Vinyl Album - Various Artists - Superstars Of The 70's - Warner Special Products

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Various Artists
Title:	Superstars Of The 70's
Label:	Warner Special Products
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	SP 4000
Date:	Jul 1973
Format:	Box Set
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	20 Own, 5 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Alice Cooper	School's Out	A. Cooper, M. Bruce, G. Buxton, D, Dunaway, N. Smith	9.0 Rate
A2	Seals And Crofts	Summer Breeze	James Seals, Dash Crofts	6.0 Rate
A3	The Beach Boys	Surf's Up	Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks	5.5 Rate
A4	Randy Newman	Sail Away	Randy Newman	Rate
A5	Judy Collins	Both Sides Now	Joni Mitchell	8.0 Rate
A6	The Doors	Tightrope Ride	Manzarek, Krieger	Rate
B1	The Bee Gees	Lonely Days	B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb	Rate
B2	James Taylor	Fire And Rain	James Taylor	10.0 Rate
B3	The Grateful Dead	Truckin'	Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir	8.0 Rate
B4	Roberta Flack And Donny Hathaway	Where Is The Love	Ralph MacDonald, William Salter	8.0 Rate
B5	Stephen Stills	Love The One You're With	Stephen Stills	5.0 Rate
B6	Yes	Roundabout	Anderson, Howe	8.0 Rate
C1	The Doors	Light My Fire	The Doors	7.0 Rate
C2	Jefferson Airplane	White Rabbit	Slick	7.0 Rate
C3	Crosby, Stills And Nash	Marrakesh Express	Graham Nash	5.0 Rate
C4	Jimi Hendrix	Purple Haze	Jimi Hendrix	8.0 Rate
C5	The Bee Gees	To Love Somebody	Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb	10.0 Rate
C6	The Kinks	Lola	Raymond Douglas Davies	8.3 Rate
D1	Carly Simon	Anticipation	Carly Simon	Rate
D2	The Guess Who	American Woman	Bachman, Cummings, Kale, Peterson	Rate
D3	Todd Rundgren	We Gotta Get You A Woman	Todd Rundgren	Rate
D4	America	Ventura Highway	Dewey Bunnell	Rate
D5	Jo Jo Gunne	Run, Run, Run	Jay Ferguson, Matthew Andes	6.0 Rate
D6	The Rolling Stones	Tumbling Dice	Jagger, Richard	8.0 Rate
E1	Otis Redding	(Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay	Steve Cropper, Otis Redding	9.0 Rate
E2	Deep Purple	Hush	Joe South	Rate
E3	Gordon Lightfoot	If You Could Read My Mind	Gordon Lightfoot	10.0 Rate
E4	Roberta Flack	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	Ewan MacColl	9.0 Rate
E5	Jimi Hendrix	Foxey Lady	Jimi Hendrix	Rate
E6	Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love	Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham	Rate
F1	Eagles	Take It Easy	Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey	Rate
F2	America	A Horse With No Name	Dewey Bunnell	10.0 Rate
F3	The Byrds	Cowgirl In The Sand	Neil Young	Rate
F4	Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Joni Mitchell	9.0 Rate
F5	The Guess Who	These Eyes	Bachman, Cummings	Rate
F6	Van Morrison	Domino	Van Morrison	Rate
F7	Judy Collins	Amazing Grace	Judy Collins	Rate
G1	The Doobie Brothers	Listen To The Music	Tom Johnston	Rate
G2	Joni Mitchell	Woodstock	Joni Mitchell	9.0 Rate
G3	Wilson Pickett	In The Midnight Hour	Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper	8.0 Rate
G4	Arlo Guthrie	City Of New Orleans	Steve Goodman	9.0 Rate
G5	Jackson Browne	Doctor My Eyes	Jackson Browne	8.0 Rate
G6	Black Sabbath	Paranoid	Tony Iommi, John Osbourne, Terence Butler, William Ward	7.0 Rate
H1	Allman Brothers Band	One Way Out	Willie "Sonny Boy" Williamson	Rate
H2	Aretha Franklin	(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman	Gerry Goffin, Jerry Wexler, Carole King	9.0 Rate
H3	Faces	Stay With Me	R. Wood, R. Stewart	9.0 Rate
H4	Graham Nash	Chicago	Graham Nash	Rate
H5	The Rolling Stones	Happy	Jagger, Richard	8.0 Rate
H6	Emerson, Lake And Palmer	Lucky Man	Greg Lake	8.0 Rate

Notes

BB July 14, 1973

composer credits listed inside program guide insert

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Comments and Reviews


albert 21st Jan 2021		I got this compilation in an auction joblot, about 30 years ago, and its been in storage ever since. You can see by the track listing this is definitely an American overview, and somewhat lacking the exciting sounds coming from the UK at the time, so no Bowie, no T.Rex, no glam basically, all of the sounds that would eventually lead to punk (by that I mean British punk).



