These recordings are from the days prior to Elton John's success as a solo performer.

These were issued by budget labels including Music for Pleasure and featured current or recent hits re-recorded, with varying degrees of note-for-note accuracy, by nameless "soundalike" performers.

Like many other jobbing session singers of the time, John worked as a vocalist on these albums.

The public preferred the original recordings and the market for cheap cover compilations rapidly declined.

This collection was released by minor labels in the UK and US in 1994 and was re-issued many times afterwards.