The Young Rascals: Collections (Remastered + Expanded) CD Track Listing

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The Young Rascals Collections (Remastered + Expanded) (1967)
Collections (Remastered + Expanded)\n2007 Colllectors' Choice Music / Rhino Entertainment Company\n\nOriginally Released January 9, 1967\nCD Edition Released October 1988\nRhino Handmade Compilation Released October 17, 2001\nCollectors' Choice CD Edition Released August 28, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The garage rock feel has been banished almost entirely from the group's second album, whose release followed a pair of disappointing singles ("What Is the Reason" and "Come On Up"). It also includes their first misjudgment on an album, Gene Cornish's too quiet, too introspective, and way-too-languid "No Love to Give," amid an otherwise wonderfully soulful body of music that picks up right where "In the Midnight Hour" from the prior album left off. Most of this record is among the most danceable white rock music of its period -- even the Eddie Brigati-sung cover of the then-current pop standard "More" has a certain rocking credibility. Their attempt at bluesy rock & roll, Cornish's "Nineteen Fifty-Six," a bit of a "Kansas City" rip-off, with a pair of crunchy guitar parts and Cornish singing lead, also comes off extremely well. They're even better with the more soulful tracks, however. "Land of 1000 Dances" was the best track on which to end this album, but it was Cavaliere and David Brigati's "Love Is a Beautiful Thing" that pointed to the future, showing the group moving toward the mix of sounds and sentiments behind "People Got to Be Free." The CD reissue of this album (originally on Atlantic) has no notes but very good sound. \n \n[Collectors Choice's 2007 reissue includes mono and stereo versions of each of the original tracks.] -- Bruce Eder\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWhatta Band!!!, August 3, 2004 \nBy Rollie Anderson (Forney, Texas United States)\nThe pictures on the cover tell all you need to know about these guys. Just four hard-working, soul-searching rock and rollers who love to sweat it out for their music. They are the real deal, my fellow music-lovers and if you missed them way back in the sixties here's your chance to relive one of the best. If you don't believe me just sample "Mickey's Monkey/Love Lights" and you'll be dancing uncontrollably to Dino's infectious and powerful drumming and Felix's growling, screaming Hammond Organ. And vocals? Get outta here. They don't make 'em like this any more. \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWhat is the reason for falling in love?, October 18, 1999 \nBy DJ Rix (NJ USA)\nHey, almost every East Coast band with an organ in it had to do a cover of "More" during the mid-Sixties. Dad paid for the accordion lessons & Mom made sure you practiced & they definitely showed up for the first set once in awhile. The girls liked the song, too, so here you get little Eddie singing his heart out right through the "One More Time" at the end. \n\nThis is nearly a live album. Minimal overdubbing, filled out with soul covers, a party album. It has two classic Rascals songs, "Lonely Too Long" & "Come On Up," & opens up with a classic question from the lyrical age of doo wop: "What is the Reason (for falling in love)". I'll be damned if I know - even the immortal Monotones couldn't answer that one - they didn't even know who wrote the "Book of Love." \n\nFools do fall in love with "Collections" & I'm one of those fools. It's Saturday night at The Barge. The Rascals are tearing up the joint with the music on this here album. Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky. -- Bob Rixon, WFMU-FM\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: The Young Rascals \n\nAlbum Notes\nThe Young Rascals: Felix Cavaliere (organ); Gene Cornish (bass guitar); Dino Danelli (drums); Eddie Brigati (percussion).\n\nThe S on the end of the title should be a clue, but just in case: this is not a Rascals greatest-hits compilation. Released in 1967, COLLECTIONS is a studio album that finds the Young Rascals (they hadn't dropped the prefix yet) at the height of their blue-eyed soul era, bashing out smart funky covers of R&B hits and a small handful of meaty originals.\n\nToo sophisticated to be a garage band, the Young Rascals still had a rough edge to their sound--even on a version of the middle-of-the-road favorite "More (Theme from Mondo Cane)"--that gives the album its excitement. The boys are in full-on human jukebox mode, tossing off their interpretations of the Miracles' "Mickey's Monkey," the Marvellettes' "Too Many Fish in the Sea," and a version of "Land of 1000 Dances" owing more to Wilson Pickett than Cannibal and the Headhunters. Good sweaty R&B fun.
This rock cd contains 22 tracks and runs 66min 29sec.
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