LOONEY TOONS
The current obsession is anthology albums — more precisely, Golden Hits packages, samplers and bargain collections. I think I know why, too. For a long long time, everyone has known that the absolute A-number-one fuckin’ killer best of all anthologies were the Motown ones: Chartbusters, the latest series is into its fourth edition by now, I think, but before that there were the fabulous 16 Original Big Hits, which ran into a dozen or more volumes before it was deleted, or just stopped coming out.
LOONEY TOONS
BY DAVE MARSH
The current obsession is anthology albums — more precisely, Golden Hits packages, samplers and bargain collections. I think I know why, too.
For a long long time, everyone has known that the absolute A-number-one fuckin’ killer best of all anthologies were the Motown ones: Chartbusters, the latest series is into its fourth edition by now, I think, but before that there were the fabulous 16 Original Big Hits, which ran into a dozen or more volumes before it was deleted, or just stopped coming out.
UA had a label called Sunset, which put out a bunch of good packages, including one called Color My Soul, which has Ike & Tina, Fats Domino and the best, as far as I’m concerned, version of “Staggerlee,” by the Isley Brothers. (Listen to the fuckin’ guitar line right after “I got three young children and a very shapely wife.”)