Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 3

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032R9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #8 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Bubblegum
  • #12 in Music > Rock > Power Pop
  • #71 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1970s

Track Listings

1. Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)

2. Tighter, Tighter

3. In the Summertime

4. Neanderthal Man

5. Green-Eyed Lady

6. Indiana Wants Me

7. I Think I Love You

8. Montego Bay

9. Gypsy Woman

10. Amos Moses

11. Julie, Do Ya Love Me? [*]

12. Fallin' Lady [*]

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good mix of '70s pop sounds, June 28, 2000

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John A. Kuczma "RogueUlfric" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

Volume III of the Superhits Series provides a solid musical sampling of the kaleidoscope of sounds and influences that made up early 70s pop. From the bubblegummy "I Think I Love You" to the borderline hard "Green-Eyed Lady", this disc has it all.

There is Melanie's Joplin-esque "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", a truly marvelous song, and R. Dean Taylor's hard-to-find, country-influenced "Indiana Wants Me." Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses" has an even stronger country flavor and Bobby Bloom's "Montego Bay" features a gentle hint of calypso sound.

Although not expensive, it is hard to classify this disc as a top value. Like all of the offerings in the series, Volume III contains only twelve tracks, and the last two are virtual throw aways. However, considering the investment of time that would be required to locate all of these relatively obscure tunes, this is still quite a bargain.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tighter, Tighter, February 1, 2006

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Thomas A. Seeman "Thomas A Seeman" (Lakewood, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

I bought this CD for Alive And Kicking's Song "Tighter, Tighter"
The other songs on this CD are good, Lots of great songs but Tighter, Tighter is the BOMB, If you buy this CD for just this song, it is money well spent!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars + 1/2 stars...Some of the Biggest Hits of 1970, February 19, 2004

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Hits Of The '70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 3 (Audio CD)

That Rhino Records has kept this series in print proves that there's is still a market for these songs. And while I have at least twenty of these titles in my collection, the current crop of pay-per-download websites gives the consumer total control over song selection, making these kinds of collections more and more obsolete when you consider that you're still paying a dollar per song either way.

Like the previous volumes, it's a mixed bag of mostly MOR pop hits from one- and two-hit wonders. In fact, only three of these artists had any kind of extended musical career. Unlike Rhino's Sixties-oriented TOP ROCK 'N' ROLL series, which included many artists with multiple hits, the HAVE A NICE DAY series does not include major acts of the period like Rod Stewart, Three Dog Night or the Carpenters. These are --in many cases--songs that are infrequently anthologized, giving you a broader look at the early Seventies. [Each of these songs, by the way, were released in 1970.]

In addition, most of these were Top 10 hits (although "Fallin' Lady" didn't even dent the Top 40), and half of them were million sellers like the gospel-influenced "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," the quirky "In the Summertime," Bryan Hyland's lone Seventies smash "Gypsy Woman," the Partridge Family's signature song "I Think I Love You," the countrified funk of Jerry Reed's novelty "Amos Moses" and Bobby Sherman's schmaltzy "Julie, Do Ya Love Me." These are all original hit versions and the sound quality is empeccable. It's just a matter of how badly you want each of these songs.