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1. Wooden Heart - Joe Dowell
2. I Really Love You - The Stereos
3. Foot Stomping, Part I - The Flares
4. Lover Please - Clyde McPhatter
5. Dear One - Larry Finnegan
6. I Wish That We Were Married - Ronnie & The Hi-Lites
7. Theme From Dr. Kildare (3 Stars Will Shine Tonight) - Richard Chamberlain
8. Little Red Rented Rowboat - Joe Dowell
9. Patches - Dickey Lee
10. Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane
11. I Saw Linda Yesterday - Dickey Lee
12. I Will Follow Him (Chariot) - Little Peggy March
13. Young Lovers - Paul & Paula
14. Sugar Shack - J. Gilmer & The Fireballs
15. You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - The Caravelles
16. Dominique - Singing Nun
17. Popsicles And Icicles - The Murmaids
18. Navy Blue - Diane Renay
19. Diane - The Bachelors
20. LIttle Honda - The Hondells
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not enough to warrant the purchase., Nov 17 2002

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Eric V. Moye (New York, by way of Dallas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: V2 1961-1964: Hard To Find 45s (Audio CD)

As another noted, too much VERY obscure (regardless of Billboard ranking). I am a huge fan of '50's and 60's music, so this collection is aimed for folks like me. Unfortunately, there is too much here that is rather obscure, and much other which is locatable elsewhere (but, they do call this "Hard to Find", after all).

If, like me you are a fan of Peggy Marsh's "I Will Follow Him" (or for that matter, fondly recall the Singing Nun), you will buy this, cause it cannot be found elsewhere. I guess the marketers put a few songs like that on each disc of this collection, and hope we'll buy a bunch of discs for one or two songs. You can fill in the name of any one of about a third of the songs on this disc and come up with the same result.

Sometimes they are right. But there is way too much filler here. I call myself a fan of the genre, but only heard of 60% of the songs or artists. Not the kind of value any but the most fanatical of us want.

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5.0 out of 5 stars More great hard-to-find 45's, Jan 30 2003

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: V2 1961-1964: Hard To Find 45s (Audio CD)

Volume two continues Eric Records' "Hard To Find 45s..." series culling non-British invasion (with the possibly arguable exception of the Irish Bachelors) charting singles from the early 60s. While all of these tunes were top-30 and about half have appeared at least occasionally in other CD reissues, there is a treasure of seldom- and never-found on CD 45's here. Among the more commonplace tracks are Clyde McPhatter's "Lover Please", Little Peggy March's "I Will Follow Him" and the Murmaids' "Popsicles and Icicles", all top-10 hits. Nestled in amongs these more familiar tracks however are lost gems such as Joe Dowell's "Wooden Heart", Richard Chamberlain's "Three Stars Will Shine Tonight", the theme from his Dr. Kildare show, Paul and Paula's "Young Lovers", their follow-up to the chart-topping "Hey Paula" and Julie Rogers, a British artist whose "The Wedding" is hardly the stuff of the "British Invasion". One truly obscure track, "Little Red Rented Rowboat", a top-30 tune from Joe Dowell whose above-mentioned number one hit is also here, makes its CD debut in this piece. While other CDs of rare 45's are available, Eric does it better than most with the highest quality sound quality and well-researched backround info on the included tracks and artists. Half of the songs here (tracks 1,2,4,7,10,12,13,19-21) appear in stereo with the remainder in clean mono. In every way, this is an outstanding collection of familiar yet not often found tunes interspersed with lots of true rarities from the more innocent golden era of early rock and roll. This piece is highly recommended for both the casual listener and avid collector. Eric records is rapidly setting the standard for such reissues.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All Top 40, Feb 11 2002

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: V2 1961-1964: Hard To Find 45s (Audio CD)

Contrary to the suggestion elsewhere that this contains some "regional" hits, allow me to point out that ALL 21 were Top 40 on the Billboard charts and, in fact, the LOWEST charter among the bunch was 1961's I Really Love You by The Stereos which settled at # 29 pop and # 15 R&B.

Admittedly, some among the 21 do not really fit the definition of "hard-to-find" - being readily available on any number of compilations or "best of" sets. But what you CAN be certain of in Bill Buster's Eric Records releases is that you are getting the ORIGINAL versions.

Among the truly "hard-to-find" in this volume are Joe Dowell's Little Red Rented Rowboat [# 23 in 1962], Dear One, a # 11 by Larry Finnegan in 1962, Paul & Paula's # 6 hit Young Lovers [1963], The Wedding by Julie Rodgers [# 10 in 1964], and You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry - # 3 by The Caravelles in 1963.

As usual in this series, the liner notes [6 pages of them] by Fred Bronson [author of The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits among others] are most comprehensive, and on the back you get the chart performances for all 21 selections.

The sound is just fine, and you can rest assured that this is among the very best series of CDs containing oldies on the market today.

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