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| | The Best of Spanky & Our Gang: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection | | | Music Artist : | | Spanky & Our Gang | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 2005-04-12 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sunday Will Never Be the Same
2. Making Every Minute Count
3. Lazy Day
4. Sunday Mornin'
5. Like to Get to Know You
6. Give a Damn
7. Yesterday's Rain
8. Anything You Choose
9. And She's Mine
10. Echoes (Everybody's Talkin')
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 A Good Sampler From An Underrated Group
Submitted on: 2008-12-23 |
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As harmony groups go, Spanky and Our Gang was quite a combination of talent. All six members contributed vocals to a blend of pop, rock, folk, country, blues, and jazz material. The hits included here were mostly upbeat sunshiny tunes that sounded great on 60's AM radio. Because of their smooth crossover sound and considerable comedic skills, Spanky and Our Gang were featured on many television variety shows of the day.
As is the case with most collections in the "20th Century Masters Millennium Collection" series, the "Spanky and Our Gang Best Of" is an economic sampler for someone wanting the basics of the group's recorded work. Arranged in chronological order of chart appearance, the three biggies are here: "Sunday Will Never Be The Same", "Lazy Day", and "Like To Get To Know You", as well as lesser hits "Sunday Mornin'", "Making Every Minute Count" and "Yesterday's Rain". Don't overlook the wonderful "Give a Damn", a subtle beauty of vocal work and production that was used to promote the cause of the Urban Coalition League in New York City. The first cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'" is here also-when the Gang recorded it before Nilsson, they knew it as "Echoes" and gave it the full harmony treatment.
Of the ten tunes featured, three are from the debut LP, three from "Like To Get To Know You", and four from the "Anything You Choose" disc. If you want more than the hits, you'll have to explore more of the catalog on LP or Japanese import CDs.
Unfortunately for Spanky and Our Gang, their music was so vocally and instrumentally intricate that most cover groups can't reproduce their sound. Because of that, you don't hear these hits performed very often by others. As a result, they aren't remembered as much as they should be. Too bad, because Spanky and Our Gang were truly one of the more talented and sophisticated groups of the era.
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 Oldies but Goodies
Submitted on: 2008-09-22 |
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| Listening to this CD brought back a lot of great memories. Their harmonies are wonderful. |
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 Typical 1960s recording.
Submitted on: 2008-06-13 |
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| As I said in the review title, "Typical 1960s recording" dubbed to CD format. Just getting old memories collected. |
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 Not as good as the vinyl 33
Submitted on: 2008-04-02 |
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| Like many classics reissued on CD, you can hear the difference between LP and CD - or rather, you do NOT hear much of the richness and depth of the LP. In addition, some of the tracks in the beginning play a fraction faster than the original LP. I keep trying these reissued CDs, but not many of them are worth the money. |
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When the vinyl's too expensive
Submitted on: 2007-03-01 |
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| I simply can't afford replacing my old vinyl versions of these classic sixties tunes. Spanky and Our Gang still has that extra special something, that keeps me puttin' them on my stereo. This cd version comes across like clean, brand-spakin' new vinyl. Those were the days... |
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