Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box [Box set]

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When this material originally resurfaced in an earlier Rhino-celebrates-the-'70s program, many rock scribes contorted themselves into revisionist pretzels: this isn't so bad, they argued--none too convincingly. There'll be none of that here: much of the music on this colossal box set is godawful. The world doesn't miss the likes of Sammy ("Chevy Van") Johns and Sammy ("Candy Man") Davis. Or at least it doesn't miss the records they cut during the decade of disaster flicks and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. That said, this elaborate box is something to behold. The lovingly compiled 92-page booklet provides background on the ridiculous (David Soul, C.W. McCall, Carl Douglas) and the sublime (Parliament, James Brown, the Staple Singers), and the music swings on the same pendulum, with Harry Chapin, Bill Withers, and Cat Stevens sitting amid Wayne Newton, The Captain & Tennille, and Meco's jittery electro-take on the Star Wars theme. Seven discs, 160 selections! To paraphrase a popular ad slogan of the era, you won't believe you listened to the whole thing. --Steven Stolder

Entertainment Weekly
Rhino retools its Have a Nice Day ... and goes legit in the process. This time, accompanying '70s cheeseballs like Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" are nods to classic rock (David Bowie's "Fame"), soul (James Brown's "The Big Payback"), and Motown ("Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye).

Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box [Box set]

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The great, the good, the bad and the plain awful, in one delightful package
GREAT MUSIC, DODGY PACKAGE
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Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
Venus - Shocking Blue
Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson
American Woman - Guess Who
Green-Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf
Vehicle - Ides Of March
Little Green Bag - George Baker Selection
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Superstar - Murray Head
Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen Of The Board
Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) - Delfonics
O-O-H Child - 5 STAIRSTEPS
ABC - Jackson 5
Band Of Gold - Freda Payne
Fire And Rain - James Taylor
Indian Reservation (The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian) - Raiders
Put Your Hand In The Hand - Ocean
One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley
Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night

Tracks:

Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites
Want Ads - Honey Cone
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop
Brand New Key - Melanie
One Tin Soldier (The Legend Of Billy Jack) - Coven
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Popcorn - Hot Butter
Joy - Apollo 100
I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
A Horse With No Name - America
I'll Take You There - Staple Singers
Everybody Plays The Fool - Main Ingredient
I Gotcha - Joe Tex
I'll Be Around - Spinners
Lean On Me - Bill Withers
Day By Day - Godspell

Tracks:

Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Precious And Few - Climax
Brandy (You're A Fine Girl) - Looking Glass
Dancing In The Moonlight - King Harvest
Nice To Be With You - Gallery
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Rock And Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter
The Cover Of 'Rolling Stone' - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
You're So Vain - Carly Simon
Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul
Freddie's Dead (Theme From 'Superfly') - Curtis Mayfield
The Morning After - Maureen McGovern
That Lady (Part 1) - Isley Brothers
I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White
Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Tell Her She's Lovely - El Chicano
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree - Dawn
Smokin' In The Boy's Room - Brownsville Station
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg

Tracks:

Love Train - O'Jays
Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia - Vicki Lawrence
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Brother Louie - Stories
Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren
Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
The Air That I Breathe - Hollies
Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
Billy, Don't Be A Hero - Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
Lady - Styx
The Payback-Part 1 - James Brown
You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt
The Entertainer - Marvin Hamlisch
Rock The Boat - HUES CORPORATION
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
Radar Love - Golden Earring

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Beach Baby - First Class
Sideshow - Blue Magic
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
I'm Not In Love - 10cc
The Bertha Butt Boogie-Part 1 - Jimmy Castor Bunch
Black Superman 'Muhammad Ali' - Johnny Wakelin & The Kinshasa Band
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
Feelings - Morris Albert
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
Magic - Pilot
Love Machine (Part 1) - Miracles
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
Fame - David Bowie
Sky High - Jigsaw
Convoy - C.W. McCall
Bad Blood - Neil Sedaka
Slow Ride - Foghat

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Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) - Four Seasons
Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
The Rockford Files - Mike Post
Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra
Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross
Happy Days - Pratt & McClain
Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) - Parliament
Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - England Dan & John Ford Coley
Disco Duck (Part 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots
Turn The Beat Around - Vickie Sue Robinson
Car Wash - Rose Royce
More, More, More (Pt. 1) - Andrea True Connection
You Are The Woman - Firefall
Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller

