Jolene the Jukebox: Record Spotlight: The Best of Buddah

I like compilations. For a long time, I viewed them as garbage made for people who didn't actually care about an artist enough to buy an entire album. The truth is, a lot of artists, most artists, are singles artists capable of only making one out of every ten songs listenable. I still don't like compilations that feature only one artist in most cases, but various artist compilations are pretty cool.

First of all, they are almost always dirt cheap. Secondly, they're a great way to find out about music you might like. If there's a compilation that has a few songs you really like, chances are that the other songs you don't know are similar in some way.

We've started picking up a few bargain bin compilations lately, but The Best of Buddah is one of the best we've come across. We knew maybe half of the songs on here, but there isn't a bad one in the bunch. The 1976 release compiles the biggest hits from Buddah Records, still the main source of my spelling issues with the word "Buddha."

There are some big hits that are still radio staples on here, like "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Summer in the City," "Ooh Child," "It's Your Thing," "Green Tambourine," "One Toke Over the Line," "Brother Louis," and "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy." Here are a few cool songs we didn't know from this set.

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