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The Official American Bandstand Library of Rock & Roll

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"American Bandstand" was certainly a forerunner to the modern day music video-It enabled us to see our favorite performers up close & personal-Dick Clark brought us all the big names:Buddy Holly,Jerry Lee Lewis,Stevie Wonder,The Beach Boys,Jefferson Airplane,Creedence Clearwater Revival,The Jackson Five,Prince,& even Madonna-This set gives you most of the big hits from the 50's to the 80's-With the exception of "The Twist","Worst That Could Happen" & "White Rabbit",all the songs in this collection are the original versions as you remember hearing them on the radio-A definite must purchase for any oldies fan.

Great 8 discs, 120 track set covering the history of AB.


CD 1: 50s

1. Rock Around the Clock (We're Gonna) - Bill Haley & His Comets
2. At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors
3. That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
4. Chantilly Lace - Big Bopper
5. Short Shorts - The Royal Teens
6. It's Just a Matter of Time - Brook Benton
7. Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
8. Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
9. Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings
10. Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
11. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
12. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds
13. La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
14. I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee
15. Who's Sorry Now - Connie Francis

CD 2: 50s

1. Let the Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee
2. Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent
3. Wake up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
4. Venus - Frankie Avalon
5. Teenager in Love, A - Dion & The Belmonts
6. Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
7. Come Softly to Me - The Fleetwoods
8. Love Potion No. 9 - The Clovers
9. I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
10. Tall Paul - Annette
11. Tequila - The Champs
12. Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson
13. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
14. Hushabye - The Mystics
15. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

CD 3: 60s

1. Twist, The - Chubby Checke
2. I Get Around - The Beach Boys
3. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
4. Worst That Could Happen - The Brooklyn Bridge
5. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March
6. Summer Song, A - Chad & Jeremy
7. It's My Party - Lesley Gore
8. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops
9. These Eyes - The Guess Who
10. La-la Means I Love You - The Delfonics
11. Midnight Confessions - The Grass Roots
12. Up up and Away - The 5th Dimension
13. Runaway - Del Shannon
14. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
15. Do You Believe in Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful

CD 4: 60s

1. It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers
2. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
3. Dance to the Music - Sly & The Family Stone
4. To Sir With Love - Lulu
5. You've Made Me So Very Happy - Blood, Sweat & Tears
6. Woman, Woman - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
7. Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords
8. Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
9. Happy Together - The Turtles
10. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las
11. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
12. Kind of a Drag - The Buckinghams
13. My Girl - The Temptations
14. Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers
15. Kicks - Paul Revere & The Raiders/Mark Lindsay

CD 5: 70s
1. Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
2. This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) - Natalie Cole
3. Fire - The Pointer Sisters
4. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
5. Heart of Glass - Blondie
6. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey
7. I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
8. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
9. Last Dance - Donna Summer
10. Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner
11. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree - Dawn/Tony Orlando
12. Without You - Harry Nilsson
13. Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim
14. Hot Child in the City - Nick Gilder
15. Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

CD 6: 70s

1. Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites
2. If You Don't Know Me by Now - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
3. I've Got Love on My Mind - Natalie Cole
4. One Less Bell to Answer - The 5th Dimension
5. Sad Eyes - Robert John
6. Break up to Make Up - The Stylistics
7. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue - Crystal Gayle
8. Close the Door - Teddy Pendergrass
9. Let Me Make Love to You - The O'Jays
10. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
11. Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips
12. I Don't Want to Be Right, (If Loving You Is Wrong) - Luther Ingram
13. Lady Blue - Leon Russell
14. Wildflower - Skylark
15. I'm Not Lisa - Jessi Colter

CD 7: 80s

1. Love Come Down - Evelyn "Champagne" King
2. Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) - Billy Ocean
3. Jump (For My Love) - The Pointer Sisters
4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
5. We Built This City - Starship
6. Centerfold - J. Geils Band
7. Mickey - Toni Basil
8. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
9. Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
10. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
11. Broken Wings - Mister Mister
12. Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
13. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
14. Don't Rush Me - Taylor Dayne
15. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock Of Seagulls

CD 8: 80s

1. Wake Me up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
2. Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
4. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
5. Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
6. Power of Love, The - Huey Lewis & The News
7. What I Like About You - The Romantics
8. Let's Hear It For the Boy - Denice Williams
9. Rosanna - Toto
10. Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work
11. Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
12. Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
13. 867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
14. 99 Red Balloons - Nena
15. Almost Paradise - Mike Reno/Ann Wilson

The set from Q Records is wonderful - there are gems from every decade to be found on each CD, and the whole set is a great example of the growth of rock n'roll from the 50s to the 80s. You should buy this set!!!!

This is a great sampling of four decades of pop/rock music! It's interesting to listen to all eight CDs chronologically and hear the subtle changes in music from the 1950s to 1980s. For anyone who watched the television program, "American Bandstand," and for those who are too young to remember it, this is an entertaining trip through time from Buddy Holly to the Pointer Sisters.

I just picked this up at an auction on another site at a decent price, and boy was I happy!
It's an excellent collection. For newbies its a start to build on, for us oldies its a chance to fill in those empty spots.
Having a large collection of 45's, albums and cd's this was a nice fit to my collection.
Most of the 50's and 60's I already had, but the 70's & 80's provided a nice fill in to my collection.
To address others who have written on this set: The Twist appears to be a reworked version by Chubby, but close to the original. This being prior to the recently released Best of Chubby on Cameo/Parkway which has the original. The version of White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane is a live version but by the original group fronted by Grace Slick...and finally The Worst That Could Happen is by The Brooklyn Bridge with lead Johnny Maestro (RIP) doing a live version. I hate to disagree with a previous reviewer that claimed it was by the 5th Dimension.
All the other songs are the originals and sound just as you remembered them on the radio, mtv or from your own collections.
All in all this is a must buy, at the right price, for any newbie or collector who wants to fill in some missing spots in their collections. Nuff Said!

The songs in the box set are true to the era with one exception. "The worst that could happen", incorrectly stated as performed by the The Brooklyn Bridge is actually a cover performed by the Fifth Dimension. If you need to convince yourself of this, listen and you will hear female voices singing"the worst that could happen"near the end. There were no girls in that group.
When I faxed an inquiry to Dick Clark, he refused to comment on it. The rub is that the Brooklyn bridge version is the one that belongs here as it was the classic hit.
Mr Clark had not yet had a stroke and should have known better. THis is an inferior version of the song, and the real group never got credit for it (maybe never got paid either).
Other than that inexcusable error, the box set is a collectors item.

American Bandstand has got to be the best music show ever. I had the chance to talk to a dancer who was in her teens at the time. She sais her favorite year was 1964 which is mine.
I'm a little disappointed about the fact there is very few 70's. Also I'm disappointed about "I Get Around" being there insted of "Don't Worry Baby." Thats why I gave it 4 stars.
I love Bandstand and I love this cd. I just think it should have more.