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The Five Americans - The Ultimate History of Rock'n'roll Collection - Chapter Seven - The Great Bands Audio CD

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Title: The Ultimate History of Rock'n'roll Collection - Chapter Seven - The Great Bands
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Remakes don't make the "History of Rock & Roll"
An element of a "great band" is that the sound of the hit single is the sound of the original band, and it is hard to duplicate that by steriofying the sound. Although the remakes here are better than some from the series of the Ultimate History of Rock & Roll, such as The Ultimate History of Rock & Roll Collection - Chapter Nine - Easy 70's they are still remakes!! This collection is of great bands, and mostly it appears they are great "one hit wonders". It's like the band sound is not actually the band anymore.

There is nothing quite like the original oldies, and what you have here are remakes. The original singers (to my knowledge) have redone these songs. And sometimes re-doing the song is worse than remastering (I speak of poor remastering-which does happen). The song here, "Tobacco Road" doesn't have the original voice, so that does it for that song. "Silence is Golden" does sound acceptable, but will never sound as good as the original; and "Bend Me Shape Me" is also acceptable. But the majority are new stereo recordings like "Lady Willpower", "Baby Come Back", "Western Union", and "She's Not There", "Come and Get It".

A couple of original sounds are here: "Surfin'" by the Beach Boys, and "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen. "The Letter" by the Box Tops is also acceptable, as is "Hippy Hippy Shake" by Swingin' Blue Jeans, an old favorite of mine. Not indicated as an original, but appears to be a mistake, "Wild Thing" by the Troggs is the original.

So if you don't mind remakes and enjoy a different sound musically and vocally, then this is good. Most of the voices appear original and they really try to keep it close to the original.

If you are like me and ONLY wish to hear the originals, then SKIP this. . . . . . Rizzo.


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