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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classics!,
By Onegin (Portland OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Time Life Rock 'N' Roll Era: Weird, Wild & Wacky { Various Artists } (Audio CD)
After many disappointments searching innumerable compilations for the original recordings, only to find re-recorded or remixed ones, this is it! 21 original recordings which will bring back childhood memories of the years when radio ruled and everything from instrumentals to comedy discs could make the Top Ten. Highly recommended!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One Of The Better Novelty Compilations To Hit The Market,
By AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Time Life Rock 'N' Roll Era: Weird, Wild & Wacky { Various Artists } (Audio CD)
This is one of that massive Time-Life "mail-order only" series of about 15-20 years ago which is still a good buy if you like the novelty tunes, with decent sound and informative notes. Some of the details are:
1. The Flying Saucer (Part 1 & 2) - Buchanan & Goodman - Luniverse 101 # 3 Pop/# 4 R&B Sept 1956; 2. Heartbreak Hotel - Stan Freberg - Capitol 3480 # 70 Pop July 1956; 3. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus - Dot 15470 # 8 Pop June 1956; 4. Black Denim Trousers (And Motorcycle Boots) - The Cheers - Capitol 3219 # 5 Pop Oct 1955; 5. Beep Beep - The Playmates - Roulette 4115 # 4 Pop Dec 1958; 6. Rubber Biscuit - The Chips - Josie 803 - did not chart in 1956; 7. The Witch Doctor - The Music Of David Seville - Liberty 55132 # 1 Pop and R&B May 1958; 8. The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley - MGM 12651 # 1 Pop for 6 weeks/# 18 R&B Sept 1958; 9. Short Shorts - The Royal Teens - ABC-Paramount 9882 # 2 R&B/# 3 Pop March 1958; 10. Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu - Dickey Doo & The Don'ts - Swan 4006 # 40 Pop May 1948; 11. The Return Of Jerry Lee - George and Lewis - Sun 301 - did not chart in 1958; 12. Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens - Mercury 71966 - # 5 Pop/# 9 R&B July 1962; 13. Mr. Custer - Larry Verne - Era 3024 - # 1 Pop/# 9 R&B Sept 1960; 14. The Blob - The Five Blobs - Columbia 41260 - # 22 Pop Oct 1958; 15. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Garpax 44167 - # 1 Pop/# 9 R&B Oct 1962; 16. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini - Brian Hyland - Leader 805/Kapp 342 - # 1 Pop/# 10 R&B July 1960; 17. Long Tall Texan - Murry Kellum - M.O.C 653 - # 51 Pop Nov 1963; 18. Haunted House - Gene Simmons - Hi 2075 - # 11 Pop Aug 1964; 19. Leader Of The Laundromat - The Detergents - Roulette 4590 - # 19 Pop Dec 1964; 20. They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa! - Napoleon XIV - Warner 5831 - # 3 Pop Aug 1966; 21. Paralyzed - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Mercury 72682 - did not chart in 1968. The Flying Saucer originally came out on Luniverse 101 as Back To Earth and was the first "break in" record to reach hit status by splicing together snippets of Top 40 hits, and caused Richard Dorian Goodman and Bill Buchanan to be taken to court (they won). Truck driver/DJ Jimmy Drake first recorded Transfusion in 1956 as a member of The Four Jokers on Diamond 3004 before re-recording it for Dot that same year. The Cheers, a LA group, included Bert Convy who would go on to greater fame as a TV game host/personality. Beep Beep told the story of how a little Nash Rambler outpaced a Cadillac, while the nonsensical Chip Chip remained obscure until 1979 when The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroid and John Belushi) resurrected it and took it to # 39 Pop. Ross Bagdasarian, aka David Seville, had 6 hit singles under the billing shown above and one as half the duo Alfi & Harry in 1956 (The Trouble With Harry) before launching a whole new career with The Chipmunks. Sheb Wooley, primarily a Country artist who also recorded as comic alter-ego Ben Colder, played Pete Nolan on TV's Rawhide. The Royal Teens' parody of this eye-candy fashion craze first came out in 1957 on Power 215. Gerry Granahan started Dicky Doo & The Don'ts who got their name based upon the nickname given to Dick Clark's infant son. The Return Of Jerry Lee was an attempt by Jack Clement and George Klein of Sun Records to make light of the career-threatening revelation, while on tour in the U.K., that Jerry Lee Lewis had married his 13 year-old cousin Myra. The "break-in" record purports to be an interview with Lewis upon his arrival back in the U.S., using snippets from some of his records as "answers" to questions. Larry Verne was a photo studio worker who, because of his southern drawl, was selected by the song's writers to narrate the hit tune. The Five Blobs were really the overdubbed voice of Bernie Nee who recorded this title tune from the Steve McQueen film The Blob. The female voice on the Brian Hyland hit was Trudy Packer. Gene Simmons was not billed as Jumpin' Gene Simmons until his second hit, The Dodo, later in 1964. The Detergents, who included Ron Dante of The Archies/The Cuff Links, specialized in parodies, such as this one which pokes fun at Leader Of The Pack, a hit for The Shangri-Las. Napoleon XIV was recording engineer Jerry Samuels. The Legendary Stardust Cowboy was Norman Odam, one of several weird acts to have appeared on Rowan & Marin's Laugh-In on TV.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Flying Saucer Rock Moment,
