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In 2006, Time-Life began marketing it's Classic Soft Rock collection featuring adult contemporary hits of the Seventies and Eighties - later volumes slid the bar into the Nineties. Those two dudes from Air Supply, Graham and Russell, hosted the infomercials which seem to have been scrubbed from the interwebtubes rather recently. For the purposes of this post, the discs in the series are listed in alphabetical rather than chronological order. HERC also uncovered five international versions of the discs with slightly different track listings and has included separate playlists for those as well. One of the things HERC doesn't like about the Classic Soft Rock series was the compilers use of single edits rather than album versions. Ordinarily, HERC would just substitute his preferred version but for this series he tried to stick to the original configuration - if an edit was used and available on Spotify, HERC included it in the playlist.
One such edit he reluctantly included was the hit single version of Gerry Rafferty's soaring 'Baker Street' which knocks a full two minutes off the album version. On the other hand, the lovely disco shuffle that is Dr. Hook's 'When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman' could use a couple of extra minutes packed onto its under three minutes running time. HERC favorite did release a Disco Purrfection version of it back in April but it was quickly taken down. The title track from Into The Night by Benny Mardones barely missed the Top 10 when it was first released in 1980. Nearly a decade later, DJ Scott Shannon added it to his playlist and other stations followed suit and the re-released single made it to #20 in 1989.
Mardones capitalized on his second chance at fame by and releasing it on his self-titled 1989 album, which failed to chart. For his A Journey Through Time album which also included. Was recorded and released by the 64 year old Mardones. He can still sing but wisely doesn't even try to hit those high notes. He was 32 in 1980 when he started singing about that 16 year old girl - he got older and she stayed the same age. 2007's Ordinary World was a late entry in the Classic Soft Rock series, coming nearly nine months after the initial volumes were released in 2006. Many of the songs are from the late Eighties and early Nineties including artists like Cutting Crew, Duran Duran, Go West, Jon Secada, Paul Carrack and Wilson Phillips.
In addition to the pair of solo hits on Ordinary World, Paul Carrack provides lead vocals on these other songs in the series: Squeeze's 'Tempted', Mike + The Mechanics' 'The Living Years' and Ace's 'How Long'. In 2013, the core albums of the Classic Soft Rock series ( More Than A Feeling, Ride Like The Wind, Summer Breeze, California Dreamin', The Air That I Breathe and Into The Night ) were rechristened and relaunched as The Best Of Soft Rock with all-new artwork, a collectible book and a sweet box to hold all the discs. The 150 songs remain the same. The new set is also available in an expanded Deluxe edition with four volumes from the Easy 80s series ( At This Moment, Lost In Love, Secret Lovers and Angel Of The Morning ) added into the mix for a total of 264 songs with quite a few duplicates between the two series.
Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Time Life - Classic Soft Rock: 'Summer Breeze' Released date: September 8, 2006 Record Label: Time Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total size: 273 mb Song title Disc One: 01. Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts 02. Key Largo - Bertie Higgins 03.
Make It with You - Bread 04. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - Chicago 05. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright 06. Hello It’s Me - Todd Rundgren 07. Sara Smile - Daryl Hall, 08.
Chuck E.’s in Love - Rickie Lee Jones 09. Black Water - The Doobie Brothers 10.
Still the One - Orleans 11. Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt 12. Cool Change - Little River Band 13.
Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia 14. Never Be the Same - Christopher Cross 15. You Can Do Magic - America Total time: 57'46' Total size: 134 mb Disc Two: 01. Guitar Man - Bread 02. Tin Man - America 03.
Wildfire - Michael Murphy 04. 25 or 6 to 4 05.
Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson 06. What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers 07. Steal Away - Robbie Dupree 08. You’re the Only Woman - Ambrosia 09.
Sexy Eyes - Dr. Kiss You All Over - Exile 11. Even the Nights Are Better - Air Supply 12. Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross 13. Missing You - John Waite 14. Beautiful in My Eyes - Joshua Kadison 15. Black Velvet - Alannah Myles Total time: 59'32' Total size: 138 mb Download from Rapidshare.com.
Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Time Life - Classic Soft Rock: 'Ride Like The Wind' Released date: September 8, 2006 Record Label: Time-Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total size: 342 mb Song title Disc One: 01. Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac 02. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner 03.
Can’t Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon 04. Higher Love - Steve Winwood 05. Missing You - John Waite 06. Minute By Minute - The Doobie Brothers 07. Rosanna - Toto 08. More Than A Feeling - Boston 09.
Every Kind of People - Robert Palmer 10. Fooled Around And Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop 11. Rich Girl - Daryl Hall & John Oates 12.
Livin’ Thing - Electric Light Orchestra 13. Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts 14. Baby What A Big Surprise - Chicago 15. Tin Man - America 16. Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt Total time: 73'40' Total size: 169 mb Disc Two: 01. Daniel - Elton John 02. How Am I Supposed To Live - Michael Bolton 03.
