The Rock 'n' Roll Era: 1957 Still Rockin' (Time Life Music)

The Hollywood Flames (Performer), Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones (Artist), Bill Justis (Artist), Jimmy Bowen and the Rhythm Orchids (Artist), Eddie Cochran (Artist), Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns (Artist), Clarence Frogman Henry (Artist), Buddy Knox (Artist), Lloyd Price (Artist), The Crickets (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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• Label: Time Life Music / Warner Special Products
• ASIN: B000RJ6MFG
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22 Tracks: 1)That'll Be the Day - The Crickets; 2)Diana - Paul Anka; 3)Black Slacks - Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones; 4)Blue Monday - Fats Domino; 5)Raunchy - Bill Justis; 6)You Send Me - Sam Cooke; 7)Lucille - Little Richard; 8)The Stroll - The Diamonds; 9)Buzz-Buzz-Buzz - The Hollywood Flames; 10)I'm Stickin' with You - Jimmy Bowen & the Rhythm Orchids; 11)I'm Sorry - The Platters; 12)Rock & Roll Music - Chuck Berry; 13)Lotta Lovin' - Gene Vincent; 14)Jenny, Jenny - Little Richard; 15)Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry; 16)Hula Love - Buddy Knox; 17)Just Because - Lloyd Price; 18)Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings; 19)Bony Moronie - Larry Williams; 20)Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns; 21)Sittin' in the Balcony - Eddie Cochran; 22)Without Love (There is Nothing) - Clyde McPhatter

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4.0 out of 5 stars Out In The Be-Bop 1950s Adventure Car Hop Drive-In Night, January 8, 2011

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This review is from: The Rock 'n' Roll Era: 1957 Still Rockin' (Time Life Music) (Audio CD)

Now 1957 was a good year for rock, for "boss" cars, and for car hops if you could keep them, at least that was what some of the older guys told me later. In 1957 my drive-in restaurant experiences were limited to, when we had a car, a working car in our family which was an iffy proposition at best, sitting in the back seat of some beat up sedan waiting during the daytime (the night belonged to the teens and no self-respecting or smart parent would bring tender children to such a place at night) for some cold plastic hamburger with fries. Jesus.

But the music was on fire as the breakout of the previous couple of years hit the pre-teen audience that was just as starved for its own not parent-seal-of-approval music as the older kids. Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and a ton of other talent was hitting the airwaves so that if you tired of hearing one song after the one thousandth consecutive playing you could move right on.

In this The Rock `n' Roll Era series some years, I believe reflecting banner years, have two CDs dedicated to the greatest hits for that year. For 1957, which has the magic two, I think that the other 1957 CD is a bit better but this one covers the rest of what should have been preserved. Stick outs here include Chuck Berry's Rock & Roll Music (Christ, he had about ten hits in those years and most of them still crank up the teen-memory dark night air with their electricity); The Platters' classic last dance, school dance I'm Sorry (oh, please, please save that last dance for me certain she that I have eyed until my eyes got sore all night, and she, certain she, peeked at me too); Little Richard's Jenny, Jenny (another guy who had a ton of hit in a short period, although they haven't worn as well as Chuck's); and Fats Domino's Blue Monday (ya, back to school days Monday blahs, except for Monday morning boys' "lav" bragging rights if that certain she I just mentioned really did mean to look my way for that last dance, otherwise why have a Monday anyway).