Golden Oldies, Vol. 3

golden oldies, vol. 3

Track Listings

1. He's So Fine - The Chiffons

2. Wanderer - Dion

3. Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford

4. Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day

5. Mama Said - The Shirelles

6. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddy Cannon

7. Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee

8. Rama Lama Ding Dong - The Edsels

9. Angels Listened In - The Crests

10. It Happened Today - Rock Skyliners, The Skyliners, Rock Skyliners

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Golden Oldies, Vol. 3

The Golden Age Of American Rock & Roll, Vol. 3

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rock an roll is here to stay.
Excellent...with a warning about "Jennie Lee"
It is not done better than this
This series gets even better
Another Terrific Volume in the Golden Age Series

The Golden Age Of American Rock & Roll, Vol. 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Ace Records UK
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ASIN: B0000009IH
Release Date: 1994-11-11

Tracks:

All American Boy, The - Bill Parsons
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
My True Love - Jack Scott
Jennie Lee - Jan & Arnie
Joker, The - Bill Myles
Beat, The - The Rockin' R's
To Know Him, Is To Love Him - The Teddy Bears
When You Dance - The Turbans
Love Letters - Ketty Lester
So Touch - The Kuf-Linx
To The Aisle - The Five Satins
La Dee Dah - Billy & Lillie
Endless Sleep - Jody Reynolds
Chicken, Baby, Chicken - Tony Harris
Lover's Island - The Blue Jays
No Chemise, Please - Gerry Granahan
It Was I - Skip & Flip
Tonight I Fell In Love - The Tokens
Happy Birthday Blues - Kathy Young w/ The Innocents
Rockin' Little Angel - Ray Smith
Tonite, Tonite - The Mello-Kings
Cha Hua Hua - The Pets
Western Movies - The Olympics
Girl In My Dreams, The - The Cliques
Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs
There Is Something On Your Mind - Big Jay McNeely & Band
Woman Is A Man's Best Friend - Teddy & The Twighlights
Sacred - The Castells
Freeze, The - Tony & Joe
Click Clack - Dicky Doo & The Don'ts

Product Description

1. Bill Parsons - The All American Boy
2. Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
3. Jack Scott - My True Love
4. Jan & Arnie - Jennie Lee
5. Billy Myles - The Joker
6. The Rockin' Rs - The Beat
7. The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him
8. The Turbans - When You Dance
9. Ketty Lester - Love Letters
10. The Kuflinx - So Tough
11. The Five Satins - To The Aisle
12. Billy & Lillie - La Dee Dah
13. Jody Renolds - Endless Sleep
14. Tony Harris - Chicken, Baby, Chicken
15. The Blue Jays - Lover's Island
16. Gerry Granahan - No Chemise, Please
17. Skip & Flip - It Was I
18. The Tokens - Tonight I Fell In Love
19. Kathy Young & The Innocents - Happy Birthday Blues
20. Ray Smith - Rockin' Little Angel
21. The Mello-Kings - Tonite, Tonite
22. The Pets - Cha Hua Hua
23. The Olympics - Western Movies
24. The Cliques - The Girl In My Dreams
25. Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Sugar Shackv26. Big Jay McNeely - There Is Something On Your Mind
27. Teddy & The Twilights - Woman Is A Man's Best Friend
28. The Castells - Sacred
29. Tony And Joe - The Freeze
30. Dicky Doo And The Don'ts - Click Clack

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

rock an roll is here to stay........2007-06-15

I THINK THIS IS A GREAT CD .I WILL INJOY IT FOR ALONG TIME.

Excellent...with a warning about "Jennie Lee".......2005-04-09

This ten-volume series by England's Ace label is simply amazing. Each contains a hefty 30 (!) tracks, mixing big hits with lower-charting classics and curiosities. As the series goes on, the balance shifts toward the latter. If you stumble over any one of these you will want to collect them all. All songs date from 1954-63 and made the Billboard Hot 100. (Another Ace series called Chartbusters deals with 1964-1969 and has generated three excellent volumes so far.)

One apparent flaw is a poor mix of Track 4, Jan and Arnie's "Jennie Lee." I have not tracked down the original 45 but suspect that the lead vocals are not supposed to be buried in the mix. The verses are virtually inaudible. I don't think it's just my copy, because I heard the same problem when I clicked on the little music note next to the title in the track listing. Please stop reading right now, scroll up to the titles, and check for yourself. But don't forget to come back and click that "helpful" key!!! Now where was I...oh yes. Wasn't that hook addictive, all drums and echo and Ba BA Ba-Ba Ba Ba Ba? By the way, this is the Jan (Berry) who subsequently paired with Dean (Torrence) for many more hits. Poor Arnie (Ginsburg).

