Have a Nice Day 25

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033RE
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,326 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Is Like Oxygen

2. How Much I Feel

3. Shake It

4. Falling

5. I Just Wanna Stop

6. 5.7.0.5.

7. New York Groove

8. My Angel Baby

9. Love Takes Time

10. Get Used to It

11. Lead Me On

12. Oh Well

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: SUPER HITS OF THE 70'S
Title: VOL. 25-HAVE A NICE DAY
Street Release Date: 03/26/1996
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP COLLECTIONS

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So long, series, April 6, 2003

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have a Nice Day 25 (Audio CD)

Rhino closes out their extraordinarily voluminous compilation series "Super Hits of the '70s - Have A Nice Day" with this twentyfifth volume (who would have thought they would have gone this far!).

The tracks here come from 1978 and 1979 and were all top-30 pop hits, nine of which were top-20 with four of them making top-10. Adding a bit more interest to this volume is the appearance of a few seldom-found tracks, namely City Boy's "5.7.0.5.", Ace Frehley's (of Kiss) "New York Groove" and Roger Voudouris' "Get Used To It" - all classifiable as one-hit wonders. Whether intended or not, the appearance of "Oh Well" as the final track on this final volume in the series has a twinge of irony about it.

Sound quality it decent and an eight-page liner notes booklet provides some backround on the included tracks. All told, a respectable finale to this amazing series documenting the top-40 music of the 70's. Anyone who has had the gumption to obtain the first 24 volumes in this series has, by default, no choice but to purchase this. But even as a stand-alone piece, this piece is worthy of consideration on its own.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Collection Of 70's Music Out There--Hands Down, June 20, 2006

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Brian Himes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have a Nice Day 25 (Audio CD)

Instead of giving an individual review of each volume in this series, I decided to give one review on the final volume of the series.

As a child in the 70s I grew up hearing these songs on the radio and the entire series really gave me a feeling of nostalgia. When I started collecting this series, I didn't always know each artist or even each song title, but once I spun the disc, the lyrics to these songs came back from the dark void of my memory. That was half the fun of this whole series. Volume 13 was the one volume in the entire series that I remebered each song. Volumes 12, 13, 14 and 15 are my favorite volumes.

Not each volume is a winner. Volumes 4, and 6 I felt weren't that great of volumes, but each volume contains at least 4-5 great gems. Again, the entire series is great.

This series and Rhino's Didn't It Blow Your Mind series are hands down the best series of 70's music out there. I give both series five stars. If there was one thing that I felt that Rhino missed on these was that they didn't take each series out to five more volumes. The would have given Have A Nice Day 30 volumes and Didn't It Blow Your Mind 25 volumes. Either way, the Have A Nice Day series is my favorite 70s music complilation series and it has gotten lots of use in my CD player.

If you like quirky AM pop from the 70s, then this series is for you. You won't regret it. If your looking for more of the FM style 70s music, then get Time/Lifes Sound of the 70s.

After reading several reviews for the various volumes in this series, it's clear the some people missed the entire point of this series. This entire series was supposed to resemble or be a throw back to those infamous compilation LPs from K-Tel that were everywhere in the 70s. This series wasn't supposed to have great songs. Just memorable ones.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Way To Say "See 'Ya", February 20, 2003

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James Fenos "music freak" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Have a Nice Day 25 (Audio CD)

As time wore on for this series, Rhino started using full length versions of these songs as opposed to radio and single edits. One edit, however, was used for this final entry to this series and that song is "Love Is Like Oxygen." The group Oxygen sounded a lot like E.L.O. of the late seventies; the full length version of "Love Is Like Oxygen" is nearly seven minutes long. There are lots of edits throughout this series, Player was severely edited on both their songs, as was Robert John's "Sad Eyes. " Singles were the focus of this series, but I have to admit I don't care for edits and until this last disc came out, I pretty much stayed away from this series. I do own a few of these cd's, especially the one's that have songs from the late seventies when I was in High School and listened to a lot of radio. As I've grown older, my attention steered from the catchy hooks and turned toward production and voice. The songs here not only bring back great memories, but are extremely well done. "Love Is Like Oxygen" is a catchy, upbeat song full of hooks and it's easy to hear why this song was the hit it was. "Falling" was one of my favorite songs, LeBlanc and Carr sing well and harmonize like they are joined at the hip. The ballad has tones of blues. "I Just Wanna Stop" turned me on to Gino Vannelli and his big hair. His voice is just as big as his hair and hasn't changed much after all these years. According to music critics, men who are the lead singers of arena rock groups like Styx, claim that age make all these guys sound like Gino, who by the way, records for Verve records and has released two fine jazz albums to date. "My Angel Baby" was a hit song, it's a bit doo-wop toned down, I forgot the song existed until I bought this disc. "Lead Me On" is a great song I hadn't heard in years, Maxine was an early disco queen with "Get Right Back Where We Started From." She performs this ballad, with r&b harmonies, beautifully. "Love Takes Time" was an adult radio staple, a huge hit for Orleans who's song "Still The One" was used as a jingle for ABC television. This collection presents the biggest singles from the artists here and is a fine closer for this series.