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If they are to believed, David Gates and the other members of Bread never intended to become the enduring icons of a subgenre they virtually invented: soft rock. Indeed, scattered throughout this expanded edition of a perennial bestselling catalog album are tuneful evidence of their original intent, as one band mate said, "to make the '60s last a little longer." But it's the familiar, largely Gates-penned and -sung hit singles that remain the band's legacy, from "Make It with You" through the reunited band's last hurrah, "Lost Without Your Love." Though they've become oft-mocked clich?s, these are singles informed with a rare, often complex melodic sense, delivered with a deceptively breezy tone by one of pop's purest tenors. Gates and Bread clearly colored artists as diverse as '80s MOR icon Christopher Cross and nouveau singer-songwriter David Mead. --Jerry McCulley

Although the prime exponents of the '70s California soft rock style were album artists such as America, Bread, and Poco, Seals and Crofts--essentially an AM singles band--have aged even better. The key is in their tight songwriting. "Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl," and the rest of the hits display an odd, but apt, sense of arrangement and instrumentation--and enough of a rock & roll sensibility to keep their sound from slumping into period piece laid-backism. Case in point: The duo's first band was the Champs, noted for the fake-Latin crudhopper "Tequila." Even so, it's not grit, but ace songcraft that captures the prize here. All of the ace songs are included. --Gavin McNett

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Media Type: CD
Artist: CARMEN,ERIC
Title: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION
Street Release Date: 06/17/1997
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

A budget-priced 10-track collection of favorites from Bertie Higgins. All original recordings.

Release Date: 2003-06-24, Audio CD, Sony Special Product

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Media Type: CD
Artist: RAFFERTY,GERRY
Title: CITY TO CITY
Street Release Date: 05/02/1989
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP

Jay followed up his hit album and single 'Thunder Island' with another hit single, 'Shakedown Cruise', and another hit album, 'Real Life Ain't This Way', which built off its predecessor's success with more laid-back but gutsy fare. Both Joe Walsh and guitarist Bob Webb shine here; includes 'Shakedown Cruise; No Secrets; Real Life Ain't This Way; Davey; Turn Yourself In; Do It Again; Paying Time; Too Late to Save Your Heart; Let's Spend the Night Together; Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows', and 'City of Angels'. A 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive!

Japanese DSD digitally remastered re-release.

Release Date: 1990-09-25, Audio CD, Curb Special Markets

Release Date: 1991-02-01, Audio CD, Capitol