Twenty-six song compilation of non-LP singles, rarities that only showed up on obscure reissues and various-artists collections, and material (both released and unreleased) from their sessions for their late-'60s album. As a listen it's a little uneven, due in large part to the over-preponderance of standards from . None of this is on level with the best '60s recordings by . Much of it, though, is the fairly solid sort of stuff that fans who care enough about the act to go beyond greatest-hits compilations will like to have. Actually, some of these were not terribly obscure; was a small R&B hit in the mid-'60s, and was a small pop entry in 1968, as was the 1968 antiwar ballad (written by with jazz singer ). Oddities from the LP include the two lushly orchestrated songs they did for the soundtrack. However, much of the period is unsuitably pop in both material and production for , although and the previously unreleased eschew that approach for some pretty gutsy, bluesy soul. ~ Richie Unterberger