This month on Adventures in Vinyl, we will highlight 20 Dynamic Hits, Volume 2 from 1972. I bought this album brand-new. When you listen to this episode, you will hear the first time it was ever played.
The album came out in 1972 and was advertised like any other K-Tel album on television. It contains hits from James Taylor, Elton John, the Osmonds, Rod Stewart and many, many more--another great sampling of music from the time.
And, as a special treat, it also has a very rare recording of Aretha Franklin covering Frank Sinatra's "My Way." This was never released until 2008. How K-Tel got a hold of that recording, I do not know.
The album begins with a song that actually began as a television commercial jingle. Remember "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"? That song proved so popular it was worked into a hit song and was covered by two bands in 1972: the New Seekers and the Hillside Singers. The version performed by the Hillside Singers starts off the album. If there is a better song to bring you back to that time, I have yet to hear it.
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This month on Adventures in Vinyl, we will highlight 20 Dynamic Hits, Volume 2 from 1972. I bought this album brand-new. When you listen to this episode, you will hear the first time it was ever played.