This second release in Eric’s new oldies series makes a perfect companion to Volume 1. This volume has a more R&B & rockabilly flavor with 12 Top Twenty tracks again drawn mostly from the Roulette/Colpix/Warner Bros. vaults. And for collectors there are two songs appearing on CD for the first time! All recordings have been digitally mastered in ultra-high quality and are in true stereo wherever possible. Includes an 8-page booklet with detailed liner notes on each song.
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Volume two, “I Got Rhythm” continues Eric Records’ new series of tunes from the first decade of rock and roll. Many of the tracks here come from the Roulette, Colpix, Dimension and Jubilee labels and were once readily available on various Rhino and Sequel single-artist and compilation CD’s. But with most of those pieces out-of-print, Eric has brought them back and added to these well-known tunes a sprinkling of rarities and even two new-to-CD songs. Appealing to the casual fan, top-10 favorites like the Happenings’ “I Got Rhythm” and Lou Christie’s “Two Faces Have I” share the spotlight with the seldom-found “I’m Blue” from the Ikettes and the Chicago Loop’s “My Baby Comes To Me”. Not neglecting the true collector, Eric has brought to CD-daylight the High Keys’ move-over Doris Day version of “Que Sera, Sera” and “Don’t Mention My Name” from the Shepherd Sisters, known for their big hit rendition of “Alone”. As has come to be expected and always appreciated is Eric’s attention to quality reproduction here exemplified by the use of the mono version of J.J. Jackson’s “It’s Alright”, a track that has been issued in “stereo” on other CD’s when in fact it has always been the remanufactured faux-stereo version. The tracks that do appear in true stereo here are 3,5,6,11,15,16 and 20. Rounding out the piece are the informative liner notes providing backround on the included artists and tracks. Once again, Eric shows how it should be done.
What can I say, except that it doesn’t get any better than this. As with all of Eric’s CDs, this one is flawless!
In addition to the tracks that we already have (but are now relegated to the obsolete pile by this CD), there are several tracks not found on any other domestic CDs, such as Don’t Mention my Name by The Sheppard Sisters, Que, Sera, Sera by The High Keys, and (finally) a true mono version of the single, But It’s Alright by J. J. Jackson, instead of the horrible re-channeled one that has appeared before.
The guys at Eric know how to do this sort of thing right, and we are the real winners in getting to listen to these hits the way they should be heard.
A wonderful CD! You owe yourselves a treat, and this is it!