Thomas D. (RockerBoomer) from SOUTHAMPTON, NY Reviewed on 9/18/2010...
Origional artists but NOT the origional recordings.
Avoid this whole "GOLD" series as the recordings are
of poor quality. Shameful, as these are great songs.
CD Reviews
Good songs poor recordings
William T. Gilbert III | Lincoln, NE. | 02/02/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I would have rated this CD higher, if it were a higher quality of CD. the recordings apear to be very poor. some of the songs obviously had the speed incorrect, and some of the songs were not the least bit acurate on the speed. some very serious production problems, aparently in the duplicating process. I almost returned the CD as a reject. this is unfortunate, as some of these songs were very good songs. Please wake up compose and dominion records. this problem was in both your products."
Pretty Good CD - but the tracklist is not correct
zugzwang | 12/22/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This CD is a great value, especially considering the price. I found 15 decent songs out of 29 on this CD. The sound quality is fairly good - none are outstanding however. Most tracks are in stereo and clean - they just don't have that full-bodied sound. Maybe they weren't taken from the original studio tapes or it's simply because these songs are from the '50s and early '60s. Still I think the sound quality is quite acceptable.
The main disappointment for me was that I bought this CD for the song, "Yes, I'm Ready" by Barbara Mason. It was very annoying to find that this song was NOT on the actual CD. Instead there was this lame song by Bobby Sherman, "Easy Come, Easy Go".
Anyway, there are a lot of good tracks here, more than I usually find on CDs of this type."
Good for $$, I have the SAME track listing as it says
Tom W | South Dakota | 03/06/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"A lot of songs for the money, granted some aren't the greatest, but overall pretty good for a compilation. I have the same tracks Amazon has listed, the catalog number on my disc is 9073-2"
Not entirely accurate
David W. Lavallee | 02/21/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"While cataloging my CD collection I came to the Amazon site for the song list and found that my CD has six songs different than the disc advertised here. Here is my CD's song list:
1. Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
2. Have You Heard - The Duprees
3. Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals
4. It's All in the Game - Tommy Edwards
5. Twist - Chubby Checker
6. Sincerely - The Moonglows
7. Ain't That a Shame - Fats Domino
8. Mr. Bass Man - Johnny Cymbal
9. Till Then - The Classics
10. Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
11. Every Beat of My Heart - Gladys Knight & the Pips
12. Runaway - Del Shannon
13. Baby It's You - The Spaniels
14. Will You Love Me Tomorrow - The Shirelles
15. Hold On! I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave
16. Sweet Talkin' Guy - The Chiffons
17. The Watusi - The Vibrations
18. Kind of a Drag - The Buckinghams
19. Book of Love - The Monotones
20. Yakety Yak - The Coasters
21. Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay - Danny & the Juniors
22. Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
23. Willie and the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis
24. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets
25. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
26. Tossin' and Turnin' - Bobby Lewis
27. Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow - The Rivingtons
28. Hang On Sloopy - Ramsey Lewis
29. Remember - The Shangri-Las
I did notice that the cataloge number for the advertised disc is 9073 while mine is 9073-2. Could they have changed it and not updated the Amazon offering to match?"