I de-shelved this in 2022, just as a semi-appealing CD-era comp of oldies, perhaps thinking I would search out a better, older vinyl comp at some point. Christgau likes it because it contains only 16 of the Cadence tracks the brothers recorded, rather than all the other comps which have too many. He also noted that there were only a few, slightly later Warner tracks worth compiling, and that there was no similarly slight collection of those. However, just a year or two later, Rhino put out All-Time Original Hits, with similarly cleaned-up sound, and the same number of tracks as this. However, that Rhino comp shit-canned even more of the Cadence tracks, specifically, these six:
"I Wonder if I Care as Much"
"Claudette"
"Poor Jenny"
"Be Bop-A-Lula"
"Like Strangers"
"I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail"
This makes room for the following six Warner tracks:
"Cathy's Clown"
"So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
"Ebony Eyes"
"Walk Right Back"
"That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)"
"Crying in the Rain"
To me, this makes All-Time Original Hits even better than the Music Club comp, since those six songs were right in sequence with the Cadence tracks, so it's not like there are any jarring transitions. They are all around the same time period. I suppose someone could argue that there should be a couple more Cadence and a couple less Warners, etc., but I think Rhino did an amazing job of picking, and not overdoing it just because they had the space, so I went for it. I will post about that release separately.
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