Product Description

This is another hits collection from Scottish teen heartthrobs, Bay City Rollers. The album brings together, with othermaterial, eight UK top ten hits and their two UK number ones 'Bye Bye Baby' and 'Give A Little Love'. These singles helped secure a place for them in the hearts of teenage girls everywhere in the early seventies.

Track Listing

1. Bye Bye Baby
2. Shang-a-Lang
3. Keep On Dancing
4. Give A Little Love
5. Remember (Sha la la la)
6. Summerlove Sensation
7. You Made Me Believe In Magic
8. It’s A Game
9. Saturday Night
10. You’re A Woman
11. I Only Want To Be With You
12. Yesterday’s Hero
13. All of Me Loves All Of You
14. Money Honey
15. Rock & Roll Love Letter
16. The Way I Feel Tonight
17. Love Me Like I Love You
18. Please Stay
19. Maybe I’m A Fool To Love You
20. Give It To Me Now
21. Let’s Pretend
22. Be My Baby

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22384 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-04
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

'An Enjoyable Collection'
Awarding a score to this album is not an easy thing to do. Why? Because in reality a lot of the songs on this collection aren't very good. This said, however cheesy and throw away songs like 'Remember (Sha La La)', 'Shang-A- Lang' and numerous others are they are genuinely happy three minute (or less) pop songs and that's something sadly lacking I feel in today's world of the 5-6 minute self indulgent deadly serious 'single'. Maybe for this reason, this album is as much worth buying for the nostalgia trip that listening to it will take you on as it is for the music. All of the Rollers hits are here and most of the other tracks are of a similar ilk and at least passable. At times the sickly sweet lyrics do get a bit much but as a review of the Rollers most popular years this is hard to beat. Ironically, artistically, the best song on this whole set was the Rollers first flop single after a run of 11 consecutive hits 'The Way I Feel Tonight' (a more adult sounding ballad) from the 'It's A Game' album. A word of warning now. Nowhere on the packaging does it state that these recordings are the original versions and a few of the tracks on this collection sound to me as if they may have been edited slightly ('Keep On Dancing' barely makes 2 minutes for example) so real Rollers fans might need to check this out before purchasing this. For the rest of us however (who no doubt simply want to be reminded of their younger days and/or some fun teenage pop songs)I suspect that this collection will do nicely.

The Best Of....
To be perfectly honest the Rollers weren't my cup of tea back in the 70's BUT credit to them they had a great if not short chart career. Nice to hear the original recording of their Top 10 Hit from 1971, "Keep On Dancing". On all their other best of albums this one always seems to pop up as a re-recording. I'm not so sure that, "Give a liitle love" is the original recording having listened to it a couple of times...perhaps its been remastered as they like to call it these days? If you're a big fan of the Rollers then this album is definetly a must!

Best pure pop of the 70s
The Bay City Rollers have always sufferred from a bad reputation (among those that have never heard their music). So it comes as some surprise to hear just how great they were. It is just an injection of the purest pop you will ever hear. Don't try to analyse the lyrics, just go with the flow, and pretty soon you will be up out of the chair chanting S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night, Shang-a-lang, bye bye baby, and all the rest of their classics. The music is as fresh today as the day it was recorded. If you are a fan, or just curious to hear what the "worst band of all time" sounded like, this is the place to start.

(and Saturday Night was released in the UK, before Les joined the band and wasn't a hit, but was re-recorded, with Les, soon after for their debut album. And it was this version that got to US number one a few years later).