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There's a great compilation of 49 golden pop greats from the late 'sixties out - it's called Fab Gear. Highly recommended. Has all the songs you'd expect, plus lots of rare ones.

Anybody given it a listen?

have a link to the album or description?

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"The late 60s was a golden age for pop, bubblegum, psychedelia and lounge. The summer of love was in full swing, England had recently won the world cup, man was landing on the moon, people were starting to travel overseas and there was definitely something in the air. This soundtrack, hand-picked by Pete Lawrence reflects and revives that golden age, a superlative double CD set of tracks from the likes of The Mamas and Papas, The Cowsills, Thunderclap Newman, Traffic, Warm Sounds, The Box Tops and The Association. This music made a profound impression on Pete as a pre-teen adolescent and here, he re-assesses a golden age in music at a time when everything seemed that little bit more utopian and magical. The sentiments, inevitably about love, peace and nature, retain their relevance with an added resonance today, given the trajectory of the last 40 years and the adoption of many values from the hippy era by a large majority today, and the music, remastered here with love and care, sounds as vibrant and contemporary as anything else on offer at the moment. • 40 years since ‘summer of love’ – all tracks from around 1967 • 2-CD collection of sixties tracks – hits and rare gems, compiled by Pete Lawrence of the Big Chill."

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3402357/Fa...ve/Product.html

I'm finding it difficult to play much else at the moment...

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Decent track list - most were top 40 hits

Disc 1

The Association - Windy

The Mamas & The Papas - Creeque Alley (Single Version (Stereo)

The Flowerpot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco

Sagittarius - My World Fell Down (Clean Version)

Warm Sounds - Birds And Bees

Traffic - Paper Sun (Stereo Album Version)

Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints (Stereo Version)

The Cowsills - The Rain,The Park And Other Things (Single Version)

Harpers Bizarre - 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

Eclection - Nevertheless

Spanky & Our Gang - Like To Get To Know You (Mono Single Mix)

The Sandpipers - Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Album Version)

Sergio Mendes - The Fool On The Hill

The 5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic

Tommy James & The Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion

Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'

Mr Bloe - Groovin' With Mr Bloe

Nirvana - Rainbow Chaser

Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire

Timebox - Beggin'

Zager & Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordius & Terminus)

Tim Rose - Morning Dew

Tim Hardin - If I Were A Carpenter

Jeff Beck - Love Is Blue (L Amour Est Bleu)

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

Disc 2

Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air (Album Version)

Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Kites

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

The Hollies - Carrie-Anne

The Kinks - Days

The Grass Roots - Temptation Eyes (Original)

Marsha Hunt - Keep The Customer Satisfied

Tomorrow - My White Bicycle

The Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw

John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)

The Casuals - Jesamine

Merrilee Rush, The Turnabouts - Angel Of The Morning

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl

The Love Affair - Everlasting Love

P.P. Arnold - The First Cut Is The Deepest

Keith West - Excerpt From A Teenage Opera

The Herd - From The Underworld

The Classics IV - Spooky

The Box Tops - The Letter

Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time

The Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn, (To Everything There Is A Season)

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)

Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock

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good list....and an excellent song...The Herd - From The Underworld... :) :)

THE HERD:

From the Underworld...

Out of the land of shadows and darkness

We were returning towards the morning light

Almost in reach of places I knew

Escaping the ghosts of yesterday

You were behind me following closely

"Don't turn around now, I heard you whisper in my ear

"If you should turn now, all that you won

Will vanish just like a passing dream"

Just on the very verge of the morning

Daylight was dawning, freedom was but a step away

Now with the deep dark river behind us

What could go wrong if I stayed strong in mind?

What was the sudden lapse into madness

What was the urge that turned my head around to look at you?

What was the stubborn will to destroy

The love and the joy I nearly held?

Three times the thunder roared in my ears

In all of my years I'll see that lost look in your eyes

As, with a sigh like smoke in the wind

You slipped from my grasp into the waiting shadows

So much I longed to say, but my touch found

Only the empty air and a black nights coldness

Into another world you entered

And never again I can reclaim you...

enjoy...

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