One Hit Wonders of the 60's, Vol. 2

Various Artists - Rock - Classic, Dick Bartley's One Hit Wonders | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032TX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,976 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)

2. Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'

3. Everlasting Love

4. Angel of the Morning

5. Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead

6. Morning Girl

7. Expressway to Your Heart

8. Love (Can Make You Happy)

9. No Good to Cry

10. Cinnamon

11. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

12. Hang on Sloopy

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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A volume 2 worthy of volume one!, June 17, 2000

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John A. Kuczma "RogueUlfric" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Hit Wonders of the 60's, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Another really outstanding disc in the One Hit Wonders series, Volume 2 pulls out all the musical stops. There is the garage band sound of "Let It Out(Let It All Hang Out)", the bubblegummy but very good sound of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" and the powerful, nearly big band sound of Merilee Rush's beautiful "Angel of the Morning".

The disc features a rare version of "Hang On, Sloopy" which includes a verse removed from the commercial release (the song needed to be shortened to fit the standard radio play slots of the day). There is also the wonderful and hard to find ballad "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye", a massively successful 1967 cut that strongly echoed the sound of the 1957 through 1962 doowop era.

The variety of music on this disc is breathtaking, and the superior mastering makes it sound better than the first time we heard it on AM radio. This is another of Rhino's many entries into the "Don't Miss It" category. Very highly recommended.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Hit Wonders Volume 2 - Best of the Series!, February 20, 2004

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This review is from: One Hit Wonders of the 60's, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Many of you 50-somethings like me are likely building CD collections featuring the music of your youth. Volume Two in the One Hit Wonders series is a must for your collection. The songs featured in this set were on top forty radio in the 60s and early 70s (before top forty became a dirty word). Among the gems are the McCoy's Hang on Sloopy. Lots of garage attitude in that gem originally issued on Bang Records. And I thought I'd never find the Fifth Estate's Ding Dong the Witch is Dead on CD. Here it is though! Other highlights are Merilee Rush's Angel of the Morning which makes you wonder why Juice Newton even bothered with it in the eighties! And more attitude in the Hombres' Let It All Hang Out - a title that became a national catch phrase in the late sixties! There is also the superb blue-eyed soul of Expressway to Your heart by the Soul Survivors. There really are no bad cuts on this set (although the inclusion of Then You Can Tell me Goodbye is a little puzzling). This is by far the best CD in the One Hit Wonders series. There are still lots of "one hit wonders" from the sixties yet to be brought to CD. It would be great to see more volumes added to this set. If you want to add Derek, Love or Crazy Elephant to your collection, this is the one for you!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back for more, June 29, 2005

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Fran Fried (Fresno, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Hit Wonders of the 60's, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Vol. 2 of Bartley's anthology of one-hit wonders isn't quite as consistently good as the first, but it's still a fine balance of obscuros and hard-to-find well-known hits. It was great to have Robert Knight's original '66 version of "Everlasting Love" at my fingertips, for example, as well as Merilee Rush's "Angel of the Morning."
You can find a couple of the hits elsewhere ("Hang On, Sloopy" can be found in several places, while "Expressway to Your Heart" is on the three-CD "The Philly Sound" Philadelphia International collection), but this was, for years, the only CD where you could find the killer white soul shouter "No Good to Cry" by Connecticut band The Wildweeds (now on a killer 2002 collection called "No Good to Cry: The Best of The Wildweeds"). The song, written and sung by the teenage Al Anderson (before his long run with NRBQ and his successful career as a country songwriter), charted big in its home state (where I grew up) and in the South, but just made the upper 80s in Billboard; you fans from the rest of the country will wonder just how the hell this didn't become one of the all-time great chart hits.