Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964
Rhino / Wea - Rhino / Wea
Various Artists
Release date: 1989-09-12
Audio CD
60's, Brill Building Pop, Oldies Collections, Pop, Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock Music, Rock & Roll, Surf, V/a Compilations
1. Bread and Butter - Parks, Larry
2. Under the Boardwalk - Resnick, Arthur
3. I Get Around - Love, Mike
4. The Little Old Lady from Pasadena - Altfeld, Don
5. Out of Limits - Gordon, Michael [3]
6. Suspicion - Pomus, Doc
7. Chapel of Love - Barry, Jeff
8. She's Not There - Argent, Rod
9. Last Kiss - Cochran, Wayne
10. Leader of the Pack - Barry, Jeff
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Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964
Date undefinedJust a note: Buyer beware, with this and all of Amazon's track listings, especially for various-artist compilations. Amazon has recently been changing all its track lists to reflect the songwriters instead of the artists, which could lead buyers to expect completely different performances from what they'll be getting. Amazon has ignored many requests from its third-party sellers to fix this dismaying issue.
Even in the single-artist CD track listings, they are often showing the songwriter along with the artist, making it appear the songwriter guests on the CD when that is not the case.
This particular CD features the original artists as shown on the cover art, not the songwriters as listed by Amazon (except in the cases where the artist is the songwriter).
Amazon, please recognize the desperation at trying this new avenue - my first customer review ever - to get your attention and spur you to fix this before you have a lot of confused or unhappy buyers, or lose sales because people see misleading information.
Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964
Date undefinedBillboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964 is yet another budget priced CD with ten great rock and roll hits from 1964. One reviewer notes that there may still be older editions of this CD out there; and that's very important for consumers to know. Make sure you're buying the version of this album you want--just ask the seller for the track list before you buy it.
The Newbeats do a great job on "Bread And Butter." They sing and harmonize on this so well; and the tune has a great, catchy rockin' flavor to it that is very solid and strong. The subtle key changes between major and minor impress me; and this is great dancing music as well! Great!
Listen also for The Drifters doing their classic hit entitled "Under The Boardwalk;" I always liked this romantic tune and the musical arrangement uses the percussion to great advantage. They sing and harmonize to make this a strong number and the strings enhance "Under The Boardwalk" all the more. The Beach Boys weigh in with "I Get Around;" their sound is unmistakable and this excellent ballad celebrates the freedom young men enjoy as they have fun and meet women for romance.
Jan & Dean turn in their "Little Old Lady (From Pasadena);" this Beach Boys sounding tune works very well and Jan & Dean do this tune up right! The background vocalists harmonize so well and the music sounds great.
For a more noticeable change of pace, there's The Dixie Cups sweetly singing "Chapel Of Love." The Dixie Cups sing this so beautifully as they rejoice at the thought of marrying the special men in their lives. They harmonize well and The Dixie Cups are an excellent example of a fine `60s girl group.
The Zombies have a strong one with "She's Not There;" and The Shangri-Las end the album with a huge hit from 1964, "Leader Of The Pack." Great musical effects, too!
Overall, this is a great, inexpensive way to get to know some of those huge mid 1960s rock and roll hits. I highly recommend this CD.
Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1964
Date undefinedIn 1988/9 Rhino introduced its superb "Top Rock'n'Roll Hits" (1955-1974) series featuring 20 years of music on 20 CDs at 10 songs per year / per disc. (Hey, neat-o!)
Then in 1993 Rhino reissued the discs in the subset spanning 1960-1969 thus creating two different versions of each in the process. Because these discs are available via Amazon Marketplace, who knows which ones you'll get if you buy them used! If this is important to you, be sure to ask the seller(s) before placing your order(s).
The most obvious visual differences between the two editions are the song titles on both the front covers and the actual CDs. The 1988/9 editions feature mixed-case titles. The 1993 editions feature uppercase titles.
The 1993 editions also have the songs listed on the covers in the same order in which they appear on the discs. The 1988/9 editions list the songs in an almost random order which can be very frustrating while the disc is being played.
The song selections are also different; some moreso than others. For 1964 only tracks 2 and 7 were changed.
1988 (2) Manfred Mann, "Do Wah Diddy Diddy"
1993 (2) The Drifters, "Under The Boardwalk"
1988 (7) The 4 Seasons, "Rag Doll"
1993 (7) The Dixie Cups, "Chapel Of Love"
In this case, it's a tough call on which one I like best since I like both track 2s equally well and dislike both track 7s. I think if Rhino'd just replaced "Rag Doll" with "Under The Boardwalk" instead, they'd have had a winner on their hands with this one.
My favourite moment? When she sings, "I met him at the candy store..." Ye-e-a-a-a-ah!!! Ri-i-i-i-ight!!! I mean, that's where I always go when I ride *my* Harley, knowhutimean? Just what kind of "candy" were they sellin' to teenagers back in 1964? Hmmm??? :) Amazing how we went from songs like that to Prince's, "Dirty Mind" in only 16 short years. (Whoa!!)
On a side note, I know that it was due to licensing restrictions but given that this disc is supposed to represent 1964, it doesn't really do a very good job of that, now does it? I mean, where are England's Newest Hit-Makers, The Rolling Stones?!! :)
[Note: To my knowledge, the CDs spanning 1955-1959 and 1970-1974 have not been revised. One may also surmise that Rhino believes rock-n-roll died with the advent of disco since the title used for the discs spanning 1975-on-up is simply "Top Hits" - not to be confused, of course, with Rhino's other, similar series, "Top Pop Hits".]
