VA Hard To Find

In early 2018, Eric Records revisited one of our most popular early collections to improve the overall sound and upgrade specific tracks. Originally released in 1996, this collection offers 21 hard-to-find pop hits from the early sixties, 12 in full stereo. This newly re-mastered CD contains the ORIGINAL HIT SINGLE versions of #1 hits like “Sugar Shack” by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs, “Wooden Heart” by Joe Dowell, “I Will Follow Him” by Little Peggy March and “Dominique” by The Singing Nun. Every song has been lovingly re-mastered from the original master tapes for brilliant clarity and full, rich sound.

The fourth volume in Eric Records' series of Hard to Find 45's on CD focuses on the late '50s and includes 20 of the rarer songs to hit the Top 40 during those years. Though several of these songs are already available elsewhere on CD (Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz" and Marty Robbins' "White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" foremost among them), there are plenty of long-lost songs to discover, like "Start Movin' (In My Direction)" by Sal Mineo, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London, "Three Stars" by Tommy Dee, "Guess Who" by Jesse Belvin, "It Was I" by Skip & Flip, and many others.

The fourth volume in Eric Records' series of Hard to Find 45's on CD focuses on the late '50s and includes 20 of the rarer songs to hit the Top 40 during those years. Though several of these songs are already available elsewhere on CD (Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz" and Marty Robbins' "White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" foremost among them), there are plenty of long-lost songs to discover, like "Start Movin' (In My Direction)" by Sal Mineo, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London, "Three Stars" by Tommy Dee, "Guess Who" by Jesse Belvin, "It Was I" by Skip & Flip, and many others.

Pop music in the ’60s and ’70s was a kaleidoscope of sound – a dizzying, diverse wonderland unthinkable in these days of targeted demographics and niche marketing. Whereas Hard To Find 45s on CD Volume 11: Sugar Pop Classics focuses on a specific – if ephemeral – slice of the pop pie, Volume 12: 60s & 70s Pop Classics embraces the cacophony, culling nearly an hour’s worth of wildly divergent Top 20 Hits not commonly found on other collections.

The fourth volume in Eric Records' series of Hard to Find 45's on CD focuses on the late '50s and includes 20 of the rarer songs to hit the Top 40 during those years. Though several of these songs are already available elsewhere on CD (Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz" and Marty Robbins' "White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation" foremost among them), there are plenty of long-lost songs to discover, like "Start Movin' (In My Direction)" by Sal Mineo, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" by Laurie London, "Three Stars" by Tommy Dee, "Guess Who" by Jesse Belvin, "It Was I" by Skip & Flip, and many others.

While pop music sells in copious quantities at the time of release, its cyclical and transitory nature means that many hits just don't come around again in the reissue sweepstakes. Enter Eric Records, an oldies label, to help rectify the situation with this set of compilations, bringing together 20 big non-rock & roll hits from the 1950s. A quick perusal of the stars of this collection (Kitty Kallen, Mitch Miller, Doris Day, Al Martino, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine) will give you a strong idea of the musical content, with only Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line" bearing the tiniest resemblance to rock & roll. But the set also includes delightful one-offs by the Tarriers, Cyril Stapleton, the Four Coins, and Somethin' Smith and the Redheads. Oldies but goodies for the over-50 crowd.

While pop music sells in copious quantities at the time of release, its cyclical and transitory nature means that many hits just don't come around again in the reissue sweepstakes. Enter Eric Records, an oldies label, to help rectify the situation with this set of compilations, bringing together 20 big non-rock & roll hits from the 1950s. A quick perusal of the stars of this collection (Kitty Kallen, Mitch Miller, Doris Day, Al Martino, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine) will give you a strong idea of the musical content, with only Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line" bearing the tiniest resemblance to rock & roll. But the set also includes delightful one-offs by the Tarriers, Cyril Stapleton, the Four Coins, and Somethin' Smith and the Redheads. Oldies but goodies for the over-50 crowd.

While pop music sells in copious quantities at the time of release, its cyclical and transitory nature means that many hits just don't come around again in the reissue sweepstakes. Enter Eric Records, an oldies label, to help rectify the situation with this set of compilations, bringing together 20 big non-rock & roll hits from the 1950s. A quick perusal of the stars of this collection (Kitty Kallen, Mitch Miller, Doris Day, Al Martino, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine) will give you a strong idea of the musical content, with only Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line" bearing the tiniest resemblance to rock & roll. But the set also includes delightful one-offs by the Tarriers, Cyril Stapleton, the Four Coins, and Somethin' Smith and the Redheads. Oldies but goodies for the over-50 crowd.