2.0 out of 5 stars
Serviceable Cover Versions, December 16, 2010
This review is from: Hit TV Themes (Audio CD)
These songs are not done by the original artists; instead, they are "soundalikes" performed by the pseudonymous group, "Flavor," and released in a budget-priced package designed for general consumers, not the ones who pay attention to who originally sang a particular song.
This was released in 1988, probably with the intent of attracting fans of the shows then on TV. The liner notes reveal that it was recorded with "state-of-the-art compact disc technology," which probably means the producer of this (the PPI label in New Jersey) digitally recorded these cuts - something which carried a bit more cachet when compact discs were relatively new, and some of the cuts may (or may not) have been commercially available in that format when this was released. (Other releases from the label during this period included "Hit Songs From The Movies," "Magnificent Movie Themes," and "The Hits of Whitney Houston").
Fortunately, the uncredited musicians here are professionals, and the recording is mostly serviceable. Some cuts may hold special interest to completists; someone who collects 80s-style instrumental synthesizer music, for example, may well want the covers of Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme and Stewart Copeland's Equalizer Theme (the latter of which, clocking in at 1:13, is the shortest cut on the CD). But most fans will be better off searching for the original recordings by the original artists.
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