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  • Audio CD (3 Nov 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Ace
  • ASIN: B0000DD9AK
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,549 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells
2. Mr. Bass Man - Johnny Cymbal
3. I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
4. Ape Call - Nervous Norvus
5. Baby Sittin' Boogie - Buzz Clifford
6. Yogi - Ivy Three
7. Delicious - Jim Backus
8. Long Tall Texan - Murry Kellum
9. Mr. Custer - Larry Verne
10. Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
11. Flying Saucer - Buchanan & Goodman
12. Rip Van Winkle - The Devotions
13. Witch Doctor - David Seville
14. Russian Band Stand - Spencer & Spencer
15. Beep Beep - The Playmates
16. More Money For You And Me (Medley) - Four Preps
17. The Mummy - Bob McFadden & Dor
18. The Blob - The Five Blobs
19. Little Space Girl - Jesse Lee Turner
20. Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) - Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes & Connie Stevens
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Golden Age Of American Rock'n'Roll~Special Novelty Edition: Sure to appeal to those Pop/Rock‘n’Roll fans who want just one representative selection of Novelty classics in their collections, and this is the ideal opportunity to get 30 of their favourite records in the same place, at the same time and with a lavishly illustrated booklet too!

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Purchase, 9 Jun 2007
By P. F. Jeffery (London) - See all my reviews
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I've been trying to assemble on CD all of what I consider the essential recordings. A lot of the task has been easy - but the last twenty or thirty songs have been very elusive. It is, therefore, a huge pleasure to find several of the recordings for which I've been searching all neatly tied up on one disc.

Highlights I've previously found hard to find include Barry Mann's original version of Who Put the Bomp. Why is it that cover versions (including those of Jan & Dean and Frankie Lymon) change it to "I Put the Bomp"? Didn't they realise that - since Barry Mann was the man who put the bomp - there's a good joke here? Duh?! Also here are the original versions of Witch Doctor, Beep Beep, The Purple People Eater and They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haa! All of which are a lot harder to find than they should be.

Other gems - like Brian Hyland's Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - can be found elsewhere easily enough, but I can't criticise their inclusion.

Some purchasers may be disappointed that Alley-Oop is not the version by the Hollywood Argylles. It's an interesting early cover - but those who don't already have it are still going to be searching for the original recording. (They'll find it on a double CD called "60 Number Ones of the Sixties" - which has been deleted, but can still be had from Amazon Marketplace sellers.)

Inevitably, there are omissions and some naff tracks. But the inexcusable inclusion of one track is what led me to give the album 4 stars instead of 5. I refer to Russian Band Stand - a lamentable and heavy handed piece of Cold War propaganda. It was neither funny nor musically enjoyable in 1959 - and it is neither funny nor musically enjoyable now. There is nothing funny about the Soviet Union having been an oppressive regime, there is nothing funny about the jibes made here being largely unfair and - least funny of all - is that the record was clearly designed to make Americans like the Russians even less and thus bring the world a little bit closer to nuclear annihilation.

So - do yourself a favour and skip Russian Band Stand. But you will find, here, a lot of indespensible gems you're going to have trouble tracking down elsewhere.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, 28 April 2008
I bought it for Delicious - a rare enough track anywhere, and The Mummy, an early recording by Rod McKuen (yes, the same).
The rest, as other reviewers have said, are available elsewhere.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Novelty hits deserve love and care too!!, 16 Feb 2008
By Grev (Brighton) - See all my reviews
  
Although inevitably there are some naff tracks on here (goes with the territory when you're dealing with novelty hits) this is more than made up for by the sprinkling of great tracks like Who Put the Bomp etc, all naturally spruced up from either the actual master tapes or the best available copies. Even if some of these tracks might be available elsewhere, rest assured that they won't sound anywhere near as good as they do on here.

In short many of the tracks you'll either love or hate, but they've all been treated with the usual consummate care that Ace treat all their Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll releases with.

By the way I think Russian bandstand is quite funny. That must make me a baaaaaaaaaaaaad baaaaaaaaaaaaad puppy!
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