Rock & Roll: The First 50 Years - The Mid-'60s

Rock & Roll: The First 50 Years - The Mid-'60s Artist: Various Artists
Label: Varese Sarabande
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 030206661422
EAN: 0030206661422
ASIN: B0002ZYDTC


Release Date: 2004-09-28

Rock & Roll: The First 50 Years - The Mid-'60s


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Tracks:

  1. Help Me Rhonda - The Beach Boys
  2. Downtown - Petula Clark
  3. Cool Jerk - The Capitols
  4. The Shoop Shoop Song (Its In His Kiss) - Betty Everett
  5. Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las
  6. It Aint Me Babe - The Turtles
  7. Time Wont Let Me - The Outsiders
  8. It Hurts To Be In Love - Gene Pitney
  9. Yes Im Ready - Barbara Mason
  10. Tell Her No - Zombies
  11. California Sun - The Rivieras
  12. Bread And Butter - The Newbeats
  13. Chapel Of Love - Dixie Cups
  14. The Boy From New York City - The Ad Libs
  15. Barefootin - Robert Parker
  16. A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy
  17. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
  18. Im A Believer - The Monkees
  19. Five Oclock World - The Vogues
  20. Suspicion - Terry Stafford
  21. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
  22. Keep Searchin (Follow the Sun) - Del Shannon
  23. Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys
  24. Sunshine Superman - Donovan
  25. The Jerk - The Larks

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Album Description

25 Top 10 Hits Of The Mid-60s features many of the biggest and most popular recording artists of the 60s like The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher, The Monkees, Gene Pitney, Donovan, Del Shannon and The Turtles.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Top-40 radio gold 1964-66 w/lots of true stereo.......2005-04-27

Varese's provided a generous 25-track count that surveys a wide swatch of the wonderful jumble that was Top-40 radio. Though several of these artists had careers that spanned multiple radio hits and seminal albums (e.g., The Beach Boys, Zombies, Monkees, Sonny & Cher), there are quite a few who's one shot of mass appeal is heard here.

Billboard one-hit wonders include The Ad Libs ("The Boy From New York City"), The Larks ("The Jerk"), Terry Stafford ("Suspicion"), Betty Everett ("The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss"), Robert Parker ("Barefootin'"), Barbara Mason ("Yes I'm Ready"), The Capitols ("Cool Jerk"), and The Rivieras ("California Sun"). All great singles, and nearly all issued on (now-defunct) independent labels - another great aspect of 1960s radio that's no longer in play today.

True stereo can be found on all tracks except 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 15, 17, 19, 20, and 22. In a few cases, the expansiveness of a stereo mix lessens the single's original radio-ready punch (e.g., The Vogues "Five O'Clock World" is quite disconcerting in stereo), but for the most part it's a pleasure to hear these singles unfolded in cleanly mastered hi-fi. Tunes like The Ad Libs "The Boy From New York City," The Capitols "Cool Jerk" and Petula Clark's "Downtown" had sophisticated arrangements and dynamic playing (particularly the drumming) that couldn't squeeze through the limitations of the AM band.

One can excuse the absence of Beatles or Rolling Stones tracks due to licensing, but given the flood of British acts who followed the Beatles success on American charts, the disc tilts a bit heavily to U.S. hitmakers. On the other hand, you can't cover everything in 25 tracks, what's here is great, and the British Invasion material is readily available elsewhere. The liner notes are quite informative and the chart and label info is top-notch. This is a nice buy for collector's seeking clean masters and stereo sources, as well as fans and newbies seeking 66 minutes of non-stop radio gold.

3 out of 5 stars

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  1. Best of the 60's ~ The Zombies
  2. Waitin' for the Night ~ The Runaways
  3. Mardo ~ Mardo
  4. Other People's Rooms ~ Mark-Almond
  5. Locked In ~ Wishbone Ash
  6. All You Need Is Covers: the Songs of the Beatles ~ Various Artists
  7. Best of ~ Danny Wilson
  8. Discipline ~ King Crimson
  9. Live ~ Dave Edmunds
  10. Soundpool ~ Dif Juz

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