With this lone exception the sound quality is excellent throughout the series; Ace goes all-out to find the best masters available. Each disc also has a booklet jampacked with liner notes. (Though they, alas, don't tell us what became of Arnie Ginsburg. I hope things worked out for him.)

30 tracks are a lot to absorb at once, so don't forget to keep an ear out for Jody Reynolds' creepy, haunting "Endless Sleep" (it has a happy ending, kinda) and the next-to-last track, "The Freeze." I can imagine dancers in 1958 were obliged to stop gyrating each time the music stopped. And that the resulting aggravation kept the record from pushing past Number 33 on the charts. To this spelunker of chart artifacts, even such a possibility qualifies Tony & Joe's effort as a lost classic.

It is not done better than this.......2005-01-15

I am a enthousiastic collector, and have almost all the Time Life rock n roll stuff, as well as Eric Records cds of this era. Although they are essential to any 50s 60s collection, nothing can top ACE series.
I could comment like this on all the 50s remasters of this fabulous record label, not only their other editions, but especially the Golden Age of American Rock n roll. I can not add anything to the positive reviews than simply summing up my personal view:
30 tracks per cd, and sometimes! (Time life is also excellent, but you get 15 per cd!)
excellent booklets with background info (not surpassed by any label).
not the same old songs over again, but many rare and still excellent tracks!
last but not least amazing sound quality.
So although you might have some songs there on other collections, it is for above mentioned points alone worth it to always have an ACE copy as well.

This series gets even better.......2001-08-20

In this, the third volume in the series, the people at Ace continue to amaze with a collection of a few well-known tunes for good measure anchoring a fascinating gathering of lesser-known and some obscure top-100 hits. Most of these songs represent big and small hits from independent labels of the era such as Swan, Era, Herald-Ember and the like. While recognizing such familiar tunes as "Sugar Shack" and "To Know Him Is To Love Him", musical memories get tickled by the likes of "Sacred", "Click Clack" and "No Chemise Please". And for the real aficionados you get to hear the bizarre "Chicken, Baby, Chicken", "Cha Hua Hua" and "The Freeze", songs that have hardly seen the light of replication since their charting days. True to the standard set by the previous volumes, these tunes are presented in their best sound quality available with "Sacred" in true stereo, the remainder in mono. And in addition, the liner notes booklet has been expanded to sixteen pages for this volume. Another outstanding entry in this essential series - the best keeps getting better.

Another Terrific Volume in the Golden Age Series.......2000-07-21

These are all original recordings by the original artists from the UK's leading reissue label. If you've already bought volumes and and two, you won't be disappointed with this third volume in the series of pre-British Invasion rock and roll (1954-1963).

Like the earlier volumes there is lots of terrific music here (a whopping 30 tracks!) that rarely gets anthologized because ACE continues its practice of focusing its attention on the artists who recorded for small independent labels. Half of these artists only reached the Top 40 once, but they made that one time count. Consider the Teddy Bears' "To Know Him, Is To Love Him" (which sold more than a million copies), Jody Reynolds' "Endless Sleep," and the Blue Jays' "Lover's Island."

Many of these songs rarely--if ever--get anthologized, like Jan & Dean's first hit from 1958, "Jennie Lee" (billed as Jan & Arnie since Dean Torrence was in the Army Reserve when the song was released). Also, Bill Myles' "The Joker"--he also wrote the Mello-Kings doo-wop classic "Tonite, Tonite" included here. While volume one had Kathy Young's biggest hit, this set includes her only other chart entry, "Happy Birthday Blues." You get bobby Bare's first hit, "All American Boy" (erroneously listed under the name Bill Parsons when it was first released). Everyone knows the Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"; here you get the lesser known "Tonight I Fell in Love."

Tracks:

Have Mercy Baby - The Dominoes
Shouldn't I Know - The Cardinals
Beside You - The Swallows
Sexy Ways - The Midnighters
Adorable - The Colts
(You've Got) The Magic Touch - The Platters
Stranded In The Jungle - The Cadets
Wisdom Of A Fool - The Five Keys
Fools Fall In Love - The Drifters
Everyone's Laughing - The Spaniels
Cool Shake - Del Vikings
So Tough - The Original Casuals
Try The Imppossible - Lee Andrews & The Hearts
No, No, No - The Chanters
Here I Stand - Wade Flemons & The Newcomers
Wiggle, Wiggle - The Accents
There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
Pennies From Heaven - The Skyliners
Image Of A Girl - Safaris
Trouble In Paradise - The Crests
Mio Amore ('Till The End Of Time) - The Flamingos
Charlena - The Sevilles
A Little Bit Of Soap - The Jarmels
I Wish That We Were Married - Ronnie & The Hi-Lites
Oh My Angel - Bertha Tillman
If I Should Lose You - Dreamlovers
Bongo Stomp - Little Joey & The Flips
Donna The Prima Donna - Dion DiMucci
Have You Heard - The Duprees

Tracks:

My Memories Of You - The Harptones
My Friends - The Strangers
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance - The Solitaires
Nite Owl - Tony Allen & The Champs
Ship Of Love - The Nutmegs
Can't We Be Sweethearts - The Cleftones
Your Way - The Heartbeats
Bim Bam Boom - The El Dorados
Blanche - The 3 Friends
True Love Gone (Come On Home) - The Enchanters
The Way You Look Tonight - The Jaguars
Don't Say Goodnight - The Valentines
Zoop - The Charts
My Juanita - The Crests
I'm Spinning - The Del Vikings
Jamboree: Your Last Chance - Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
Dedicated To The One I Love - The '5' Royales
Chapel Bells - Fascinators
Traveling Stranger - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Heart's Desire - The Avalons
There Goes My Love - The Fantastics
Life Is But ADream - The Earls
Here I Am Broken Hearted - The Four J's

Tracks:

Our Love Will Never End - The Avons
I Belong To You - The Fi-Tones Quintette
Sheik Of Araby - The Colts
One Bad Stud - The Honey Bears
Wiggie Waggie Woo - The Cadets
Hey, Miss Fannie - The Clovers
Most Of All - The Moonglows
The Vow - The Flamingos
I Didn't Want To Do It - The Spiders
To Make A Long Story Short - Eddie & The Starlights
Ding Ding Dong - The Jive Tones
Dreams Are For Fools - The Revalons
Nadine - The Coronets
Oh Where - The Vocaleers
My Girl Awaits Me - The Castelles
Rollin' Stone - The Marigolds
Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart - The Coasters
Stay Awhile - The Clovers
Blue Velvet - The Clovers
Newly Wed - The Orchids
Wonderful Girl - The Five Satins
Rock, Rock, Rock: Would I Be Crying - The Flamingos
Indian Girl - The Capris
Money Honey - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Maybe - The Chantels
We Belong Together - Robert & Johnny

Tracks:

Looking For An Echo - Kenny Vance
Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys
Whole Lotta Love - Godfrey Daniel
Sometime Lately - Darts
There's A Moon Out Again - The Capris
The Star Spangled Banner - Ruben Guevara
Baby Come Back To Me (The Morse Code Of Love) - The Manhattan Transfer
I Won't Stand In Your Way - The Stray Cats
Eye Of The Tiger - Big Daddy
When You're Young And In Love - The Flying Pickets
Medley: This Is My Story/We Belong Together - Art & Aaron Neville
Something On Your Mind - The New Creations
You Really Got A Hold On Me - The Bobs
Countdown To Love - B.Q.E.
In The Still Of The Nite (I'll Remember) - Boyz II Men
It's Too Soon To Know - Linda Ronstadt
Your Love - Pure Gold
Charlene - Johnny Staton & The Feathers
My Love For You - Little Isidore & The Inquisitors
Have Love Will Travel - Big Sandy
Forgive Me - Candye Kane
Gloria - The Mighty Echoes
Quality - Paul Simon
Looking For An Echo - The Persuasions

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Following in the footsteps of two earlier Doo Wop Boxes--the first of which sold enough to earn a gold record--comes a third set of four CDs dedicated to the street-corner form. Discs one and two collect hits and near-misses that didn't make the cut for the previous volumes. The fact that many of these recordings--including the Cadets' whacked-out "Stranded in the Jungle," the Charts' barely less goofball "Zoop," the Jaguars' lovely nod to Sinatra on "The Way You Look Tonight," and Lee Andrews and the Hearts' gorgeous "Try the Impossible"--stand up to the selections on volumes one and two makes a grand case for the music's depth. (As for the odd embarrassing whitewash such as the 3 Friends' "Blanche," well, someone likes it.)

