2007 Gold: Soft Rock

2007 Gold: Soft Rock
Various Artists
Louie Shelton - Producer

Hip-O's two-disc Gold: Soft Rock collection pull no punches in its attempt to re-create the heydays of '70s AM radio. All of the familiar Sunday staples are here like Dan Fogelberg's "Longer," "Sara Smile" from Hall & Oates, Player's impossibly smooth "Baby Come Back" and Seals & Crofts' soft rock anthem "Summer Breeze," but it's the effortless inclusion of contemporary cuts such as Godley & Creme's "Cry," the Moody Blues' "In Your Wildest Dreams," "Tempted" by Squeeze and even "More Than Words" by Extreme that sets this compilation apart from its lazy predecessors.

2004 Hit List: 24 Hot 100 American Chartbusters of the 1970

2004 Hit List: 24 Hot 100 American Chartbusters of the 1970
Various Artists
Louie Shelton - Producer

Following in the tradition of its previous series The Golden Age of American Rock & Roll (which documented the 1950s) and Chartbusters (tracking the 1960s), the U.K. reissue label Ace moves into the Me Decade with The Hit List: 24 Hot 100 American Chartbusters of the 1970s. Its subtitle to the contrary, the first volume in the series actually focuses almost exclusively on Top 20 chart entries, documenting the autumn of AM radio's commercial heyday: sure, the pop hits of the 1970s have been maligned in many quarters, and novelties like John Sebastian's theme to the TV smash Welcome Back, Kotter and cheese like Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" won't change naysayers' minds, but as these two-dozen songs prove, the decade was unmatched for the sheer variety of music that accessed the top of the charts, with hard rock, country-pop, disco and bubblegum pop all vying for commercial success.

1977 Seals & Crofts One on One

1977 One on One
Seals & Crofts
Louie Shelton - Producer


Produced by Louie Shelton and Charles Fox; music composed, arranged and conducted by Charles Fox; lyrics by Paul Williams; liner photo by Louie Lizarraga.
01. My Fair Share (Love Theme From One On One) 02. This Day Belongs To Me 03. Janet's Theme 04. John Wayne 05. Picnic 06. Flyin' 07. Reflections 08. Love Conquers All 09. It'll Be Alright 10. Hustle 11. Time Out 12. The Party 13. The Basketball Game 14. This Day Belongs To Me (Reprise)