tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post835717270499227040..comments2024-02-19T14:51:00.611-06:00Comments on The CD Project: Various Artists - Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 10 (1990)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13004375650529185768noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post-46099520703433994312014-01-26T07:49:17.132-06:002014-01-26T07:49:17.132-06:00I have to side with Herc on a few of these tracks ...I have to side with Herc on a few of these tracks as well.<br /><br />The DeFranco Family is very memorable to me. My cousin Joan had the 45 for "Heartbeat" so I heard it a lot back in the early 70's. They faded into the sands of time for me until the late 90's when I got a CD that pretty much covered all of their music from their first two albums. Sure, it is bubblegum pop but it really worked for me. The early 70's were all about family acts (Jacksons, Osmonds, DeFrancos, the Sylvers...).Martin Maenzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640466353011569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post-10649559670611351012014-01-25T14:12:27.413-06:002014-01-25T14:12:27.413-06:00Out of the 12,000 CDs that comprise our combinded ...Out of the 12,000 CDs that comprise our combinded collections, what are the odds we both feature discs in posts today that lead off with Albert Hammond's ode to SoCal's beautiful weather? (Even though you can't tell what the first track is on the disc I featured:)<br /><br />What comes as no surprise is our opposing views on a couple of songs: "Drift Away" and "Heartbeat (It's A Lovebeat)"<br /><br />In defense of "Country Soul", it can be heard in the records that came out of the house of Stax, the music cooked up in Muscle Shoals and, of course, the legendary C&W stylings of the man who invented soul, Ray Charles.<br /><br />"Drift Away" itself is testifying to the joy and power of music, plain and simple. The song is so strong, even covers by <a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/0RFgvrhkf9FiDRLA0BhzpZ" rel="nofollow">Uncle Kracker</a>, <a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/3utIHSaIsdYu6JboJUOJIC" rel="nofollow">The Neville Brothers</a> and <a href="http://open.spotify.com/track/6NISIWbtsSzHiWD6jSc7P5" rel="nofollow">Rod Stewart</a> couldn't mess it up. (Michael Bolton's cover is another story.)<br /><br />The first hundred or so times I heard "Heartbeat" on AM radio in 1973 and 1974, it left little impression on me. Then one day in 1976 or 1977 I heard it on an FM radio station while riding in the family street rod ('68 Chevy SS) and it sounded like an all-new song: thundering drums, crystal clear hi-hat, and that funky phased out part. I was hooked and asking for it at the record store the very next week but of course they didn't have it. Or the album. That was so three years ago. It wasn't until 1978 or 1979, when labels started re-releasing their catalog singles as double A-sides that I finally nabbed the single. It's on the <i>Remember Series</i> from 20th Century Records. (Elektra/Asylum had their <i>Spun Gold</i> series, A&M had their <i>Memories</i> series and Columbia had their <i>Hall Of Fame</i> series.)HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.com