Chartbusters Go Pop - Elton John

Advantages: Rare recordings, variety of songs, professional act
Disadvantages: Naff cover, silly album sleeve notes

I love music & I have a large collection built up through the years. As a teenager there was so much music available, but on my limited funds I had to be selective & was limited to buying albums rather than singles & albums. As singles were released to promote albums, I would wait until a particular album was released, rather than but a single only to find it was duplicated on the album later on. If a particular single was released that I liked ...
...record the single from the radio to my cassette recorder instead. Ah, those were the days! There were companies such as K-Tel & Arcade who would release albums with current hits recorded by the original artists that would be good value for money but you often got half the albums full of dross & about 8-10 singles that were appealing. However, in the late 1960s & early 1970s if you were on a tight budget & was desperate for those chart singles there ... Read review