Teen Time - The Young Years Of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: Love Me Forever

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 16, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eric Records
• ASIN: B0001V5QGQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,275 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers

2. Love Me Forever - Four Esquires

3. When The Boys Talk About The Girls - Valerie Carr

4. What Is Love - The Playmates

5. First Anniversary - Cathy Carr (Stereo)

6. And That Reminds Me (My Heart Reminds Me) - Della Reese

7. Stay With Me (A Little While Longer) - Ed Townsend

8. Heartaches - The Marcels

9. Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren

10. You Don't Know What You've Got - Ral Donner

11. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares

12. Fortuneteller - Bobby Curtola (Stereo)

13. Poor Little Puppet - Cathy Carroll

14. Her Royal Majesty - James Darren

15. The Gypsy Cried - Lou Christie

16. The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget - The Raindrops

17. Easier Said Than Done - The Essex

18. My Coloring Book - Sandy Stewart

19. Turn Around - Dick & Deedee

20. See You In September - The Happenings

Editorial Reviews

20 tracks, all hits, all hard-to-find! Includes CD debuts of When the Boys Talk About the Girls Valerie Carr; Love Me Forever Four Esquires; First Anniversary Cathy Carr; Poor Little Puppet Cathy Carroll, and Stay with Me (a Little While Longer) Ed Townsend, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If only every CD were done this well, April 23, 2004

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teen Time - The Young Years Of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: Love Me Forever (Audio CD)

Most of the conglomerate music companies have pretty much thrown in the towel when it comes to mining the vaults of rock and roll's early golden era. Thankfully, Eric Records, the small but potent label has graced the market with their outstanding single-artist and compilation CD's often offering the music of artists not found elsewhere. Anyone can throw together CD's of the top-10 songs over and over again but Eric has chosen to rescue many of the forgotten and overlooked tunes that many listeners still remember and want to hear again. Their "Hard To Find" series of CD's has been a collector's paradise.

Now, in a new series, Eric continues to offer more rarely, if ever, found golden-era teenager tunes wrapped around a number of the more popular songs of the day. And in keeping with their high standards, these CD's offer the best in sound quality and are accompanied by insightful liner notes. This first volume, "Love Me Forever", in their new "Teen Time" series, offers eight top-10 songs, five top-20 charters and a sprinkling of chart-challanged sides. Though leaning toward the casual listener's musical memory, this piece does offer a few first-time-to-CD tunes represented by the Four Esquires' "Love Me Forever" and Cathy Carr's "First Anniversary" making it equally intriguing to the completist collector. While the appeal of the included tracks is an individual consideration, no domestic label puts together better compilation CD's than Eric and this new entry is another outstanding example of how it should be done.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding In Every Way!, April 18, 2004

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Johnboy1 "movielover" (Arlington, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Time - The Young Years Of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: Love Me Forever (Audio CD)

There's no other way to put it than to say that this CD is flawless! How do they do it? Even the tracks that you might already have on other collections pale in comparison to the sound reproduced here. Some of the highlights here are the stereo single version of Fortuneteller by Bobby Curtola (debut), the stereo single version of First Anniversary by Cathy Carr (another CD debut), as well as CD debuts by Valerie Carr, Ed Townsend, and Cathy Carroll, and all the other tracks that will make your previous CD's obsolete. This is a must-have, for all serious collectors of the music of the first golden era of pop/rock. Bravo!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only label that can match ACE reissues, January 15, 2005

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Martijn13Maart1970 (Husavik Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teen Time - The Young Years Of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: Love Me Forever (Audio CD)

I am a enthousiastic collector, and have almost all the Time Life rock n roll stuff, as well as ACE cds of this era.
I could comment like this like I have on ACE editions, or the Eric Records HArd to Find 45s series. Excellent, and must have!
A few points why:
20 tracks per cd (Time life is also excellent, but you get 15 per cd!)
excellent booklets with background info
not the same old songs over again, but many rare and still excellent tracks!
last but not least amazing sound quality.
So although you might have some songs there on other collections like ACE, it is for above mentioned points alone worth it to always have an Eric copy as well.