Hot Hits 17

'A BWD Production

Album consists of various uncredited session artists recreating the hits of the day.
Hot Hits was the vinyl alternative to the real thing that would prove just as popular. Unlike that series, however, Hot Hits demonstrated a bit more class by hiring proper sound studios (e.g. Abbey Road Studios) and proper musicians and singers to do renditions and imitations of popular songs as close as possible to the original versions, some say better than the Tops series. Some of these session people included musicians like Larry Adler, singers like Tina Charles, David Byron (from Uriah Heep), Daniel Boone, Perry Ford, Dana Gillespie, etc. It is said that the likes of Elton John and David Bowie worked on some of the songs, probably when they were strapped for cash.
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