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Various: Talking On The Telephone - Rock'n'Roll And Teen Pop (CD)
1-CD with 36-page booklet, 28 tracks.
• Contains 28 telephone-themed early rock & roll and teen pop records including rare and previously unissued tracks.
• Appeals to historians of popular culture as well as collectors of 50s music looking for something a little bit different.
• Contains the barely issued ‘answer record’ to the Big Bopper’s mega-hit Chantilly Lace, as well as the fascinating backstory behind how this record was withdrawn following the Bopper’s untimely death.
• Includes rare photos and detailed track notes by music historians Hank Davis and Roy Forbes.
Telephones have been part of our lives for over a hundred years. Like automobiles, which appeared at roughly the same time, telephones had a massive impact on how we live from the very start. Not surprisingly, people sang about telephones almost as quickly as the devices appeared. Previous ‘Talkin’ on the Telephone’ collections have focused on hillbilly and R&B music (RWA 12524 and 12557). This long-awaited collection brings together Telephone Songs from the early days of rock & roll and teen pop music. Teenagers were becoming a force in the music business during the 1950s and rock & roll gave them a chance to sing about their newfound freedom. Talking on the telephone offered teenagers independence from parental oversight, and the birth of rock and roll gave them a chance to sing about it.
This collection brings together some extremely rare and long-forgotten songs about what telephones meant to teenagers. Some of these artists, like Paul Anka, Brenda Lee and Chuck Berry, remain well-known today, nearly 70 years after they made these records. Others, like Lew Williams, Johnny Fallin and Bill Woods, have faded into near-total obscurity.
TracksCredits
1 Chantilly Lace - the Big Bopper
2 If a Man Answers - Bobby Darin
3 Bigelow 6-200 - Brenda Lee
4 Memphis, Tennessee - Chuck Berry
5 Don't Hang Up - the Orlons
6 Operator - Johnny Burnette
7 Can't Get You on the Phone - Mickey & Sylvia
8 Phone Call - Billy Fury
9 The Telephone Game - Claudine Clark
10 Hello - the Nutmegs
11 Buzz Buzz a Diddle It - Freddy Cannon
12 Bopper 486 009 - Donna Damron
13 Tenneager's Talkin' on the Phone - Lew Williams
14 Your Line Was Busy - Big Bob
15 Just Thought I'd Call - Carl Perkins
16 Got to Call That Number - Bobby Mitchell
17 I Just Called Up to Say Goodbye - Johnny Burnette
18 Hello, Helo Baby - Jerry Lee Lewis
19 Come on - Chuck Berry
20 Ring-A-My-Phone - Brenda Lee
21 Your Line Is Busy - Ron Holden
22 Ring-A-My-Phone - Dinah Washington
23 Ring My Phone - Tommy Sands
24 Party Line - Johnny Fallin
25 Here at My Phone - Mel Williams
26 Beechwood 4-5789 - the Marvelettes
27 Phone Me Baby - Bill Woods
28 Kissin' on the Phone - Paul Anka
