The Rock 'N' Roll Era: 1960: Still Rockin'

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I just needed one song, and it was in this cd, thank-you for sending it to me. It came on time, and i am still enjoying it.

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What did Peter Paul Markin, hard scrabble out of suburban Boston Adamsville, Massachusetts, eighteen and girl crazy, Joshua Lawrence Breslin, nineteen, and girl crazy too out of Olde Saco up in rural Maine and Johnny (Blaze) Bachman, also nineteen out of Avon, Connecticut, ditto on the girl crazy, have in common in great fear 1960 night. No, not fear that they would not live long enough to see the world (crooked metaphor for figuring out what to do about girl crazies) what with the red scare cold war world champing down on them. They figured they would get by. Nix too on trying to get dough together to take a leap into that good hitchhiking on the road night. That would come, come six ways to Sunday. And you are totally off base if you thought they had worries about the "what if" of college (if these restless boys decided to go rather than hit that search for the blue-pink great American West night (or some night) road.No, what they had in common, girl 101 in common, desperately girl 101 in common, was that, try might or main, they all had two left feet. Hey, they couldn't dance, okay. And couldn't dance in the 1960 hot summer wind a-blowing night meant, meant, sitting home alone by the old midnight telephone, the no ring telephone. Or hanging out with compadre also ran guys who couldn't dance come Friday or Saturday night school or church hop (quaint) in front of respectively North Adamsville, Olde Saco, and Avon Central High or some low rent diner putting quarters in the jukebox wishing their lives away.A shame too, particularly for Johnny Blaze, an Adonis blonde, blue-eyed figure out of Jack Kerouac's be-bop Denver All-American boy Neal Cassady, a pin- ball wizard who could put an car engine back together blind-folded (and did one sleepy Avon night just to show his corner boys his stuff) or while reading Marcel Proust (not done since they knew not of the Frenchman, or of remembrances ) with a souped-up Dodge just waiting for some desperate chicken run to prove his metal, a few bucks and, well, stuck with some lonely corner boys in similar condition.But just that year just that exact 1960 year if you couldn't dance, couldn't bop the bop, do lang do lang, sha na na your way around the floor then boss car, dough, or Adonis looks put you on cheap street, way down on cheap street with busted, inconsequential dreams. The edge, no question.1958 or 1959 and Johnny would have been a girl magnet and home free. Every night with whomever he wanted down on that Long Island Sound, bopping the night away (metaphor for, hell, you know, the deed). 1960 though Mister Lonely heart.It wasn't like Peter Paul, Josh or mad monk Johnny hadn't tried, hadn't watched about sixty-six, or was it six hundred and sixty-six episodes of American Bandstand, hadn't given serious thought to going to Miss So-and-So's Dance School, or anything like that. (Josh even, under a veil of national security cold war treason death penalty secrecy, had his younger sister, his younger sister for god's sake, try to teach him but two left feet are two left feet.) Nor was the goal to be able to sweet and low slow dance, some fox trot or waltz last dance school Could This Be Magic dance. Or intricate jitterbug moves, but just be in synch dance with a partner, a female partner without looking like a chicken for two minutes and some change. Nada, nothing. There was a little hope when in 1958 the Stroll came breezing through for a minute but after a couple of times the girls would pair off by themselves, by themselves if you can believe that, rather than run the gauntlet with our three young heroes. Sad story, sad ending to the boy meets girl world historic saga.Then came Chubby Checker, then came the Twist, and you do it like this, and two left (or right) feet didn't matter because all you had to do was gyrate and be on the same dance floor and our young Adonis boys sure as hell knew how to gyrate. Hail King Chubby, hail.

The heavily-promoted and massive Time-Life "mail order only" series of CDs of about 15 - 20 years ago constantly reminded you that "you can't get these in any store" and seemed intent, at the time, to corner the market on everything from the Big Band Era to Pop, Country, R&B, Soul, Rockabilly and R&R Oldies. In addition to single artist releases, they put out year by year volumes covering the best hits of 1940 to (as far as I can tell) 1969, interspersed with theme releases such as The Unforgetable `50s, The Late `50s and R&B Gems II, among many many more.Since there was little real competition in terms of sound quality and program notes at the time, I suppose quite a few bought into the hype, although it was an expensive venture since they also charged quite a bit more for each disc than the normal going rate. Now here we are with options like Ace Of London, Eric Records, Jasmine, Bear Family, Collectables, Collector's Choice, Rhino, Varese-Sarabande, Razor & Tie, etc., and suddenly these Time-Life releases are popping up for sale all over the place, and mostly at prices considerably less than when they were first issued.A glance at the contents will tell you, if you are at all familiar with the distributors just mentioned, that there are now many such compilations around containing everything you see here and with even better sound reproduction and much more detailed liner notes/discographies.Even so, if what your seeking specifically happens to be among the contents here, rest assured that it is the original rendition, that the sound quality is fine and that the notes, although nothing like you'd get from, say, Ace of London, are informative.In its day, this one did offer several selections that were regarded back then as extremely difficult to find, such as the tracks by Jesse Hill, Skip & Flip, Ron Holden, Barret Strong, The Paradons and Bobby Marchan. Now all, of course, are available on any number of new compilations, especially ones like Ace's Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll series.

I've was not born in that year I've was born in 1986 but I've should be listening today music but I've not and that why I've listening oldies music.