Teen Time - The Young Years of Rock & Roll, Vol. 1: Love Me Forever

by Teen Time: Young Years Of Rock

Overview

The long-running series Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll from Ace has rewarded long-suffering fans of early rock and pop with a bounty of late-'50s and early-'60s songs, most of which reached the Top 40, but have been under-served by reissues since. The Eric label, with its own series, Teen Time: The Young Years of Rock & Roll, picked up yet more slack with its 20-song collections of pop hits -- most of them on the rare side -- that serve the same purpose as the Ace volumes and pay similarly high dividends. The first volume of Teen Time, subtitled "Love Me Forever," focuses on ballads and love songs (not all of them downtempo). It casts the net wider than Ace volumes, taking in several low chart entries, as well as a few later hits from the mid-'60s, but narrows the focus on material by including more artists with jazz-vocal tropes and ignoring R&B (with only a few exceptions). Any listeners with a dedicated interest in '50s rock and pop will still find at least a few undiscovered nuggets here, like Valerie Carr's bewitchingly inquisitive "When the Boys Talk About the Girls" or Cathy Carr's mildly silly "First Anniversary." None of the tracks have been overplayed (at least not since the '60s), and every one is a high-caliber production despite the novelty factor. Also appreciated is the fact that both Eric and producers Bill Buster, Tom Daly, and Mark Mathews have high standards of sound quality. ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	03/16/2004
Label:	Eric Records
UPC:	0730531152021
Rank:	115428

Tracks

1. Secretly  - Al Hoffman  - Dick Manning  - Mark Markwell  - Jimmie F. Rodgers
2. Love Me Forever  -  Four Esquires
3. When the Boys Talk About the Girls  - Valerie Carr  - Bob Merrill
4. What Is Love?  -  Playmates  - Lee Pockriss
5. First Anniversary  - Cathy Carr
6. And That Reminds Me  - Camillo Bargoni  - Della Reese  - Al Stillman
7. Stay With Me (A Little While Longer)  - Ed Townsend
8. Heartaches  - Al Hoffman  - John Klenner  -  Marcels
9. Goodbye Cruel World  - James Darren  - Gloria Shayne
10. You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It)  - Paul Burton  - Ral Donner  - Paul Hampton
11. Johnny Angel  - Lyn Duddy  - Shelley Fabares  - Lee Pockriss
12. Fortuneteller  - Ritchie Blackmore  -  Curtola  - Roger Glover  - David Hurdon  - Jon Lord  - Ian Paice  - Joe Lynn Turner
13. Poor Little Puppet  - Cathy Carroll
14. Her Royal Majesty  - James Darren  - Gerry Goffin  - Carole King
15. The Gypsy Cried  - Lou Christie  - Twyla Herbert
16. The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget  - Jeff Barry  - Ellie Greenwich  -  Raindrops
17. Easier Said Than Done  -  Essex  - Larry Huff  - William Linton
18. My Coloring Book  - Fred Ebb  - John Kander  - Sandy Stewart
19. Turn Around  - Harry Belafonte  -  Dick & Dee Dee  - Alan Greene  - Malvina Reynolds
20. See You in September  - Sherman Edwards  -  Happenings  - Sid Wayne

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lou Christie   Primary Artist
Della Reese   Primary Artist
Ed Townsend   Primary Artist
The Four Esquires   Primary Artist
Cathy Carr   Primary Artist
Bobby Curtola   Primary Artist
The Marcels   Primary Artist
Sandy Stewart   Primary Artist
Cathy Carroll   Primary Artist
Jimmie F. Rodgers   Primary Artist
The Happenings   Primary Artist
James Darren   Primary Artist
Ral Donner   Primary Artist
The Playmates   Primary Artist
The Raindrops   Primary Artist
Valerie Carr   Primary Artist
Dick & Dee Dee   Primary Artist
Shelley Fabares   Primary Artist
The Essex   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Malvina Reynolds   Composer
Bob Merrill   Composer
Lou Christie   Composer
Ritchie Blackmore   Composer
Jeff Barry   Composer
Jon Lord   Composer
Al Hoffman   Composer
Harry Belafonte   Composer
Sherman Edwards & Donald Meyer   Composer
Mark Matthews   Producer
Alan Greene   Composer
Tom Daly   Producer
Gloria Shayne   Composer
Camillo Bargoni   Composer
Twyla Herbert   Composer
Larry Huff   Composer
Greg Adams   Liner Notes
David Hurdon   Composer
Gerry Goffin   Composer
Al Stillman   Composer
Lyn Duddy   Composer
Carole King   Composer
Ed Townsend   Composer
Ellie Greenwich   Composer
Joe Lynn Turner   Composer
Fred Ebb   Composer
Ian Paice   Composer
Bill Buster   Digital Producer
Sid Wayne   Composer
John Kander   Composer
Paul Burton   Composer
Paul Hampton   Composer
Roger Glover   Composer
Mark Markwell   Composer
John Klenner   Composer
William Linton   Composer
Dick Manning   Composer
Lee Pockriss   Composer