The Rock ‘N’ Roll Era – 1959 (Audio Cassette)

TIME LIFE MUSIC The ROCK’N’ROLL -era- 1959 Tracks Listing: 1. Charlie Brown –The Coasters 2. A Teenager in Love – Dion & the Belmonts 3. So Fine – The Fiestas 4. Donna – Ritchie Valens 5. Dream Lover – Bobby Darin 6. 16 Candles – The Crests 7. Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price 8. What’d I Say (Parts 1 and 2) – Ray Charles 9. I Cried a Tear – LaVern Baker 10. I Want to Walk You Home – Fats Domino 11. Sea of Love – Phil Phillips 12. Sea Cruise – Frankie Ford 13. Poison Ivy – The Coasters 14. Kansas City – Wilbert Harrison 15. The All-American Boy – Bill Parsons 16. A Lover’s Question – Clyde McPhatter 17. Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny 18. There Goes My Baby – The Drifters 19. Personality – Lloyd Price 20. I’ve Had It – The Bell Notes 21. Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) – The Impalas 22. Come Softly to Me – The Fleetwoods.

The Rock’n’Roll Era was a 53-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s, spotlighting songs from the early years of the rock and roll era, primarily the pre-Beatles era of 1954-1964. The first major and successful rock music-intensive subscription music series released by Time-Life, songs on the series included music heard on mainstream contemporary hit radio stations of the late 1950s and early to mid-1960s.

The volumes in “The Rock’n’Roll Era” series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and parts of a given decade in others. Each volume was issued on a 2-LP vinyl record set, compact disc or cassette. Individual volumes generally contained anywhere from 21 to 25 tracks each (22 tracks being typical, and the 40-track 2-disc “Dick Clark’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas” being the only exception), and represented the highlighted time period’s most popular and noteworthy tracks. Also included was a booklet, containing liner notes written by some of the most respected historians of the genre, photographs of the artists, and information on the songs (writers, performers and peak position on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 chart (or other charts as appropriate)).

Publisher: Time Life Music
Recording Label: Warner Communications Company
Year Published: 1987