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ASSOCIATION ~ GOODBYE COLUMBUS (SOUNDTRACK) COLLECTORS` CHOICE 648 (Barcode: 617742064827) ~ USA ~ Classic Pop Recorded: 1969 Released: 2006 5th album by the excellent US Pop group AssociationFind albums by this artist, a sextet of gifted songwriters, players and most importantly singers, who brought the art of vocal harmony to the highest levels known in popular music. The group enjoyed some success on the US charts in the late 1960s, but they were way more sophisticated and creative to be considered just as hit makers. Over the years the group released a series of excellent albums, each and every one of them full of great songs, superbly performed and sung. The fact that most of their material was self penned, self played and self arranged the collective talent and ingenuity of the band members is beyond doubt. Their vocal harmonies, firmly based in the American Folk vocal tradition but cleverly adapted to the Pop / Rock climate, are a model revered and copied to this very day. There are hardly any weak songs on any of their albums and with six songwriters in the band they were never short of material. This album is quite an oddity in their recorded legacy, as the band´s songs appearing here were commissioned to serve as part of a soundtrack to the "Goodbye ColumbusFind albums with this title" movie. The Association songs constitute only a part of the soundtrack (the rest is accidental music composed by Charles FoxFind albums by this artist, who would become a most successful Hollywood film composer), therefore the album is mostly for collectors, but the music is still great.

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