Vol. 2-Teenage Crush (1999) ( )

Product Summary Label: Ace (uk) UPC: 00029667170123 Release Date: 2/23/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60015753 Item#: MQ5HQ9 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Sittin' In The Balcony - Eddie Cochran ~ Various Artists 2. Come Softly To Me - The Fleetwoods ~ Various Artists 3. Donna - Ritchie Valens ~ Various Artists 4. Fortune Teller - Bobby Curtola ~ Various Artists 5. Venus In Blue Jeans - Jimmy Clanton ~ Various Artists 6. Endlessly - Brook Benton ~ Various Artists 7. Teenager's Romance, A - Ricky Nelson ~ Various Artists 8. I've Come Of Age - Billy Storm ~ Various Artists 9. Robbin' The Cradle - Tony Bellus ~ Various Artists 10. Sandy - Larry Hall ~ Various Artists 11. For Your Love - Ed Townsend ~ Various Artists 12. You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette ~ Various Artists 13. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos ~ Various Artists 14. Dear One - Larry Finnegan ~ Various Artists 15. Three Bells, The - The Browns ~ Various Artists 16. Funny How Time Slips Away - Jimmy Elledge ~ Various Artists 17. Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers ~ Various Artists 18. Rose And A Baby Ruth, A - Geroge Hamilton IV ~ Various Artists 19. End Of The World, The - Skeeter Davis ~ Various Artists 20. Look For A Star - Gary Miles ~ Various Artists 21. Letter From Sherry - Dale Ward ~ Various Artists 22. Venus - Frankie Avalon ~ Various Artists 23. Let Me Belong To You - Brian Hyland ~ Various Artists 24. Dream Lover - Bobby Darin ~ Various Artists 25. Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter ~ Various Artists 26. Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens ~ Various Artists 27. So This Is Love - The Castells ~ Various Artists 28. Theme, The - Percy Faith (from "A Summer Place") ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Compilation poducers: Rob Finnis, John Broven, Trevor Churchill. Recorded between 1956 & 1963. Includes liner notes by Rob Finnis. Liner Note Author: Rob Finnis. Twenty-eight more of what Ace refers to as "rockaballads" from the late '50s and early '60s -- that is, the very poppiest and most ballad-oriented shade of early rock & roll, or tracks that are essentially pop songs but had enough rock or teen idol influence to appeal to a teen audience. It's a bit hard to figure which fans might want to pick this up. The best and most famous tracks -- Eddie Cochran's "Sittin' in the Balcony," Ritchie Valens' "Donna," Jimmie Rodgers' "Honeycomb," and Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World" -- have been easily available on reissues for decades. So have hits like Frankie Avalon's "Venus," George Hamilton IV's "A Rose and a Baby Ruth," the Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me," and others. Almost half of these are lesser-known cuts, several of which only charted in the 20s or so, and are hard to find on reissues (and indeed rarely played even on oldies radio). The problem is, these cuts have been neglected for a reason; they're often facile teen pop songs that aren't very good, like Tony Bellus' "Robbin' the Cradle," Bobby Curtola's "Fortune Teller," Dale Ward's abominable "Letter from Sherry," and Garry Miles' "Look for a Star." About the most interesting off-the-beaten-path item is Jimmy Elledge's version of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away," which hit number 22 in 1961. This isn't that bad a listen, and points go to Ace for including a wide spectrum of light early ballad rock -- including black artists like Brook Benton and one-shots like singer Ed Townsend, who made the Top 20 in 1958 with "For Your Love" -- but it's no great shakes either. ~ Richie Unterberger   Technical Info Release Date : 02/23/1999 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 701 Label : Ace Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mixed SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00029667170123    Product Image