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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRACK LIST,
This review is from: Time Life The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1956 (Audio CD)
Various Artists / Rock N' Roll Era: 1956
Label: Time-Life Year: 1987 Track Title 1. Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins 2. I'm In Love Again -- Fats Domino 3. I'll Remember (In The Still Of The Night) -- The Five Satins 4. The Fool -- Sanford Clark 5. Let The Good Times Roll -- Shirley & Lee 6. Eddie My Love -- The Teen Queens 7. Roll Over Beethoven -- Chuck Berry 8. Love Is Strange -- Mickey & Sylvia 9. Be Bop A Lula -- Gene Vincent 10. My Prayer -- The Platters 11. Honkey Tonk (Part 2) -- Bill Doggett 12. Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino 13. Rip It Up -- Little Richard 14. Stranded In The Jungle -- The Cadets 15. Clyd McPhatter -- Clyde McPhatter 16. Drown In My Own Tears -- Ray Charles 17. Young Love -- Sonny James 18. Long Tall Sally -- Little Richard 19. Why Do Fools Fall In Love -- Frankie Lymon 20. Fever -- Little Willie John 21. See You Later Alligator -- Bill Haley & The Comets 22. Since I Met You Baby -- Ivory Joe Hunter
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Rock & Roll Series Period,
This review is from: Time Life The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1956 (Audio CD)
I started buying these when they were still on LPs... Fortunately, the switch to CD started shortly thereafter and I bought most of the 50 CD Rock & Roll Era series, from Time/Life directly. Except for some of the single-artist collections, since I have a very extensive collection of single artist box sets and CDs, especially Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly.
The remastered sound on these releases is excellent and the song selection is second to none for a Rock & Roll period anthology. For 50s fans, I'd recommend 1954-1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960 collections; also, they did a companion series (now hard to find) called Still Rockin', which runs from 1956 through 1963. They're quite good and flesh out each year's selections so that you have over 40 songs from each year. I like to throw the Rock & Roll Era 1956 and 1956 Still Rocking along with Elvis Presley 1956 (none of the "collections" have any Elvis songs) along with Volume 3 off the Rhino Doo Woop Box (1956-1957) and Volume 5 of the Specialty Records box set all in my 5-disc changer; and -- Man, I'm back in 1956! For great music, it doesn't get much better than that. When I've heard those selections a few times, I put out a 1957-1958 group of 5 CDs and I'm rockin'! This series is my jumping off point for great lisenting, since today's music is such drek it's worse than industrial noise. For the Still Rockin' volumes you'll have to go to E-bay, but it's worth the time and money. John Carr
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Out In The 1956 Be-Bop Night,
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This review is from: Time Life The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1956 (Audio CD)
I, seemingly, have endlessly gone back to my early musical roots in reviewing this Time-Life classic rock series that goes under the general title The Rock `n' Roll Era. And while time and ear have eroded the sparkle of some of the lesser tunes it still seems obvious that those years, say 1955-58, really did form the musical jail break-out for my generation, the generation of '68, who had just started to tune into music.
And we, we small time punk in the old-fashioned sense of that word, we hardly wet behind the ears elementary school kids, and that is all we were for those who are now claiming otherwise, listened our ears off. Those were strange times indeed in that be-bop 1950s night when stuff happened, kid's stuff, but still stuff like a friend of mine, not Billie who I will talk about later, who claimed, with a straight face to the girls, that he was Elvis' long lost son. Did the girls do the math on that one? Or, maybe, they like us more brazen boys were hoping, hoping and praying, that it was true despite the numbers, so they too could be washed by that flamed-out night. Well, this I know, boy and girl alike tuned in on our transistor radios (small battery- operated radios that we could put in our pockets, and hide from snooping parental ears, at will) to listen to music that from about day one, at least in my household was not considered "refined" enough for young, young pious you'll never get to heaven listening to that devil music and you had better say about eight zillion Hail Marys to get right Catholic, ears. Ya right, Ma, like Patti Page or Bob (not Bing, not the Bing of Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? anyway) Crosby and The Bobcats were supposed to satisfy our jail break cravings. But can you blame me, or us, for our jail-break visions and our clandestine subterranean life-transistor radio dreams of lots of girls (or boys as the case may be), lots of cars, and lots of money if we could just get out from under that parental noise. Now this Time-Life series has many compilations but as if to prove my point beyond discussion the year 1956 has two, do you hear me, two CDs to deal with that proposition that I mentioned above. And neither includes Elvis, Jerry Lee, Bo Diddley or some other stuff that I might have included. I already reviewed the other 1956 compilation previously but here are the stick outs from this selection: Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins (Elvis covered it and made millions but old Carl had a better old rockabilly back beat on his version); In The Still Of The Night, The Five Satins (a doo wop classic that I am humming right this minute, sha dot do be doo, sha dot do be doo or something like that spelling, okay); Eddie My Love, The Teen Queens (incredible harmony, doo wop back-up, and, and "oh Eddie, please don't make me wait too long" as part of the lyrics, Whoa!); Roll Over Beethoven, Chuck Berry ( a deservedly early break-out rock anthem. Hell I thought it was big deal just to trash Patti Page old Chuck went after the big boys.); Be-Bop-a-Lula, Gene Vincent (the guy was kind of a one hit wonder but Christ what a one hit, "ya, she's my baby now"); Blueberry Hill, Fats Domino (that old smooth piano riffing away); Rip It Up, Little Richard (he/she wild man Richard rips it up; Young Love, Sonny James ( dreamy stuff that those giggling girls loved); Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (for a minute the king be-bop, doo wop teenage angel boy. Everybody wanted to be the doo wop king or queen); See You Later, Alligator, Bill Haley and The Comets (ya, these "old guys" could rock. Think about it people still use the expression "see you later alligator"); and Since I Met You Baby, Ivory Joe Hunter (every dance pray, every last dance pray, oh my god, let them play Ivory Joe at the end so I can dance close with that certain she I have been eying all night).
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