Rhino's SUPER HITS OF THE 70s: HAVE A NICE DAY Series Vols. 10-12 [HERC'S M!X]

Much has been written, debated and discussed about Rhino's beloved Super Hits Of The 70s: Have A Nice Day series (HAND) of compact discs and cassettes since their introduction in 1990.  Volume by volume, song by song sound quality analysis has been performed by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber (HERE) and suitably nostalgic reviews have been written by the soft rock kid­™ (HERE) yet one issue fans frequently mention about HAND is the lack of a true chronological running order to each album as most of them are ordered by when a song peaked rather than when it was released and later albums in the series seem to be the results of some late in the game licensing deals.  Another grumble from fans is the inclusion of just a dozen songs per CD; for the majority of the albums in the series less than half the disc's capacity was utilized.  Well, your boy HERC took both matters into his own hands and is proud to announce his personal preferred mix of the venerable series.  Owing to the noted K-Tel album influence and inspiration for the series, each volume now has 20 songs, which means there are just fifteen albums in the newly envisioned collection instead of twenty-five as in the original HAND.  And each of those albums will be arranged in strict chronological order based on a song's debut on the Hot 100 (or in one case, The Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart as the song failed to make the bigs) with ties broken by debut position on chart with lower debuts preceding higher ones, countdown style.  This is the fourth installment with the fifth and final one to be posted tomorrow; in each installment HERC will spotlight three albums from his newly sequenced playlists along with his usual A/V embellishments.

old vol-trk	new vol-trk			debut date	debut pos	peak pos
13-11	10-01	I Can Help	Billy Swan	9/28/1974	90	1
14-01	10-02	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas	10/12/1974	94	1
14-02	10-03	Don't Call Us, We'll Call You	Sugarloaf	12/7/1974	99	9
14-06	10-04	Up In A Puff Of Smoke	Polly Brown	1/4/1975	99	16
17-06	10-05	Before The Next Teardrop Falls	Freddy Fender	2/1/1975	97	1
14-04	10-06	Chevy Van	Sammy Johns	2/1/1975	81	5
14-08	10-07	Jackie Blue	Ozark Mountain Daredevils	2/8/1975	94	3
14-03	10-08	Emma	Hot Chocolate	2/8/1975	89	8
14-07	10-09	Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)	Leo Sayer	2/22/1975	82	9
23-05	10-10	Amie	Pure Prairie League	3/1/1975	96	27
15-03	10-11	Black Superman - Muhammad Ali	Johnny Wakelin	3/8/1975	100	21
14-09	10-12	How Long	Ace	3/8/1975	89	3
14-10	10-13	Wildfire	Michael Murphey	3/29/1975	99	3
15-04	10-14	I'm Not Lisa	Jessi Colter	4/5/1975	88	4
14-11	10-15	Magic	Pilot	4/5/1975	84	5
15-01	10-16	I'm On Fire	Dwight Twilley Band	4/26/1975	99	16
20-05	10-17	Judy Mae	Boomer Castelman	5/3/1975	93	33
17-10	10-18	The Rockford Files	Mike Post	5/17/1975	93	10
14-12	10-19	I'm Not In Love	10cc	5/17/1975	84	2
15-05	10-20	At Seventeen	Janis Ian	6/14/1975	87	3

old vol-trk	new vol-trk			debut date	debut pos	peak pos
17-12	11-01	Feelings	Morris Albert	6/21/1975	98	6
17-07	11-02	Rendezvous	Hudson Brothers	6/21/1975	96	26
15-02	11-03	Fallin' In Love	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	6/21/1975	89	1
18-01	11-04	Wasted Days And Wasted Nights	Freddy Fender	6/21/1975	83	8
15-07	11-05	Rocky	Austin Roberts	7/19/1975	100	9
17-09	11-06	Dance With Me	Orleans	7/19/1975	89	6
15-06	11-07	Run Joey Run	David Geddes	8/2/1975	78	4
15-08	11-08	Eighteen With A Bullet	Pete Wingfield	8/23/1975	98	15
15-09	11-09	Sky High	Jigsaw	8/30/1975	88	3
15-10	11-10	Saturday Night	Bay City Rollers	10/11/1975	85	1
15-12	11-11	You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate	11/1/1975	86	3
23-07	11-12	Fox On The Run	Sweet	11/15/1975	47	5
20-02	11-13	The Last Game Of The Season	David Geddes	11/15/1975	44	18
17-11	11-14	Love Hurts	Nazareth	11/22/1975	95	10
15-11	11-15	Convoy	C.W. McCall	12/6/1975	82	1
18-02	11-16	Dream Weaver	Gary Wright	1/3/1976	98	2
18-03	11-17	Let Your Love Flow	Bellamy Brothers	1/31/1976	88	1
24-09	11-18	Love Fire	Jigsaw	2/7/1976	89	30
23-08	11-19	Money Honey	Bay City Rollers	2/7/1976	51	9
18-04	11-20	Right Back Where We Started From	Maxine Nightingale	2/14/1976	95	2

old vol-trk	new vol-trk			debut date	debut pos	peak pos
18-08	12-01	Shannon	Henry Gross	2/28/1976	84	6
18-06	12-02	Fooled Around And Fell In Love	Elvin Bishop	3/6/1976	88	3
18-05	12-03	Falling Apart At The Seams	Marmalade	3/27/1976	99	49
18-07	12-04	Happy Days	Pratt & McClain	4/3/1976	89	5
23-12	12-05	Love Really Hurts Without You	Billy Ocean	4/3/1976	85	22
18-11	12-06	Moonlight Feels Right	Starbuck	4/17/1976	90	3
20-03	12-07	Get Closer	Seals & Crofts	4/17/1976	82	6
23-09	12-08	Let Her In	John Travolta	5/1/1976	98	10
24-06	12-09	Save Your Kisses For Me	Brotherhood Of Man	5/8/1976	98	27
18-09	12-10	Making Our Dreams Come True	Cyndi Grecco	5/8/1976	90	25
18-10	12-11	Afternoon Delight	Starland Vocal Band	5/8/1976	87	1
18-12	12-12	I'd Really Love To See You Tonight	England Dan & John Ford Coley	6/12/1976	89	2
19-02	12-13	Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang	Silver	6/19/1976	97	16
20-04	12-14	Devil Woman	Cliff Richard	7/4/1976	87	6
19-01	12-15	Still The One	Orleans	7/31/1976	69	5
20-06	12-16	Disco Duck (Part 1)	Rick Dees & his Cast of Idiots	8/14/1976	89	1
24-11	12-17	Did You Boogie (With Your Baby)	Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids	8/28/1976	87	29
23-10	12-18	Love Me	Yvonne Elliman	10/2/1976	85	14
19-07	12-19	Jeans On	David Dundas	10/9/1976	90	17
19-03	12-20	Stand Tall	Burton Cummings	10/9/1976	74	10

Many of the songs featured on the playlists from this post can be found on the following five vintage K-Tel albums, all of which have been profiled over at HERC's K-TEL KOLLECTION: