Don’t touch that dial

Press, 6 July 1978, Page 15

Don’t touch that dial

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK “FM” (MCA Records 2-12000): At the bun-fight for the release of this album, someone joked that “FM” was going to be renamed “Solid Gold Hits Volume 21.” Although the double album is going to be pushed as “The Greatest Greatest Hits Album” ever released, this claim has some validity, if drily for the consistency of the songs. Other record companies i must be eating their hearts out over the release of this ; album to Phonogram, particularly when many of the artists belong to Warner Brothers. The two live Linda Ronstadt tracks, “Tumblin’ Dice” and “Poor Pitiful Me” illustrate that a live I album from that artist I would sell like hot cakes. Other artists and songs include Boz Scaggs on “Lido Shuffle,” Steely Dan on the only original song “FM” and “Do It Again,” Bob Seger’s “Night Moves,” Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are,” Steve Miller’s “Fly Like An Eagle,” and the Eagles’ “Life In The Fast Lane.”

Only “FM” and Jimmy Buffet’s “Livingston Saturday Night” are actually live in the film “FM,” the rest of the songs like Boston’s “More Than A Feelling” run like the tracks in “American Graffiti” fitting

in where they are needed. Without the film it is hard to say how the soundtrack works out, but even on its own “FM” is a riiore than adequate greatest hits album.