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'Without a song or a dance, what are we?' A great choice for smaller ensembles or concert groups. Considered to be their farewell single, the 1983 ABBA hit 'Thank You For The Music' gently grooves in this contemporary a cappella setting from Kirby Shaw. 'Your Smiling Face' - A show stopper, for sure! Arranged in a collegiate, street-corner a cappella-style, with a featured Tenor solo. Scat your way to success with this inventive vocal setting of the '70s favorite 'Pick Up the Pieces', a soul classic by the Average White Band. An excellent change of pace in any concert. 'Build Me Up Buttercup' - Think collegiate-style a cappella with a street corner, doo-wop twist! Great individual vocal lines layer to make this a full-sounding choral from start to finish. There's a brief hand clapping a cappella section as the piece builds toward the big finish. Well-crafted choral writing combines with rhythmic drive to make your group come alive. Thie Olivia Newton-John hit from the '70s 'Let Me Be There' translates perfectly as a gospel-edged pop piece for today's choirs. Album DescriptionVarious Arrangers : Pop Classics for Mixed Voices See More Your browser does not support the audio element. © Richie Unterberger & Bruce Eder /TiVo More info The absence of original release date information (except for the year of issue) for each track is unfortunate, however, and the annotation is a bit disappointing - on most of these Castle/Sanctuary vault raids of the Pye vaults, there's almost too much information, but here there's too little. Most admirers of the group will be content with a single-disc greatest-hits collection, but for more serious fans this roundup is a valuable service, and the live album - promised for reissue on CD in the late '90s - comes off better here and more credible than most of us remember it. For those inclined to dig this deep, there are indications of unusual and interestingly different dimensions to the group on some of the relatively infrequent original compositions, like the ominous psychedelic-influenced 'New Direction,' Curtis' Sam Cooke-like 'Tomorrow,' Colin Young's funky 'Give Me Love,' and the mighty progressive funk of the instrumental workouts 'In the Beginning' and 'Where the Fire Burns.' Pat Burke's 'A Walk Through the Trees,' moving the latter's tenor sax into a rare center-stage spot, is also worth hearing, and this group's version of 'That Same Old Feeling' (later a hit for their Pye labelmates Pickettywitch) is also worth hearing, if only for the relative prominence of Alan Warner's chiming rhythm guitar. Too many of the other songs have lesser echoes of those two hits, which may be unsurprising given that so many of their recordings were written by the Tony Macaulay-John MacLeod team who wrote 'Baby Now That I've Found You' (Macaulay co-wrote 'Build Me Up Buttercup' too, though with Mike d'Abo, not MacLeod). But it's those one or two big hits - in their case, 'Baby Now That I've Found You' and 'Build Me Up Buttercup' - that are easily the best items here. At their best, the Foundations credibly emulated horn-backed American vocal group soul, often mixed with mainstream British pop influences, flecked with a hint of ska/bluebeat and Georgie Fame here and there. That means there's not only everything from their singles and albums (including the whole of the late-'60s live LP Rockin' the Foundations), but also five solo tracks (most or all of them from the early '70s) recorded by original Foundations lead singer Clem Curtis the mid-'70s single by the New Foundations, led by Curtis and an unnecessary 12' 1989 remix of 'Baby Now That I've Found You.' Like many such vault-cleaning anthologies of bands with one or two big hits, though, it's musically erratic. Whoever thought the day would come when the Foundations would be honored with a three-CD set? Now that it's found us, though, the job's certainly been done with admirable completeness, the 60 songs including everything they did for Pye - a period that covers virtually everything of interest the band recorded, mostly dating from 1967-1970.

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