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3.0 out of 5 stars
First time on CD, mostly, March 20, 2002
This review is from: Vol. 1-Found in the Attic (Audio CD)
At first view, this is a scintillating collection of tunes from rock's early years. Among the 25 sides are several major hits, a number of minor ones including several one-hit wonders and an assortment of flips from big hit records.
While the appearance of many never-before-on-CD tunes piques the collector's interest, as with so many of these "independent" labels' products, these tracks exhibit at times acceptable, but often mediocre and sometimes poor, sound quality. These are all needle drops with several tracks being pretty noisy (2,3,4,7,9,21,23) and a few irritatingly bad (tracks 1 and 8 especially). In spite of the less than desired fidelity, this does offer a number of interesting sides that, at least, will not wear out any more like the original 45's would. Among the standouts are several one-hit wonders like Tommy Dee's "Three Stars", the Honeycones' "Op" and Billy Joe and the Checkmates' "Percolator Twist". Other interesting sides include Sam Cooke's last pop charting single "Let's Go Steady Again" and Johnny Dee's (actually John D. Loudermilk) "Sittin' In The Balcony".
Though with no liner notes or production credits other than the track listing and the marginal sound quality, this piece at least offers the chance to hear some really rarely heard 45's from the early rock era.
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