The Dave Strickson Music Archive

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits Album • Jim Croce • 1974

Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits is a 1974 greatest hits album (and second posthumous release) by Jim Croce, originally released on ABC Records. The album was released a year after Croce's 1973 death in an airplane crash. The inner photo jacket includes a tributatory essay on one side and a photo of Jim's son Adrian James (A.J.) on the other. The title track originally appeared on the You Don't Mess Around with Jim LP as well as the B-side of the album title track single in 1972. The album as since been reissued on Vinyl in 2020 by BMG. In a 1974 review in Billboard magazine, the editors wrote, "It is hard to believe one man poured out a fountain of excellent work in barely two years, but this LP offers proof of the greatness of Croce's career and is, in all respects, truly a greatest hits album. They're all worthwhile and this magnificent collection makes one realize just how greatly this man will be missed. The beauty of music, however, is that he will always be heard."

There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World Album • Herman's Hermits • 1967

There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World is the fifth album released by MGM Records in the US and Canada for the band Herman's Hermits. It was released in March 1967. In the UK, There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World is the band's third album, released by EMI/Columbia in May 1967. The album did not chart in the UK but in late April 1967 peaked at 13 on Billboard's Top LPs chart. The album was not released in true stereo until Bear Family Records issued a 2 CD "50th Anniversary Collection" in 2015.

Weekend in London (2019 - Remaster) Album • The Dave Clark Five • 1965

Weekend in London is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Dave Clark Five. It contains the single "Come Home" and covers of "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins and "Little Bitty Pretty One" by Thurston Harris. The album also features "Hurting Inside" and "'Till the Right One Comes Along", both of which later appeared on "The Dave Clark Five" (1971) compilation album. In Canada, it was released as Encores on Capitol Records. In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Greg Adams described Weekend in London the band's own songs in the album "vacillate between the pretty Beatlesque pop of "Your Turn to Cry" and moody rockers similar to early Zombies" and that as the band released three albums around that time, "Weekend in London sounds like they were being stretched a little too thin."