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8LP Set*
Released 1975
Cat No.: RDS9031-8  (RDC90201-4)
RD Code: HIT 016

This was the first RD album that I purchased. It's almost a perfect pop package, the only downside being that it stops in 1973.
*This set came with a bonus LP "Hair" (RDS9039) which fetaured tracks from the musical of the same name.

LP 1      The Fifties

1 - Just Walkin' In The Rain - Johnnie Ray

2 - Singing In The Blues - Guy Mitchell

3 - Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan

4 - We Will Make Love - Russ Hamilton

5 - Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

6 - Nairobi - Tommy Steele

7 - All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers 

8 - It's All In The Game - Tommy Edwards

9 - Hoots Mon! - Lord Rockingham's XI

10 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

11 - Teenager In Love - Marty Wilde

12 - Three Bells - The Browns

13 - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - Emile Ford and The Checkmates

14 - Oh! Carol - Neil Sedaka

LP 2      1960-61

1 - Why? - Anthony Newley

2 - Delaware - Perry Como

3 - Running Bear - Johnny Preston

4 - My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan

5 - Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones

6 - Because They're Young - Duane Eddy

7 - Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson

8 - Sailor - Petula Clark

9 - Are You Sure? - Allisons

10 - Blue Moon - The Marcels

11 - On The Rebound - Floyd Cramer

12 - Halfway to Paradise - Billy Fury

13 - Well I Ask You - Eden Kane

14 - Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean

LP 3      1962-63

1 - Wimoweh - Karl Denver

2 - Hey Baby - Bruce Channel

3 - Picture of You - Joe Brown

4 - Telstar - The Tornados

5 - The Locomotion - Little Eva

6 - It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King

7 - Venus In Blue Jeans - Mark Wynter

8 - Island of Dreams - The Springfields

9 - Diamonds - Jet Harris and Tony Meehan

10 - Twist & Shout - Brian Poole and The Tremeloes

11 - Sweets For My Sweet - The Searchers

12 - Just Like Eddie - Heinz

13 - Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry

14 - I Only Want To Be With You - Dusty Springfield

LP 4      1964-65

1 - Needles & Pins - The Searchers

2 - Diane - Bachelors

3 - Juliet - Four Pennies

4 - I Won't Forget You - Jim Reeves

5 - You Really Got Me - The Kinks

6 - (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me - Sandie Shaw

7 - He's In Town - Rockin' Berries

8 - Tired of Waiting For You - The Kinks

9 - Concrete and Clay - Unit 4 + 2

10 - Here Comes the Night - Them

11 - King of the Road - Roger Miller

12 - Where Are You Now My Love? - Jackie Trent

13 - Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds

14 - Tossing and Turning - Ivy League

LP 5      1966-67

1 - Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass

2 - Michelle - The Overlanders

3 - You Were On My Mind - Crispian St. Peters

4 - A Groovy Kind of Love - The Mindbenders

5 - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - Walker Brothers

6 - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield

7 - Black is Black - Los Bravos

8 - Puppet on a String - Sandie Shaw

9 - A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum

10 - Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix

12 - San Francisco - Scott Mackenzie

13 - Massachusetts - Bee Gees

14 - Baby, Now That I've Found You - The Foundations

15 - Let The Heartaches Begin - Long John Baldry

LP 6      1968-69

1 - Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann

2 - Cinderella Rockafella - Esther & Abi Ofarim

3 - Legend of Xanadu - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich

4 - Young Girl - Gary Puckett And The Union Gap

5 - Fire - Crazy World of Arthur Brown

6 - With a Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

7 - Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde - Georgie Fame

8 - Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

9 - Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da - Marmalade

10 - Blackberry Way - The Move

11 - Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman

12 - In The Year 2525 - Zager And Evans

13 - A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash

14 - Call Me Number One - The Tremeloes

LP 7      1970-71

1 - That Same Old Feeling - Pickettywitch

2 - House of the Rising Sun - Frijid Pink

3 - Yellow River - Christie

4 - Grooving With Mr. Bloe - Mr. Bloe

5 - In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

6 - Neanderthal Man - Hotlegs

7 - Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix

8 - Pushbike Song - The Mixtures

9 - Hot Love - T. Rex

10 - Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson

12 - Never Ending Song of Love - New Seekers

13 - Maggie May - Rod Stewart

14 - Coz I Luv You - Slade

15 - Tokoloshe Man - John Kongos

LP 8      1972-73

1 - Son Of My Father - Chicory Tip

2 - Without You - Nilsson

3 - Come What May - Vicky Leandros

4 - Rocket Man - Elton John

5 - Mouldy Old Dough - Lieutenant Pigeon

6 - You're A Lady - Peter Skellern

7 - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing - New Seekers

8 - Part of the Union - The Strawbs

9 - Sylvia - Focus

10 - Welcome Home - Peters and Lee

11 - Yesterday Once More - The Carpenters

12 - Monster Mash - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and The Crypt Kickers

13 - Ballroom Blitz - Sweet

14 - Caroline - Status Quo