VA - The Golden Age of American Rock'n'Roll - Special Novelty Edition
CD Details
Release Date: 2003
Studio: ACE RECORDS UK
Made in UK
UPC: 02966719802
Track Listings
1. Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells
2. Mr. Bass Man - Johnny Cymbal
3. I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
4. Ape Call - Nervous Norvus
5. Baby Sittin' Boogie - Buzz Clifford
6. Yogi - Ivy Three
7. Delicious - Jim Backus
8. Long Tall Texan - Murry Kellum
9. Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
10. Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
11. Flying Saucer - Buchanan & Goodman
12. Rip Van Winkle - The Devotions
13. Witch Doctor - David Seville
14. Russian Band Stand - Spencer & Spencer
15. Beep Beep - The Playmates
16. More Money For You And Me (Medley) - Four Preps
17. The Mummy - Bob McFadden & Dor
18. The Blob - The Five Blobs
19. Little Space Girl - Jesse Lee Turner
20. Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens
21. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland
22. Psycho - Bobby Hendricks
23. Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann
24. Ahab The Arab - Ray Stevens
25. Haunted House - Gene Simmons
26. Alley-Oop - The Dyna-Sores
27. The Old Payola Roll Blues - Stan Freberg
28. Ambrose (Part 5) - Linda Laurie
29. Leader Of The Laundromat - The Detergents
30. They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa! - Napoleon XIV
Amazon.ca Album Description
Full Title - Golden Age of American Rock 'N' Roll - Special Novelty Edition. 2003 compilation featuring 30 of the finest 'oddities' from the 'Golden Era'. All 30 tracks are Billboard chart hits & several are mastered from tape for the first time.
AMG Review
Name any big rock & roll novelty hit from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s, the sillier the better, and the odds are it's on this 30-song compilation. As just a sample of the big hits here, this has the Ran-Dells' "Martian Hop"; Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater"; David Seville's "Witch Doctor"; the Playmates' "Beep Beep"; Barry Mann's "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp)"; Gene Simmons' "Haunted House"; the Detergents' "Leader of the Pack" satire "Leader of the Laundromat" (probably the funniest thing here); and, closing the disc, Napoleon XIV's legendarily grating "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!" Naturally, some of the big hits included weren't as funny as they were popular, like Larry Verne's "Mr. Custer," Brian Hyland's "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," Ray Stevens' "Ahab the Arab," and Buzz Clifford's "Baby Sittin' Boogie." Those are necessary to get a full view of the range of early rock & roll novelty hits, though, and as compensation there are quite a few semi-forgotten amusing small novelty hits, like Murry Kellum's "Long Tall Texan" (covered soon afterward by the Beach Boys), Jimmy Cross' tasteless death rock satire "I Want My Baby Back," Stan Freberg's "The Old Payola Roll Blues," and Spencer & Spencer's "Russian Band Stand" (a simulation of how American Bandstand might have been conducted in the former Soviet Union). As grounds for mild criticism, "Transfusion" would have made a better Nervous Norvus cut than "Ape Call," and the version of "Alley-Oop" is not the number one hit version by the Hollywood Argyles, but the (admittedly far rarer) one by the Dyna-Sores, which made it up to a mere number 59. But overall it's the most in-depth collection of the genre ever produced, accompanied by a 32-page booklet of detailed liner notes. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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