Rock 80: K-Tel's Finest Moment?

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I still have an original copy of Rock '80 I got for Christmas when I was 11! I also have K-Tel's "SoundWaves."

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SIDE ONE
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Funkytown - T Lipps
Could Have Loved You For a Long Time - The Spinners
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
The Empire Strikes Back Medley - Meco
I Was Made For Loving You - KISS
You Better Run - Pat Benatar

Also a big fan of Pravda Records' K-Tel Tribute Albums: http://www.pravdamusic.com/compilations.php?compID=1

SIDE TWO
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
Tired of Toein' the Line' - Rocky Burnette
Let Me Love You Tonight - Pure Prairie League
Do That To Me One More Time - Captain and Tennille
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Take A Little Rhythm - Ali Thomson
Into The Night - Benny Mardones

Obama, Wellstone and Darwinfish, Attorneys (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link

My approximate Top 21 or so, minus whichever ones I might have missed on my compilation shelf (some of these are foreign K-Tels though):

Super Bad Is Back
Body Moves: Electric Boogie
Rowdy Country
Disco Fever (Germany K-Tel 1977)
More Rowdy Country
Disco Rocket (Germany K-Tel 1975)
Rock 80
Disco Fever (U.K. K-Tel 1977 - different album)
Southern Fried Rock
Hot Nights & City Lights
Disco Rocket (U.S. 1978)
The Beat: Sound Wave Of The '80s (more new wave, 1982/early MTV era)
Super Star Collection (double LP from 1978)
20 Explosive Hits
Goofy Greats
Fantastic
Dynamite
Music Power
Full Tilt
Hit Parade
Hot Tracks

Wrote more detailed things about lots of them here:

I Have Never Heard Entire Albums By These Bands Who Have Excellent Songs On Late '70s/Early '80s European K-Tel-Style Compilations

xhuxk, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link


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