Search - Various Artists :: Hey! Look What I Found, Vol. 10

More early r 'n' r rarities

Zub | Forks Twp., PA | 09/15/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In this, the tenth installment in the "Hey Look..." series on the Mavis label out of Canada, are found 27 tunes mostly from the earlier days of American rock and roll. As with the other volumes, there are a few better-known hits included such as "Happy" by the Sunshine Company and "And Suddenly" by the Cherry People, two top-50 charters from the later 60s. Making up the bulk of the other tracks are lots of charted rarities most of which are not to be found anywhere else on CD. Stuff like "Almost In Your Arms", a Johnny Nash tune from his 50s period long before he hit big with "Hold Me Tight" in '68. The novelty tune "Blah Blah Blah" by Nicola Paone makes its CD debut along with the bouncy "Sole Sole Sole" by the Swedish-Italian duo of Siw Malmkvist and Umberto Marcato. Other interesting finds are "The Happy Muleteer" by Ivo Robic, his other charted follow-up to his big 1959 hit "Morgan" and the instrumental one-hit (barely) wonder "Baby Elephant Walk" by the Miniature Men. Sound quality varies considerably - these are mostly, if not all, needle drops - with the majority decent-sounding with a few tracks (2,4,10,13,21) noticably noisy. A considerable number of tracks appear in stereo (5,9,11,15,16,18,20,22,24-27) with the remainder in mono. For this reason and the large number of charted rarities included in this volume, the rating gets pushed closer to four stars. An interesting collection of seldom-heard tunes for the collector or listener tired of the same old reissues. Since as of the date of this review there is no track listing supplied for this disc, the titles are given below.
1) The Bible Tells Me So - Nick Noble 2) From A School Ring To A Wedding Ring - Rover Boys 3) Teenage Party - Tommy Steele 4) Language Of Love - Cindy & Lindy 5) Mister Fire Eyes - Bonnie Guitar 6) Heartaches At Sweet Sixteen - Kathy Linden 7) Fibbin' - Patti Page 8) Almost In Your Arms - Johnny Nash 9) Charmaine - Mantovani 10) Blah, Blah, Blah - Nicola Paone 11) Words - Pat Boone 12) The Happy Muleteer - Ivo Robic 13) Bad Boy - Robin Luke 14) Ballad Of The Alamo - Bud & Travis 15) African Waltz - Cannonball Adderly 16) Go On Home - Patti Page 17) Baby Elephant Walk - The Miniature Men 18) True Love - Richard Chamberlain 19) Sole Sole Sole - Siw Malmkvist & Umberto Marcato 20) Just Like A Woman - Manfred Mann 21) Love Me - Bobby Hebb 22) Happy - Sunshine Company 23) Give Me One More Chance - Wilmer Alexander, Jr. & The Dukes 24) And Suddenly - Cherry People 25) Everybody Know Matilda - Duke Baxter 26) Any Way That You Want Me - Evie Sands 27) How Can I Be Sure - David Cassidy"