The Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll - The Follow-Up Hits
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Performer: Various ArtistsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Music Label: Ace Records UK
Soundtracks:
- Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay - DANNY & THE JUNIORS
- Betty Lou Got A New Pair Of Shoes - BOBBY FREEMAN
- (I Wanna) Dance With The Teacher - THE OLYMPICS
- Magic Wand - DON & JUAN
- There Ought To Be A Law - MICKEY & SYLVIA
- Always - SAMMY TURNER
- Penny Loafers And Bobby Sox - JOE BENNETT & THE SPARKLETONES
- Oh What A Fool - Impalas
- Like The Big Guys Do - ROCKY FELLERS
- Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta - ERNIE K-DOE
- I Feel Good - SHIRLEY & LEE
- Tear Drop - SANTO & JOHNNY
- Arrow Of Love - SIX TEENS featuring TRUDY WILLIAMS
- Betty And Dupree - CHUCK WILLIS
- Dance To The Bop - GENE VINCENT
- That's My Little Suzie - RITCHIE VALENS
- The Age For Love - JIMMY CHARLES
- Some Kinda Fun - CHRIS MONTEZ
- Tell Me - DICK & DEE DEE
- Girl With The Story In Her Eyes - THE SAFARIS
- The Bluebird, The Buzzard & The Oriole - BOBBY DAY
- Shy Girl - THE CASCADES
- Laugh - THE VELVETS
- This I Swear - THE SKYLINERS
- Do What You Did - THURSTON HARRIS
- No One Knows - DION & THE BELMONTS
- Fire Of Love - JODY REYNOLDS
- I'll Take You Home - THE CORSAIRS
- California Sun - JOE JONES
- Turvy II - COZY COLE
Free Music Notes for The Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll - The Follow-Up Hits
Free Music Review: Not Quite Accurate In Every Case - But Still A Great Volume
Hit: 5 Stars
One of several spin-offs of the excellent Ace series "The Golden Age Of American Rock `n' Roll" this continues the flawless sound reproduction and extensive liner notes associated with that (so-far) 11-volume presentation. And, for the most part anyway, the contents reflect the title of the album and that part of the official blurb above which states " ... presents 30 tracks with a common thread - all of which prevented their performers from becoming one hit wonders by following previous hits into the Billboard Hot 100."
Indeed, 11 of the selections were the only other Billboard Pop Top/Hot 100 hits for the artists concerned and, in most instances, they just barely squeaked into the list. For Roland Trone and Claude Johnson (Don & Juan), the best they could do following their huge What's Your Name? (# 7 Hot 100 in early 1962) was a # 91 late that year with Magic Wand, both for Big Top (Johnson had earlier been part of The Genies who had a # 71 early in 1959 with Who's That Knocking?), while The Impalas did a bit better with Oh, What A Fool, a # 86 in July 1959, some two months after their # 2 Hot 100/# 14 R&B smash Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home), both for Cub.
Others in that vein were: The Six Teens, whose A Casual Look in summer 1956 (# 7 R&B/# 25 Top 100) was followed by the # 80 Top 100 Arrow Of Love a year later, billed to The Six Teens featuring Trudy Williams, both for Flip Records; The Safaris. who had a # 6 Hot 100 in summer 1960 with Image Of A Girl, and then could only manage a # 85 that October with The Girl With The Story In Her Eyes, both with The Phantom's Band on the tiny Eldo label; the Texas Roy Orbison discovery The Velvets, whose Tonight (Could Be The Night) finished at a modest # 26 Hot 100 in June 1961, followed by the Orbison-penned Laugh, which could only make it to # 90 in October - both for Monument; and Joe Jones, who had a smash # 3 Hot 100/# 9 R&B in late 1960 with You Talk Too Much. but a minor # 89 Hot 100 in April 1961 with California Sun, both for Roulette.
These did marginally better, although none could make it back to the Top 40: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones, whose Black Slacks got as high as # 11 R&B/# 17 Top 100 in October 1957, but saw the follow-up Penny Loafers And Bobby Socks just miss at # 42 Top 100 in December for ABC-Paramount; The Rocky Fellers, recording for Scepter, had Like The Big Guys Do top out at # 55 Hot 100 in July 1963, a few months after having Killer Joe peak at # 16; with the backing of The Revelletts and the Phil Medley orchestra, Jimmy Charles scored big in October 1960 for the Promo label when A Million To One soared to # 5 Hot 100/# 8 R&B, and then, without The Revelletts, but again with Medley, saw The Age For Love settle for a # 47 Hot 100 in December 1960/January 1961; a few months after bursting onto the scene in the summer of 1958 for Demon Records with Endless Sleep (# 5 Top 100/R&B), featuring Al Casey on guitar, Jody Reynolds' follow-up Fire Of Love could only manage a # 66 Hot 100 in late August; and The Corsairs' Smoky Places (# 10 R&B/# 12 Hot 100 in early 1962 for Tuff Records) was followed by the # 68 Hot 100 I'll Take You Home in May for Tuff/Chess, although this also did well on the R&B charts, reaching # 26.
The rest, of course, had at least three hits and, in several cases, many more (e.g. The Olympics and Dion & The Belmonts), but while most were indeed the "follow-up" to their first registered hit, that wasn't the case where these were concerned: Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Dance To The Bop (a # 8 R&B/# 23 Top 100) was his last hit after breaking in in 1956 with Be-Bop-A-Lula. The follow-up was Race With The Devil (# 86 in late 1956), and after that he had Lotta Lovin' make it to # 7 R&B/#13 Top 100; Ritchie Valens' first hit was Come On, Let's Go (# 27 R&B/# 42 Top 100 in late 1958), and before he did That's My Little Suzie (# 55 Hot 100 in May 1959 - a posthumous hit), he had the monster two-sided hit Donna (# 2 Hot 100/# 11 R&B) b/w La Bamba (# 22 Hot 100) in late 1958/early 1959; in late 1957 Bobby Day & The Satellites had Little Bitty Pretty One reach # 57 Top 100, and some four months before The Bluebird, The Buzzard & The Oriole got to # 54 Top 100, he had the two-sided hit Rock-in Robin (# 1 R&B/# 2 Top 100) b/w Over And Over (# 41 Top 100); and where The Cascades are concerned, a few months after having Rhythm Of The Rain rocket to # 1 Adult Contemporary/# 3 Hot 100/# 7 R&Bin early 1963, they had a two-sided hit with The Last Leaf going to # 60 Hot 100, while the B-side, Shy Girl, only registered a # 91. Technically, then, the former was the "follow-up" hit.
Even so, this is a volume worth having if for no other reasons than those wonderful, detailed liner notes (although the music is great too).
The Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll - The Follow-Up Hits Poster
The latest off-shoot in Ace's successful Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll series presents 30 tracks with a common thread - all of which prevented their performers from becoming one hit wonders by following previous hits into the Billboard Hot 100.The vast majority of these tracks still did very well indeed - better, in fact, than some of the hits that have featured in the main Golden Age series.
As always, the featured selections have been mastered from the finest sources, and one - the Corsairs' I'll Take You Home - is being released in stereo for the first time. Several have been unavailable for decades, and many of them have never seen any sort of reissue at all.
The kind of copious sleeve notes and booklet illustrations that GA fans have come to expect are 'all present and correct', of course, and the musical content has been subjected to the same quality control that has made the Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll the backbone of the Ace catalogue for more than a decade now.
2008 release, an off-shoot in Ace Records' successful Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll series presents 30 tracks with a common thread - all of them prevented their performers from becoming one-hit-wonders by following previous hits into the Billboard Hot 100! The vast majority of these tracks did very well indeed - better, in fact, than some of the hits that have featured in the main Golden Age series. Includes cuts from Danny & The Juniors, The Olympics, Mickey & Sylvia, Ernie K. Doe, Santo & Johnny, Gene Vincent, Ritchie Valens, Chris Montez, Dion & The Belmonts and many more.
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