Teenage Crush

The Shirelles (Artist), Tab Hunter (Artist), Bobby Darin (Artist), Donnie Brooks (Artist), Shelley Fabares (Artist), Marcie Blane (Artist), Betty Everett (Artist), Rick Nelson (Artist), Ivory Joe Hunter (Artist), Skeeter Davis (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD
• ASIN: B000GC8EE6
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars If It's Just Oldies Music You Want This Is A Great Buy, December 1, 2011

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teenage Crush (Audio CD)

When this first came out in 2002 from Warner Special Products we were in the latter stages of having been bombarded for years with TV ads for music "you can only get by mail order." The sound quality was always quite good and there were liner notes and even discographies - at least in those offered as part of the Time-Life "mail order only" campaign. But by 2002 things had changed dramatically as copyrights ran out - especially in Europe and Canada - and suddenly we were given choices - and often far less expensive than the Time-Life offerings - by new European distributors such as Ace, Bear Family, Naxos, Jasmine, Acrobat etc.

In the U.S., while not always able to give you quite the catalogue available to European distributors (which resulted in some feather rustling in the industry), there were outfits like Rhino, Varése-Sarabande, Eric, Collector's Choice, Collectables proving material previously only available through the auspices of the so-called Big Four which, collectively, controlled some 70% of the WORLD'S music market: Sony, Warner, EMI and Universal. And, unlike releases direct from those sources, we were getting more and more in the way of background information, discographies and even sessionographies where multiple musicians were involved. THIS is what many among the buying public wished to see for their dollars.

That's not to say that there wasn't - and isn't today - a fair share of the market just happy to get the music they remembered from their younger days without embellishments, and in those cases releases such as this one fill the bill nicely. If what you see here represents the music you remember best, and that's all you are interested in, this is a nice purchase. The tracks (and I include a discography for your added information - AC = Adult Contemporary introduced in 1961) are:

Disc 1: 1. Dedicated To The One I Love - The Shirelles (Scepter 1203 - # 2 R&B/# 3 Pop March 1961; 2. Young Love - Tab Hunter (Dot 15533 - # 1 Pop/# 8 R&B Feb 1957; 3. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin - Atco 5140 - # 2 Pop/#4 R&B June 1959; 4. Mission Bell - Donnie Brooks - Era 3018 - # 7 Pop Sept 1960; 5. Johnny Angel - Shelley Fabares with The Blossoms - Colpix 621 - # 1 Pop April 1962; 6. Love Letters In The Sand - Pat Boone - Dot 15570 - # 1 Pop/# 12 R&B Aug 1957; 7. Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane - Seville 120 - #3 Pop/# 14 R&B Dec 1962; 8. He's So Fine - The Chiffons - Laurie 3152 - # 1 Pop & RB April 1963; 9. Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee - Liberty 55354 - # 1 Pop Sept 1961; 10. Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka - RCA Victor 7957 - # 6 Pop Dec 1961; 11. Bobby Sox To Stockings - Frankie Avalon - Chancellor 1036 - # 8 Pop/# 26 R&B Aug 1959; 12. Rhythm Of The Rain - The Cascades - Valiant 6026 - # 1 AC/# 3 Pop/# 7 R&B March 1963; 13. Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson - Cadence 1364 - # 2 Pop/# 27 R&B Dec 1960; 14. My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own - Connie Francis - MGM 12923 - # 1 Pop/# 11 R&B June 1960; 15. Chapel Of Love - The Dixie Cups - Red Bird 001 - # 1 POP/R&B June 1964.

Disc 2: 1. The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - Betty Everett - Vee-Jay 585 - # 6 Pop/R&B March 1964; 2. Why Do Fools Fall In Love? - The Teenagers feat. Frankie Lymon - Gee 1002 - # 1 R&B/# 8 Pop - March 1956; 3. ('Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers (with The Crickets) - Cadence 1369 - # 4 Pop/# 8 Country/# 22 R&B Nov 1959; 4. Never Be Anyone Else But You - Ricky Nelson - Imperial 5565 - # 6 Pop March 1959; 5. Party Doll - Buddy Knox & The Rhythm Orchids - Roulette 4002 - # 1 Pop/# 3 R&B Nov 1957; 6. I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino - Imperial 5606 - # 1 R&B/# 8 Pop Sept 1959; 7. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Jimmie Rodgers - Roulette 4301 - # 3 Pop/# 6 Country/# 8 R&B Dec 1957/Jan 1958; 8. That'll Be The Day - The Crickets - Brunswick 55009 - # 1 Pop/# 2 R&B Oct 1957; 9. (You've Got) The Magic Touch - The Platters - Mercury 70819 - # 4 Pop/R&B May 1956; 10. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March - RCA Victor 8139 - # 1 Pop and R&B May 1963; 11. A Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts - Laurie 3027 - # 5 Pop May 1959; 12. This Magic Moment - The Drifters - Atlantic 2050 - # 4 R&B/# 16 Pop March 1960; 13. Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter - Atlantic 1111 - # 1 R&B/# 12 Pop Dec 1956/Jan 1957; 14. Come Go With Me - The Dell-Vikings - Dot 15538 - # 2 R&B/# 4 Pop April 1957; 15. The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis - RCA Victor 8098 - # 1 AC/# 2 Pop/# 2 Country/# 4 R&B April 1963 (not many records accomplished the feat of making all 4 charts).