Andrew Williams 26th Oct 2020		I realize I am joining a 5 year old conversation, but I am going to put in my two cents anyway. It was rather bold to release an album that professed to have Superstars of an entire decade when it was released with not even a third of the decade over. I think Superstars refers to the artist and not the songs. So, granted some songs are hits the groups had in the 60's, they were superstars in the 70's. Excluding the one-hit wonder, Jo Jo Gunne, they did a decent job at selecting artists that fared well throughout the decade.



PaythePiper SUBS 9th May 2017		One of the best compilations of songs that came out in 72/73 whether it was accurate listings or not. Folks who bought this at Woolworth's were not concerned with timeline accuracy. These were different simpler times. This was a great album to get an overall feel of what was out musically at the time, a time when music and what came out was still manageable and people could get an idea and enjoy, opposed to the masses of stuff ( mostly misguided technical noise) that come out now and no specific anything of substance that one can hold on to for pop music.



Record Collector 29th Sep 2015		Ok Neil I got your point try not dwell on the subject as this may go all night thanks



Neil Forbes 29th Sep 2015		RC's comment: - Actually all the groups listed and singers had hits in the 1970's misses the point. The tracks in this compilation should've ALL been from the 1970s. Instead, there are cuts from 1969, 1968 and possibly earlier that *DON'T* belong in this set precisely because they're from the previous decade. The failure of this album to stay true to its title is a lesson from the past to teach album compilers of today to exercise *one thousand percent* care and diligence to proper research.



Record Collector 28th Sep 2015		I have this as a download not a bad album



Pridesale 28th Sep 2015		Often done on compilations. The artist gets a hit (on a another/competing label) years later, and compiler digs out their previous track - so they compliler label gets a 1/12th per album side cashback. The reverse is true, artist releases a deatbeat track in the next decade / whatever , and true (if maybe how 90% of the public would read first time ), and the compiler short of tracks licenced to them in that timeframe/ artists who made western/bond/ whatever themes compliations bungs in one , two or more of the licenced stuff they do have ! All legal , and its how the industry works. Mind you additional information on when it (track) hit the charts would be nice. Anyway, only 6 tracks a side, you were done, compliations should have 24mins or 8 a side to be worth buying.



Record Collector 28th Sep 2015		Actually all the groups listed and singers had hits in the 1970's



Jasper 27th Sep 2015		Actually the other one that stood out to me was Purple Haze (C4) - 1967. I have it on the Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits album that was released in 1968.



Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		RC, I may be going over old history, but if a CD was issued just today(hypothetically speaking) that purports to cover the 1970s, then proper research is OF THE UTMOSAT IMPORTANCE but is sadly lacking, nay, non-existent in such compilations these days.



Record Collector 27th Sep 2015		Neil your referring past history



Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		Memo to ALL record companies: When putting a compilation together that purports to cover a given decade, such as the 1970s(for example), it is highly important that those who are charged with the responsibility of finding the material for such an album should PAY STRICT ATTENTION TO RESEARCH to ensure that no track appears in the set that does not belong there. The tracks must have a 1970 to 1979 copyright date, no earlier and no later.



Record Collector 27th Sep 2015		Did I ? Sorry I just noticed



Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		RC must have pulled his comment asking me if I read all the tracks, which prompted my last post.



Record Collector 27th Sep 2015		Neil that's 1973 it's been done



Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		There would likely be others that are 1960s vintage but I picked the most obvious ones to highlight this lack - total lack - of proper research into track vintage for such a compilation as this.



Neil Forbes 27th Sep 2015		The Judy Collins track sticks out like a sore thumb as completely out of place because of its 1968 vintage, as do The Bee Gees, their second track in this set dates back to 1967(Tr.C5), and the Crosby, Stills & Nash cut(C3) is from 1969. These tracks do not belong in a compilation that's supposed to be of 1970s songs. Again this is an example of slipshod compilation with no research carried out at all in relation to the chosen tracks. For this fact alone, the report card on this album should bear a big, fat red "F" for "Failed"!



vidman45 11th Feb 2015		Added box and insert scans. Thanks to Birgit Klauson for entering the box set and data for all 4 discs.

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