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Product Identifiers

Record LabelBEAR FAMILY, Bfy

UPC5397102174179

eBay Product ID (ePID)14046070853

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2015

GenreRock

ArtistVarious

Release TitlePopsters They Tried to Rock Vol. 4

Dimensions

Item Height0.40 in

Item Weight0.23 lb

Item Length5.64 in

Item Width4.91 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks33

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Pat Boone: The Fat Man 1.2 Perry Como: Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) 1.3 The Fontane Sisters: Rock Love 1.4 Art Mooney ; His Orchestra: Tutti Frutti 1.5 Jo Stafford: I Got a Sweetie 1.6 Eileen Barton: Fujiyama Mama 1.7 The Chordettes: Eddie My Love 1.8 The Hilltoppers Feat. Chuck Schrouder: Ka Ding Dong 1.9 Betty Johnson: Little White Lies 1.10 Vicki Young with Big Dave ; His Orchestra: (I'm) All Shook Up 1.11 Ella Mae Morse: Lovey Dovey 1.12 Tony Bennett: Close Your Eyes 1.13 Jim Lowe: Blue Suede Shoes 1.14 Les Paul ; Mary Ford: How High the Moon 1.15 Donny Baker: Drinkin' Pop-Sodee Odee (Pop Pop) 1.16 The Crew Cuts: Susie Q 1.17 Jean Dinning: Bo Diddley 1.18 Pearl Bailey: Can't Rock and Roll to Save My Soul 1.19 Teresa Brewer: Bo Weevil 1.20 Rosemary Clooney: Shot Gun Boogie 1.21 Nat King Cole: Send for Me 1.22 Doris Day: Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love) 1.23 Hugo ; Luigi: Rockabilly Party 1.24 Guy Mitchell: Rock a Billy 1.25 Johnny Ray: Flip Flop and Fly 1.26 Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music: Rock and Roll Ruby 1.27 The Diamonds: Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1.28 Dorothy Collins: My Boy Flat-Top 1.29 Cindy (Lord) ; Lindy (Doherty): Let's Go Steady 1.30 Gloria Mann: Teenage Prayer 1.31 Georgia Gibbs: Rock Right 1.32 Don Cornell: See Saw 1.33 Don Cherry: Band of Gold

NotesEU-only collection, the fourth installment in Bear Family’s The Popsters - They Tried To Rock series. This set includes tracks that follow the early struggle by popsters who tried to come to terms with rock 'n' roll's challenge to traditional pop music. This took place during the early to mid-1950s, before anybody knew whether it was just a fad that would blow over or something that truly threatened to revolutionize popular music. Many popsters hated it and privately made fun of it, while at the same time they saw their record sales plummet and their radio play and personal appearances affected. Popsters were faced with the same career-altering choice: Do we fight 'em or join 'em? Some popsters were equipped to adapt and did a fine job of it. Others, weren't and didn't. For the first time, Bear Family has collected some vintage performances by popsters who tried their best to pass themselves off as rockers. Many of these tracks – by both the famous and the not-so-famous - have become quite rare. You'll marvel at how good some of them were. Others may draw a well-deserved snicker after all these years. But good or bad, they all remind us just how potent a force rock ‘n’ roll was in the early days, and how even well-established popsters believed they had to change to survive.