Dick Bartley Presents: One Hit Wonders of the '60s, Vol. 2

Various Artists - Rock - Classic, Dick Bartley's One Hit Wonders

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1990)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032TX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #11,769 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	John A. Kuczma "RogueUlfric" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Fran Fried (Fresno, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT COLLECTION -BUT THE McCOYS ARE NOT QUALIFIED!!!, February 14, 2005

By	D. L Masters (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a truly superb collection of hard-to-finds and comes with the usual outstanding Rhino sonics.<>
However...The McCOYS a ONE HIT WONDER?? That's laughable. The McCoys had 3 songs make the TOP 20 and "Fever" made it to number 7. That's a real hit in anyone's book!