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Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 12 | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 52295
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 70759
UPC: 081227075927
EAN: 0081227075927
ASIN: B0000032N0
Release Date: October 15, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Seasons in the Sun - Brel, Jacques | | • | Spiders and Snakes - Bellamy, David | | • | Jim Dandy - Chase, Lincoln | | • | Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Derringer, Rick | | • | Rock On - Essex, David | | • | Star - Egan, Joe | | • | Hooked on a Feeling - James, Mark | | • | Eres Tu (Touch the Wind) - Calderon, Juan [1] | | • | Come and Get Your Love - Vegas, Lolly | | • | The Lord's Prayer - Strals, Arnold | | • | The Entertainer - Joplin, Scott | | • | The Streak - Stevens, Ray [1] |
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 A Blast From The Past! November 27, 2008
Sentimental Journey
Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 12
This is Classic '70s! Some really cool songs like "Season's In The Sun", "Jim Dandy" "Rock On", "Hooked On A Feeling", and much more.
fine, strong set of '70s hits that are sure to please !!! December 15, 2007
Matthew G. Sherwin
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 12 gives us another enjoyable installment in the "Have A Nice Day" series by Rhino. The quality of the sound is excellent and we get some really good tunes. (I'm not reviewing the CDs in this series in order because I am just getting them in and I didn't order them in order.)
Terry Jacks starts off the track set with his painful yet beautiful ballad "Seasons In The Sun." The electric guitars work well and the strings in the background enhance the beauty of the melody. Terry sings this flawlessly and he jumps almost effortlessly from subtle key change to subtle key change--I love it! Black Oak Arkansas performs their own rendition of "Jim Dandy;" this tune rocks and it still sounds just right all these years later. "Jim Dandy" is one of the "harder" rock songs on this album but it's still nothing short of excellent. In addition, Stealers Wheel performs a Beatles style ballad entitled "Star." Stealers Wheel does it up right with guitar, great vocals and percussion.
Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" is probably my favorite tune on this album. The beginning of the song with the chanting appeals to the primal sense for music we all share; and the melody stuns me with its beauty. The band never misses a beat on "Hooked On A Feeling." Awesome tune!
Mocedades performs another one of my all-time favorites, "Eres Tu;" this love ballad impresses me with its beauty and the group Mocedades sings this to perfection; it almost seems that their talent is beyond human when I hear and enjoy this song so much.
Marvin Hamlisch's "The Entertainer" is easily recognizable even today; and the album ends with a novelty tune by Ray Stevens, "The Streak." "The Streak" was wildly popular when it was first released and we'd joke about it at school all the time.
My only true complaint about this CD is that it runs a tad short. They could have and should have added a couple extra songs to the album. Some people say that Sister Janet Mead's "The Lord's Prayer" doesn't truly fit in with the rest of the tracks. However, I think the rhythm is distinctly `70s in nature and I don't mind it here even if it doesn't completely fit in with the rest of the album.
Any fan of `70s music should get this album. The songs are pretty darn good and the track set features a fine diversity of artists.
 Hits and misses make for a take it or leave it affair September 14, 2007
Greg Brady (Capital City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Twelve volumes into their collection gathering stuff that would have played on AM radio back in the 70s, Rhino is starting to scrape here and there. Some of this is worth remembering and some you wish they'd left buried under the Nehru jacket.
HIGHLIGHTS:
I know I'm in the minority but "Seasons in the Sun" is simply far too catchy for me to consider it anything but a highlight. Rick Derringer crafted one of the all-time great hooks to "..Hoochie Koo" and even WITHOUT the "dancing baby" episodes of Ally McBeal in the 90s the Blue Swede cover of "Hooked without a Feeling" would be fondly remembered. Outside of those, two somewhat obscure tunes are also very nice, Jim Stafford novelty "Spiders & Snakes" (shame on the liners writer for trashing this one AND Jerry Reed's "Amos Moses") and the swamp pop of Redbone's "Come And Get Your Love".
