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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2013 at 14:01
This is an odd one because it has a Pink Floyd track(Welcome To The machine) and Pink Floyd generally don't permit their songs to be used on compilation albums. The explanation in this case is printed in red on the bottom of the cover: 'Proceeds from the album were contributed to "The Year of the Child" to help sick and handicapped children'. Apparently the album was compiled by members of Led Zeppelin.
 
A1 Electric Light Orchestra –  Shine A Little Love   
A2 Wings (2) –  Jet   
A3 Gerry Rafferty –  Baker Street   
A4 Dire Straits –  Sultans Of Swing   
A5 Eric Clapton –  Let It Grow   
A6 Elton John –  Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word   
A7 Cliff Richard –  Devil Woman   
B1 Supertramp –  Give A Little Bit   
B2 Thin Lizzy –  Boys Are Back In Town   
B3 Yes –  Don't Kill The Whale   
B4 Pink Floyd –  Welcome To The Machine   
B5 Bad Company (3) –  Rock & Roll Fantasy   
B6 Led Zeppelin –  Candy Store Rock 


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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

The only way to preserve the songs without buying the singles was to record them on tape or cassette, usually off the radio.

Lordy, I did enough of that! Then I'd sit with the tape, hitting play/stop/rewind while I transcribed the lyrics to The Logical Song or the guitar parts to Wish You Were Here.

Good times. Smile
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Points: 66239 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:58

I have this one too:

 


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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 21 2013 at 13:54
These albums were revolutionary, honest. They offered a cheap way to get the most popular songs of the day, decades before file sharing, downloads, MP3s, etc. The only way to preserve the songs without buying the singles was to record them on tape or cassette, usually off the radio.

Prior to this, the only compilations of hits that were available contained anonymous cover version of the songs, not the originals. Many since famous musicians paid their dues by playing or singing on such albums, including Elton John, David Byron, Jimmy Page, etc. The versions were though almost always pale imitations of the originals.

The K-Tel type albums paved the way for the Now That's What I call Music type sets, I think the new Now album is volume 80-something!
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I have this one from the early 80's.
 
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Stool Man's thread about 20 Dynamic Hits sent me on a nostalgia trip, wherein I discovered this beauty:

Those "K-Tel albums" of the 70s

My cousins, who were older than me, tended to have these albums, so I associated them with a grown-up taste in music. *cough*

But my mum did buy us kids one for Christmas:



Ah, those were the days, when a mother could buy her young children an album featuring a young woman's exposed buttock cheek and not expect a visit from a social worker.

Who else here was blessed with these treasures?
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