7 hours popular hits! 144 Greatest Hits of the 60's! Every fan of Rock & Roll, Pop, Rock, Reggae, Soul, Classic Rock should have some '60s music in their collection.
Here are 10CDs of the very best Rock n Roll tunes ever made from ’Rock Around The Clock’ to ’Johnny B Goode’ and everything else in between. Includes original performances from legendary artists like Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Roy Orbison and many, many more…
Love , lust and angst were the biggest topics of teen love songs back in the 50s, a time where the idols of the day , no longer your Mom and Dad s crooners, dominated the charts. The 1950s marked the birth of rock’n’roll. From big band tracks to jazz standards, until midway through the 20th century, music was a resolutely parent-friendly zone. But then everything changed. Elvis had flustered teenagers all shook up, while the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and the like were destroying the old safety nets with a virile, passionate new sound.
CD compilation series spanning 1955 to 1974, with one 10-track album for each year. Each track made the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
In the late 1950s, the Doo Wop era began in a small subway arcade shop located beneath the Walgreen's Drug Store at Broadway and 42nd Street in New York City. Jerry Greene, a young teenager from Brooklyn, would travel to Times Square in search of records he heard on the Alan Freed radio show. One of his favorite stops was a costume jewelry store that strangely enough, also sold records - twenty for a dollar.