Hard To Find 45s On CD: Vol. 1: 1955-60 [Original recording remastered]

Hard To Find 45s On CD (Series), Various Artists - Rock - Vintage Rock & Roll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 20, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Eric Collection
• ASIN: B000005HOT
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #182,901 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The House of Blue Lights - Chuck Miller

2. Confidential - Sonny Knight

3. A Teenager's Romance - Ricky Nelson

4. You're My One and Only Love - Ricky Nelson

5. Wishing For Your Love - The Voxpoppers

6. (It's Been a Long Time) Pretty Baby - Gino & Gina

7. One Summer Night The - Danleers

8. Summertime, Summertime - The Jamies

9. Born Too Late - The Poni-Tails

10. Big Bopper's Wedding - Big Bopper

11. Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) - The Impalas

12. Broken-Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan

13. Teen Angel - Mark Dinning

14. Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty

15. Handy Man - Jimmy Jones

16. Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones

17. Cradle of Love - Johnny Preston

18. Image of A Girl - The Safaris

19. Ta Ta - Clyde McPhatter

20. Fools Rush In (Where Angles Fear to Tread) - Brook Benton

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great CD by ERIC Records, December 17, 1999

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This review is from: Hard To Find 45s On CD: Vol. 1: 1955-60 (Audio CD)

Some hard to find stuff here. Also some hard to find **stereo** stuff here. If you want to hear the flawless stereo version of Born To Late, this is the CD you want. If you want to hear Good Timin' in stereo, this is the CD you want. A note on the back of the CD states:

All tracks AAD, digitally transferred from original analog master tapes by Fred Meyer at Polygram Studios."

The sound quality does indeed sound like these came from the master tapes. I don't believe you will ever hear these songs sound better. At the time of this posting, Amazon did not have a track listing, here it is:

(1) The House Of Blue Lights - Chuck Miller (mono)
(2) Confidential - Sonny Knight (mono)
(3) A Teenager's Romance - Ricky Nelson (mono)
(4) You're My One And Only Love - Ricky Nelson (mono)
(5) Wishing For Your Love - The Voxpoppers (mono)
(6) (It's Been A Long Time) Pretty - Baby Gino & Gina (mono)
(7) One Summer Night - The Danleers (mono)
(8) Summertime, Summertime - The Jamies (stereo)
(9) Born Too Late - The Poni Tails (stereo)
(10) Big Bopper's Wedding - The Bopper (mono)
(11) Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) - The Impalas (stereo)
(12) Broken-Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan (stereo)
(13) Teen Angel - Mark Denning (stereo)
(14) Lonely Blue Boy - Conway Twitty (stereo)
(15) Handy Man - Jimmy Jones (mono)
(16) Good Timin' - Jimmy Jones (stereo)

(17) Cradle Of Love - Johnny Preston (mono)
(18) Image Of A Girl - The Safaris (mono)
(19) Ta Ta - Clyde McPhatter (stereo)
(20) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Brook Benton (stereo)
(21) Corinna, Corinna - Ray Peterson (stereo)

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch out, majors, March 14, 2002

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard To Find 45s On CD: Vol. 1: 1955-60 (Audio CD)

Here, Eric Records, the big little reissue company, fires the opening salvo in its "Hard To Find 45's..." series of compilation CD's. This first volume presents titles from 1955 through 1960 and really tickles the musical memories of listeners of early American rock and roll ditties.

While not all these titles may at first seem to qualify as "hard-to-find", finding even these popular ones in the sound quality presented here is truly the "hard-to-find" part. Beyond these more familiar tracks, fitting the hard-to-find-at-all bill are such tunes as Chuck Miller's "House Of Blue Lights", the Voxpoppers' "Wishing For Your Love" and "It's Been A Long Time Pretty Baby" by Gino and Gina.

Since several of these tracks are pre-stereo (pre-'58) era, they by necessity appear in mono but many of the later ones (tracks 8,9,11-14,16,19-21) jump out in wide, dynamic stereo. Completing the package are interesting liner notes on each of the included tracks.

Eric comes out with both barrels firing with this new series and shows the majors how it should be done. Top-of-the-line quality here for fans of the music from America's love affair with rock and roll in its infancy.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kicking Off A Great Series, September 8, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard To Find 45s On CD: Vol. 1: 1955-60 (Audio CD)

This first in Bill Buster's series of hard-to-find 45s on CD sets the tone for all that follow on Eric by combining a mix of reasonably-easy-to-locate selections with some that take a bit of digging, and others that pop out at you in the "at last" category.

It also establishes a much-appreciated regular gift of comprehensive liner notes, in this instance written by Fred Bronson, author of The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits and Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, as well as the "Chart Beat" column in Billboard Magazine.

In Volume 1, covering the period 1955-1960, the ones that might take some digging include Ricky Nelson's You're My One And Only Love, [It's Been A Long Time] Pretty Baby by Gino & Gina, and both of Jimmy Jones' big hits - Handy Man and Good Timin'.

In my estimation, the real eye-poppers are Confidential by Sonny Knight, Wishing For Your Love by The Voxpoppers, The Danleers' One Summer Night, Ta Ta by Clyde McPhatter, and especially Corinna, Corinna by Ray Peterson. You may THINK you've discovered that on some other compilation, but believe me, you should check it out carefully because, if any one song has been re-recorded to death, Corinna, Corinna is the one. Here you KNOW it's the original version which hit # 9 in 1960.

The sound quality is excellent.