An interesting twist finds the third disc filled with favorites chosen by the likes of Keith Richards, George Carlin, and Art and Aaron Neville, while the final CD collects two dozen modern tracks that often stretch the boundaries of tribute. Still, it's fitting that the unstoppable a cappella group the Persuasions' 1977 "Looking for an Echo" ends the box. Along with its predecessors, Doo Wop Box III affirms that this blissful strain of American music indeed resonates 50 years after its development. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

The Weakest Link In The Chain.......2004-11-01

Doo Wop Box #3 has its moments - there are many really good tunes on it - but it falls far short of the first two sets, which were excellent. Disc 3 contains a couple of tunes that were featured in the first 2 sets but otherwise has some really scarce tunes. Disc 4 in this set is a complete waste of time and is suitable for use as a frisbee or coaster. Rhino really dropped the ball with this set. Buy the other two sets before investing in this.

The Weakest Link Of The Three.......2004-10-16

This set was a disappointment after the first two. I just didn't think that the set was put together that well. Many of the songs were picked by opinions that Doo Wop "experts" said needed to be in a box. It has its moments, but overall is not as strong as the first two. Make sure you get them before this one. This is definately a set to finish the collection from Rhino. Once again, the sound is great, as Rhino products are always top sounding (at least the ones I own).

Better than its current rating indicates.......2003-05-15

...While it's true that "The Doo Wop Box III" is not quite as consistent as "Box I" and "Box II," it's still an amazing compilation. I, for one, am glad that Rhino decided to compile a disc of modern doo-wop to show that the form isn't just a dead relic of the distant past. Doo-wop fans who don't know about The Persuasions are missing out on some great music. They certainly deserve to be included in a set like this. (Though I wouldn't necessarily have picked "Looking For an Echo" to represent them.) Doo-wop doesn't HAVE to come from the 1950s or 60s to be "pure." Just listen to the Neville Brothers' version of "We Belong Together." You're telling me that's not gorgeous, glorious music? Get real!

My only quibble with this set is that it includes a handful of tracks I already owned from the previous DWB sets. But that's such a minor detail that it hardly seems to matter. Not when it's offset by the inclusion of such mindbending tracks as "Newly Wed" by the Orchids -- which I never would have found had it not been for this set.

perfect? No....still great? Yes.......2003-03-24

Most people will compare this with the fabulous box sets I and II, unfortunately. This set doesn't have quite the sparkle of the first two, but is still great. I think Rhino should be complimented, but derided, for trying something a little different in this third offering. Regarding Disc 3 (entertainment figures' picks), the intriguing liner notes put their choices into good perspective. It seems Disc 4 ("modern" doo wop) offends a lot of people, but I think it's a fun disc. It clearly shows doo wop's pervasive influence on pop music. And it's obvious the modern groups are performing with love for the genre, and not in comic parody. A solid B+ , warranting any doo wop fan's purchase.

3 Clean closets and 1 dirty trick!.......2001-12-20

I wish that I could give this collection more stars. Boxes 1 and 2 were incredible, but it sounds like Rhino is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Discs 1 and 2 are decent, 3 other than repeating a couple of songs available on the first 2 boxes (hello people! who is your target buyer? people who already own boxes 1 and 2 perhaps?....duh). Disc 4 was a remarkale misstep, taking Doo Wop out of the 'classic' venue and transporting it into the 'modern' age. It's nothing short of a small miracle that the majority of songs do pull it off (yes it is THAT "Whole Lotta Love" and THAT "Eye of the Tiger" in Doo Wop format). Still, for the price of this box set, getting songs that I already had owned (regardless of the star's picks) and a whole cd of 'interpretations' of Doo Wop standards was a sad affair and Rhino is a better lable than to pull this on a listener. You got me this time... if there is a Doo Wop Box 4 (and I doubt it) please don't trick me again.

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Golden Oldies, Vol. 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Original Sound
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060P53
Release Date: 2002-02-12

Tracks:

He's So Fine - The Chiffons
Wanderer - Dion
Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day
Mama Said - The Shirelles
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Freddy Cannon
Pretty Little Angel Eyes - Curtis Lee
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Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3
Elvis Presley
Manufacturer: BMG International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005A1E9
Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

It's Now Or Never
Stuck On You
Fame And Fortune
I Gotta Know
Surrender
I Feel So Bad
Are You Lonesome To-night?
(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
Little Sister
Good Luck Charm
Anything That's Part Of You
She's Not You

Album Details

Japanese version featuring a limited LP style sleeve. 24 bit/96 kHz digitally remastered.

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Golden Oldies, Vol. 3
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Original Sound
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Doo Wop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

The Wanderer - Dion
Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
Mama Said - The Shirelles
Elenore - The Turtles
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
(Shoop Shoop Song) It's In His Kiss - Betty Everette
Rockin' Robin - Bobby Day
Western Movies - The Olympics
Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys
Don't You Just Know It - Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns

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Vol. 3-120 Golden Oldies

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Release Date: 2006-12-19

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