Hard to Find Jukebox Classics 1959: Teen Pop Gold

Overview

The rise of rock & roll in the 1950s was directly due to the increased buying power of American teenagers, and if those teenagers sometimes bought records based more on the face of the singer than on any musical innovation in the grooves, the door was opened to a new kind of music. By 1959, the year covered by this fun collection, the original volley by rockers like Elvis Presley (who had gone into the Army), Chuck Berry (in jail), Jerry Lee Lewis (keeping a low profile because of a controversial marriage), and Little Richard (who had become a preacher) had muted and abated and the void was filled by dozens of teenaged crooners like Bobby Rydell, who watered down rock & roll's ragged, raw intensity until it fit neatly on American Bandstand. But the teen songs that hit the charts that year also painted a kind of innocent, puppy love approach to intimacy and relationships that let everyone -- adults and kids alike -- to sort of catch their collective breath. Of course, a quartet from Liverpool, England was just around the corner, and the times would soon change again. This package, though, freezes the moment between rock's early years and its dominant refinement in the 1960s. It was a brief world dominated by singing Barbies and Kens, but fear not, now and then someone like the Big Bopper wades in here with a song like "Chantilly Lace" and everything balances. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	09/21/2010
Label:	Hit Parade Records
UPC:	0730531231221
Rank:	74083

Tracks

1. Lonely Boy  - Paul Anka
2. Put Your Head on My Shoulder  - Paul Anka
3. Living Doll  - Lionel Bart  - Cliff Richard
4. Kissin' Time  - Bernie Lowe  - Kal Mann  - Bobby Rydell
5. We Got Love  - Bernie Lowe  - Kal Mann  - Bobby Rydell
6. Here Comes Summer  - Jerry Keller
7. Let's Go Steady for the Summer  - Dick Glasser  -  Three Gs
8. Believe Me  - Bob Gaudio  -  Royal Teens
9. She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)  -  Diamonds
10. Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)  -  Giosasi  -  Impalas
11. Dance with Me  -  Drifters  - Mike Stoller
12. I've Had It  -  Bell Notes  -  Bonura  -  Ceroni
13. It Was I  - Gary Paxton  -  Skip & Flip
14. Bird Dog  - Boudleaux Bryant  -  Everly Brothers  - Mark Mathews
15. Makin' Love  - Floyd Robinson
16. (Seven Little Girls) Sitting in the Back Seat  - Paul Evans  -  Pockriss
17. Pink Shoe Laces  - Mickie Grant  - Dodie Stevens
18. First Name Initial  - Annette Funicello  -  Kalmanoff
19. Plenty Good Lovin'  - Connie Francis
20. You're Gonna Miss Me  - Eddie Curtis  - Connie Francis
21. Lonely for You  - Gary Stites
22. Donna  - Ritchie Valens
23. La Bamba  - Mark Mathews  - Ritchie Valens
24. Chantilly Lace  -  Big Bopper  - J.P. Richardson
25. Big Bopper's Wedding  -  Big Bopper  - J.P. Richardson
26. Three Stars  - Tommy Dee
27. Running Bear  - Johnny Preston  - J.P. Richardson

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bobby Rydell   Primary Artist
Connie Francis   Primary Artist
Jerry Keller   Primary Artist
Skip & Flip   Primary Artist
Gary Stites   Primary Artist
Ritchie Valens   Primary Artist
Paul Evans   Primary Artist
The Everly Brothers   Primary Artist
Tommy Dee   Primary Artist
Johnny Preston   Primary Artist
Annette Funicello   Primary Artist
Dodie Stevens   Primary Artist
Floyd Robinson   Primary Artist
The Bell Notes   Primary Artist
Paul Anka   Primary Artist
The Big Bopper   Primary Artist
The Impalas   Primary Artist
Cliff Richard   Primary Artist
The Diamonds   Primary Artist
The Royal Teens   Primary Artist
The Drifters   Primary Artist
The Three G's   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Tom Daly   Sound Production
Rod Brown   Sound Production
Gary Stites   Composer
Mark Mathews   Sound Production,Stereo Mix Producer
Greg Adams   Liner Notes
Tommy Dee   Composer
Gary Paxton   Composer
Eddie Curtis   Composer
Paul Anka   Composer
Lionel Bart   Composer
Giosasi   Composer
Mike Stoller   Composer
Kalmanoff   Composer
Kal Mann   Composer
Pockriss   Composer
Mickie Grant   Composer
Ritchie Valens   Composer
Dick Glasser   Composer
Floyd Robinson   Composer
Ceroni   Composer
Connie Francis   Composer
Jiles Perry Richardson   Composer
Boudleaux Bryant   Composer
Bonura   Composer
Bill Buster   Producer
Bernie Lowe   Composer
Bob Gaudio   Composer
Jerry Keller   Composer