MIDDLING:
I might listen to "Rock On" and "The Streak" on the radio but I don't know that I'd purposefully pay for the privelege. Ditto "The Entertainer" though I really like that song when I'm in the mood to hear it.
LOWS:
The Mocedades tune will probably appeal to you most if you actually speak Spanish. I realize that the Sister Janet Mead tune was historically important for Christian rock (a #4 hit about God in the middle of the decadence of disco?!? Far out!) but the vocals don't have any bite. Just can't get into it. "Star" from Stealers Wheel is probably the first (and last) time a Top Ten hit will feature the kazoo and the melody's decent but the hook isn't strong enough to make an impression.
BOTTOM LINE:
Pretty average in the series. Some good, some bad.
One of the strongest volumes in the Have a Nice Day series July 28, 2006
Casey Scott
Moving on to 1974, this is an incredible mixture of MOR, hard rock, novelty, and one-hit wonder songs, and easily one of the most replayable volumes in Rhino's Have a Nice Day series.
The hot: Jim Stafford's "Spiders and Snakes", often written off as a novelty hit, is a great mix of guitar licks, goofy corn-pone lyrics, and Southern-fried sensibility. Stafford's work with the Bellamy Brothers would prove more successful, but this is one of the most listenable songs of the blurred line between rock and country that occurred in the early 70s. Black Oak Arkansas' "Jim Dandy" can't hold a candle to the Lavern Baker version of the 50s, but it's a great example of country rock tearing up the charts in '74. This song and the next, "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo", would enjoy a renaissance when used in the 90s cult classic DAZED AND CONFUSED. Rick Derringer of The McCoys somehow never made a follow-up hit to "Hoochie Coo", but this is a killer record guaranteed to get even the most stuffy listeners rocking out. David Essex' "Rock On" may take a while to grow on you, but its hollow sound with an infectious bass line and sparse percussion is unique. Stealers Wheel's "Star" sounds a lot like a Beatles single circa the White Album, and is not at all like their previous "Stuck in the Middle with You", but it's not bad. I originally didn't like Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling", but I eventually surrendered to the Hooga-Chocka and the good times took over. I still love B.J. Thomas' original 1968 chart hit, but this one is pure 1974 good vibes. "Eres Tu" is a rare example of a Spanish-language chart hit, and it's just exquisite. TOMMY BOY used it to good effect (along with The Carpenters' "Superstar"), and its sweeping vocals, perfect orchestration, and romantic lyrics weave a spell over you. Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" is so much better than the terrible 90s cover version, and it appeared in the film DICK. This song will make you wish the sitar would make a comeback. Who am I to knock "The Lord's Prayer"? Well, it's an unlikely chart hit, but hey, so was "Eres Tu", and it's a true sign of the times, so it's essential to have in your 70s music library.
The not so hot: Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" was one of the biggest hits of the year, but Jacks' whining vocals are grating to the extreme. It's clear that of the Poppy Family members, his ex-wife was the true singing talent (her work on the group's hit "Which Way You Going Billy" is extraordinary). Jacks even managed to make a movie based on this song's popularity! Unlike Gilbert O'Sullivan and Lobo, similar-sounding wimpy pop male vocalists around the same time, Jacks couldn't make lightning strike twice. Marvin Hamlisch's "The Entertainer" just seems odd to include here, though it was in the motion picture smash THE STING. Ray Stevens' "The Streak" is a far cry from his excellent "Everything is Beautiful" a few years earlier; it's a good time capsule tune but you'll find yourself stopping the CD after Track 10.
Despite the opening track being an annoying experience and the last two songs ending the CD on a lame note, the songs in-between are strong enough to warrant a 5-star rating, especially as many of them are so rarely compiled.
Finally Found It! February 23, 2006
Kathleen Motteler (South Carolina)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Unlike the other reviewers....the only reason I bought this disc was for "The Lord's Prayer"! I've been looking all over for a copy of this!! Many of the other songs on this CD I already own on other compilations, but there were at least 5 I didn't have yet and "The Lord's Prayer" is the one I wanted the most! It's a beautiful version of this prayer.
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