Soundtrack - 41 Original Hits - Vinyl

Includes original release liner notes by Jeff Walker.
Digitally remastered from the original master tapes by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch at Digiprep, Hollywood, California.
The soundtrack to the George Lucas film about teenage life in a small California town in the early '60s was probably the best thing about the movie, featuring several dozen outstanding early rock & roll hits. There's nothing terribly obscure here -- in fact, most of these were big smashes -- but it's a good survey of rock's early days, ranging from superstars like Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and the Beach Boys to great one-shots like the Monotones, the Tempos, and Buster Brown. Drawbacks: Wolfman Jack talks over the intros of a few songs, and there are a couple tracks by early-'70s Sha Na Na-type revivalists Flash Cadillac. ~ Richie Unterberger

Tracks:

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Bill Haley and the Comets* (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock 2:08
• 2 Crests, the Sixteen Candles 2:48
• 3 Del Shannon Runaway 2:18
• 4 Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers Why Do Fools Fall in Love 2:14
• 5 Buddy Holly That'll Be the Day 2:14
• 6 Buster Brown Fanny Mae 2:52
• 7 Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids at the Hop 2:25
• 8 Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids She's So Fine 2:18
• 9 Diamonds, the the Stroll 2:26
• 10 Tempos, the See You in September 2:03
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Beach Boys, the Surfin' Safari 2:05
• 2 Fleetwoods - the He's the Great Imposter 1:33
• 3 Chuck Berry - Almost Grown 2:09
• 4 Platters - the Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 2:37
• 5 Diamonds - the Little Darlin' 2:04
• 6 Joey Dee & the Starlighters* - Peppermint Twist 1:58
• 7 Regents - the (2) Barbara Anne 2:14
• 8 Monotones - the Book of Love 2:17
• 9 Buddy Holly - Maybe Baby 2:01
• 10 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya 2:22
• 11 Platters - the the Great Pretenders 2:35
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Fats Domino - Ain't That a Shame 2:31
• 2 Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode 2:38
• 3 Flamingos - the I Only Have Eyes for You 3:09
• 4 Silhouettes - the Get a Job 2:37
• 5 Five Satins - the to the Aisle 2:44
• 6 Bobby Freeman - Do You Wanna Dance 2:35
• 7 Buddy Knox - Party Doll 1:54
• 8 Del-Vikings - The* Come Go with Me 2:37
• 9 Johnny Burnette You're Sixteen - You're Beautiful (And You're Mine) 1:56
• 10 Clovers - the Love Potion No.9 1:53
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Skyliners - the Since I Don't Have You 2:35
• 2 Big Bopper - The* Chantilly Lace 2:21
• 3 Mark Dinning - Teen Angel 2:35
• 4 Sonny Till* & Orioles - the Crying in the Chapel 3:04
• 5 Heartbeats - the a Thousand Miles Away 2:25
• 6 Cleftones - the Heart and Soul 1:49
• 7 Booker T & the MG's - Green Onions 2:25
• 8 Platters - the Only You (And You Alone) 2:35
• 9 Spaniels - the Goodnight, Well It's Time to Go 2:43
• 10 Beach Boys - the All Summer Long 2:05