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Title: Get The Originals NOW
Review: Why would anyone want to waste their money or their time listening to these overwrought imitations? Hey, Leiber and Stoller are one of the top 3 songwriting teams in the HISTORY of rock (McCartney-Lennon and Holland-Dozier-Holland are the only other ones who could hold a candle), and most of their best work is available in THE ORIGINAL RECORDINGS. So here's a clue: start with a Drifters best-of, then move to the Coasters. Then Elvis and Ben E. King's solo stuff. If you still can't get enough (and you won't), then start looking for 50's and 60's compilations with the missing essential tracks (Kansas City,Love Potion #9, I Who Have Nothing). Do that and this CD becomes not only utterly dispensable, but an abomination to the memory of these great songs.
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