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 fifth and final installment in which HERC spotlights 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 | ||
20-10 | 13-01 | After The Lovin' | Engelbert Humperdinck | 10/23/1976 | 85 | 8 |
19-05 | 13-02 | I Like Dreamin' | Kenny Nolan | 11/6/1976 | 89 | 3 |
19-04 | 13-03 | Torn Between Two Lovers | Mary MacGregor | 11/20/1976 | 87 | 1 |
20-08 | 13-04 | Living Next Door To Alice | Smokie | 12/4/1976 | 84 | 25 |
19-09 | 13-05 | The Things We Do For Love | 10cc | 1/8/1977 | 86 | 5 |
19-06 | 13-06 | Don't Give Up On Us | David Soul | 1/29/1977 | 74 | 1 |
19-10 | 13-07 | Couldn't Get It Right | Climax Blues Band | 2/19/1977 | 94 | 3 |
20-07 | 13-08 | Angel In Your Arms | Hot | 2/19/1977 | 90 | 6 |
19-08 | 13-09 | Lonely Boy | Andrew Gold | 3/19/1977 | 83 | 7 |
19-11 | 13-10 | Undercover Angel | Alan O'Day | 4/2/1977 | 98 | 1 |
20-11 | 13-11 | Ariel | Dean Friedman | 4/16/1977 | 86 | 26 |
24-10 | 13-12 | Everybody Be Dancin' | Starbuck | 4/16/1977 | 85 | 38 |
19-12 | 13-13 | Gonna Fly Now (Theme From ROCKY) | Bill Conti | 4/23/1977 | 85 | 1 |
20-09 | 13-14 | Do You Wanna Make Love | Peter McCann | 4/23/1977 | 84 | 5 |
21-04 | 13-15 | Telephone Man | Meri Wilson | 6/4/1977 | 85 | 18 |
21-01 | 13-16 | Black Betty | Ram Jam | 6/11/1977 | 92 | 18 |
20-12 | 13-17 | Smoke From A Distant Fire | Sanford-Townsend Band | 6/18/1977 | 82 | 9 |
21-02 | 13-18 | Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band | Meco | 8/6/1977 | 71 | 1 |
24-02 | 13-19 | Heaven On The 7th Floor | Paul Nicholas | 8/20/1977 | 79 | 6 |
24-05 | 13-20 | The King Is Gone | Ronnie McDowell | 9/10/1977 | 89 | 13 |
old vol-trk | new vol-trk | debut date | debut pos | peak pos | ||
21-03 | 14-01 | Baby Come Back | Player | 10/1/1977 | 90 | 1 |
25-04 | 14-02 | Falling | LeBlanc & Carr | 10/15/1977 | 87 | 13 |
24-01 | 14-03 | Hey Deanie | Shaun Cassidy | 11/12/1977 | 87 | 7 |
24-08 | 14-04 | Emotion | Samantha Sang | 11/19/1977 | 86 | 3 |
21-06 | 14-05 | Sometimes When We Touch | Dan Hill | 11/26/1977 | 86 | 3 |
24-12 | 14-06 | Steet Corner Serenade | Wet Willie | 12/3/1977 | 87 | 30 |
21-08 | 14-07 | Goodbye Girl | David Gates | 12/17/1977 | 93 | 15 |
21-05 | 14-08 | Thunder Island | Jay Ferguson | 12/17/1977 | 88 | 9 |
24-07 | 14-09 | Feels So Good | Chuck Mangione | 2/11/1978 | 87 | 4 |
24-03 | 14-10 | Thank You For Being A Friend | Andrew Gold | 2/11/1978 | 73 | 25 |
25-01 | 14-11 | Love Is Like Oxygen | Sweet | 2/18/1978 | 81 | 8 |
23-11 | 14-12 | This Time I'm In It For Love | Player | 3/11/1978 | 79 | 10 |
21-09 | 14-13 | It's A Heartache | Bonnie Tyler | 3/25/1978 | 78 | 3 |
21-07 | 14-14 | Werewolves Of London | Warren Zevon | 3/25/1978 | 76 | 21 |
21-10 | 14-15 | Bluer Than Blue | Michael Johnson | 4/22/1978 | 94 | 12 |
21-12 | 14-16 | Magnet And Steel | Walter Egan | 5/27/1978 | 87 | 8 |
25-08 | 14-17 | My Angel Baby | Toby Beau | 6/3/1978 | 69 | 13 |
22-02 | 14-18 | Hot Child In The City | Nick Gilder | 6/10/1978 | 88 | 1 |
21-11 | 14-19 | Kiss You All Over | Exile | 7/8/1978 | 85 | 1 |
22-03 | 14-20 | Love Is In The Air | John Paul Young | 7/15/1978 | 78 | 7 |
old vol-trk | new vol-trk | debut date | debut pos | peak pos | ||
25-06 | 15-01 | 5.7.0.5. | City Boy | 8/12/1978 | 81 | 27 |
25-02 | 15-02 | How Much I Feel | Ambrosia | 9/2/1978 | 90 | 3 |
25-05 | 15-03 | I Just Wanna Stop | Gino Vannelli | 9/9/1978 | 87 | 4 |
25-07 | 15-04 | New York Groove | Ace Frehley | 10/14/1978 | 87 | 13 |
22-01 | 15-05 | Every 1's A Winner | Hot Chocolate | 11/11/1978 | 75 | 6 |
25-03 | 15-06 | Shake It | Ian Matthews | 11/18/1978 | 90 | 13 |
22-04 | 15-07 | Lotta Love | Nicolette Larson | 11/25/1978 | 86 | 8 |
22-05 | 15-08 | Dancin' Shoes | Nigel Olsson | 12/16/1978 | 79 | 18 |
22-06 | 15-09 | Stumblin' In | Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman | 1/27/1979 | 89 | 4 |
25-10 | 15-10 | Get Used To It | Roger Voudouris | 3/17/1979 | 90 | 21 |
25-09 | 15-11 | Love Takes Time | Orleans | 3/24/1979 | 89 | 11 |
24-04 | 15-12 | Makin' It | David Naughton | 3/31/1979 | 89 | 5 |
22-09 | 15-13 | You Take My Breath Away | Rex Smith | 4/21/1979 | 84 | 10 |
22-11 | 15-14 | Sad Eyes | Robert John | 5/19/1979 | 85 | 1 |
22-08 | 15-15 | Gold | John Stewart | 5/19/1979 | 78 | 5 |
25-11 | 15-16 | Lead Me On | Maxine Nightingale | 5/26/1979 | 89 | 5 |
22-07 | 15-17 | My Sharona | The Knack | 6/23/1979 | 86 | 1 |
25-12 | 15-18 | Oh Well | The Rockets | 7/7/1979 | 84 | 30 |
22-10 | 15-19 | Driver's Seat | Sniff 'n' the Tears | 7/21/1979 | 82 | 15 |
22-12 | 15-20 | Hold On | Ian Gomm | 9/1/1979 | 81 | 18 |
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:
These three have to be my favorites as they fall smack dab into my heavy Top 40 radio listening days as a kid. Good job on this re-alignment, Herc!
ReplyDeleteThese three are my favorites of the series as well. All of these songs bring back fond memories of hearing them on WLS-AM, WLRW-FM, the respective jukeboxes at Pizza Hut, Garcia's Pizza (and later, our high school cafeteria) as well as the local skating rink. Good times, my friend, good times.
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