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2009 collection. Teenage Heaven is a unique large-scale musical survey of the girl group explosion of 1958, comprising the best, most historically significant and rarest selections from the vanguard of the genre. Although the phenomenon actually reached its height between 1960 and 1963, The Chantel's 1958 song 'Maybe' is generally regarded as the first girl group recording to break into the mainstream and it is included here along with hits by such popular contemporizes as The Shirelles, The Poni-Tails and The Bobbettes. Of the lesser known items, Threeteens forgotten ode to the G.I Elvis Presley 'Dear 533-10761', The Deltairs 'A Schoolgirl in Love' and The Baby Dolls 'Go Away Baby' are all examples of clever, passionate, original songwriting that still speaks to us today; genuinely independent music that blew the cobwebs off the fifties and in it1s energy and ambition parallels the Punk Rock explosion of 20 years later. El.