Artist	Song
Bobby Darin	Dream Lover
The Coasters	Charlie Brown
Dion & The Belmonts	A Teenager In Love
Frankie Ford	Sea Cruise
The Isley Brothers	Shout
Lloyd Price	Stagger Lee
The Mystics	Hushabye
Brenda Lee	Sweet Nothin's
Chubby Checker	The Twist
Connie Francis	Everybody's Somebody's Fool
The Drifters	Save The Last Dance For Me
Ike & Tina Turner	A Fool In Love
Rosie & The Originals	Angel Baby
Sam Cooke	Wonderful World
The Shadows	Apache
The Ventures	Walk, Don't Run
Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party
Elvis Presley	(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame
The Marcels	Blue Moon
The Beach Boys	Surfin' Safari
The Beatles	Love Me Do
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers	Monster Mash
Booker T & The MG's	Green Onions
Cliff Richard	The Young Ones
The Crystals	He's A Rebel
Freddy Cannon	Palisades Park
Gene Chandler	Duke Of Earl
Joey Dee & The Starlighters	Peppermint Twist
The John Barry Seven	James Bond Theme
The Tornadoes	Telstar

Comment:

Ok, here's volume 3 of my history of rock 'n roll series. As before, the "one artist, one song" rule applies.

A number of classic songs and quite a few of my favourites have been omitted due to space limitations, but I think this mix pretty much captures the spirit of the era when Rock 'n Roll was losing its heroes - Buddy Holly died, Little Richard found religion, Jerry Lee Lewis was ostracized for marrying his underage cousin, Elvis went to the army, etc, etc - and before the Beatles and The Rolling Stones picked-up American Rhythm & Blues and Rock 'n Roll and sent it back Stateside in a very big way. (I can't believe that last bit is all in one sentence! Sorry.)


Soul was starting to make its presence felt with songs by Booker T, Ike & Tina and Sam Cooke. Instrumentals were getting big and Surf Rock was very popular. Space-age pop was "launched" with 'Telstar' and The Twist was the big dance-craze.


The Beatles recorded 3 versions of 'Love Me Do' with 3 different drummers - the one included here is the 1962 single version featuring Ringo Starr.

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