Oldies But Goodies 8

Oldies But Goodies (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Original Sound
• ASIN: B0000034J5
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,523 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #25 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1950s
  • #39 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Girl Groups
  • #53 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1960s

Track Listings

1. Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes

2. Charlie Brown - The Coasters

3. Splish Splash - Bobby Darin

4. La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

5. Rip It Up - Little Richard

6. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

7. Wipe Out - The Surfaris

8. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

9. Run Baby Run - The Newbeats

10. Sweet Talkin' Guy - The Chiffons

11. How Sweet It Is - Marvin Gaye

12. On Broadway - The Drifters

13. Girl Watcher - The O'Kaysions

14. Smokey Places - The Corsairs

15. Hey There Lonely Girl - Eddie Holman

16. Sally, Go 'round the Roses - The Jaynetts

17. Puppy Love - Paul Anka

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-JAN-2002

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Never-ending Review- An Encore, July 19, 2010

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oldies But Goodies 8 (Audio CD)

I have been doing a series of commentaries elsewhere on another site on my coming of political age in the early 1960s, but here when I am writing about musical influences I am just speaking of my coming of age, period, which was not necessarily the same thing. No question that those of us who came of age in the 1950s are truly children of rock and roll. We were there, whether we appreciated it or not at the time, when the first, sputtering, musical moves away from ballady Broadway show tunes and rhymey Tin Pan Alley pieces hit the radio airwaves. (If you do not know what a radio is then ask your parents or, ouch, grandparents, please.) And, most importantly, we were there when the music moved away from any and all music that your parents might have approved of, or maybe, even liked, or, hopefully, at least left you alone to play in peace up in your room when rock and roll hit post- World War II America teenagers like, well, like an atomic bomb.

Not all of the material put forth was good, nor was all of it destined to be playable fifty or sixty years later on some "greatest hits" compilation but some of songs had enough chordal energy, lyrical sense, and sheer danceability to make any Jack or Jill jump then, or now. And, here is the good part, especially for painfully shy guys like me, or those who, like me as well, had two left feet on the dance floor. You didn't need to dance toe to toe, close to close, with that certain she (or he for shes). Just be alive...uh, hip to the music. Otherwise you might become the dreaded wallflower. But that fear, the fear of fears that haunted many a teenage dream then, is a story for another day. Let's just leave it at this for now. Ah, to be very, very young then was very heaven.

So what still sounds good on this CD compilation to a current AARPer, and perhaps to some of his fellows who comprise the demographic that such a 1950s-oriented compilation "speaks" to. Of course, Little Richard's "Rip It Up" (and about twenty other of his mad man songs from this period). Too short-lived Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba". Naturally, in a period of classic rock numbers, Eddie Cochran's monster guitar beat "Summertime Blues". And also naturally Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is"

But what about the now, seeming mandatory to ask, inevitable end of the night high school dance song (or maybe even middle school) that seems to be included in each CD compilation? The song that you, maybe, waited around all night for just to prove that you were not a wallflower, and more importantly, had the moxie to, mumbly-voiced, parched-throated, sweaty-handed, asked a girl to dance (women can relate their own experiences, probably similar). Here the classic Drifters "On Broadway" fills the bill. Hey, I did like this, especially the harmonies, and moreover that certain she (the same certain she of the Volume Six review, oh not so fickle youth) said yes and this was what you waited for and made it all worthwhile. And, yes, I know, this is one of the slow ones that you had to dance close on. And just hope, hope to high heaven that you didn't destroy your partner's shoes and feet. Well, one learns a few social skills in this world if for no other reason that to "impress" that certain she (or he for shes) mentioned above. I did, didn't you?