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- Collectors' Items
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The O'Jays
Released 1977

Wildflower
10:17
6,798 plays

Back Stabbers
03:07
6,632 plays

I Love Music
06:51
5,907 plays

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songs

- 1
- Family Reunion
- 06:54
- 11,465 plays

- 2
- Survival
- 03:42
- 2,752 plays

- 3
- Give the People What They Want
- 04:10
- 3,311 plays

- 4
- Let Me Make Love to You
- 03:36
- 4,840 plays

- 5
- I Love Music
- 06:51
- 5,907 plays

- 6
- Stairway to Heaven
- 06:16
- 25,663 plays

- 7
- Back Stabbers
- 03:07
- 6,632 plays

- 8
- For the Love of Money
- 07:18
- 5,733 plays

- 9
- Sunshine
- 03:43
- 3,716 plays

- 10
- You Got Your Hooks in Me
- 05:33
- 4,602 plays

- 11
- Love Train
- 02:58
- 4,150 plays

- 12
- Livin' for the Weekend
- 06:34
- 4,836 plays

- 13
- Wildflower
- 10:17
- 6,798 plays

- 14
- Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet Tender Love)
- 04:17
- 4,716 plays

album review

Collectors' Items is an O'Jays compilation with a narrow range (basically 1972-76), a contradictory title, and odd sequencing, but a parade of huge hits that make up for any of its other faults. Using two LPs (or one CD, in its digital incarnation) to collect songs from only six albums, the set has plenty of room to anthologize all of the smooth Philly soul trio's biggest singles from the early- to mid-'70s: "Love Train," "Back Stabbers," "I Love Music," "Give the People What They Want," "Livin' for the Weekend." Even though all of the songs that had to be here are here, a few bizarre choices make this less than the definitive compilation of their time: why take "Sunshine" from 1972's Back Stabbers, but not the far superior "Time to Get Down" or "992 Arguments" (or both)? Why use "Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet Tender Love)" from 1976's Message in Our Music, but not the gorgeous title track? These few questionable decisions aside, Collectors' Items delivers exactly what fans expect, and there is actually one item for the collectors: a previously unreleased cover of "Wildflower," a recent hit for the Canadian group Skylark as well as the New Birth. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide