Music Machine, a Christmas 1977 under the tree present, is one of HERC's favorite K-Tel albums. Some people go crazy because Robbie The Robot is on both the front and back covers as well as in the commercial.
Others say the two bonus posters that were included were deal-sealers but for HERC, the music was and is all that matters. He credits Santa's vast intelligence network for knowing that he already had a third of the songs on Music Machine as 45s, making it a perfect match for young HERC.
Music Machine could very well end up being the new #1 on the K-Tel Scale list based on all the songs being (as advertised) Top 10 Hits and at least half of them Number One hits in their own right. Here's the K-Tel Scale scorecard for Music Machine:
Music Machine [1977]
| K-tel Scale: |
37.63
| |||||
| Billboard Top 40s | |||||||
| Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
| I Just Want To Be Your Everything | Andy Gibb | 1 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 1 | |
| Keep It Comin’ Love | KC & the Sunshine Band | 2 | 1 | 9 | 36 | 2 | 2 |
| Don't Give Up On Us | David Soul | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Do You Wanna Make Love | Peter McCann | 5 | 22 | 9 | 4 | ||
| Hot Line | Sylvers | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Got To Give It Up | Marvin Gaye | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | |
| You Don’t Have To Be A Star | Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | |
| Play That Funky Music | Wild Cherry | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | |
| Gonna Fly Now | Bill Conti | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Dancing Queen | ABBA | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Beth | Kiss | 7 | 14 | 7 | 3 | ||
| Blinded By The Light | Manfred Mann's Earth Band | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Car Wash | Rose Royce | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| Lucille | Kenny Rogers | 5 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 11 | |
| I Like Dreamin’ | Kenny Nolan | 3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||
| You And Me | Alice Cooper | 9 | 23 | 8 | 10 | ||
| Feels Like The First Time | Foreigner | 4 | 5 | 3 | |||
Looks like HERC's instincts were on point as Music Machine becomes the reigning Number One on the K-Tel Scale Scoreboard. With nine Billboard Pop #1's and ten Cash Box Pop #1's as well as other #1's, only six songs on the album failed to hit the top spot on the tracked charts.
Peter McCann's original hit version of "Do You Wanna Make Love"
is currently unavailble on Spotify
Thanks to Todd over at the abandonded Neato Coolville site and Bruce over at the Vinyl Voyage site for their inspiration and contributions.
I have this album with the posters - I love it. One of my favorites to play!
ReplyDeleteI remember getting kinda messed up one time and trying to play the POSTERS. Couldn't find the little hole.
ReplyDeleteDam, i remember the commercials for this album, is there a list of K-tel albums
ReplyDeleteI have two milk crates full of vintage K-tels, and have recreated about 50 of them on my iPod (with the full-length hits, of course). The vinyl includes Canadian, UK, and even European issues of various artists collections, but also K-tel "hits" albums by Barry Manilow, Donny Osmond, Moody Blues, Dusty Springfield, Queen, Spinners, and Elvis, to name but a few.
ReplyDeleteThis was the first album I ever bought. I got it in 1977 when I was about 15 years old. I really loved that album. My favorite songs were "Beth", "Dancing Queen", and "Blinded by the Light". I really wish I still had that album.
ReplyDeletei have them all
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