Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 6 (1997)

About this title: As this series progresses, there's a higher proportion of obscure material involved. This is both good and bad: it's good to find worthy minor hits that have largely missed the CD revolution, but some of them didn't make it above the '80s on the charts for good reason. Nonetheless, there are some real goodies here, whether hard to find or not: the Del Vikings' "Come Go with Me," and Bobby Freeman's "Do You Want to Dance," the El Dorados' "At My Front Door," the Rivingtons' "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow," and Joe Bennett's "Black Slacks." Among the rarities, the most interesting items are John Fred's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Shirley [Bryan/Gourrier]
2. Come Go with Me [Quick/Quick]
3. Black Slacks [Bennett/Denton]
4. Lollipop [Ross/Dixon]
5. Ten Commandments of Love [Paul]
6. Love Bug Crawl [Bullington/Foshee]
7. Do You Want to Dance [Freeman]
8. Hard Times (The Slop) [Watts]
9. Imagination [Burke/VanHeusen]
10. I Wonder (If Your Love Will Ever Belong to Me) [Stereo][Version] [Goodloe]
11. At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama) [Abner/Moore]
12. You're So Fine [Finney/Schofield/We]
13. Tall Cool One [Dangel/Greek/Morril]
14. The Shape I'm In [Stereo][Version] [Blackwell/Cathy]
15. Little Star [Venosa/Picone]
16. Lover Please [Stereo][Version] [Swan]
17. Charlena [Chavez/Chaney]
18. Pledging My Love [Robey/Washington]
19. Itchy Twitchy Feeling [Oliver]
20. Priscilla [Cooley/Blackwell]
21. Hold Back the Tears [Harris]
22. You Can Make It If You Try [Jarrett]
23. Real Wild Child [OKeefe/Greenan/Owen]
24. Quarter to Four Stomp [Todd/Paxton]
25. Don't You Just Know It [Smith/Vincent]
26. I'm Walkin' [Domino/Bartholomew]
27. I Love an Angel [Engelhart]
28. Short Shorts [Austin/Gaudio]
29. Hide and Go Seek (Pt. 1) [Hill]
30. Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow [Stereo][Version] [Frazier/Harris/Whit]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.