Consumer Guide Album

Bay City Rollers: Greatest Hits [Arista, 1978]
Rollermania in this country was pretty depressing--1977's "You Made Me Believe in Magic," the last of their three top-tenners, could have been by Bread or Barry Manilow, and better the Partridge Family than that. Still, they got to put their name on three great singles, more than most people who make albums (or singles) manage: the number-one breakthrough "Saturday Night," the semistiff "Rock and Roll Love Letter," and the completely stiff "Yesterday's Heroes," a 1976 song about how they had to take command or fade away that was written for them--at their command, I'm sure--by Vanda & Young. C+