Search - Various Artists :: Hey! Look What I Found, Vol.8

More surprising finds

Zub | Forks Twp., PA | 11/03/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Mavis of Canada rolls out another collection of moderate and lesser hits along with B-sides and obscure non-charting singles. Included in this eclectic gathering of pop tunes from the fifties through the mid-seventies are several instrumentals and novelty tunes. The one charting entry by Louis Prima not found in other CDs, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" makes its CD debut here. Another one-hit instrumental to see the CD-light of day is the Incredible Bongo Band's "Bongo Rock" from 1973. Other one-hit wonders to appear include the break-in novelty tune "Russian Band Stand" from Spencer and Spencer aka Dickie Goodman of "Flying Saucer" fame and the top-20 rarer-than-hens-teeth "One Has My Name" by Barry Young. As in the other volumes of the series, sound quality is inconsistant, not to be unexpected given the range of age and obscurity of these titles. Tracks 15,24,26 and 27 appear in stereo with the remainder in mono. While most, if not all, of these are needle drops, they are mostly fairly clean sounding without massive noise compression making them reasonably listenable. Putting the less than pristine sound quality aside, this is an interesting collection of extremely rare pop tunes of the era."