Have a Nice Day (VA compilation series)
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Super Hits of the 70s: Have a Nice Day is a series of music compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

s containing chiefly one-hit wonders and lesser-known pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 songs from the 1970s. The first fifteen volumes were released on cassette and (with bonus tracks) on CD
Compact Disc
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, in 1990 by Rhino Records
Rhino Entertainment
Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company. It is owned by Warner Music Group.-History:Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes...

, covering the years 1969-1976. Compiled by Gary Stewart, David McLees, and Bill Inglot
Bill Inglot
Bill Inglot is an American music engineer and producer, best known for remastering older recordings to high quality digital standards.Inglot worked for Rhino Entertainment and other Warner Music Group labels from 1982 to 2007. He was largely responsible for reintroducing historically popular pop...

, each CD comes with an eight-page booklet which includes five pages of liner notes by Paul Grein. Follow-up volumes appeared in 1993 and 1996, extending the time period to 1979 and with additional songs from the 1972-76 period, available on cassette or CD (ALL 25 volumes were issued in both formats). Each volume has twelve songs. Despite the greater capacity of compact discs, the running time of each of the volumes is no longer than the limit of vinyl records in the 1970s, from 38 to 45 minutes long.

For most cuts, the (45 RPM) single version was included where differing from that found on the artist's original album. Many (not all) tracks were dubbed from the original stereo (or mono) master tapes, and therefore represent the best available version on CD. To avoid using lesser-quality tapes, single versions were recreated through Bill Inglot's digital editing of album-version tapes. The original stereo masters were not available in every case (CBS tracks in particular); Rhino's publicity forthrightly admitted those instances where other compilations' versions were superior.

It should be noted that that the songs "Jackie Blue", "Fooled Around And Fell In Love", "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Amie", which appear on volumes 14, 18, 21 and 23 respectively, have the 45 RPM single edits appear on the cassette tape versions, but feature the full-length album versions on the compact disc releases.

Taking its inspiration from, among others, K-Tel Records, the Have a Nice Day series was among the first of many decade- and genre-delimited collections of lower-charting hits to appear with the arrival of the CD age. Some of the songs provided in this series appear on dozens of other compilations. None of them (including this one) are comprehensive, leaving out best-selling artists and songs unavailable for licensing or other reasons. For example, "You Light Up My Life
You Light Up My Life (song)
Many artists have covered "You Light Up My Life" since 1977. The following year, Johnny Mathis recorded and named his album after the song. LeAnn Rimes released her version as a single in 1997, 20 years after Boone's version was released and on the same record label . Her version fared modestly...

", the song that held the #1 spot on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

 Pop Singles chart for the longest continuous stretch during the 1970s, is neither on this series nor any other. Despite the explosive proliferation of 70s collections on compact disc pouring out on other record labels since 1990, this series remains or has remained in print more than a decade after its initial releases in 1990-96.

In a review of the Volume 1 CD for Allmusic, Bruce Eder started out his review as follows: "The inaugural volume of what is now a 30-CD series moves from strength to strength in several different categories, and buying it is not only a no-brainer but also essential to one's education in pop music (assuming one needs it)." In spite of his presumption about 30 volumes being made, only 25 were ever produced.

In 1998, Rhino released Have A Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box
Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box
Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box is a seven-disc box set with a 90-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline for the decade, and liner notes. While covering much of the same ground as Rhino's Have a Nice Day series, it includes more R&B, funk, soul and disco from the period...

, a seven-disc compilation with 160 songs, many of which could be found on the Have a Nice Day series. Some songs contain sound snippets of the decade at the end of the song. In addition, more soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 and disco are added. Some well-known artists (for example, David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, Carly Simon
Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...

, Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...

 and Cat Stevens
Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....

) have songs on this compilation as well.

Series review

  • Allmusic  [ link]

Original series (1-15)

  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 1
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 1
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 1 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 1.-Track listing:# Spiral Starecase : "More Today Than Yesterday" – 2:48# Smith : "Baby It's You" – 2:24...

    (January 5, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 2
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 2
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 2 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 2.-Track listing:# Edison Lighthouse : "Love Grows " – 2:51...

    (January 5, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 3
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 3
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 3 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 3.-Track listing:# Melanie with The Edwin Hawkins Singers : "Lay Down " – 3:49...

