Less than a year after Ace subsidiary BGP paired
Songs and
Hey Love onto one disc, Raven released a two-fer that made
Aladdin and
Dinner Music available on one disc. Not only do the original albums deserve to be released separately, but both the Raven and BGP two-fers ruin the strange sleeve artwork that adorned the original LPs.
Aladdin/
Dinner Music is a bit sore on the eyes, placing shrunken photos of the original covers in front of a background of intersecting ovals. As of 2003, this was the only way to obtain either album on CD. Neither album matches
Rotary Connection,
Songs, or
Hey Love, but each has a couple of great songs.
–
Andy Kellman, Rovi