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More Today Than Yesterday: Complete Columbia Recordings

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This an excellent collection for people who enjoy good ,happy, sing along songs.It just baffles my mind that bands like The Monkees, Grand Funk, and others get ridiculed so badly."More Today Than Yesterday" is just an awesome song.How can anyone not smile when they hear it?It's like being unamerican or something of that nature.Pat Upton is a great singer and the band is no slouch either.All the songs are great(Listen to "Get Ready" and you should be convinced)and "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" is just so appealing.If you don't believe me just take a moment and listen.You won't be disappointed.Highly reccomended!!!!!!!

If you love the singing of Pat Upton and the sound this group produced on their two Columbia singles-or if you like jazz rock-or Gary Puckett-or Las Vegas style music-you will burn this thing out on your laser!! Finally, all of The SS tunes in one place-on one disc-with great sound; this is the only disc you need for this outstanding group. No hodge-podge budget job here, either!! Great sounds and great songs. Let's face it-great songs are timeless. And Pat-what a voice-worth hearing you on 25 tracks!!

I suppose The Buckinghams, Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago whetted Columbia's appetite for the burgeoning jazz-rack crowd thanks to James Guerico. However, Gary Usher did some superb production work with SS and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. And those voices-Pat Upton and Gary Puckett-what beautiful instruments!! Yes, the sound with the brass filled charts is great!! IN today's market this would fill a great void-nice, uptempo but relaxing background music.

If you dug that bright happy sound on the singles-get this one. No disrespect-but only the good singers like Tom Jones and Bobby Darin could be great lounge lizards-welcome to the Pack, Pat!!

No remixes here, but some of the earlier tracks suffer from being the inferior 60s stereo mixes (instead of mono single versions), which buried Pat Upton's amazing voice.

Later songs have better mixes. The mastering is great. There are some fab unreleased songs, like Love's The Only Answer.

If you want better mixes of some of their best tracks (Baby What I Mean and other songs from Our Day Will Come), buy the 2003 reissue More Today Than Yesterday with mono mixes. You can easily hear the difference.

If you are a completist, you'll get lots of exclusive material on this CD, still making it a useful purchase - just not definitive.

I had been listening to my 40 year old copy of the "More Today Than Yesterday" album recently and bought this CD expecting the songs to sound better, but unfortunately, I will have to be happy with my old copy. The songs on this CD have been remixed and are inferior to the original 60's mixes. The remix seems to have killed the life of the excellent drumming in the songs from the "More Today Than Yesterday" album. The drums are set back further in the mix and muddied up with added reverb and low end EQ. There are similar problems with the vocals as well.

I don't always favor 60's music that has been remixed from the original multi-tracks, but you at least expect it to have improved fidelity. These mixes were just poorly done. The only benefit of these new mixes was late fade-outs on a few of the songs; getting to hear 10 to 15 extra seconds of an ending refrain.

Product in good condition on arrival, decent amount of time for shipping. Listening to them brings me back to the good ol' days. Thank you!

More today than yesterday is the ONLY song worth purchasing this album for....and if you want it...this is the only place...\