Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Marty Wilde - Teenager In Love
2. John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me
3. Billy Fury - Halfway To Paradise
4. Buddy - Holly Heartbeat
5. Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
6. Johnny Ray - Just Walking In The Rain
7. Mike Sarne & Wendy Richards - Come Outside
8. Craig Douglas - Only 16
9. Joe Brown - That's What Love Will Do
10. The Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace
11. Mark Wynter - Go Away Little Girl
12. The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
13. The Allisons - Are You Sure?
14. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
15. Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World
16. Brenda Lee - All Alone Am I
17. The Marcels - Blue Moon
18. Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen
19. Kenny Lynch - Up On The Roof
20. Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby
21. Terry Dene - A White Sport Coat
22. Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen
23. Connie Francis - Lipstick On Your Collar
24. Kathy Kirkby - Secret Love
25. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
26. The Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain

Disc 2:

1. Bill Haley And His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
2. Cliff Richard - Move It
3. Adam Faith - What Do You Want
4. Buddy Holly - It Doesn't Matter Anymore
5. Joe Brown - Picture Of You
6. Mark Wynter - Venus In Blue Jeans
7. Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell
8. Bobby Vee - Rubber Ball
9. Susan Maughan - Bobby's Girl
10. Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line
11. Dion - Run Around Sue
12. Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps - Be Bop A Lula
13. Del Shannon - Runaway
14. Little Eva - The Locomotion
15. Helen Shapiro - Walking Back To Happiness
16. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
17. John Leyton - Wild Wind
18. Del Shannon - Little Town Flirt
19. Billy Fury - Like I've Never Been Gone
20. Heinz - Just Like Eddie
21. Eddie Cochran - Three Steps To Heaven
22. Neil Sedaka - Oh! Carol
23. Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
24. Duane Eddy & the Rebels - Because They're Young
25. The Tornados - Telstar
26. The Shadows - Wonderful Land

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 151 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not all original recordings
This is a really great selection of songs and even though most appear all too frequently on numerous compilations celebrating this period, the album would still normally rate five stars. However, I am surprised that none of the previous reviewers point out that not all the recordings are the originals as stated but inferior re-recordings that lack the nostalgia of the originals, e.g. Only Sixteeen by Craig Douglas, Wonderful Land by the Shadows and Pat Boone's Love Letters In The Sand. This really lets it down and there really can be no excuse for this from a label of the pedigree.

Come outside... will I what?
Sometimes there is a conspiracy to try and make us believe that sex like pop music did not really happen in Britain until the Beatles came along and released us from songs like How much is that Doggy in the window or If I had known you were coming I would have baked a cake.

This is a good mix a British and US pop before the Beatles turned up. In recent years I have seen Joe Brown and Marty Wilde live and they are as good as ever. It is pure nostalgia for a time gone by. You had to be there to appreciate it. Cracking hits like Johnny Remember Me and Mike Sarne Come Outside.

I remember when a bloke who obviously wasn't a teenager was regarded as rock and roll as Bill Haley and the Comets did rock around the clock. It is great even over fifty years later.

Our listening was very restricted pre the Pirate radio stations in the early sixties.we had to get our music where we could until today where it is pouring out everywhere. We had to savour every opportunity to listen to Buddy Holly or Skeeter Davis.

What could top End of the world by Skeeter Davis ?. It can bring tears to your eyes all these years later. Not a duff track on this 52 track double CD.

I will be off to Tescos to get the follow up instrumentals of the period. It is a treat to go on a long car journey and play the CDs right the way through.

Highly recommended to those of us of a certain age. It conjures up national service, two way family favourites the Navy Lark on Sunday lunch time radio.

dreamboats and petticoats
For the more mature amongst us this is sheer memory lane. I don't usually indulge in nostalgia but I couldn't resist this one. It reminds us of our youth when life may not have been simpler but we all thought it was at the time. A CD I may not listen to often but it brings back fond memories.