60's Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2: The History of Rock (1999)

About this title: 60's Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 is more successful than the first volume at including a wider range of the popular music of the era. Of course, there is still no Beatles or Motown, but there is a little bit of soul (Deon Jackson with "Love Makes the World Go Around" and Barbara Lewis with her smash "Hello Stranger"), some girl group classics (the Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back" and Lesley Gore's "It's My Party") and a couple of rockers (Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs' "Wooly Bully" and Chuck Berry's "No Particular Place to Go"). Still, most of the songs are of a lightweight and ultra-poppy nature ... read more

Tracks:

1. Lightning Strikes [Christie/Herbert]
2. Rescue Me [Miner/Smith]
3. Downtown [Hatch]
4. Hello Stranger [Lewis]
5. Monster Mash [Pickett/Capizzi]
6. Bobby's Girl [Glenn/Klein]
7. Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) [DeCarlo/Frashuer/Le]
8. I Wanna Love Him So Bad [Greenwich/Barry]
9. Lonely Teenager [DiPaolo/Faraci/Rapp]
10. Love Makes the World Go 'Round [Jackson]
11. The Rain, the Park & Other Things [Duboff/Kornfeld]
12. My Boyfriend's Back [Feldman/Goldstein]
13. Bread and Butter [Parks/Turnbow]
14. No Particular Place to Go [Berry]
15. But I Do [Guidry/Gayten]
16. Where the Boys Are [Sedaka/Greenfield]
17. A Little Bit of Soap [Russell]
18. Two Faces Have I [Christie/Herbert]
19. Wooly Bully [Samudio]
20. It's My Party [Gold/Weiner/Gluck]
21. You're the One [Clark/Hatch]
22. Liar, Liar [Donna/Dennis Craswe]
23. Cry Baby Cry [Bailey]
24. A Summer Song [Metcalfe/Noble/Stua]

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