Trapeze Catalogue Home / Shop / Trapeze Catalogue / Various Artists - The Crooners Rock! (2CD) Various Artists - The Crooners Rock! (2CD) Various Artists - The Crooners Rock! (2CD) £12.00 Stock Status: In Stock Add to your Wish List Information Specifications In the early 50s, pop music was ruled by clean-cut singers making records for the whole family - romantic ballads, novelty songs, or hits from a musical. The fall of the big band era had made the singers the star, and the crooners ruled. Rock n roll changed all that. The record industry was about survival of the fittest; the companies and their artists had to adapt or die, whatever they thought of the music. Hits were everything, and these fifty tracks show how the vocalists of the old guard on both sides of the Atlantic tried to get them by keeping up with the new craze. Some of the outings were enthusiastic but distinctly ill-advised and cringe-making; others proved that the crooners could rock, even if they didn't really want to. Generally, neither their fans, nor the rock n rollers, wanted to hear them do it, which meant that a high proportion of these tracks failed to chart, and were consigned to that highly collectable archive of rock n roll curios, and are in many cases making their first outing on CD here. Its a fascinating and entertaining insight into a strand of pop in one of music's most exciting eras. Disc 1 Track Title Artist 1 Two Hearts, Two Kisses Frank Sinatra 2 Just Kiss Me Dean Martin 3 Jacques d’Iraque Sammy Davis Jr. 4 Close Your Eyes Tony Bennett 5 Kewpie Doll Perry Como 6 Rock and Roll Express Vaughn Monroe 7 Send For Me Nat King Cole 8 Tennessee Rock ‘n’ Roll Billy Eckstine 9 Ko Ko Mo Louis Armstrong and Gary Crosby 10 Bull Moose Bobby Darin 11 Butterfly Andy Williams 12 Teenage Meeting Don Cornell 13 The Only Man on the Island Vic Damone 14 Rock -a-Billy Guy Mitchell 15 Flip, Flop and Fly Johnnie Ray 16 Lovin' Up a Storm Frankie Laine 17 Whad'ja Put in That Kiss? Doris Day 18 I Got a Sweetie Jo Stafford 19 Rock and Roll Waltz Kay Starr 20 Baby, Baby, Wait For Me Peggy Lee 21 Broken-Hearted Melody Sarah Vaughan 22 Honolulu Rock a Roll a Eartha Kitt 23 Just A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl Teresa Brewer 24 Great Balls of Fire Georgia Gibbs 25 My First Formal Gown Patti Page Disc 2 Track Title Artist 1 Have Guitar Will Travel Matt Monro 2 Rock-a-Chicka Frankie Vaughan 3 A Teenager In Love Dickie Valentine 4 Walkin' After Midnight Jimmy Young 5 Don't Nobody Move Lee Lawrence 6 Hearts of Stone Tony Brent 7 Start Movin' Donald Peers 8 Dungaree Doll Sam Browne 9 Bye Bye Love Denny Dennis 10 Oh Boy Paul Rich 11 I Want You to Be My Baby Pearl Carr 12 Heartbreak Hotel Frances Day as “Gale Warning” 13 Ein Bisschen Gluck (It Isn’t Right) Vera Lynn 14 Seven Days Anne Shelton 15 Fibbin' Petula Clark 16 There’s Never Been a Night Shirley Bassey 17 Precious Love Dorothy Squires 18 I’m in Love Again Alma Cogan 19 I Need Somebody Lita Roza 20 Love Me to Pieces Joan Regan 21 Rock a Boogie Baby Diana Decker 22 Everybody's Buddy Billie Anthony 23 Where in the World is Billy Eve Boswell 24 I Hear You Knocking Jill Day 25 Old Enough to Know Beverley Sisters EAN: 824046306823 Discs: 2 Release: June 2011 Artist: Various Artists Brand: Acrobat Product Code: ADDCD3068 Weight: 0.12kg
