A straightforward summary of the seven (out of eight) Top 30 hits enjoyed by the Rubettes between 1974-1976, rather obviously intended as a farewell to what had once ranked among the most effervescent hitmaking machines of the age. How premature -- just months later, the Rubettes bounced back with the tremendous Baby I Know and scored their biggest hit since I Can Do It two long years before. One cannot blame the powers that be, however, for thinking the band was over. Since they first emerged in a flurry of semi-Showaddywaddy rock roll retro-isms and the chart-topping Sugar Baby Love in May 1974, the Rubettes' career had been moving slowly backwards all the time; the sugar-baby sound-alike Tonight peaked at a meager number 12 in the U.K., while just two further singles even breached the Top Ten: Jukebox Jive and I Can Do It.; Little Darling and You're the Reason Why had barely scraped the Top 30. But the Rubettes were always worth far more than their singles discography insisted -- their first three albums, at least, stand alongside any of the bands that the mid-'70s media was regularly appointing "the next/new Beatles," even if the Rubettes themselves were never dropped into that same bag (blame snobbery: People heard the hits and dismissed them as valueless. They never even bothered playing the LPs). A handful of album cuts included here begin to state that case, and Baby I Know would confirm it, for anybody who cared. But the new age of the Rubettes, ushered in by that release, has no part to play in the story told here -- instead, sit back and marvel at just how effortlessly Sugar Baby Love and I Can Do It still roll back the years, and the jukebox jive comes alive once more. Yeah, they really could do it. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi

1		Sugar Baby Love
2		Tonight
3		Under One Roof
4		I'm Just Dreaming
5		Julia
6		Little 69
7		Don't Do It Baby
8		I Can Do It
9		Juke Box Jive
10		Little Darling
11		Cheri Amour
12		Baby I Know
13		You're the Reason Why
14		Ooh La La
15		The Sha Na Na Song
16		Foe Dee Oh Dee