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| The Grass Roots - All Time Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Grass Roots
Label: Mca Import
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 4941
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766483220648
EAN: 0008811146726
ASIN: B000002P1T
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Let's Live for Today - The Grass Roots, Julien, Michael | | • | Where Were You When I Needed You - The Grass Roots, Sloan, P.F. | | • | Things I Should Have Said - The Grass Roots, Sloan, P.F. | | • | Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots, Josie, Lou T. | | • | The River Is Wide - The Grass Roots, Knight, Gary | | • | Bella Linda - The Grass Roots, Barri, Steve | | • | Lovin' Things - The Grass Roots, Schroeck, Artie | | • | Wait a Million Years - The Grass Roots, Zekley, Gary | | • | Baby Hold On - The Grass Roots, Price, Harvey | | • | Heaven Knows - The Grass Roots, Price, Harvey | | • | Come on and Say It - The Grass Roots, Provisor, Dennis | | • | Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots, Price, Harvey | | • | Two Divided by Love - The Grass Roots, Lambert, Dennis | | • | Glory Bound - The Grass Roots, Walsh, Dan | | • | The Runway - The Grass Roots, Lambert, Dennis | | • | Sooner or Later - The Grass Roots, Bottler, Mitchell |
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Amazon.com
As a band the Grass Roots were always a shadowy bunch, a front for studio musicians and professional songwriters looking to get their songs on the radio. They scored 14 top 40 hits during their reign in the late '60s/early '70s and their hits were among the catchiest and most enjoyable of the AM radio era. "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions," "Bella Linda," "Two Divided by Love," and a slew of others are shameless pop made brilliant by multilayered harmonies and arrangements that liberally borrowed from folk-rock and R&B. The Grass Roots may have been product, but what great product. --Rob O'Connor
Album Description
This low-priced disc is far & away the best single-CD compilation ever issued of the Grass Roots' work, 16 chart singles covering every phase of their history, from 1966's 'Where Were You When I Needed You' (in its actual hit version) thru 'Let's Live for Today' & 'Midnight Confessions' to their last hit, 1972's 'The Runway.' Originally released in 1996. MCA.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Contains All the Essential Hits October 18, 2001
88 out of 90 found this review helpful
The Grass Roots may not have been the hippest band to come out of the Sixties, but they produced a string of memorable singles from 1966 to 1972. Songs like "Let's Live for Today," "Midnight Confessions" and "I'd Wait a Million Years" are part of the soundtack of my high school years. This is the best single-disc collection of this uderrated band's work. All 14 of their Top 40 singles are here along with two lesser hits: 1969's "Lovin' Things" (No. 49) and 1970's "Come On and Say It" (No. 61), the latter co-written by lead singer Rob Grill. The only disappointment is that with a running time of only 45 minutes, MCA could easily have included the band's three other Hot 100 singles: 1967's "Wake Up, Wake Up" (No. 68), 1970's "Walking Through the Country" (No. 44) and 1973's "Love Is What You Make It" (No. 55). If you really need those other three singles, you'll have to spring for Rhino's two-disc Anthology, which also includes the band's last single, "Mamacita" (No. 71) from 1975 which they recorded for the Haven label after leaving Dunhill. But for most fans, this single disc collection has all the essentials. RECOMMENDED
 Terrific Compilation Of An Immensely Popular Sixties Group! September 4, 2000
47 out of 51 found this review helpful
Although the Amazon reviewer contends this was not a "real' band with consistent membership, those of us that saw them in various venues on tour in the late sixties and early seventies were sure fooled! I bumped into them in an airport restaurant sitting with one-time megastar Dion in the early seventies when they were still touring. Wonder where the reviewer was back then? My guess is that he was still busy stealing marbles from his older brother. This is a great collection by one of the most successful groups in the mid to late 1960s, and they were best known for a series of counterculture songs with provocative lyrics, especially in their monster hit, "Let's Live For Today". Perhaps no other single song so well epitomizes the sixties notion rejecting mainstream convention as does this song. It, along with Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" and Scott MacKenzie's "San Francisco" became an anthem for the youth culture that sprang up in opposition to the stultifying conformity of older Americans. Many of their other songs like "Where Were You When I Needed You", "My Midnight Confessions", and "Temptation Eyes" were more conventional love songs. This is a great compilation of their music, and provides the listener with a terrific sampling of just why they were as popular and as successful as they became in the boiling cauldron of sixties music as they did. Enjoy!
The best comp available right now June 3, 2005
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
Evidently the 2-disc Rhino "Anthology" is out of print, so this is the Grass Roots "hits" CD to get. As other reviewers have said, this one has all the essentials. Plus, the sound (remastering) is very good. As one who was in his teens when most of these songs graced the airwaves, I'm admittedly prejudiced when I say they still sound remarkably tight and wonderfully energetic, not to mention cool. But then, maybe that's my nostalgia kicking in. The group underwent numerous personnel changes during its run. Pictured on the cover of this 16-track collection is the lineup responsible for such Top 40 radio classics as "Let's Live For Today" and "Midnight Confessions." Lead guitarist Creed Bratton (lower right on this cover shot) later went into acting and snared bit parts in several major films such as Heart Like A Wheel and Mask. Singer and rhythm guitarist/keyboard player Warren Entner (pictured standing in back) later managed hard-rock acts in the 1980s. Pictured at lower left is Rob Grill, lead singer and bassist. He put together a new Grass Roots lineup a few years back and hit the road. (In fact, I caught a glimpse of them on a TV show a couple of years ago. Man, he STILL sounded good.) Pictured between Entner and Bratton is drummer and singer Rick Coonce; alas, I'm not sure what became of him after he left the group in the early 1970s. By the way, my fellow diehards, one of the group's better original albums and the first one with new member Dennis Provisor, "Leaving It All Behind," is available from Hip-O Select (which is different from simply Hip-O Records, whose catalogue items Amazon carries). With shipping it'll cost you about $21. It's of course a CD but it's presented in a small, facsimile cardboard album jacket with all the original artwork - front, back and inside - which means the gatefold jacket is square and slightly taller than a standard plastic jewel case or a Digipak. The remastering is great. Hip-O made just 5,000 individually numbered copies. I just received mine in the mail, and it's close to #1,200. In the meantime, until some benevolent company decides to release a more thorough anthology that mimics or surpasses Rhino's 1991 2-disc masterwork, this single-disc CD, All-Time Greatest Hits, is your best choice for a Grass Roots compilation.
Toe Tappin' music July 5, 2000
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Let's Live For Today Was one of my first purchased singles. A few years later, Midnight Confessions went to number 1. Then the formula kept clicking out the hits with songs such as "Lovin' Things", "I'd Wait A Million Years" , "Baby Hold On", "Heaven Knows". If you are a 60's or 70's DJ, and Temptation Eyes is not on your list- SHAME ON YOU! This is a MUST item for a serious colletor of music from this period. THE GRASS ROOTS had to many top 20 hits to continue and be ignored by oldies shows which only play the top #1's and ignore the rest of the top 40. A good bargain compilation. MUCH CHEAPER THAN A PREVIOUS MULTI-CD SET.
Timeless Classics ... April 10, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a great collection from one of the best pop bands of the late 60's and early 70's. The songs are all remastered and there is not one I can think of that was left out - Truly a greatest hits package ! Should be a definate addition to your library ... It will take you on a virtual tour of your childhood ...
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