If you follow this blog you know I'm a sucker for sixties compilations where I can both enjoy series of contemporary hits and maybe get a couple of rarities to top it off. And this has about as much of that anyone can sip in one sitting. A serie of five 2xLP volumes, together counting 120 hits as situated on the Swedish Top Ten list 1961-74. Most from UK, US and Swedish acts, but also oddities from elsewhere. Going from early sixties successes as Lonnie Donnegan, Emile Ford, Duane Eddy and Jerry Lee Lewis, over somewhat later Honeycombs, Move, Kinks, Donovan and Spencer Davies, up to Procol Harum, Traffic, T. Rex, Joe Cocker and Cat Stevens. Those were just a few exemples, for more check the listings below. Swinging Blue Jeans "Hippy Hippy Shake", "Good Golly Miss Molly" and Duane Eddy "Guitar Man" are different takes than on the first 45:s. The rest as it was, mono or stereo. Audio shifts a little depending on original recordings, Not all top of the line but most come out just fine and non bad, A minus would be the abscense of Beatles and Stones stuff, which probably has to do with Sonet label lacking rights to those at the time, but the rest is so overwhelming I don't miss those guys at all. Favorites for now would be the ones I didn't have on vinyl before - like Millie "My Boy Lollipop", Paul & Paula "Hey Paula", Sir Henry & The Butlers "Let's Go" - plus twenty or so more. I realise it can be hard to find all five volumes at once, but each has so much in itself for any sixties lover they're worth getting one by one. To my knowledge this was the project's only issue. All volumes had labels as shown here in laminated fold/out covers with pics of and facts (in Swedish) on the involved artists. (SÄM*) (SÖNÄ*) (CCÖ*)
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