Knowing Me, Knowing You [Pre-blog]

This year has felt different in someways to previous ones  not least I'm sensing a bigger gap between my peers and I as it's like we live parallel lives only sharing schooling and bits of popular culture as they appear more grown up to me.
But anyway after all the excitement of Christmas parties I want to talk about something I had this year as in some ways it's a link to the past.

This is a special 5 record set my folks got using mail order (you send away for stuff) from Readers Digest that has all the hits from Waterloo and even before I know having had the Greatest Hits lp since 1976 up to  their big hit from earlier this year, Lay All Your Love On Me as well as a number of tracks not previously issued on lp such as Elaine.
It for good measure also has a generous selection of track from their studio albums that show their musical and vocal talents of although it understandable has nothing from their new lp, The Visitors and its single One Of Us which reached #3 in the UK

The record has been made for them by the UK licensee, CBS and sounds very good indeed as compilations sometimes don't sound as great as the original albums.