Time Life's Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols

Frankie Avalon (Author), Ricky Nelson (Author), Brenda Lee (Author), Pat Boone (Author), Everly Brothers (Author), Fabian (Author), Jimmy Clanton (Author), Dion (Author), Johnny Burnette (Author), Bobby Vee (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Time Life Music
• ASIN: B000E68V4M
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,092 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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This Time Life Music 2 CD set contains 30 hits from various teen idols from the fifties and sixties. Song list: Venus Frankie Avalon #1 hit for five weeks released 2/9/59. Sweet Nothin's Brenda Lee #4 hit 12/21/59. Love Letters In The Sand Pat Boone #1 hit for seven weeks 5/6/57. Cindy's Birthday Johnny Crawford #8 hit 5/12/62. You're Sixteen Johnny Burnette #8 hit 10/31/60. Travelin' Man Ricky Nelson #1 hit for two weeks 4/24/61. Venus In Blue Jeans Jimmy Clanton #7 hit 8/18/62. All I Have To Do Is Dream The Everly Brothers #1 hit for five weeks 4/21/58. The Wanderer Dion #2 hit 12/4/61. Rubber Ball Bobby Vee #6 hit 11/28/60. Tiger Fabian #3 hit 6/15/59. Where The Boys Are Connie Francis #4 hit 4/16/61. Calendar Girl Neil Sedaka #4 hit 12/19/60. Roses Are Red (My Love) Bobby Vinton #1 hit for four weeks 6/9/62. Only Love Can Break A Heart Gene Pitney #2 hit 9/15/62. Hello Mary Lou Ricky Nelson #9 hit 5/1/61. Tall Paul Annette Funicello #7 hit 1/5/59. The Mountain's High Dick And Dee Dee #2 hit for two weeks 7/31/61. Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) Edd Byrnes & Connie Stevens #4 hit 4/20/59. Sixteen Reasons Connie Stevens #3 hit 2/1/60. Take Good Care Of My Baby Bobby Vee #1 hit for three weeks 8/7/61. Teen-Age Crush Tommy Sands #2 hit for two weeks 2/23/57. Young Love Tab Hunter #1 hit for six weeks 1/12/57. A Teenager In Love Dion & The Belmonts #5 hit 4/20/59. Everybody's Somebody's Fool Connie Francis. #1 hit for two weeks 5/9/60. Theme From Dr. Kildare Richard Chamberlain #10 hit 6/2/62. Poetry In Motion Johnny Tillotson #2 hit 10/10/60. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Neil Sedaka #1 hit for two weeks 6/30/62. Sealed With A Kiss Brian Hyland #3 hit 6/9/62. Goodbye Cruel World James Darren #3 hit 10/16/61.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Teen Idols, November 26, 2008

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Michael Patrick Boyd (Waukesha, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Life's Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols (Audio CD)

Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols is a two CD set that is one hour, twelve minutes and forty-eight seconds long. Most of the songs on the two CDs have a female theme to them. Of the thirty songs on the two CDs, nine of the songs made it to number one. Two of the songs last six weeks on number one; Everybody's Somebody's Fool by Connie Francis and Young Love by Tab Hunter. Overall, it was a nice CD set to listen to. Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols gets a B+.

Disc One
36 minutes and 59 seconds

Venus-Frankie Avalon
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (five weeks at #1)
#10 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Sweet Nothin's-Brenda Lee
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Cindy's Birthday-Johnny Crawford
#8 U.S. Billboard Top 40 Singles
You're Sixteen-Johnny Burnette
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Love Letters in the Sand-Pat Boone
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (five weeks at #1)
#12 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Travelin' Man-Ricky Nelson
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Venus in Blue Jeans-Jimmy Clanton
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
All I Have to Do Is Dream-The Everly Brothers
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (three weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Most Played By Jockeys (five weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Top Most Played Country and Western Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
The Wanderer-Dion
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Rubber Ball-Bobby Vee
#6 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Tiger-Fabian
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Where the Boys Are (from Where the Boys Are)-Connie Francis
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#4 U.S. Cash Box Magazine Top Singles
Calendar Girl-Neil Sedaka
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Roses Are Red (My Love)-Bobby Vinton
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (four weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening
#5 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Only Love Can Break a Heart-Gene Pitney
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening (two weeks at #1)
#16 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides

Disc Two
35 minutes and 49 seconds

Hello Mary Lou-Ricky Nelson
#9 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Tall Paul-Annette Funicello
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
The Mountain's High-Dick and Dee Dee
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Kookie, Kookie, (Lend Me Your Comb)-Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Sixteen Reasons-Connie Stevens
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Take Good Care of My Baby-Bobby Vee
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles (two weeks at #1)
Teen-Age Cursh-Tommy Sands
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Young Love-Tab Hunter
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (six weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Most Played By Jockeys
#1 U.S. Billboard Top Sellers in Stores
#1 U.S. Billboard Most Played In Jukeboxes
A Teenager in Love-Dion and the Belmonts
#5 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
Everybody's Somebody's Fool-Connie Francis
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles (six weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Cash Box Magazine Top Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
#24 U.S. Billboard Country Charts
Theme from Dr. Kildare-Richard Chamberlain
#10 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Poetry in Motion-Johnny Tillotson
#2 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#27 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do-Neil Sedaka (two weeks at #1)
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Sealed with a Kiss-Brian Hyland
#3 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
Goodbye Cruel World-James Darren
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Selections Repeated Many Times ... But Few With Better Sound Quality, October 26, 2007

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

This review is from: Time Life's Glory Days of Rock 'N' Roll: Teen Idols (Audio CD)

In the midst of their massive Rock `n' Roll Era, Your Hit Parade, and Big Band mail-order only series which got under way some 12-15 years ago, Time-Life/Warner Special Productions came out with the start of a sub-series around 1999 under the generic heading The Glory Days Of Rock 'N' Roll, each with a sub-title indicating the theme of the volume in question.

I'm not certain as to the extent of that series but, in addition to this volume (all of which are becoming increasingly hard top find), other sub-titles I know for certain are: One Hit Wonders 1; One Hit Wonder 2; Dance Party; Doo Wop; Doo Wop Oldies But Goodies; Girl Group Sound; Golden Classics; Golden Groups; Great Love Songs; Great Rockers; Great Vocals; Hard-To-Find Hits; Instrumentals; Legendary Artists; New Orleans; # 1 Hits; R&B Classics; R&B Legends; Rockabilly; and Teen Ballads.

The selections, shown in the Product Description above, have since been released on countless other such compilations, but if what you're looking for is listed then rest assured it's the original with wonderful clarity of sound augmented by informative background notes and discography of contents. Several nice photos of some of the artists are also included.