HIT MACHINE - Various Artists

YEAR: 1976

LABEL: K-Tel

TRACK LISTING: (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty - K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale, Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck, Summer - War, When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt, Happy Days - Pratt & McClain, Our Day Will Come - Frankie Valli, (You're) Having My Baby - Paul Anka, Love Really Hurts Without You - Billy Ocean, Disco Duck (Pt. 1) - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots, Island Girl - Elton John, A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band, Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers, Welcome Back - John Sebastian, Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra, Take A Hand - Rick Springfield, Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss, I'm Not Lisa - Jessi Colter, Who Loves You? - Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons, Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor

IMPRESSIONS: Ahhhhhhh, K-Tel Records. Remember the days when you could pick up a K-Tel record and hear all the latest hit singles with sound quality worse than the actual albums? Apparently, the poorer sound quality was due to K-Tel cramming more grooves onto the record in order to fit more songs on it with a necessary loss in fidelity. But who cared back then? I was playing this on my portable black record player that folded up like a suitcase and was carried around by its handle! I do remember that this was the last LP I bought while still living in Maple Surple before we moved to Clay Town in January 1977. However, this would not be the last we'd hear from K-Tel Records . . . as tomorrow's post will show . . .

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty - K.C. & the Sunshine Band, Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale, Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck, Summer - War, Island Girl - Elton John, A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band, Welcome Back - John Sebastian, Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra, Take A Hand - Rick Springfield, Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss, Who Loves You - Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons

FACT SHEET: There's nothing to tell, really, This is a K-Tel record released in 1976.