Originally Posted by
kenneth
When I was first listening to the radio, I remember getting pen pals [[remember those, okay I know I'm old all right?) even from England and swapping music guides. It was always fun to see what songs were hits in the UK vs. here.
I do have a few of the Original Big Hits from the UK series, including Vol. 7 pictured above. I found that track listing fascinating as at the time I found it, I had never even heard of "I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing."
In fact, the first album I ever bought was "15 Original Big Hits Vol. 5." It was one in the series that had a lot of non-album singles on it like [[I'm going from memory) "When I'm Gone" by Brenda Holloway and "Take Me In Your Arms" by Kim Weston.
I always wondered why Vol. 2 [[and only Vol. 2) was issued on the Tamla label. It was later reissued in Stereo, and that version of the album was the first time I understood that there was such a thing as different mixes of songs, as a few of the tracks had been not just remixed, but even rerecorded for the album, such as "I'll Have to Let Him Go" by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Stereo versions were awesome.
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