A-teens Music:

Editorial Review:
Various Artists / Rock N' Roll Era: 1956 Label: Time-Life Year: 1987 Track Title 1. Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins 2. I'm In Love Again -- Fats Domino 3. I'll Remember (In The Still Of The Night) -- The Five Satins 4. The Fool -- Sanford Clark 5. Let The Good Times Roll -- Shirley & Lee 6. Eddie My Love -- The Teen Queens 7. Roll Over Beethoven -- Chuck Berry 8. Love Is Strange -- Mickey & Sylvia 9. Be Bop A Lula -- Gene Vincent 10. My Prayer -- The Platters 11. Honkey Tonk (Part 2) -- Bill Doggett 12. Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino 13. Rip It Up -- Little Richard 14. Stranded In The Jungle -- The Cadets 15. Clyd McPhatter -- Clyde McPhatter 16. Drown In My Own Tears -- Ray Charles 17. Young Love -- Sonny James 18. Long Tall Sally -- Little Richard 19. Why Do Fools Fall In Love -- Frankie Lymon 20. Fever -- Little Willie John 21. See You Later Alligator -- Bill Haley & The Comets 22. Since I Met You Baby -- Ivory Joe Hunter

Time Life The Rock 'N' Roll Era 1956 Reviews:
The Best Rock & Roll Series Period
2007-06-08 - I started buying these when they were still on LPs... Fortunately, the switch to CD started shortly thereafter and I bought most of the 50 CD Rock & Roll Era series, from Time/Life directly. Except for some of the single-artist collections, since I have a very extensive collection of single artist box sets and CDs, especially Elvis, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly.

The remastered sound on these releases is excellent and the song selection is second to none for a Rock & Roll period anthology. For 50s fans, I'd recommend 1954-1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960 collections; also, they did a companion series (now hard to find) called Still Rockin', which runs from 1956 through 1963. They're quite good and flesh out each year's selections so that you have over 40 songs from each year.

I like to throw the Rock & Roll Era 1956 and 1956 Still Rocking along with Elvis Presley 1956 (none of the "collections" have any Elvis songs) along with Volume 3 off the Rhino Doo Woop Box (1956-1957) and Volume 5 of the Specialty Records box set all in my 5-disc changer; and -- Man, I'm back in 1956! For great music, it doesn't get much better than that.

When I've heard those selections a few times, I put out a 1957-1958 group of 5 CDs and I'm rockin'! This series is my jumping off point for great lisenting, since today's music is such drek it's worse than industrial noise.

For the Still Rockin' volumes you'll have to go to E-bay, but it's worth the time and money.

John Carr



TRACK LIST
2006-05-15 - Various Artists / Rock N' Roll Era: 1956
Label: Time-Life
Year: 1987
Track Title
1. Blue Suede Shoes -- Carl Perkins
2. I'm In Love Again -- Fats Domino
3. I'll Remember (In The Still Of The Night) -- The Five Satins
4. The Fool -- Sanford Clark
5. Let The Good Times Roll -- Shirley & Lee
6. Eddie My Love -- The Teen Queens
7. Roll Over Beethoven -- Chuck Berry
8. Love Is Strange -- Mickey & Sylvia
9. Be Bop A Lula -- Gene Vincent
10. My Prayer -- The Platters
11. Honkey Tonk (Part 2) -- Bill Doggett
12. Blueberry Hill -- Fats Domino
13. Rip It Up -- Little Richard
14. Stranded In The Jungle -- The Cadets
15. Clyd McPhatter -- Clyde McPhatter
16. Drown In My Own Tears -- Ray Charles
17. Young Love -- Sonny James
18. Long Tall Sally -- Little Richard
19. Why Do Fools Fall In Love -- Frankie Lymon
20. Fever -- Little Willie John
21. See You Later Alligator -- Bill Haley & The Comets
22. Since I Met You Baby -- Ivory Joe Hunter