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OK but maybe a better compilation will come along sometime

B. Powers | 08/30/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I like the fact that this compilation has some songs on here that aren't on my other Greatest Hits CD, but what is striking is there's still no clean copy of "Sealed With A Kiss" which still has vinyl noise from what sounds like a rather heavy tonearm playing the record, (this is also the same for the other more common Greatest Hits CD), also the last three cuts on the CD, #30-32, Cleo, Rosemary, and The Night I Cried, appear to all have come from mono vinyl that wasn't even MONOED to clean up the sound. You can hear vinyl scratches separately on left and right and some sibilance distortion. This is very sloppy for a supposedly professional production. The labeing is alright but nothing special, that could just as well have been produced by a sophisticated homebrew setup. That is, the label on the CD is kind of an opaque sort of shiny finish with black lettering that might as well have been embedded with one of those CD label printers, and the front label in the jewel case is a very thin one-page glossly with pic on the front then tack list on the inside. It appears to have been professionally printed though with modern technology, could have been printed by a pirate I suppose, though don't quote me on that. Although it was nice to hear more of Brian Hyland's music, the songs that are duplicates from another greatest hits CD don't sound quite a bright as on other CDs, yet most of them still sound remarkably clean save for the vinyl-sounding cuts. I'm certainly glad for getting this collection but I'm a bit disappointed that such a sloppy job was done, especially for the cuts tacked on at the end of the CD. A little more post production work and quality control please. Just my 2 cents' worth, unfortunately from an audio critic standpoint."

All the hits and more

F. Owens | madision co. ind | 05/14/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"hyland had 22 songs that charted between 1960 to 1971, all 22 here. the first 22 tracks are exactly the charted songs in the order of thier release. of the last 10 songs, 4 are b-sides, and 6 rarites "angel in my heart"; "somewhere in the night"; "cozy little compact car"; "baby face"; "cleo"; "rosemary". on birchmont label. 32 songs total. note that one song not here is "save your heart for me" though it is only a b-side [of "i'm afraid to go home" #8 in 1963] it is one that i have heard and like so much, i would miss it not being here. [it is on "brian hyland" c.d. with the cover being red and yellow all over, on 'rock in beat' label, made in germany. also having the first 22 songs being the exact 22 charted ,in the order of their release, 5 b-sides and 3 others,-total 30 songs, i like the last 8 selections there a little better then this set.]"