Format Details: Jewel Case
Release Date: 30 August 2004
Label: Ace Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 029667002424
Description
Brainstormed by the venerable gang behind the Golden Age Of American Rock'n'Roll series, TEENAGE CRUSH Volume 4 brings together 28 more clean-cut pop rockers and teen ballads from the late 50s and early 60s, each one from Billboard's Hot 100. Not quite rock'n'roll, for a generation of teenagers, recordings like these were their zeitgeist, the soundtrack of their adolescence, evoking the angst and the joy of those innocent times more faithfully than any number of frantic rockers. Cardigan Rock, some of the guys and gals at Ace call it. The tried and tested Teenage Crush recipe includes a mixture of boppin' teen idols, smooth balladeers, harmony groups and suchlike-.-some of them household names, others verging on the obscure. The presentation, of course, is matchless, with thorough annotation and a cornucopia of rare period ads and memorabilia. The following stream of consciousness, brutally cut and pasted from the 6,000 words contained within the 20-page booklet, should help paint a picture of what's in store: I Saw Linda Yesterday by DICKEY LEE, a rip-roaring excursion into Dion territory ... ABC recognised the hit potential of ANDY ROSE's Just Young and rushed out a cover version by new teen star Paul Anka ... A full year after its release, HUELYN DUVALL's Little Boy Blue made a belated showing on the Hot 100 ... Twixt '55 and '61, the white buck-wearing PAT BOONE topped the Hot 100 with Ain't That A Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Don't Forbid Me, Love Letters In The Sand, April Love and Moody River, Queen Of The Hop ensured BOBBY DARIN was no one-hit wonder. 1959's Dream Lover and Mack The Knife established him as Atco's biggest star ... RICKY NELSON presented a conservative nation with the acceptable face of rock'n'roll. Never Be Anyone Else But You brought the youngster his seventh gold disc ... Another young pretender clearly under the spell of Dion DiMucci, TOMMY BOYCE was no novice when he reached Hot 100 with the self-penned I'll Remember Carol... Far removed from the raw rockabilly stylings of JOHNNY BURNETTE's youth, Dreamin' exemplified the tightly produced, highly polished pop sound that was fast becoming the trademark of Liberty Records ... An update of Tony Bennett's 1951 hit Blue Velvet by the STATUES. The group comprised Buzz Cason and Richard Williams plus Hugh Jarrett of the Jordanaires ... GEORGE HAMILTON IV, the genial International Ambassador of Country Music. Why Don't They Understand was his fourth chart hit and the second biggest of his career ... Why marked hit number eleven for former kiddie trumpet star FRANKIE AVALON, Philadelphia's favourite son. It has the distinction of being the final #1 of the 1950s ... The ominous, throbbing Torture was another notch on the belt of the brilliant songwriter John D Loudermilk, but for KRIS JENSEN it was his first - and last - hit ... When Treasure Of Love reached #16 on the Hot 100, CLYDE McPHATTER's acceptance by a pop audience was sealed ... A Teenager Feels It Too ensured Pho
Tracklisting
Richard Thompson
Little Richard
Elmore James
B.B. King
B.B. King
Young Jessie
Wynonie Harris
Willie Hightower
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
