Issue belonging to a fourteen part set handeling British sixties pop and rock. Seen this and others from that in bins earlier. Most of them Dutch, but still not sure if the whole thing was an exclusive Dutch production or some of the vinyls were released in other countries too. Anyway the reason I eschewed this particular issue before was the "stereo" on label. Most of tracks on it were recorded in mono only and I've heard too many seventies collections desecrating tophole sixties recordings by reissuing them in bad fake stereo. Though in this case I needn't have worried cause all cuts here come in mono. The audio shifts a little bit between tracks, but all sound very good and some even fantastic. I get much of the best from the Merseybeat era - melodic pop from Hollies and Hermans Hermits, sweet ballads from Gerry And The Pacemakers, amphetamine rock from Swinging Blue Jeans, catchy silly pop from Freddy And The Dreamers and the Lennon/McCartney cover "Bad To Me" from Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas. Only band new to my collection here is Roulettes. Never set my ears on them before, but this first encounter makes me wanna hear more. So in the future I won't shy away from later collections of early sixties tracks just because the label say "Stereo". Better listen first and decide then. To my knowledge this particular item was Dutch only, also as cassette (5C 234-24732). Vinyl came with label as shown here in a thin laminated cover. (SÄM*) (HÖLX*)
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