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Music CD - The Grass Roots: The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits
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Music CD: The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits
Artist: The Grass Roots
List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $4.88
Your Save: $ 11.10 ( 69% )
Availability: Usually ships in 8 to 14 days
Manufacturer: Mca Import
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Tracks:
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1. Let's Live For Today
2. Where Were You When I Needed You
3. Things I Should Have Said
4. Midnight Confessions
5. The River Is Wide
6. Bella Linda
7. Lovin' Things
8. Wait A Million Years
9. Baby Hold On
10. Heaven Knows
11. Come On And Say It
12. Temptation Eyes
13. Two Divided By Love
14. Glory Bound
15. The Runway
16. Sooner Or Later
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0008811146726
Format: Import
Label: Mca Import
Manufacturer: Mca Import
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca Import
Release Date: 2003-11-04
Studio: Mca Import
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: pure memories
Comment: i listened to the grass roots when i was younger and by buying this cd it brought back a flood of memories. awesome!
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Summary: The Grass Roots still sound great!
Comment: If you were a fan of the Grass Roots and want a really good comprehensive collection of their hits, this is a good one. Everything that I remember hearing at the time is here. A couple of the songs seemed to have the lead vocal mixed a little quieter compared to the instrumental tracks but I like this CD. All of my favorites are here, and these guys still sound great! They got a lot of airplay back then, but you don't hear them as much as I would like on stations that play 60's music these days. I think they should be a part of any late 60's mix. When I listen to 60's music, I want to hear what I remember was being played at the time. Whether it's FM or XM satellite radio stations, they all seem to skew towards certain types of music etc.. great CD!
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Summary: With Four More Selections This Is A 5-Star Compilation
Comment: I agree completely with the reviewer who suggests that MCA could have been a bit more generous and expanded this to include the missing hits he mentions, along with one he overlooked - Only When You're Lonely, their second charter for Dunhill in fact, and a # 96 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in September 1966.
There is a nice fold-out insert containing three pages of liner notes written by Todd Everett in May 1996, a discography of the contents, and reproductions of their LP covers Let's Live For Today, The Grass Roots Lovin' Things, and Golden Grass: The Grass Roots. The sound quality is excellent.
This group underwent many changes through the years after being formed as The Bedouins in 1964 in San Francisco by drummer Joel Larson and lead Bill Fulton. Their initial releases in 1966 [Where Were You When I Needed You and Only When You're Lonely] were written by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. In 1967 the group consisted of bassist/lead Rob Grill, guitarists Creed Bratton and Warren Etner, and drummer Rick Coonce. In 1971 further changes included guitarists Reed Kaling and Virgil Webber and original drummer Joel Larson.
Not exactly The Beatles in terms of group continuity, but they did put out some of the most marketable hits of their era, including Let's Live For Today (# 8 Hot 100 in summer 1967) which was based upon a hit in Italy by a group known as The Rokes. All in all a pretty good choice for the price asked - which could have been even better with just a little more MCA generosity.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great CD!
Comment: This will certainly take you back in time. The Grassroots had so many hits and they are all here and are the original versions that you heard on the radio! My personal favorite is "The River Is Wide", which gets very little airplay on oldies radio stations. If you are a Grassroots fan, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Grass Roots 2007
Comment: Just saw the Grass Roots(Grill and others) at the Sellersville Theater, in Sellersville, PA. He was using a cane but still sounded great. This takes me back to my childhood days and listening to the sound bites on this CD I am amazed how well he still sounds. I really recommend you buy this one. He also has a great stage presence and really interacted with the crowd. I would definitely recommend anyone who enjoyed this band in their youth to take time to see them. Yes, even after all these years! The crowd is small, personal and you won't regret it. He even cut a live CD in 2000 that he sells on tour.
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Editorial Reviews:
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As a band the Grass Roots were always a shadowy bunch, a front for studio musicians and professional songwriters looking to get their songs on the radio. They scored 14 top 40 hits during their reign in the late '60s/early '70s and their hits were among the catchiest and most enjoyable of the AM radio era. "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Bella Linda," "Two Divided by Love," and a slew of others are shameless pop made brilliant by multilayered harmonies and arrangements that liberally borrowed from folk-rock and R&B. The Grass Roots may have been product, but what great product. --Rob O'Connor
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