Oldies But Goodies 14

Oldies But Goodies (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Original Sound
• ASIN: B0000034JM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,359 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #54 in Music > Pop > Oldies > Girl Groups
  • #61 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1950s
  • #92 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1960s

Track Listings

1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock

2. Dancing in the Street

3. Hang On Sloopy

4. Funky Broadway

5. He's So Fine

6. Lightnin' Strikes

7. Will You Love Me Tomorrow

8. Just Because

9. I Love the Nightlife

10. What Cha See Is What Cha Get

11. Don't Make Me Over

12. Sixteen Candles

13. My Special Angel

14. I'm Sorry

15. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

16. Unforgettable

17. What the World Needs Now Is Love

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars music that could never be forgotten..., May 15, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oldies But Goodies 14 (Audio CD)

Oldies But Goodies, Vol. 14 is an excellent CD installment in this CD series entitled Oldies But Goodies. The sound quality is very good and I like the diversity of the artists just on this one CD installment alone! The artwork is very nicely done and there's something for lots of people on this album!

Bill Haley & The Comets starts things off strong with their huge, huge hit entitled "Rock Around The Clock." The electric guitars really help things along as well as their use to mark the beat. Bill Haley sings this very well and his excellent diction makes his performance all the better. What an electric number to start things off with! There's also Martha And The Vandellas doing their classic hit called "Dancing In The Street." This joyous tune has that Motown sound and when Martha And The Vandellas sing this one out they never miss a beat! This will make you want to jump up and dance practically wherever you are--great! There's some very good harmonizing in the background, too.

The McCoys score a big goal with their hit "Hang On Sloopy." "Hang On Sloopy" still gets airplay all these years later and it's a very fine rock ballad from the earlier days of rock and roll. "Hang On Sloopy" features some great electric guitar and harmonizing, too. The Chiffons also weigh in with their hit "He's So Fine;" this is one girl group that will NEVER be out of style! The chiffons sound great and they sing this out with feeling!

The Shirelles contribute a moving, sweet ballad called "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" This tune is timeless in that it addresses feeling that we all have at certain times during a love affair and The Shirelles use a very pretty melody to move the song along well. Alicia Bridges also sings "I Love The Night Life" to perfection--and beyond! This more recent tune from the 1970s reflects that funky `70s beat and Alicia sings this very well.

Dionne Warwick sings one of her signature songs, "Don't Make Me Over." "Don't Make Me Over" is about a woman who wants to be herself with her one true love and Dionne delivers this sensitive tune without a flaw. The Crests also do their famous hit entitled "16 Candles;" "16 Candles" was always one of my favorites from the very early days of rock and roll; and this song has a romantic flavor that is splendid and very memorable. Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry" is another classic; and listen for the great Dinah Washington to sing "Unforgettable" with all her heart and soul. Dinah's voice sounds great on this song and the female backup vocalists harmonize well. The CD also ends nicely with Jackie DeShannon doing more than just her very best on "What The World Needs Now." "What The World Needs Now" tugs at my heartstrings and it makes a fitting end for this CD.

This CD is a solid installment in this CD series. Most of the tunes are from the earlier days of rock and roll but there are three or four songs from the 1970s thrown in for way more than mere shock effect--they're also great! I highly recommend this CD for fans of "the oldies."

4.0 out of 5 stars The Last Waltz- One More Time, July 25, 2010

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Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oldies But Goodies 14 (Audio CD)

Note: The term "last waltz" used in the headline is used here as a simple expression of the truth. Just when I thought I had completed this "Oldies But Goodies" series at Volume Ten I now find that this is a fifteen, fifteen count `em, volume series. Therefore I am whipping off these last five in one day and be done with it. After all how much can we rekindle, endlessly rekindle, memories from a relatively short, if important, part of our lives, even for those who lived and died by the songs (or some of the songs) in these compilations. How many times can one read about wallflowers, sighs, certain shes (or hes), the moonlight of high school dances (if there was any) and hanging around to the bitter end for that last dance of the night to prove... what. Bastante! Enough!

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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.

But what about the now, seeming mandatory to ask, inevitable end of the night high school dance (or maybe even middle school) song 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 Brenda Lee tune "I'm Sorry" fills the bill. Hey, I did like this one, especially the soulful timing. 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, or nowadays, just mix and match your preferences) mentioned above. I did, didn't you?

5.0 out of 5 stars Baby Boomer Music, December 9, 2009

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Diane L. Costa - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oldies But Goodies 14 (Audio CD)

The sound quality is excellent. The songs are from the 1950's and 1960's--nice variety--sung by the original artists.