Side A
Artist	Song
Spiral Staircase	More Today Than Yesterday
Edison Lighthouse	Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Vanity Fare	Hitchin' A Ride
Mungo Jerry	In the Summertime
Ocean	Put Your Hand in the Hand
the Fortunes	Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again
Stampeders	Sweet City Woman
Jonathan Edwards	Sunshine
Gallery	Nice to Be With You
Looking Glass	Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
Daniel Boone	Beautiful Sunday
Stealer's Wheel	Stuck in the Middle With You
Gilbert O'Sullivan	Get Down
Redbone	Come and Get Your Love
Terry Jacks	Seasons in the Sun
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Paper Lace	The Night Chicago Died
Reunion	Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
Leo Sayer	Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)
Jigsaw	Sky High
Pilot	Magic
Harvest	Dancing in the Moonlight
Elvin Bishop	Fooled Around and Fell In Love
Andrew Gold	Lonely Boy
Dean Friedman	Ariel
Jay Ferguson	Thunder Island
Nicolette Larson	Lotta Love
Billy Ocean	Love Really Hurts Without You
Roger Voudouris	Get Used to It
Nick Gilder	Hot Child in the City

Comment:

Having resisted for years Rhino's 25-volume 'Have a Nice Day' series of pop/schlock hits of the '70s, I jumped in in June and completed the series in December. Wanted to make a celebratory tape with a selection from each volume. As usual, not so easy. Some volumes had more than one killer, which led to agonizing debates over, say, 'Brother Louie' vs. 'Stuck in the Middle With You.' Meanwhile, some volumes didn't have a bona fide killer, which made me very mad at them, and I ended up skipping a couple discs to ensure that the hits just keep on comin'. Here, then is a pure summation of '70s popcraft. There is much overlap with the esteemed Popkulcher's 'Worst of the 70s' set, about which I'll note that for someone calling this 'the worst,' he sure bought a lot of 'Have a Nice Day' discs. (Title, by the way, nicked from Rhino's box cannibalizing this series plus 70s soul hits and sound clips; nice package in a shag carpet box, but if you're hardcore, you want the whole shootin' match.) This is the cream of what I heard growing up on AM radio, and if you're a forty-something who doesn't find this irresistible, lighten up, man. Fair warning: volume II is already in the works.

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