Peter Frampton 20th Century Masters - The Best Of Peter Frampton

Personnel: Peter Frampton (vocals, arranger, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, keyboards, ARP synthesizer, bass, drums, percussion); Frank Carillo (acoustic guitar); Steve Lukather (guitar, background vocals); Mick Jones (guitar); Mick Gallagher (Wurlitzer piano); Bob Mayo (Clavinet, keyboards, background vocals); Andrew Bown (Mellotron, bass, percussion); Arthur Stead (keyboards, background vocals); Stanley Sheldon, Rick Wills (bass, background vocals); Eddie Watkins, Jr., John Regan (bass); John Siomos (drums, percussion); Gary Mallaber, Mike Kellie, Jeff Porcaro (drums); Steve Forman (percussion); Mike Finnegan, The Waters Family (background vocals).

Producers: Peter Frampton, Chris Kimsey, David Kershenbaum.

Compilation producer: Bill Levenson.

Recorded between 1972 & 1981. Includes liner notes by Scott Schnider.

This is part of "20th Century Masters: The Millenium Collection" series.

Personnel: Peter Frampton (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, talk box, drums, percussion); Bob Mayo (vocals, guitar, Clavinet, keyboards, background vocals); Rick Wills , Stanley Sheldon (vocals); Steve Lukather (guitar, background vocals); Frank Carillo (acoustic guitar); Mick Gallagher (Wurlitzer organ); Andrew Bown (Mellotron, percussion); Arthur Stead (keyboards, background vocals); John Siomos (drums, percussion); Gary Mallaber, Jeff Porcaro, Mike Kellie (drums); Steve Forman (percussion); Waters Family, Mike Finnegan (background vocals).

Liner Note Author: Scott Schinder.

Photographer: Mark Hanauer.

Arranger: Peter Frampton.

Unlike a great many of the entries in the 20th Century Masters series, there actually was a need for a good budget-priced Peter Frampton collection. Sadly, the disc's producers fumbled the ball by including the inferior album version of one of Frampton's biggest hits, "Baby, I Love Your Way," in lieu of the much better live version from the landmark Frampton Comes Alive! record. They did manage to include the live versions of "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do." The disc is rounded out by Frampton's biggest hit, the cuddly "I'm in You" from 1977, five tracks from his '70s albums, including his pale cover of Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)," and the title track from 1981's Breaking All the Rules. If they had included the better version of "Baby, I Love Your Way," this disc would have been quite easy to recommend to stingy Frampton fans, but as it is, it's merely OK. ~ Tim Sendra