Malt Shop Memories Box Set (2008)

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Product Summary Label: Albany Music UPC: 00610583225426 Release Date: 6/3/2008 Buy.com Sku: 207684017 Item#: M4475W Buy.com Sales Rank: 25530 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Big Girls Don't Cry - Frankie Valli/The Four Seasons ~ Various Artists 2. Stand By Me - Ben E. King ~ Various Artists 3. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin ~ Various Artists 4. Save the Last Dance For Me - The Drifters ~ Various Artists 5. You Belong To Me - The DuPrees ~ Various Artists 6. Chapel of Love - The Dixie Cups ~ Various Artists 7. Lover's Question, A - Clyde McPhatter ~ Various Artists 8. This Magic Moment - The Drifters ~ Various Artists 9. Sherry - Frankie Valli/The Four Seasons ~ Various Artists 10. Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las ~ Various Artists 11. Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis ~ Various Artists 12. On Broadway - The Drifters ~ Various Artists 13. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon ~ Various Artists 14. Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter ~ Various Artists 15. Just One Look - Doris Troy ~ Various Artists 16. There Goes My Baby - The Drifters ~ Various Artists 17. 16 Candles - The Crests ~ Various Artists 18. Tears On My Pillow - Little Anthony/The Imperials ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. It's My Party - Lesley Gore ~ Various Artists 2. Heat Wave - Martha Reeves/The Vandellas ~ Various Artists 3. Come See About Me - The Supremes ~ Various Artists 4. Girl's Alright With Me, The - The Temptations ~ Various Artists 5. Twilight Time - The Platters ~ Various Artists 6. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles ~ Various Artists 7. Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes ~ Various Artists 8. Two Lovers - Mary Wells ~ Various Artists 9. You've Really Got Hold On Me - The Miracles ~ Various Artists 10. Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves/The Vandellas ~ Various Artists 11. Baby Love - The Supremes ~ Various Artists 12. Where the Boys Are - Connie Francis ~ Various Artists 13. Don't Mess With Bill - The Marvelettes ~ Various Artists 14. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers ~ Various Artists 15. My Guy - Mary Wells ~ Various Artists 16. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels ~ Various Artists 17. 1-2-3 - Len Barry ~ Various Artists 18. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. I Get Around - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists 2. One Fine Day - The Chiffons ~ Various Artists 3. Teenager In Love, A - Dion/The Belmonts ~ Various Artists 4. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics ~ Various Artists 5. Comes Softly To Me - The Fleetwoods ~ Various Artists 6. Take Good Care of My Baby - Bobby Vee ~ Various Artists 7. Runaround Sue - Dion ~ Various Artists 8. Little Old Lady, The (From Pasadena) - Jan & Dean ~ Various Artists 9. Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists 10. Since I Don't Have You - The Skyliners ~ Various Artists 11. Little Bit of Soap, A - The Jarmels ~ Various Artists 12. He's So Fine - The Chiffons ~ Various Artists 13. G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas ~ Various Artists 14. California Girls - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists 15. Surf City - Jan & Dean ~ Various Artists 16. Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane ~ Various Artists 17. Mocking Bird - Inez Foxx/Charlie Foxx ~ Various Artists 18. I Wonder Why - Dion/The Belmonts ~ Various Artists Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. Lover's Concerto, A - The Toys ~ Various Artists 2. Boy From New York City, The - The Ad Libs ~ Various Artists 3. Breaking Up is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka ~ Various Artists 4. It's All In the Game - Tommy Edwards ~ Various Artists 5. Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Elvis Presley ~ Various Artists 6. Lion Sleeps Tonight, The (Wimoweh) - The Tokens ~ Various Artists 7. I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March ~ Various Artists 8. Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords ~ Various Artists 9. Thousand Stars, A - Kathy Young/The Innocents ~ Various Artists 10. Stay - Maurice Williams/The Zodiacs ~ Various Artists 11. Love Is Strange - Mickey/Sylvia ~ Various Artists 12. Come a Little Bit Closer - Jay & The Americans ~ Various Artists 13. Personality - Lloyd Price ~ Various Artists 14. For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler/The Impressions ~ Various Artists 15. Downtown - Petula Clark ~ Various Artists 16. I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee ~ Various Artists 17. Baby, It's You - The Shirelles ~ Various Artists 18. Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Liner Note Authors: Fred Bronson; Bobby Rydell. If anything, it was the late 20th century rise of the shopping mall that killed off malt shops, at least as a place where teenagers hung out, met and practiced social skills, enacted adolescent drama, fell in love for perhaps the first time, and -- most of all -- played music on the jukebox. These days, of course, teenagers congregate in the malls, hanging in food courts, walking around, mingling, and doing pretty much the same social enactments, but now the music is piped in and it just isn't the same; there isn't that shared sense of choice. And even the jukeboxes, if you can find one, are different, too. Now they're connected to the Net and you download your play with the whole history of pop music at your disposal, with the eras, decades, fads, phases, and styles all merging into one huge musical buffet in which the existential "now" can be any time at all. What's lost, at least musically, is the present as a singular moment in time. But for a time in the late '50s and early '60s, before all those sprawling, enticing malls, there were malt shops that gave teens a place to, well, be teenagers. This four-disc set from Time Life re-creates the feel of those lost days, and it's a wonderful time capsule, featuring classic songs like the Four Seasons' "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Sherry," Ben E. King's immortal "Stand by Me," the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby," Connie Francis' oddly haunting and melancholy "Where the Boys Are," the Righteous Brothers' grand emotional epic "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," the Beach Boys' "I Get Around" and "California Girls," Little Peggy March's forlorn and dedicated "I Will Follow Him," and some lesser gems like the Rip Chords' "Hey Little Cobra" and the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'." The only thing missing is the tactile experience of punching the buttons on one of those big old beautiful jukeboxes and that timeless moment when the needle drops and life resumes with a song both familiar and new, one that belongs to a specific place and time. All that is gone these days. It's all times at once now in a blended cacophony of songs, but if the so-called malt shop days weren't really simpler (life and love being constants and never really simple), they were at least a clear moment in time. Nothing stays forever. It's pure physics that makes that impossible. But this wonderful box set preserves the illusion that yes, we can still go back, if only for the length of a song or two. That bit of time travel, folks, is a delightful kind of magic. ~ Steve Leggett Producer: Alan Rubens (Compilation)   Technical Info Release Date : 05/06/2008 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : 19555 Label : Time/Life Music Number of Discs : 4 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00610583225426    Product Image