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Rating: - Great for renewing your love for The Wonder Years
Volume 1 of the Wonder Years music collection, First Love, features some wonderful music sure to evoke wonderful memories of those who came to love the television series as much as I did. Snuffy Walden's two musical pieces are particularly special, expressing quite beautifully some of the show's most touching, emotional moments. They are joined by one other instrumental track, Paul Mauriat's impressive Love Is Blue, which anyone should recognize immediately even if the artist and title don't ring a bell. This collection can't boast quite the number of pop music classics that others can, but who doesn't love to listen to Marvin Gaye's How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You), The Temptations' My Girl, and Diana Ross and the Supremes' Someday We'll Be Together. Throw in Joe Cocker's emotional You Are So Beautiful, and you have the foundation for a terrific album, which is only augmented by Spanky and Our Gang's Like to Get to Know You and the Mind Benders' A Groovy Kind of Love.

Somewhat surprisingly, to the best of my knowledge only four of these songs (excluding Snuffy Walden's original compositions) were ever actually used in the show: Marvin Gaye's How Sweet It Is, Cocker's You Are So Beautiful, The Temptations' My Girl (which played an especially pivotal part in the classic episode 17, "Nemesis"), and the Supremes' Someday We'll Be Together. Still, all ten tracks on this album evoke the unique era in which the show was set and bring to mind those magical days spent with Kevin, Paul, and Winnie. Winnie fans should also know that the liner notes of this CD feature a wonderful picture of Kevin and Winnie from the premiere episode.

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