What a strange state pop music was in in the early 1970s. This album, a K-Tel television sampler, really proves it. Alongside such classics as
Curtis Mayfield's "If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go," the Edwin Hawkins Singers' gospel meltdown "Oh Happy Day," and
the Isley Brothers' excellent cover of
Stephen Stills' "Love The One You're With," there's disposable pop like the Partridge Family's "Doesn't Somebody Want to Be Wanted" and the Wadsworth Family Mansion's "Sweet Mary." It's just plain bizarre.