureen McGovern's beautiful "Morning After" provides a bigband-ish angst ballad.

There is a strong country-influence in Donna Fargo's silly but successful "Funny Face" and the much better Charlie Daniel's Band debut offering, "Uneasy Rider."

There is some very good music on this disc, but many of the tracks seem very out of place on a collection whose primary title is "SuperHits of the 70s."

Like so many other compilations on the market, Volume 11 is a take it or leave it proposition based solely on the purchaser's individual taste.