20 Explosive Original Hits Original Stars

 

20 Explosive Original Hits Original Stars

Various Artists

Side One

Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Stairsteps – O-o-h Child
The Box Tops – Cry Like a Baby
Classic IV – Traces
The Who – I Can See For Miles
Alive ‘N Kickin – Tighter, Tighter
Jaggerz – The Rapper
Tee Set – Ma Belle Amie
Bob Lind – Elusive Butterfly

Side Two

Shocking Blue – Venus
Hugh Masekela – Grazing in the Grass
The Cufflinks – Tracy
Tommy James – Ball and Chain
Three Degrees – Maybe
Canned Heat – Going Up the Country
Box Tops – The Letter
Tommy James – Chuch St. Soul Revival
Intruders – When We Get Married
Bill Deal & The Rhondells – May I

20 Heavy Hits

20 Heavy Hits

Various Artists

Side One

Janis Joplin – Down On Me
The Impressions – Fool For You
Tommy James & The Shondells – Crimson & Clover
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense & Peppermint
Len Barry – 1 2 3
The Delfonics – La La Means I Love You
The Intruders – Cowboys To Girls
The Ohio Express – Down At Lulu’s
The Who – Magic Bus
Ricardo Ray – Nitty Gritty

Side Two

The Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
1910 Fruitgum Company – Simon Says
Tommy James & The Shondells – Mony Mony
1910 Fruitgum Company – 1 2 3 Red Light
The Turtles – She’d Rather Be with me
Amboy Dukes – Journey To the Center of My Mind
The Happenings – Go Away Little Girl
The Lemon Pipers – Jelly Jungle
Sonny & Cher – The Beat Goes On
The Lemon Pipers – Rice Is Nice

Who Are You

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon. They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction. The Who have sold about 100 million records, and have charted 27 top forty singles in the United Kingdom and United States, as well as 17 top ten albums, with 18 Gold, 12 Platinum and 5 Multi-Platinum album awards in the United States alone.

Moon died at the age of 32 in 1978, after which the band released two studio albums, the UK and US top five Face Dances (1981) and the US top ten It’s Hard (1982), with drummer Kenney Jones, before disbanding in 1983. They re-formed at events such as Live Aid and for reunion tours such as their 25th anniversary tour (1989) and the Quadrophenia tours of 1996 and 1997. In 2000, the three surviving original members discussed recording an album of new material, but their plans temporarily stalled upon Entwistle’s death at the age of 57 in 2002. Townshend and Daltrey continue to perform as The Who, and in 2006 they released the studio album Endless Wire, which reached the top ten in the UK and US.

Has anyone besides me ever wondered why CSI: Miami and CSI: Las Vegas have The Who’s songs as their themes, but CSI: NY doesn’t? It bothers me… Anyway, my dad had a few of their albums:

Quadrophenia

Who’s Next

Who Are You

It’s Hard

Psychotic Reaction

Count Five (sometimes known as Count V) was a garage band from San Jose, California. The band consisted of Kenn Ellner, John Byrne, Roy Chaney, John Michalski and Craig Atkinson. The band then shifted genres to mostly garage style rock and roll with influences from The Yardbirds, The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones.

Their song, Psychotic Reaction, reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1966, and was selected as one of the “500 Most Influential Songs in Rock n’ Roll History” by the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Psychotic Reaction was released worldwide and gained popularity in the United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, and Mexico. Psychotic Reaction was popular in the Vietnam War era, and appears in the game Battlefield Vietnam. The song was modeled after the Yardbirds’s song “I’m a Man”, with a repetitious rhythm that eventually changes to a faster beat, an electric guitar playing a hypnotic melody going up the scales, and a similar style of percussion to that of the Yardbirds hit.

Psychotic Reaction

Side One

Double Decker Bus
Pretty Big Mouth
The World
My Generation
She’s Fine
Psychotic Reaction

Side Two

Peace of Mind
They’re Gonna Get You
The Morning After
Can’t Get Your Lovin’
Out in the Street

Freedom

Freedom

Various Artists

Side One

The Who – Join Together
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction
Ocean – Put Your Hand in the Hand
Melanie – Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
Country Joe & The Fish – I’m Fixin’ To Die
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky

Side Two

Doors – Get Up and Dance
Otis Redding – Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
Linda Ronstadt – Different Drum
Friend & Lover – Reach Out of the Darkness
Eric Burdon & The Animals – San Franciscan Nights
Joan Baez – Joe Hill
Nilsson – Jump Into the Fire

Side Three

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Takin’ Care of Business
Coven – One Tin Soldier
Cowsills – Hair
Cream – Crossroads
Lobo – Big Red Kite
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower

Side Four

Brotherhood of Man – United We Stand
The Guess Who – No Time
Steppenwolf – Monster
Merrilee Rush – Angel of the Morning
Dion – Abraham, Martin & John
Uriah Heep – Circle of Hands

Heavy Hits

Heavy Hits

Various Artists

Side One

Gladys Knight & The Pips – Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
The Moments – Sexy Mama
Kool & The Gang – Jungle Boogie
Mocedades – Eres Tu (Touch the Wind)
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
Stories – If It Feels Good, Do It
The Impressions – Finally Got Myself Together
Staple Singers – I’ll Take You There
Natural Four – Can This Be Real
El Chicano – Tell Her She’s Lovely

Side Two

Barry White – Honey Please, Can’t Ya See
Johnny Taylor – Cheaper to Keep Her
James Brown – Payback
Ecstasy, Passion & Pain – I Wouldn’t Give You Up
Bill Amesbury – Virginia (Touch Me Like You Do)
Five Man Electrical Bank – Werewolf
Brenda Lee – Wrong Ideas
Marty Robbins – 20th Century Drifter
Think – Once You Understand
Olivia Newton John – Take Me Home Country Roads