Top Hits of the Sixties: Coolest Hits

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Full Title - Top Hits Of The Sixties - Coolest Hits. Collectables is proud to present this expansive Top Hit Series, each song on this twenty song disc made the top of the charts. Featuring The Tokens, The Ohio Express, Lorne Greene, Floyd Cramer and more. 2003.

Tracks:

The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful
Yummy Yummy Yummy - The Ohio Express
Aquarius/ Let The Sun Shine In - The 5Th Dimension
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Ringo - Lorne Greene
I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March
Grazing In The Grass - The Friends Of Distinction
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
We'll Sing In The Sunshine - Gale Garnett
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis
La La Means I Love You - The Delfonics
Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers
The Ballad Of The Green Berets - Ssgt. Barry Sadler
No Time - The Guess Who
Simon Says - 1910 Fruitgum Co.
Last Date - Floyd Cramer
The Worst That Could Happen - The Brooklyn Bridge
In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans

Album Description

Full Title - Top Hits Of The Sixties - Coolest Hits. Collectables is proud to present this expansive Top Hit Series, each song on this twenty song disc made the top of the charts. Featuring The Tokens, The Ohio Express, Lorne Greene, Floyd Cramer and more. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

An eclectic collection of top 10 tunes from the Sixties.......2003-11-05

"Top Hits Of The Sixties: Coolest Hits" is not, despite the above claim, a collection of #1 songs from that particular decade, although all twenty of these tracks made it to the top region of the Billboard tracks. The only serious complaint with this collection is that it ignores the British invasion, which keeps it from being a truly representative sampling of Sixties music. What this CD collection has in its favor is that it has some of the more eclectic hits from that period: Lorne Greene's "Ringo," the theme from "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly," "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" by Ssgt. Barry Sadler, and "In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by the paradigmatic one hit wonders Zager & Evans. I think this more than counterbalances the bubblegum ("Yummy Yummy Yummy," "Simon Says") and other perky songs by lightweight artists ("We'll Sing In The Sunshine," "The Worst That Can Happen"). There are only two mega-hits in the mix, The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City" and The 5th Dimensions' "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In," but the value of these collections is not to have another CD with hit songs you already own on hit collections by the actual groups. The value is always going to be if you can add five or more songs to your music collection that you do not already have. With songs like "Oh Happy Day" there is an above average chance that "Top Hits of the Sixties: Coolest Hits" will meet that challenge, especially by offering a more than respectable 20 tracks on a single disc.

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