We Don’t Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard 04. Don’t Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project 05. Sexy Eyes - Dr. More Love - Kim Carnes 07. I Saw The Light - Todd Rundgren 08. Crazy Love - Poco 09. Whenever I Call You “Friend” - Kenny Loggins 10.
Vincent - Don McLean 11. Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen 12. Him - Rupert Holmes 13. The Doctor - The Doobie Brothers 14. The Best Of Times - Styx 15. More Than I Can Say - Leo Sayer 16 The Guitar Man - Bread Total time: 74'10' Total size: 170 mb Download from Rapidshare.com.
Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Time Life - Classic Soft Rock: 'Into the Night' Released date: September 8, 2006 Record Label: Time Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total size: 271 mb Song title Disc One: 01. Into the Night - Benny Mardones 02. It’s a Heartache - Bonnie Tyler 03.
Drift Away - Dobie Gray 04. Maggie May - Rod Stewart 05.
Your Song - Elton John 06. How Long - Ace 07. More Love - Kim Carnes 08. I’m Not in Love - 10cc 09.
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vanelli, Gino Vannelli 10. Babe - Styx 11. Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton 12. Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop 13. Lonesome Loser - Little River Band 14. While You See a Chance - Steve Winwood 15. Let’s Make a Night to Remember - Bryan Adams Total time: 59'03' Total size: 135 mb Disc Two: 01.
Daniel - Elton John 02. I Need You - America 03. Wild World - Cat Stevens 04. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes 05. I’d Really Love to See You Tonight - John Ford Coley, England Dan & John Ford Coley 06. On and On - Stephen Bishop 07. Tempted - Squeeze 08.
Things We Do for Love - 10cc 09. Best of Times - Styx 10. Cry - Godley & Creme 11. Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues 12.
Higher Love - Steve Winwood 13. I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) - Meat Loaf 14. Please Forgive Me - Bryan Adams 15. More Than Words - Extreme Total time: 59'18' Total size: 136 mb Download from Rapidshare.com.
Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Time Life - Classic Soft Rock: 'More Than A Feeling' Released date: September 8, 2006 Record Label: Time Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total size: 290 mb Song title Disc One: 01. Lowdown - Boz Scaggs 02. Whenever I Call You 'Friend' - Kenny Loggins 03. Piano Man - Billy Joel 04. Longer - Dan Fogelberg 05. Miracles - Jefferson Starship 06.
Lost in Love - Air Supply 07. More Than I Can Say - Leo Sayer 08. Rosanna - Toto 09.
More Than a Feeling 10. Take It on the Run - REO Speedwagon 11.
Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carmen 12. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler 13. Living Inside Myself - Gino Vannelli 14.
Flame - Cheap Trick 15. Sara - Starship Total time: 62'28' Total size: 144 mb Disc Two: 01. Livin' Thing - Electric Light Orchestra 02.
This Is It - Kenny Loggins 03. Africa - Toto 04. Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project 05.
Look What You've Done to Me - Boz Scaggs 06. You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Daryl Hall, 07. All out of Love - Air Supply 08. Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon 09. Search Is Over - Survivor 10.
All by Myself - Eric Carmen 11. Without You - Harry Nilsson 12. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 13. Dust in the Wind - Kansas 14. Vincent - Don McLean 15.
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins Total time: 63'00' Total size: 145 mb Download from Rapidshare.com. Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Classic Soft Rock: California Dreamin' Released date: September 08, 2006 Record Label: Time Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total time: 53'09' Total size: 124 mb Song title 01. California Dreamin' - The Mamas And The Papas 02.
Kokomo - Beach Boys 03. Ventura Highway - America 04. Listen To The Music - The Doobie Brothers 05. I Can See Clearly Now - Johny Nash 06. It Never Rains In Southern California - Albert Hammond 07. Thank You For Being A Friend - Andrew Gold 08.
Everything I Own - Bread 09. When Will I Be Loved - Linda Ronstadt 10. I Keep Forgettin' - Michael McDonald 11.
Cannon technologies lcr 5000. Baby Come Back - Player 12. Circle In The Sand - Belinda Carlisle 13. Hold On - Wilson Philips 14.
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I'll Be Over You - Toto 15. Just The Way It Is, Baby - The Rembrandts Download from Rapidshare.com. Artist: Various Artists CD Title: Classic Soft Rock: 'The Air That I Breathe' Released date: September 08, 2006 Record Label: Time Life Records Genre: Soft Rock Type: MP3 format sound Quality: 320(cbr) Kbit Channels: 44Khz, j.stereo Total time: 62'34' Total size: 144 mb Song title 01. We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard 02. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty 03. When You're In Love with A Beautiful Woman - Dr.
Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea 05. You're No Good - Linda Ronstadt 06. Reminiscing - Little River Band 07. The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies 08.
American Pie - Don McLean 09. Sad Eyes - Robert John 10. I Go Crazy - Paul Davis 11. Hearts - Marty Balin 12.
These Dreams - Heart 13. Jessie - Joshua Kadison 14.
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The Doctor - The Doobie Brothers 15. Release Me - Wilson Phillips Download from Rapidshare.com.