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The promised Indian summer does not look like materialising after all. But if you want the sound of summer to come wafting out of your in-car hi-fi as you cruise the drizzly streets of Huddersfield, look no further than this top-quality collection.

There are 28 tracks of laid-back listening with some real gems among them. From the Sixties comes Groovin' by the Young Rascals and the Lovin' Spoonful's Summer In The City. And moving on chronologically there are the early Seventies' classics. Make It With You by Bread, Listen To The Music by The Doobie Brothers and a couple of songs which later provided hits for the Isley Brothers, Summer Breeze by Seals And Croft and Stephen Stills' Love The One You're With. Hall and Oates weigh in with a pair of beauties, the moody and magnificent She's Gone, from 1974, and the song which should have been a hit in 1984 but wasn't, Out Of Touch. Other notables are A Horse With No Name by America, Brass In Pocket by The Pretenders, Africa by Toto, Roxy Music's Avalon and the brillant Walk On The Wild Side from Lou Reed.

This is certainly one of the best TV compilation albums to come out in recent times.

Huddersfield Daily Examiner, September 28, 1985