The Ultimate Rascals

Performer: The Rascals
Producer: The Rascals
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: The Rascals: Gene Cornish (vocals, guitar, bass); Felix Cavaliere (vocals, keyboards); Eddie Brigati (vocals, percussion); Dino Danelli (drums). Released towards the beginning of the CD era, way back in 1986, THE ULTIMATE RASCALS has a few flaws--some of the tracks are in ping-pongy fake stereo instead of as-nature-intended mono--but it's still about as good a single-disc (Young) Rascals anthology as you're likely to find. Staring with their classic first single "I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart Out No More" and continuing through 19 other jazz-inflected slices of blue-eyed soul, THE ULTIMATE RASCALS charts a course from the hyper rock of "Good Lovin'" through the suave sophistication of "Groovin'" and "How Can I Be Sure" to the band's more complex and artsy later work, like "A Ray of Hope," which features Alice Coltrane. Excellent stuff, and possibly the only Rascals album you'll need.

The kings of blue-eyed New Yawk soul, The Rascals (n� The Young Rascals) were veterans of local bar bands when they got signed by Atlantic in 1965 and scored the raucous #1 shouter "Good Lovin'." They eventually moved beyond their R&B roots to a more produced pop sound, and scored six Top Ten hits ranging from the dreamy "Groovin'" to the funky message song "People Got to Be Free," to the sublime elegance of "How Can I Be Sure," before disbanding in 1971.

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