Hard To Find 45s on CD: Vol. 3: The Mid Fifties [Original recording remastered]

Hard To Find 45s On CD (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Eric Collection
• ASIN: B00000JYP2
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,225 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen

2. Here in My Heart - Al Martino

3. Walk Hand in Hand - Tony Martin

4. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie - Somethin' Smith & the Redheads

5. It's Almost Tomorrow - The Dream Weavers

6. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller & his Orchestra and Chorus

7. Band of Gold - Don Cherry

8. Miracle of Love - Eileen Rodgers

9. Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan & his Skiffle Group

10. Cindy, Oh Cindy - Vince Martin featuring The Tarriers

11. I Dreamed - Betty Johnson

12. Moonlight Gambler - Frankie Laine

13. The Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers

14. Marianne - Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders

15. Shangri-La - The Four Coins

16. Bon Voyage - Janice Harper

17. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Billy Williams

18. Rainbow - Russ Hamilton

19. The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack) - Cyril Stapleton & his Orchestra

20. Everybody Loves a Lover - Doris Day

Customer Reviews

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best compilation cd, June 25, 2000

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Dr.Lee (Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard To Find 45s on CD: Vol. 3: The Mid Fifties (Audio CD)

I have been collecting oldies for the past 30 years and ordering them from all over the world. I would even buy a whole CD just for one single song I want. Most compilation CDs contain the same old selections of songs over and over again. This CD is a real gem as it not only contain one or two rare hits of the past but a number of them and they are all in very good quality. I have been searching for the original "Banana Boat Song" for ages and without success until I found this CD. The Tarriers's version is the original hit version and was released before the slightly different very popular Harry Belafonte version. This is the first time I have heard the version of "Cindy Oh Cindy" by Vince Martin & the Tarriers which was included here and I like it even more than the original Eddie Fisher's version. The Children's Marching Song" from the movie "Inn Of Six Happiness" is another rare hit never been available on CD before as far as I know.It is available here in living stereo. I was very excited to see "Rainbow" being included in this collection. Russ Hamilton who sang and wrote this song is the very first Liverpool artist to have a big hit in the US way before the Beatles. Unfortunately, his songs are now all very difficult to find. His songs are often accommpanied by very unique and advance acoustic guitar sound and lead. I met Russ recently in Wales, UK. He is a very friendly and extremely nice man and is still writing songs. Other hard to find songs which make this CD especially great are hard to find songs like "Little Thing Means A Lot", "It's Almost Tomorrow", "Yellow Rose Of Texas", "Band Of Gold", "Marianne" and "I'm Gonna Sit Right here and write myself a letter". With 20 good quality rarities, this cd must be one of the best buy and will really take you down sweet memory lane. One rare 50s song which I am hunting high and low for is "Paper Roses" by Lola Dee. It is not the same song as that sung by Anita Bryant. Hope somebody will make this available also.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional sound quality on Banana Boat Song, June 1, 2000

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John Gardner (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hard To Find 45s on CD: Vol. 3: The Mid Fifties (Audio CD)

To add to the other reviews, Eric apparently found a pristine first-generation master of the Banana Boat Song. Prior to acquiring this CD I had assumed that the original tape must have been damaged. Why? Because on Rhino's Troubadours of the Folk Era Volume III the song exhibits numerous crackles and pops. Not here, however. Flawless quality.

3.0 out of 5 stars In The Time Of Your Parents'(Ouch, Maybe Grandparents') Folk Moment, Circa 1955, July 14, 2011

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard To Find 45s on CD: Vol. 3: The Mid Fifties (Audio CD)

Yes, Freddy had heard it wafting through the house, through the Jackson household as background music back in the early 1950s. He knew he had heard folk music before when June ("June Bug" when they were younger back in Clintondale Elementary days but that term no longer held sway now that they were high school juniors, and she had not been his June bug for a while, now being Rick Roberts' june bug) asked him whether he had heard much folk music before Bob Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind had hit town and had bowled all the hip kids, or those who wanted to be hip (or beat, depending on your crowd) over.

Yes, now that thought of it, he remembered having more than one fight, well not really a fight, but an argument with either Frank Jackson, dad, or Maria Jackson (nee Riley), ma, whenever they turned over the local (and only local) radio station, WJDA, to listen to their latest, greatest hits of World War II, World War II, squareville cubed, even then when he was nothing but a music-hungry kid. You know that old time Frank Sinatra Stormy Weather, Harry James orchestra I'll Be Home, Andrews Sisters doing some cutesy bugle boy thing, or the Ink Spots harmonizing on I'll Get By (which was at least passable). Yes, squaresville, cubed, no doubt. And all Freddie, and every other kid, even non-hip, non-beat kids, in Clintondale was crazy for was a jail-break once in a while-Elvis, Chuck, Bo, Little Richard, Jerry Lee anybody under the age of a million who knew how to rock the house, how to be-bop, and if not that at least to bop-bop. He lost that fight, well, lost part of it. In the end, after hassling Frank and Maria endlessly for dough to go buy 45s, they finally, finally bought him a transistor radio with a year's (they thought) supply of batteries down at the local (and only) Radio Shack.

But he had lost in the big event because if they weren't listening to that old time pirate music they were swinging and swaying to stuff like Lonnie Donegan trebling on Rock Island Line making a fool of what Lead Belly was trying to do with that song, Vince Martin and friends, harmonizing on Cindy, Oh Cindy in the martini cocktail hour breezes, The Tarriers try to be-bop the Banana Boat Song at the ball, Terry Gilkyson and friends making a pitch, a no-hit pitch, to Marianne, and Russ Hamilton blasting the girlfriend world to the first floor rafters with Rainbow. Squaresville, cubed. And you wonder why when rusty-throated Bob Dylan came like a hurricane onto the scene with Blowin' In The Wind and The Times They Are A Changin', angel-voiced Joan Baez covering his With God On Our Side, or even gravelly-throated Dave Van Ronk covering House Of The Rising Sun or Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies we finally go that pardon we were fighting for all along. Enough of folk musak.