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Do You Feel Like We Do - Peter Frampton
Free Bird (Live Version) - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ridin' The Storm Out (Live) - REO Speedwagon
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco
Disco Inferno - Trammps
Brick House - Commodores
Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) - Marvin Gaye
Feels Like The First Time - Foreigner
Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul
Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges
Happy Anniversary - Little River Band
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
Kiss You All Over - Exile
I Want Your Love - Chic
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
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When this material originally resurfaced in an earlier Rhino-celebrates-the-'70s program, many rock scribes contorted themselves into revisionist pretzels: this isn't so bad, they argued--none too convincingly. There'll be none of that here: much of the music on this colossal box set is godawful. The world doesn't miss the likes of Sammy ("Chevy Van") Johns and Sammy ("Candy Man") Davis. Or at least it doesn't miss the records they cut during the decade of disaster flicks and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. That said, this elaborate box is something to behold. The lovingly compiled 92-page booklet provides background on the ridiculous (David Soul, C.W. McCall, Carl Douglas) and the sublime (Parliament, James Brown, the Staple Singers), and the music swings on the same pendulum, with Harry Chapin, Bill Withers, and Cat Stevens sitting amid Wayne Newton, The Captain & Tennille, and Meco's jittery electro-take on the Star Wars theme. Seven discs, 160 selections! To paraphrase a popular ad slogan of the era, you won't believe you listened to the whole thing. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

yuck.......2007-07-13

I should have read the description better regarding the sound bites between some songs. I found them to be annoying. The Time Life collection is so much better and it doesn't cost much more.

Peace, man............2007-05-31

O.K. I'm 38. I was born in 1968 and I wasn't into a lot of the 70's music until the decade was on its way out. But my parents had so many great vinyl compilations by that time and I had my cool new little record player that I HAD to listen to all the songs.
And now, I find that I'm doing the same thing with this set of CD's! It's freakin' 1979 all over again!
How can you cram so much 70's goodness into this box set? And to get the ORIGINAL songs from the ORIGINAL stars is just groovy. Too many compilations now have the original stars doing remakes of their songs and it just seems pointless to me.
Brandy (You're A Fine Girl), unabashedly my favourite song of ALL TIME, (just ask those that have to endure it EVERY time I karaoke) finds a great spot here in its ORIGINAL glory.
If you're thinking of getting a 70's compilation, STOP THINKING!! BUY THIS ON IMPULSE AND ENJOY A HASTY DECISION FOR ONCE!!
There'll be no time to feel any guilt when you're singing along to all the classics you grew up with.
"Billy, Don't Be A Hero!" "You're No Good" if you don't "Rock The Boat" and "Let Your Love Flow"! "Me and Mrs. Jones" will be "Stuck In The Middle With You" just "Smokin' In The Boys Room" if you don't "Get Down Tonight"!!
But hey, if you think "I'm Not In Love" with this set and you don't buy it?
Well....."Everybody Plays The Fool" "You Sexy Thing"!!

The great, the good, the bad and the plain awful, in one delightful package.......2007-04-15

So the decade of the '70's corresponds to my junior high, high school and college years. During that time AM and later FM radio supplied the leitmotifs for that era of my life. This CD collection captures completely what we listened to as fed by the top 40 charts of the time. Much of this material is outstanding, some of it was silly and some of it was awful (Morris Albert's Feelings, Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun! So bad it is fun to listen to). This magnificent compilation captures it completely in all its '70's era glory. And in typical Rhino fashion, it is elegantly packaged with an outstanding booklet and boxed set. True I'm biased in that I even liked the sound bites.

It is a bit expensive, and some have criticized the inclusion of the Top 40 single versions over the definitive album versions, but hey guys/gals, this is what they played on the radio at the time. Also missing are some of the superstars, but as the booklet says, you probably have lots of those already (e.g., Paul McCartney, Elton John, mid-period Stones, Billy Joel, etc.)

I was hesitant about the cost, but after one full listen through, I'm extremely pleased. Thank you Rhino (and thanks to Amazon, too who listed the delivery time as several weeks but it came within one week).

GREAT MUSIC, DODGY PACKAGE.......2007-03-12

This is as comprehensive as a Seventies collection can get. The MIAs are obvious (no Eagles, Neil Diamond, Fleetwood Mac, Carpenters, Pink Floyd) but what's surprising is the number of major artists that DID get on here. The sound quality of 'Superstar' isn't great, the soundbites ARE fabulous, but the packaging is hopeless. While the write-ups are excellent, and the content generally flawless, the booklet itself fell apart after I read through it three times. I know for a fact mine isn't the only one this happened to. Is this a ruse to pretend it's more than 25 years old?

A must have.......2007-01-13

If you like all the old 70's songs then you have to get this nice box set, well worth every single penny.

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