The Golden Age of American Rock ‘n’ Roll - The Follow-Up Hits
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The latest off-shoot in Ace’s successful Golden Age Of American Rock ‘n’ Roll series presents 30 tracks with a common thread - all of which prevented their performers from becoming one hit wonders by following previous hits into the Billboard Hot 100. The vast majority of these tracks still did very well indeed - better, in fact, than some of the hits that have featured in the main Golden Age series. As always, the featured selections have been mastered from the finest source [Read More...]
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The Golden Age of American Rock ‘n’ Roll - The Follow-Up Hits is a collection of tunes by artists with “follow-up” hits that charted on Billboard’s Hot 100 Charts of the 60’s. The entire series, now totalling 12 CD’s in all, comes with a wonderfully illustrated and very informative 27 page liner booklet covering each of the songs on the CD.
The back liner notes include the Title, Artist, Year Charted, US Label, The US Chart Hit, the UK Label and the Track Length.
I have the entire series and I recommend it for any serious music collector wishing to add more of both the very popular plus the regional hits that charted but got scattered air time.
These are very well done compilations.
Every time ACE comes out with a new collection of The Golden Age Of
American Rock & Roll series whether it’s one of the 11 CD’s dedicated
to this title, Teenage Crush series (5), Doo-Wop, Country Special,
Novelty Special or the previous Radio Gold fifth volume, it’s always
5 stars worth. On This “Follow Up Hits” compilation there are some songs
that I hear for the first time, although I consider myself a profound
“oldies” connaisseur, and not only just that: some of these “new oldies”
are so incredibly fantastic that I will always keep on collecting them
whenever ACE releases a new one no matter under what title. The absolute
highlight for me is the song called “Laugh” by the Velvets a wonderful
stereo version that reminds me of “Save The Last Dance For Me”. When
I read that it was written by Roy Orbison I wasn’t surprised although
I am sure that, should he have sung it, it would have gone higher than
just # 90. Besides this beauty there are others: “Shy Girl” by the
Cascades, “This I Swear” by the wonderful Skyliners, “No One Knows” by
Dion, “I’ll Take You Home” by the Corsairs (fantastic stereo version),
“Tell Me” by Dick & Dee Dee, the unknown “Age For Love” and “Arrow Of
Love” and last but not least a series of genuine and outstanding
good old rock & rollers like Bobby Freeman’s “Betty Lou Got…” ,
The Olympics’ “Dance With The Teacher, Chuck Wilson’s
“Bettie & Dupree”, Ritchie Valens’ “That’s My Little Suzie” (a real gift), Chris Montez’
Some Kinda Fun, “Do What You Did” by Thurston Harris etc. I could go
on and on but to describe 30 songs takes too much time. Anyway, the
important thing is that there are still hundreds of American Hot 100
songs around that at least in Europe were rather unknown and some not even released
but that thanks to ACE are launched on the market almost 50 years later.
That’s why I title this review “A Never Ending Story”. I’m already anxious to know what the next compilation will be like!