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NUGGETS

(Elektra)

I learned about golden oldie collections the hard way. I was all of eleven, and had finally managed to figure out what that noise coming over the radio meant. I�d bought my first single, (Bobby Rydell�s �I Wanna Thank You'" which made no sense to my parents, even though it seems perfectly impotent in retrospect), but it wasn�t enough. One small circle of plastic, and all you could do was play the song over and over again until you became sick of it. Albums didn�t particularly make it, either. They cost four times as much as a single, and only gave you a couple of hits and a lot of dead air in return.

One afternoon, the TV screen exploded with what seemed to be the answer: ��For a limited time, 72 golden oldies all in one great four album set...� Then a seemingly endless list of all the songs I�d ever wanted rolled across the music and I became an instant prisoner. I scraped and stole the amount they demanded for this miracle, mailed it to the specified address (a post office box in some faraway Midwestern place) and waited.