20 Best of Sha Na Na

Hello 😃! As I played through your iTunes Store I found some classic songs that I enjoyed as a young girl. Your version of Rockin’ Robin sounds different than the version I recall. I’ll continue to search for the authentic version I enjoyed so much. Thank you 😊! April 25, 2019 4:15am 🐾

I saw Sha Na Na for the first time in an amateur talent show at Columbia in 1968, when they still were known as The Kingsmen (for Kings College). They were terrific. In the Spring of 1969, they did a concert on the campus on the grass in front of the library. They were even better. Although the original group consisted primarily of Columbia students, it also included Henry Gross, a Queens College student who did most of the arrangements. He left the group relatively early, and I think a lot of the creativity and musicality left with him. I wish there were an early album of the original members singing the songs, but, alas, there isn't. This album, which consists I of songs from the umpteenth reconstituted group, contains most of their best songs but is nowhere near the quality of the original versions of them by the group. You can hear better versions of some of these songs in the 1972 and 1973 slbums which are available, but even they are nowhere near the quality of Sha Na Na's original versions of those hits. Or maybe they are just as good, and my memories of Sha Na Na are more fiction than truth. Either way, I would rather remember them in 1969 as I think they sounded, and listen to Dion and The Belmonts version of Runaround Sue and the original artists versions of most of the other tracks on the two "greatest hits" albums available on iTunes. The lone exceptions are At The Hop and Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay, where I think Sha Na Na's covers, even in these versions, are better than the originals. But if you are just going to buy those songs, buy them from the 1972 or 1973 albums.

If u don't like it than ur crazy

Surfin' bird sounds like absolute crap

I love all of the songs on this album it's a must for anyone that loves sha na na

This is an album for all age groups. You can always trust Sh-na-na to give you a certain skip in your step. Now you can listen to thier greatest hits anywhere!

Not very good and certainly not worth the money. I regret purchasing it.

ive heard better versions of ever title here that i recognize. this band has a very lame sound. its a little too cheesy for me, and even when the novelty of things like this is appealing(which in my case it isn't), it usually wears off. buyer beware.

These songs aren't mislabelled. They're in the right order and placement. I listen to this album all the time. I love it.

The songs are mislabeled, this needs corrected