From 1975, Superhits of the Superstars is the first double album featured here on K-Tel Kollection. If one K-Tel album has 20 songs, a double should logically have 40 songs, right? Wrong. Adding two more sides of vinyl to the equation yields just six more songs this time out. Furthermore, most of the songs have been featured previously on other albums from the company, making this one sort of a greatest hits of K-Tel compilation. Twenty-five of the album's twenty-six songs made the Top 40, with eight of those rising all the way to the top.
Both Stealers Wheel and Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes each score two songs apiece (above) on Superhits of the Superstars. The album begins and ends with the two keyboard players featured in clips from The Midnight Special below:
Superhits Of The Superstars [1975]
| K-tel Scale: |
30.73
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Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
It's A Miracle | Barry Manilow | 12 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 1 | |
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You | Sugarloaf / Jerry Corbetta | 9 | 12 | 5 | |||
Sad Sweet Dreamer | Sweet Sensation | 14 | 17 | ||||
Midnight Train To Georgia | Gladys Knight & the Pips | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 6 | |
Poetry Man | Phoebe Snow | 5 | 1 | 5 | 15 | ||
Emma | Hot Chocolate | 8 | 6 | 3 | |||
Walking in Rhythm | The Blackbyrds | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
Rockin' Chair | Gwen McCrae | 9 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
Fire | Ohio Players | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 | |
Radar Love | Golden Earring | 13 | 10 | 4 | |||
In The Bottle | Brother To Brother | 9 | |||||
Rock The Boat | Hues Corporation | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | |
I Wanna Dance Wit'choo (Doo Dat Dance) | Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes | 23 | 33 | 7 | 34 | ||
The Hustle | Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Spirit Of The Boogie | Kool & the Gang | 35 | 1 | 27 | |||
One Fine Morning | Lighthouse | 24 | 30 | 16 | 10 | ||
Stuck In The Middle With You | Stealers Wheel | 6 | 13 | 3 | 4 | ||
Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) | Reunion | 8 | 7 | 1 | |||
The Night Chicago Died | Paper Lace | 1 | 27 | 1 | 1 | ||
Crocodile Rock | Elton John | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | ||
Star | Stealers Wheel | 29 | 6 | 20 | |||
Don't Tell Me Goodnight | Lobo | 27 | 2 | 30 | |||
You Little Trustmaker | The Tymes | 12 | 20 | 7 | 31 | 16 | |
Get Dancin' | Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes | 10 | 32 | 3 | 10 | ||
Nothing From Nothing | Billy Preston | 1 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 3 |
Up in Canada, they shortened the album's name to simply Superstars. K-Tel also shortened the album by two songs, leaving twenty-four songs. Between them, the two albums shared just eight songs. Like its U.S. counterpart, Superstars featured songs that had been on previous K-Tel albums. Before we get to the album's K-Tel Scale scorecard, here's a HERC favorite from Superstars:
Superstars [1975]
| K-tel Scale: |
28.67
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Top 40 chart peaks | |||||||
Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
Never Can Say Goodbye | Gloria Gaynor | 9 | 34 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 8 |
Lady Marmalade | LaBelle | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | |
Hang On In There Baby | Johnny Bristol | 8 | 2 | ||||
Get Dancin' | Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes | 10 | 32 | 3 | 10 | ||
Nothing From Nothing | Billy Preston | 1 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 3 | |
Shame Shame Shame | Shirley & Company | 12 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
I Shot The Sheriff | Eric Clapton | 1 | 33 | 1 | 2 | ||
My Eyes Adored You | Frankie Valli | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
Laughter In The Rain | Neil Sedaka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
When Will I See You Again | The Three Degrees | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
You Make Me Feel Brand New | The Stylistics | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 12 | |
Do I Love You | Paul Anka | 14 | 38 | ||||
Takin' Care Of Business | Bachman-Turner Overdrive | 12 | 6 | 2 | |||
Emma | Hot Chocolate | 8 | 6 | 3 | |||
This Flight Tonight | Nazareth | ||||||
Ramona | The Stampeders | ||||||
The Night Chicago Died | Paper Lace | 1 | 27 | 1 | 1 | ||
Come And Get Your Love | Redbone | 5 | 5 | 2 | |||
The Air That I Breathe | The Hollies | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | ||
Don't Tell Me Goodnight | Lobo | 27 | 2 | 30 | |||
Pretty Lady | Lighthouse | 38 | 31 | ||||
I Wanna Dance Wit'choo (Doo Dat Dance) | Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes | 23 | 33 | 7 | 34 | ||
Fire | Ohio Players | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 |
One of the first records I ever purchased with my own money. Awesome! Found a mint used copy a few years back too!
ReplyDeleteOne should try mentioning that, unlike the discs with 20 songs per record, the songs here are largely unedited, with some surprising album versions thrown in for good measure. I believe the only songs edited here (to less than the single versions) are "In the Bottle", "Radar Love" and "Crocodile Rock".
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