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Super Hits Of The '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 19 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 9215
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227119928
EAN: 0081227119928
ASIN: B0000032ZI
Release Date: April 6, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Still the One - Hall, Johanna | | • | Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang - Giles, Richard | | • | Stand Tall - Cummings, Burton | | • | Torn Between Two Lovers - Jarrell, Phillip | | • | I Like Dreamin' - Nolan, Kenny | | • | Don't Give Up On Us - Macaulay, Tony | | • | Jeans On - Dundas, David | | • | Lonely Boy - Gold, Andrew | | • | The Things We Do for Love - Gouldman, Graham | | • | Couldn't Get It Right - Cooper, Colin | | • | Undercover Angel - ODay, Alan | | • | Gonna Fly Now - Connors, Carol |
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 More civilized 70s music from much happier times April 7, 2008
40 Something Pop Pundit (LaLaLand, SoCal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't appreciate the patronizating tone of the liner notes and I'm taken aback by reviewers who use words like syrupy to explain away the colorful diversity of 70s AM radio. I don't buy that for music to be cool it has to be loud rock and can't be soft ear candy. That's FM audio cop out conditioning by pop critics who think only bad is good and hard sounds are hip. Not so unless one has narrow minded taste in pop music.
This series is notorious for being inconsistent. And then some. Too many volumes are filled with trivial, frivolous filler. Yet here Torn Between Two Lovers, Don't Give Up On Us, The Things We Do For love and Gonna Fly Fly Now are 4 major hits that make it worthy. They bring back memories when the world was a happier place, catchier melodies reflected that and the radio dial and charts had room for all kinds of sounds.
Some of the guiltiest of 70s pop pleasures found here September 14, 2007
Greg Brady (Capital City)
In the insightful liner notes, Paul Grein opines "Just having this in your house will probably cost you a few friends." It will take serious intestinal fortitude and certainty in your musical taste to allow you to let anyone KNOW you've purchased it.
You can get by with saying you have "Don't Give Up on Us,Baby" at a gathering..strangers will probably assume you have Owen Wilson's ironic version as sung in the STARSKY AND HUTCH flick. Go on to say you enjoy Alan O'Day's frothy "Undercover Angel" at a party and you'll get rude stares. Wax eloquent about Mary McGregor's "Torn between Two Lovers" and the laughing and pointing will begin.
This CD is heavily populated with stuff that doesn't really get played on oldies radio despite its hit status at the time because it's love it or hate it kind of stuff.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Of the bigger hits, 10CC's "The Things We Do for Love" remains timeless. "Gonna Fly Now" continues to provide inspiration for gym rats and the zippy "Still the One" is one of the rare rock songs about the joys of marriage. Outside of those, "Wham Bang Shang a Lang" only made the Top 20 but it's still pretty catchy and almost pretty. Almost...because the song's protagonist is a man trying to tell his conquest that she's getting too clingy and he's already HAD what he wants if you get my drift. "Don't Give Up on Us" is heavy on melodrama but it was a hit because it's a good song. Just because it's heavyhanded doesn't mean it's not well-written. Same sentiment applies for Andrew Gold's "Lonely Boy" (80s kids will probably know his theme song for TV's "Golden Girls" the best.) "Undercover Angel" shares the same theme as "I Like Dreamin'" (fantasy lovers) but it does it without becoming cloying.
LOWS:
I have a pretty high tolerance for sap but Kenny Nolan's "I Like Dreamin'" goes farther than I can handle. The theme? Nolan's alone but if he dreams he can touch your body THAT way. The ick factor there is high. "Torn Between Two Lovers" is also pretty hard to take. "I'm cheating, I admit it, but I love you both so please stay and share me..."
BOTTOM LINE:
Besides the best tunes, most of them here are at least listenable. I can honestly say I like 8 of these all the time and 3 of them when I'm "in the mood". A solid comp from Rhino.
 Pieces of my youth February 23, 2006
Kathleen Motteler (South Carolina)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Everytime I get a CD filled with songs from my youth such as Vol 19, I feel young again! What a great mental health break!
I've been looking all over for "Don't Give Up On US Baby" and "I Like Dreaming".
Movie and TV themes...and more! April 2, 2005
Kevin Freeman (Pacifica, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay, so this CD has the overplayed "sell out" songs, like "Still The One", used to promote ABC's (?) new season in '76, and the "Rocky" theme that put Stallone on the map, but we also get some great slow ballads. "Torn Between Two Lovers", used as the theme and inspiration for a forgettable TV movie starring Lee Remick, certainly survives well on its own. DJ's used to comment they could not believe "I Like Dreamin'" was only from '76, because it sounded much older, much more "classic". "Don't Give Up On Us", belted out by a fellow who was in a forgettable TV show of his own in his spare time, is still worth humming and quoting. "Jeans On" is musically under-rated, and also notable for its "timestamp" of 70's culture when it mentions the "tiger in my tank". Andrew Gold could do a story song when he tried. Is "Lonely Boy" about his own sibling rivalry problems? Climax Blues Band has an unusually funky entry with "Couldn't Get It Right", even though they went on to a more mellow sound in 1981 with "I Love You". "Undercover Angel", another fun but naughty 70's song, has a special place in my heart. Used to blush every time I heard it.
Rating 100% May 30, 2004
radiogold (Sydney Australia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A continuation of the "Have a Nice Day" CD series, Volume 19 is another truck load of hits. This Volume seems to contain a bunch of tracks from the 1977 era. Do you remember what you were doing back then?? All of the CD's in this series contain extensive sleeve notes on all the tracks with release dates. There's that radio classic which I think we've all heard a thousand times?.. 10CC's "the things we do for love". This volume has a number of tracks that have been released on CD for the first time. What about Burton Cummings "stand tall". Other tracks include the original Rocky theme, Orleans "still the one", Mary MacGregor's "Torn between two lovers", Adam O day's "undercover angel", Andrew Gold's "lonely boy" and a few tracks I've never really heard of. But for the songs I've listed, certainly make this disc worthwhile
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