| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Records | | UPC: 00044006911922 | | Release Date: 10/15/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60572911 | | Item#: M6MRLJ | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25332 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Runaround Sue - Dion ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Runaway - Del Shannon ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Lion Sleeps Tonight, The (Wimoweh) - The Tokens ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes ~ Various Artists | | | 5. It's My Party - Lesley Gore ~ Various Artists | | | 6. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Heat Wave, (Love Is Like A) - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas ~ Various Artists | | | 8. My Girl - The Temptations ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann ~ Various Artists | | | 10. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops ~ Various Artists | | | 11. Stop! In The Name Of Love - The Supremes ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Wild Thing - The Troggs ~ Various Artists | | | 13. Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys ~ Various Artists | | | 14. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Monday Monday - The Mamas & The Papas ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful ~ Various Artists | | | 18. Windy - The Association ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Happy Together - The Turtles ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Letter, The - The Box Tops ~ Various Artists | | | 21. I'm A Believer - The Monkees ~ Various Artists | | | 22. Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock ~ Various Artists | | | 23. Crimson And Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells ~ Various Artists | | | 24. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye ~ Various Artists | | | 25. Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures) - The 5th Dimension ~ Various Artists | | | 26. Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Recorded between 1961 & 1969. | | This compilation is just what it says: number one hits on the American charts from the 1960s. It has a leg up on some similar anthologies, though, by virtue of its sheer quantity: 26 songs spanning the entire decade, which is pretty good value for a single CD. While it's true the selection is a little arbitrary, on the whole it's really good, and whether you care about chart statistics or not, it's an excellent disc if you're looking for an all-purpose collection of 1960s pop/rock classics. There are many core classics here, spanning rock, soul, pop, and the British Invasion: the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," Del Shannon's "Runaway," the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," Martha & the Vandellas' "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave," Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," the Mamas & the Papas' "Monday, Monday," the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City," the Box Tops' "The Letter," the Troggs' "Wild Thing," the Temptations' "My Girl," and Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Actually, if there's one complaint, it's that British artists are only represented by those Manfred Mann and Troggs cuts. But even the less-critically canonized, poppy hits here are for the most part indisputable classics: the Turtles' "Happy Together," Tommy James & the Shondells' "Crimson and Clover," the Monkees' "I'm a Believer," the Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints," the Association's "Windy," Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe," and more. It's like a double-dozen dose of number one hits from oldies stations without the commercials or any of the clunkers that happened to reach number one by chance. ~ Richie Unterberger |
Producer: Jeff Moskow (Compilation) |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/15/2002 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 069 119 | | Label : UTV | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 75m : 57s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00044006911922 |
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