    (January 5, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 4
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 4
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 4 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 4.-Track listing:# Christie : "Yellow River" – 2:40# Lynn Anderson : "Rose Garden" – 2:52...

    (January 5, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 5
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 5
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 5 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 5.-Track listing:# Daddy Dewdrop : "Chick-A-Boom " – 2:40...

    (January 5, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 6
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 6
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 6 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 6.-Track listing:# Crabby Appleton : "Go Back" – 2:45# The Buoys : "Timothy" – 2:45...

    (April 4, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 7
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 7
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 7 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 7.- Track listing :# Lee Michaels : "Do You Know What I Mean" – 3:11...

    (April 4, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 8
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 8
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 8 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 8.- Track listing :# Jo Jo Gunne :" Run Run Run" – 2:33...

    (April 4, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 9
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 9
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 9 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 9.-Track listing:# Looking Glass: "Brandy " – 2:55...

    (April 4, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 10
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 10
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 10 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 10.- Track listing :# Albert Hammond : "It Never Rains in Southern California" – 3:12...

    (April 4, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 11
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 11
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 11 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 11, Have a Nice Day, Vol. 11, released in 1990, is the eleventh title in Rhino Records' 1970s' American popular music minor hit compilation series, and the first of the third group of releases...

    (October 15, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 12
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 12
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 12 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 12.- Track listing :# Terry Jacks : "Seasons in the Sun" – 3:30...

    (October 15, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 13
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 13
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 13 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 13.- Track listing :# Maria Muldaur : "Midnight at the Oasis" – 3:47# Jim Stafford : "My Girl Bill" – 3:14...

    (October 15, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 14
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 14
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 14 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 14.- Track listing :# Carl Douglas : "Kung Fu Fighting" – 3:17...

    (October 15, 1990)
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 15
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 15
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 15 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 15.- Track listing :# Dwight Twilley Band : "I'm on Fire" – 3:18...

    (October 15, 1990)

Second series (16-22)

  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 16
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 16
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 16 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 16.- Track listing :# "Vehicle" — Ides of March 2:56# "Ride Captain Ride" — Blues Image 3:43...

    (April 6, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 17
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 17
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 17 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 17.- Track listing :# "Dancing in the Moonlight" — King Harvest # "Rings" — Cymarron...

    (April 6, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 18
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 18
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 18 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 18.For Making Our Dreams Come True a vinyl rip was used.- Track listing :# "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" — Freddy Fender...

    (April 6, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 19
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 19
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 19 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 19.- Track listing :# "Still the One" — Orleans # "Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang" — Silver # "Stand Tall" — Burton Cummings...

    (April 6, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 20
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 20
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 20 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 20.- Track listing :# "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" — Mac Davis # "The Last Game Of The Season " — David Geddes...

    (August 17, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 21
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 21
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 21 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 21.- Track listing :# "Black Betty" — Ram Jam # "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" — Meco # "Baby Come Back" — Player...

    (August 17, 1993) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 22
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 22
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 22 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 22.- Track listing :# "Every 1's a Winner" — Hot Chocolate # "Hot Child in the City" — Nick Gilder...

    (August 17, 1993) Allmusic [ link]

Third series (23-25)

  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 23
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 23
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 23 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 23.- Track listing :# "Hocus Pocus" — Focus # "Tubular Bells" — Mike Oldfield # "I've Got the Music in Me" — Kiki Dee Band...

    (March 26, 1996) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 24
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 24
    Also known as Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, Volume 24 or Super Hits of the '70s, Volume 24.- Track listing :# "Hey Deanie" — Shaun Cassidy # "Heaven on the 7th Floor" — Paul Nicholas...

    (March 26, 1996) Allmusic [ link]
  • Have a Nice Day, Volume 25
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 25
    Have a Nice Day, Volume 25 is a compilation album.- Track listing :# "Love Is Like Oxygen" — Sweet...

    (March 26, 1996) Allmusic [ link]

Box set

  • Have A Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box
    Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box
    Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box is a seven-disc box set with a 90-page booklet of cultural comment, a timeline for the decade, and liner notes. While covering much of the same ground as Rhino's Have a Nice Day series, it includes more R&B, funk, soul and disco from the period...

    (7 discs) June 16, 1998
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