>> Get Ready, Here Come ... The '70s is a flashback-inducing overview of the best rock, pop, disco and soul the '70s had to offer. The 3-CD collection features timeless songs from Elton John, The Commodores, Jim Croce, Rod Stewart, KC & The Sunshine Band, Fleetwood Mac, Bread, The Isley Brothers, The Four Seasons, O'Jays, Labelle and many others. <<

Disc: 1
1. Rare Earth--Get Ready
2. Rod Stewart--Maggie May
3. Fleetwood Mac--Don't Stop
4. Norman Greenbaum--Spirit In The Sky
5. Redbone--Come And Get Your Love
6. KC & The Sunshine Band--Get Down Tonight
7. Orleans--Still The One
8. Maria Muldaur--Midnight At The Oasis
9. Blues Image--Ride Captain Ride
10. Alice Cooper--School's Out
11. Gary Wright--Dream Weaver
12. Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds--Don't Pull Your Love
13. Jim Croce--Time In A Bottle
14. Brewer & Shipley--One Toke Over The Line
15. Edison Lighthouse--Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
16. Bread--Make It With You
17. Lobo--Me And You And A Dog Named Boo
18. Jonathan Edwards--Sunshine (Go Away Today)
19. Dobie Gray--Drift Away

Disc: 2
1. Emotions--Best Of My Love
2. Maxine Nightingale--Right Back Where We Started From
3. Labelle--Lady Marmalade
4. Stealers Wheel--Stuck In The Middle With You
5. Lee Michaels--Do You Know What I Mean
6. Crystal Gayle--Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
7. Harry Chapin--Cat's In The Cradle
8. Looking Glass--Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
9. Captain & Tennille--Do That To Me One More Time
10. The Isley Brothers--That Lady (Parts 1 & 2)
11. Carl Carlton--Everlasting Love
12. KC & The Sunshine Band--That's The Way (I Like It)
13. A Taste Of Honey--Boogie Oogie Oogie
14. Hues Corporation--Rock The Boat
15. Gloria Gaynor--I Will Survive
16. Climax--Precious And Few
17. Janis Ian--At Seventeen
18. Dawn Feat. Tony Orlando--Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree
19. The Marshall Tucker Band--Can't You See

Disc: 3
1. Mungo Jerry--In The Summertime
2. O'Jays--Love Train
3. The Four Seasons--December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
4. Trammps--Disco Inferno
5. Andrea True Connection--More, More, More Pt. 1
6. Elton John--Crocodile Rock
7. Gerry Rafferty--Baker Street
8. Elvin Bishop--Fooled Around And Fell In Love
9. Leo Sayer--When I Need You
10. Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina--Your Mama Don't Dance
11. Commodores--Brick House
12. Billy Paul--Me & Mrs. Jones
13. Alicia Bridges--I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)
14. Jefferson Starship--Miracles
15. Firefall--You Are The Woman
16. Carl Douglas--Kung Fu Fighting
17. Raiders--Indian Reservation
18. Terry Jacks--Seasons In The Sun
19. Don Mclean--American Pie - Parts I & II

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There is not one song listed there that does not conjure a palpable memory of my youth.

I must own this.

It's not a bad compilation for someone who doesn't have the stuff already, but there aren't any rarities here either. I already have all of this, so unless there's something very unique about individual versions, I won't be indulging.

Seems to me like Shout! Factory is reissuing scaled-down versions of Rhino box sets (or series) that have gone OOP. Good that they're keeping this stuff out there, but like Walter, I've got every track already, more than once in many cases. Same with Shout's recent British Invasion box.

In fact, I bought a new Shout box set covering the old Vee-Jay label (early promo). I have to compare the track list with the Vee-Jay box that Rhino Handmade distributed awhile back.

You and Jimbo are probably right, this is not really a specialist's box. But after you posted, I counted and I only have 8 of these songs on cd.

I must be collecting in a different direction.

The box might have sold better if they had supplemented Rhino's Have a Nice Day series instead of choosing the obvious chart hits.

So, I take it then that the Have A Nice Day & Didn't It Blow Your Mind series from Rhino are now considered both to be officially out of print?

The "Have A Nice Day" titles seem to be much easier to find than the "Didn't It Blow Your MInd" titles, some of which are pretty expensive. Both series are excellent and deserve not only a reissue campaign, but also expanding.

I heard they sourced this from Jimbo's CD collection.

I dunno. I haven't been impressed by the remastered sound quality of Shout! Factory's reissues, especially that Slade compilation. That sounded absolutely awful.

Here, Jimbo:

http://www.imwan.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17351

Shout's Vee-Jay box is being released on Tuesday, I posted the tracklist in that thread.