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This review is from: Time Life Rock 'N' Roll Era: Weird, Wild & Wacky { Various Artists } (Audio CD)
He was glad, glad as hell that angel thing, that guardian angel thing, was over and done with. You know that Sunday school thing they beat you over head with about how your guardian angel was there to keep you on the straight and narrow, or else. Yes, Rick Roberts certainly was glad that was over although now that he thought about it it just kind of passed out of sight as he got older and other things filled his mind. Things like his June ("June Bug" was his pet name for her but he had better not hear you call her that, especially one Freddie Jackson, or else). Yes, Rick was now large, strong enough, and smart enough strong, not to have to worry about some needlepoint guardian angel looking out for him. Although truth to tell he was worried, a little anyway, about this Cold War Russian bear thing coming over here to take his brain away, or maybe put the big heat on him, the A-bomb heat and creating alien things from outer space to haunt his dreams. But only a little.
What was exercising Rick these days was his June (you know her pet name but don't say it, please) and causing him no end of sleepless nights was that thing about Freddie Jackson, June's old flame. At least according to his sister, Celia, a reliable source of North Adamsville High gossip, and not afraid to spread it when it pleased her, was that Freddie was taking his peeks at June, and she was peeking back. So, lately, in order to pass those sleepless nights Rick had begun to sit up in his bedroom at night with his transistor radio on, the one that he had forced his parents to buy him, batteries included, for last Christmas, rather than the practical ties they had intended to foist on him. And what Rick listened as the hour turned to midnight was The Crazy Lazy Midnight Madness Show on WMEX, the local be-bop, no stop, all rock radio station the that got the sleepless, the half-awake, the lame and the lazy through the 1950s Cold War night, and into the dawn. Now this Crazy Lazy Show fare was strictly for night owls, stuff that would not appeal to daytime rockers, you know, those listening to guys like Elvis, Carl, Bo, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee, or just stuff that appealed to Lazy's off-center, off-beat funny bone. One night, one really restless night, as Rick was revving up the transistor around midnight he heard Buchanan and Goodman's silly The Flying Saucer, parts one and two back to back no less, so you see Crazy was serious about presenting goofy stuff. That was followed by Sheb Wooley's devouring the Purple People Eater, and then, for a change of pace The Royal Teens be-bop Short, Shorts and that got his to thinking about how good June looked in them, and then back to zaniness when Bobby Picketts flattened Monster Mash and, as he got a little drowsy, The Detergents waved over Leader of the Laundromat. That last one got to him, got to him good, because, believe it or not the song had sentimental value to him. See he met June at the North Adamsville All-Wash Laundromat one day. His mother's washing machine had broken down and she needed to bring the Roberts laundry to the All-Wash and Rick drove her over. During that time June had passed by, he had said hi, they had talked and then more seriously talked, and that was that. Freddie Jackson was after that dust, a memory, nothing to June. All this thinking really got Rick tired this night and as the last chords of Laundromat echoed in his head he fell into a deep sleep. Around four o'clock in the morning though he was awoken with a start, with the high pitched whining sound coming from some where outside his window. Next thing he knew a huge disc-like object was hovering over most of Adamsville, and stayed there for maybe a minute before departing just as quickly as it appeared. Rick took this for a sign, a sign that he and June would hang together. And a sign that Freddie Jackson probably should have taken a trip on that flying saucer while he could, or else.
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