There are certain rare occasions when I hear records that make my toes turn up and my body feel that it's in total levitation—everything becomes wonderfully unreal. And it happens whenever Smokey's around—it really does. If I play I don't blame you at all [on Greatest Hits Vol. 2] and hear Smokey soaring over those breaks, or move on to even the first few bars of the closing We've come too far to end it all, I know I shall head for astral planes again….

Fred Dellar, "Miracles and Other Happenings" (© Link House Publications Ltd, 1973; reprinted by permission of the author), in Hi-Fi News & Record Review, Vol. 18, No. 10, October, 1973, p. 2029.∗