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Well, for starters, none of these recordings are from his days as a crewcut teenage singing idol; these are all recordings from his later career as Rick Nelson, not Ricky, so the packaging is very misleading. Those who only want to hear teenybop tunes like "Be Bop Baby" and "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" will be very disappointed with this set. The quality of the recordings is all over the place - some are clearly taken from scratchy vinyl records, while others are muffled band bassy. That said, it's a pretty good comp of some rare and unreleased (at the time) Rick Nelson material. Nearly all of it has been released on better sounding CD's since this set came out; the exceptions being three songs from his final 1985 sessions, "One After 909", "Singing the Blues" and "So Long". It's worth having just for those 3 songs. The second disc is an excellent 1985 BBC interview focusing on Rick's early days.