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:	114308

Tracks

1. Secretly
2. Love Me Forever
3. When the Boys Talk About the Girls
4. What Is Love?
5. First Anniversary
6. And That Reminds Me
7. Stay With Me (A Little While Longer)
8. Heartaches
9. Goodbye Cruel World
10. You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It)
11. Johnny Angel
12. Fortuneteller
13. Poor Little Puppet
14. Her Royal Majesty
15. The Gypsy Cried
16. The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget
17. Easier Said Than Done
18. My Coloring Book
19. Turn Around
20. See You in September

Album Credits

Performance Credits

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

Technical Credits

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