Track Listing

1. The Shadows - Foot Tapper
2. The Tornados - Telstar
3. B Bumble And The Stingers - Nut Rocker
4. The Champs - Tequila
5. The Chantays - Pipeline
6. Dick Dale And The Deltones - Misirlou
7. The Surfaris - Wipe Out
8. Booker T & The MGs - Time Is Tight
9. John Barry Seven Plus Four - Hit And Miss
10. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds
11. The Ventures - Walk - Don't Run
12. The Spotnicks - Hava Nagila
13. Sandy Nelson - Teen Beat
14. Johnny And The Hurricanes - Red River Rock
15. Duane Eddy - Shazam!
16. Mason Williams - Classical Gas
17. The Dakotas - The Cruel Sea
18. The Ventures - Perfidia
19. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
20. The Tornados - Globetrotter
21. Duane Eddy - (Dance With The. Guitar Man
22. Johnny And The Hurricanes - Rocking Goose
23. The John Barry Seven & Orchestra - The James Bond Theme
24. Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums
25. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Scarlett O'Hara
26. Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions
27. The Shadows - Apache
28. Percy Faith & His Orchestra - Theme From "A Summer Place"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1520 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 82 minutes

Customer Reviews

FOOTTAPPERS
Anyone that was around in that sixties era, will know the impact that these instrumental records made. Will know what they are getting on the compilation. Personally, I would have rated this five stars, except for the fact, that some tracks are re-recorded. Three to mention, FOOTTAPPER, the Shadows, APACHE, the Shadows, and DANCE WITH THE GUITAR MAN, Duane Eddy. There may be more. Ok, if for whatever reason, the company issuing this CD includes re-recorded tracks, why cannot they state on the cover of the CD, which are the re-recorded ones. With the security lock on this CD, before I bought it, there is no way of knowing, which are original and which are re-recorded tracks.

However, there are still some great instrumental tracks on here. I was pleased, that WALK - DON'T RUN, the Ventures is the original. Also, the two Sandy Nelson tracks, still drum up a storm. Overall, the quality of each of these tracks is pretty good. Given the amount of time, that most of them have been around.

Another slight niggle, is that TIME IS TIGHT has been included, which is of another decade , yet a still popular recording, Sleepwalk, by Santo and Johnnie has NOT been included. While , another `non-footapping` track, THEME FROM A SUMMER'S PLACE, has been included.

However, I am pleased I have this CD. A lot of my favourite instrumental's, which provide many memories of those years, all on one CD.

Close....but no cigar
I was very excited to see this release advertised in the press as the instrumental scene of the late 50's/early 60's has been in danger of being completely forgotten by the march of time. There doesn't seem to have been a decent 'entry level' compilation of this particular sub-genre of music in print for some time......and unfortunately there still isn't!
As other reviewers have noted, several tracks are substandard 70's/80's re-recordings. These are the two tracks by the Shadows (which date from the late 80's and also turn up on numerous Universal 'best of' Shadows comps in place of the EMI originals), both Duane Eddy cuts (which appear to date from his mid-70's sessions although, confusingly, the copyright details in the booklet claim that these are the original Jamie and RCA recordings-they aren't!!)and also Teen Beat by Sandy Nelson which is featured in an horrifically sub-bootleg quality live version. Whilst the other tracks include some absolute belters-I'd been after the Spotnicks track on cd for some time-the whole package is let down by the inclusion of inappropriate tracks such as 'Time Is Tight' and 'Classical Gas'(both great but from a very different era), a lack of any sort of sleeve note to explain to anyone discovering these tracks for the first time why this stuff is important, and the afore mentioned 'wrong' versions. Lovers of instrumental rock would do better to dig into Ace's five volume 'Teen Beat',series and give this missed opportunity the hipsway.

Beware !!
Not all the tracks are original. The ones i'm sure are not are -

Both Shadows tracks
Duane Eddy - Dance With the Guitar Man

The Duane Eddy track is very poor compared the the original.
The rest of the cd - who knows ? could be remixes.

And why include "Time is Tight" ? A great track but, a 70's track mixed in with 60's ??? very odd !!