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The Turtles - Happy Together - 30 Years of Rock 'n Roll (1995)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Happy Together 2:56
  2. Let Me Be 2:26
  3. You Don't Have To Walk In the Rain 2:40
  4. Lady-O 2:54
  5. Makin' My Mind Up 2:17
  6. Buzzsaw 1:58
  7. Hot Little Hands 4:12
  8. Just a Room 2:30
  9. Who Would Ever Think That I Would Marry Margaret 2:09
  10. Like It or Not 3:42
  11. Like a Rolling Stone 3:16
  12. Can I Go On 3:00
Volume 2
  1. She'd Rather Be With Me 2:21
  2. Love in the City 3:42
  3. Grim Reaper of Love 2:44
  4. Guide for the Married Man 2:43
  5. Eve of Destruction 2:42
  6. House on the Hill 3:00
  7. It Was a Very Good Year 1:56
  8. If We Only Had the Time 5:12
  9. Think I'll Run Away 2:30
  10. Almost There 2:15
  11. We'll Meet Again 2:30
  12. Down in Suburbia 4:08
Volume 3
  1. She's My Girl 2:36
  2. Can I Get to Know You Better 2:39
  3. Sound Asleep 2:27
  4. Me About You 2:31
  5. Battle of the Bands 2:17
  6. I Get Out of Breath 3:17
  7. Goodbye Surprise 2:58
  8. Glitter and Gold 2:09
  9. To See the Sun 4:30
  10. I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts) 1:35
  11. Too Young to Be One 2:00
  12. You Want to Be a Woman 3:26
Volume 4
  1. It Ain't Me Babe 2:09
  2. You Showed Me 3:16
  3. The Story of Rock & Roll 2:40
  4. Surfer Dan 2:42
  5. Wanderin' Kind 2:07
  6. How You Loved Me 2:59
  7. You Ma Said Ya' Cried 1:44
  8. Dance This Dance With Me 3:33
  9. Can't You Hear the Cows 2:22
  10. So Goes Love 2:41
  11. Chicken Little Was Right 2:47
  12. The Owl 4:31
Volume 5
  1. Elenore 2:32
  2. You Baby 2:19
  3. You Know What I Mean 2:02
  4. Outside Chance 2:10
  5. Like the Seasons 1:55
  6. Bachelor Mother 2:41
  7. The Last Thing I Remember, The First Thing I Knew 2:55
  8. Love Minus Zero 2:54
  9. I Can't Stop 2:09
  10. Earth Anthem 3:54
  11. Somewhere Friday Night 3:24
  12. We Ain't Gonna Party No More 4:57

Notes

Label: Laserlight
Catalog No: 12-598 through 12-602

Notes: Laserlight's budget Turtles box was released at the same time as the dual Sundazed/Repertoire offerings of the Turtles' catalog; strangely, despite being on an ostensibly budget imprint, the CD's liner notes (sadly, not included here) are easily the best of any of the series' attempts. On the sound quality front, many of the selections sound pretty similar to Sundazed's ceontemporary efforts.

Track-wise, the collection is thorough, but haphazard; all of the big hits are here, but not necessarily in any comprehensible order. Several serious obscurities get thrown in, to boot, including several Repertoire-only bonus tracks that never made it to the Sundazed discs (gems like "Can I Go On?" and "You Want to Be a Woman" certainly deserve a wider airing). While most everything else is available elsewhere, it should be pointed out that this version of "To See the Sun" runs longer than its only other digital appearance as a bonus track to Repertoire's "Turtle Soup."