Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Leba Sedaka.

Includes liner notes by Neil Sedaka.

TUNEWEAVER includes an 8-page booklet containing rare photos.

In the 2000s, Neil Sedaka finally enjoyed an inevitable pop-cultural reassessment, but a decade earlier, before he started palling around with Fountains of Wayne et al., he was busy reasserting his claim on musical history via 1995's TUNEWEAVER. The album finds the Brill Building hitmaker-turned-'70s-MOR-star re-recording most of his biggest hits from across his entire career. Some of Sedaka's early-'60s pop classics get a faithful reworking, including "Calendar Girl," "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," and other such perennial jukebox gems. On the other hand, "Breaking Up is Hard To Do," whose original version and slower '70s remake were both hits for Sedaka, gets yet another reinvention, this time as an orchestrated, Sinatra-style saloon song. It's not all a hit parade, though; there are some lesser-known items here to balance things out, offering listeners a considered overview of Sedaka's work that's not quite a greatest-hits package.