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You know what its like someone asks for a loan of your favourite tape and you never see it again. devastation or what! Having hunted for a CD version of Dean Freidman it was a pure delight to come upon a version in Europa Music in Stirling. We played the CD in the car on the way home and it was amazing, all the lyrics came flooding back and we sang along too all the tracks as if we had been playing them constantly for the last 10 years. It is extremely hard to choose a favourite track but mine has to be Lucky Stars.

I just have to, I have to, give this album the full five stars, if only for the greatest song about sexual perversion ever written: S&M. I heard him playing it on the radio late one night and have derived endless pleasure from this CD ever since. Who else in the world could get away with the lyric: 'I keep stumbling around as if/I'm stumbling off a cliff'. Fantastic - long live Dean Friedman, the master of kitsch. (Do Americans know what 'kitsch' means? It's a good thing)

I first heard this album as a graduate student (Deli song - "Where you from? Madison, Wisconsin")and immediately ran out to find it. I couldn't find it then, but taped it off a radio station that broadcast albums in their entirety, complete with DJ comments, and have carried it around for twenty years, always checking record stores in the faint hope of finding it. I was so happy to find it re-released on CD. The songs run the gamut of sad, happy, funny, whistful, and thoughtful, but all extremely enjoyable. Buy the CD while its still available. You'll listen to it often, for at least the next twenty years.

WOW... This is the CD! I recently had to part with my two worn out records ("Dean Friedman" and "Well well, said the rocking chair"). I did not think he would ever be reissued on CD. Thank God the English have adopted him and made this record possible. Buy it... You'll love it.

This compilation is excellent. Company may be Dean's best song ever. At least released song. If you like to just sit around the house and listen to some music, with not much else to think about but the music, listen to this! Trust me. I have heard many of his songs and have seen him live, this man is a true talent!!!

From as far back as I can remember, I was obsessed with my Dad's original LP of Dean Friedman's 'Rocking Chair' (not only for the great music, but also for the fantastic plasticine models on the album cover....fascinating when you're 6 yrs old!). I was therefore thrilled when I found the 'The Very Best of DF' a while ago on CD. Memories came flooding back as soon as I played it for the first time. "Lydia", "The Deli Song" and "Lucky Stars - (my sister and I duetted to this one aged 6 and 8; naturally, I sang Dean's part!), all of these are just as fantastic as I remember them. For all DF fans, this is definitely a 'must' for your collection. If you're not quite sure who DF is, buy it and play it at least 3 times, by which time you'll be hooked.

Speaking of my Dad's beloved record collection, I wonder if there's a Captain and Tenille CD out there somewhere!..........