William Penn

Greatest Hits Vol. 2 is the second greatest hits album and fourth U.S. #1 album by Barbra Streisand. Released in 1978, it included Streisand's greatest hits from the previous eight years with one new track, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," a duet with Neil Diamond which never appeared on a previous Streisand album. Greatest Hits Volume 2 was also the only Streisand album where the song “Prisoner” appeared. It originally appeared on the now out-of-print soundtrack album to The Eyes of Laura Mars.

Leo Blokhuis is an award winning author and music journalist familiar to Dutch TV audiences as host of a prime time music show ‘Top 2000 a Gogo’. In his latest ‘sound book’ he writes of the period in the 60s and 70s when soul and country music traditions married together to create country soul and vice versa. The book part is 176 pages of Dutch text and since my near neighbours language is not one of the main languages that I can read I am unable to comment on Blokhuis’ writing skills. What I can say is that the text is interspersed with photographs of significant artists, record labels and a page on each featured song that lists studio details and participating musicians. Clearly a labour of love the book looks great and feels substantial.

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN.