41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti

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41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti
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Artist: Various Artists - Soundtracks
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1993-06-22
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
  2. Sixteen Candles - The Crests
  3. Runaway - Del Shannon
  4. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
  5. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
  6. Fannie Mae - Buster Brown
  7. At the Hop - Flash Cadillac, Continental Kids, Flash Cadillac
  8. She's So Fine - Flash Cadillac, Continental Kids, Flash Cadillac
  9. Stroll - The Diamonds
  10. See You in September - The Tempos
  11. Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys
  12. (He's) The Great Imposter - The Fleetwoods, The Fleetwoods
  13. Almost Grown - Chuck Berry
  14. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
  15. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
  16. Peppermint Twist - Joey Dee & the Starliters
  17. Barbara Ann - The Regents
  18. Book of Love - The Monotones
  19. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
  20. Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
  21. Great Pretender - The Platters
Music CD 2
  1. Party Doll - Buddy Knox
  2. Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
  3. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
  4. I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
  5. Get a Job - Silhouette, The Silhouettes
  6. To the Aisle - The Five Satins
  7. Do You Wanna Dance - Bobby Freeman
  8. Party Doll - Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Know, Buddy Knox
  9. Come Go with Me - The Del Vikings
  10. You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette
  11. Love Potion No. 9 - The Clovers
  12. Since I Don't Have You - Skyline, The Skyliners
  13. Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
  14. Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
  15. Crying in the Chapel - Sonny Til & the Orioles
  16. Thousand Miles Away - The Heartbeats
  17. Heart and Soul - The Cleftones
  18. Green Onions - Booker T. & the MG's
  19. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
  20. Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight - The Spaniels
  21. All Summer Long - The Beach Boys

Free Music Notes for 41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti

Free Music Review: Kruisen at it's Kewlest
Hit: 5 Stars

There is so much emotion in this old soundtrack playing in my Ipod as I sit to write this review. I first owned it on vinyl back in the day. I have also owned it on cassette, a couple of times. There was no other oldies collection before it's release. This is the recording that started the whole "Golden Oldies" spin off! I drove my folks nuts with this one. This is rock & roll in it's finest hour! Sure, when I was a kid, I used to listen to all the pop metal that was around but they never had the personality and the soul that this recording has. I look back now and think how stupid some of that music was, not so for American Graffiti. These are 100% American artists performing a music that was purely American and that has never been duplicated or replicated since.

What set this recording apart for me, is this: it is really music! These artists could actually sing and carry a harmony part. The coming music in the 60's was just horrible by comparison, once the producers figured out the money that stood to be made. There was no talent required. If you doubt my word, go listen to some Janis Jopplin! The one artist that I find strangely absent on this recording is Elvis! Shouldn't there at least been a cut of Hound Dog or Heartbreak Hotel since it is mainly a collection of 50's music?

Bottom line: this is an outstanding recording that you will try to wear out! The CD remaster is much better then I expected. All of the noise that was in the original release is gone. Since I bought this, my PT Cruiser has never been kewler! "At the Hop" playin' down at the Sonic s drive-in, I love the Wolfman!!

41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti Poster

For those of us who grew up in the '70s, this drive-in compilation of '50s and '60s rock and doo-wop, complete with Wolfman Jack introductions, was our introduction to this music. There are 41 jukebox hits here, and every one of them is a classic of its time (although two tracks--"At the Hop" and "She's so Fine" are covers by the revival band Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids). In his 1973 movie, director George Lucas used the music (and the presence of mysterious deejay Wolfman) as the AM-radio soundtrack to one night in suburban California, 1962. The idea was to capture and sustain an end-of-summer, end-of-innocence mood that's in the air throughout the picture-- not as a shortcut to establishing a period (as in Robert Zemeckis'Forrest Gump). There's an awful lot of spontaneous energy in these tunes--from Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, to the Platters and the Clovers and the Del-Vikings, to the Crests and the Beach Boys--and also just a hint of melancholy that goes down very nicely with a burger, shake, and fries. --Jim Emerson

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