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- Date Released: April 9, 2002
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: Columbia/Legacy
- Copyright: Originally Recorded Prior to 1972. All Rights Reserved By BMG Entertainment, (P) 1990 Capitol Records, Inc., Originally Released 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, (P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
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They Say...
The problem with this compilation does not lie with the quality of the music: Many of these 15 songs are great, popular 1960s rock classics. The problem, which might be more vexing for those marketing the CD than those considering buying it, is: Who, exactly, is going to want to collect the tracks in this particular configuration? It's not, it must be emphasized, the same as the soundtrack to the classic film The Graduate, though there are three Simon & Garfunkel songs (which certainly don't, incidentally, comprise all the Simon & Garfunkel music contained on the film soundtrack album). Rather, it's music used in the Broadway production of the story that had previously provided the basis for the film (and, before that, a novel). Well, sort of used in the play. As the liner notes state, "What you hear on this CD are the full versions of many of the songs that have been so tantalizingly dangled by their intro during the two-hour stage show," as well as containing "other songs that inspired us whilst developing the production." They might be tap-dancing around it, but in other words, it's a tenuous CD spin-off of a play, and not its soundtrack. Such carping to the contrary, you do get some really good songs here after all that (in their original versions): the Byrds' "Turn! Turn! Turn!," Donovan's "Sunshine Superman," the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'," the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice," Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'," and, of course, Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and "Mrs. Robinson." Some rather odd items that are stylistically removed from the gentle folk-rock/pop of the disc's core sneak in too, like Percy Faith's "Theme From 'A Summer Place'," Andy Williams' "Moon River," Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' "Love Potion No. 9," and Ray Charles' "Black Coffee." In all, it seems meant more as an impulse buy for the theatergoer than a tightly wound concept package for the general music fan.
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Mrs. Robinson
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4:04 |
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| 02. | |
Everybody's Talkin'
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2:49 |
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| 03. | |
Moon River
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2:45 |
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| 04. | |
California Dreamin'
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2:40 |
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| 05. | |
Sunshine Superman
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3:17 |
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| 06. | |
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)
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3:34 |
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| 07. | |
Theme From "A Summer Place"
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2:21 |
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| 08. | |
The Sound Of Silence
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3:03 |
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| 09. | |
Black Coffee
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5:24 |
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| 10. | |
Love Potion No. 9
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2:59 |
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| 11. | |
You've Made Me So Very Happy
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3:29 |
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| 12. | |
Red Rubber Ball
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2:17 |
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| 13. | |
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)
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2:57 |
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Baby Driver
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3:16 |
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| 15. | |
Wouldn't It Be Nice
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2:32 |
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15 Total Tracks, 47:27 Total Length
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Credits
- Herb Alpert - Producer // Herb Alpert - Producer // The Beach Boys - Performer // The Beach Boys - Performer // Blood, Sweat & Tears - Performer // The Byrds - Performer // Ray Charles - Performer // Ray Charles - Performer // The Cyrkle - Performer // Donovan - Performer // Art Garfunkel - Producer // Art Garfunkel - Producer // The Mamas & the Papas - Performer // Simon & Garfunkel - Performer // Paul Simon - Producer // Brian Wilson - Producer // Scott McKenzie - Performer // Terry Melcher - Producer // Steven Berkowitz - Compilation Producer // Lou Adler - Producer // Didier C. Deutsch - Compilation Producer // Ahmet Ertegun - Producer // Jack Gold - Producer // James William Guercio - Producer // Roy Halee - Producer // Robert Mersey - Producer // Jerry Moss - Producer // Mickie Most - Producer // John Swenson - ? // Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Performer // Percy Faith & His Orchestra - Performer // Don Hunstein - Photography // Howard Fritzson - Art Direction // Darcy Proper - Mastering // Len Prince - Photography // Pat Seeger - Adaptation // Alwyn Coates - Photography // Patti Matheny - A&R // Jeffrey Peisch - Project Director // Stacey Boyle - Tape Research // John Reid - Executive Producer // Darren Salmieri - A&R // Fong Y. Lee - Packaging Manager
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Performers
Ray Charles // Herb Alpert // Donovan // The Byrds // Andy Williams // Harry Nilsson // Percy Faith & His Orchestra // The Mamas & The Papas // Scott McKenzie // Simon & Garfunkel // Lou Adler // The Beach Boys // Robert Mersey & His Orchestra // Blood, Sweat & Tears // The Cyrkle // Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
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