For Your Precious Love - Jurry Butler And The Impressions
Gilee - Sonny Spencer
We Told You Not To Marry - Titus Turner
Why - The Cues
Dedicated To The One I Love - The '5' Royales
Sugaree - Rusty York
Sh-Boom - The Chords
Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison
Hearts Of Stone - The Charms
Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey
Ain't Got No Home - Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Full title - Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll Volume 10. The tenth & final volume in Ace Records' longest-running & most prestigious series. 30 tracks, mastered from the finest sources available. Artists inc... more »lude The Rinky-Dinks feat. Bobby Darin, The Coasters, The Bobbettes, Ricky Nelson, The Chords, Roy Orbison & many more. 2002.« less
Full title - Golden Age Of American Rock 'N' Roll Volume 10. The tenth & final volume in Ace Records' longest-running & most prestigious series. 30 tracks, mastered from the finest sources available. Artists include The Rinky-Dinks feat. Bobby Darin, The Coasters, The Bobbettes, Ricky Nelson, The Chords, Roy Orbison & many more. 2002.
CD Reviews
All good things must come to an end...
Zub | Forks Twp., PA | 12/05/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Collectors of pre-invasion American rock and roll 45s on CD may need therapy now that Ace Records has announced the end of their spectacular "Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll" series with this, the tenth volume. Extreme notion perhaps, but anyone familiar with these compilations knows how significant this event is. For over ten years now, Ace Records' "Golden..." series has been the standard to which all other reissue various artist CDs have had to measure up. While anyone can argue over the specific song selection on any such compilation, there can be little dispute with the end result. A massive thirty tracks, all mastered from the best available source material (often better then domestic sources), filled with hard-, if not impossible-to-find tracks packaged with a photo- and artwork-laden liner notes booklet with expertly compiled backround on the included songs. And the irony here is that it has taken a British company to do this. Whew! Just describing the outstanding attributes in these volumes is a heavy though thoroughly pleasing task. It is with great sorrow and disappointment that we fans must watch this phenomenal series come to an end especially in view of the fact that, while these discs have brought to collectors so many of the otherwise unavailable songs of the era, there is still a wealth of such songs that have yet to see daylight on quality CD. Notwithstanding the demise of the series, here in installment ten, Ace has kept up the pace of previous volumes. Six top-ten tunes along with many well-known lesser hits appear here but as with past discs in the series, included here are several hard-to-find tracks along with a number of, to this reviewer's knowledge, tunes that have never appeared on any legitimate CD foreign or domestic. Among the seldom-found songs are Roy Hamilton's superb "You Can Have Her", the Royal Teens' "Believe Me" and Donnie Elbert's "What Can I Do". Absolute finds here include Sammy Masters' "Rockin' Red Wing", Paul Gayten's "The Hunch", "Gilee" by Sonny Spencer and Titus Turner's "We Told You Not To Marry". As has come to be expected, production quality here is outstanding with amazingly good sound quality for these tracks, especially considering the obscurity of many of these songs. All appear in mono with the exception of tracks 4 and 7. This piece, along with others in the series, is an absolute requirement for any collector of the genre and with the value contained and mainstream appeal, is unabashedly recommended to casual fans of the music from the golden age of American rock and roll. Hats off to Ace! Nobody has done it better!"
A Death In The Family
A. J., Lawrence | Calgary, Alberta Canada | 01/17/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"As zubenelgenubi intimated might be the case, I am indeed now in therapy due to the demise of the most outstanding compilation series in the history of the universe, the impeccable "Golden Age of American Rock and Roll" from U.K. Ace.
I have been advised that writing may speed my recovery, and so I would simply like to say that the booklet alone makes the price of this cd a bargain! Apart from that, the sound quality is peerless as usual, and the mix of hits and rarities creates the standard Ace superb musical synthesis. Enjoy!"
It is not done better than this
Martijn13Maart1970 | Husavik Iceland | 01/15/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I am a enthousiastic collector, and have almost all the Time Life rock n roll stuff, as well as Eric Records cds of this era. Although they are essential to any 50s 60s collection, nothing can top ACE series.
I could comment like this on all the 50s remasters of this fabulous record label, not only their other editions, but especially the Golden Age of American Rock n roll. I can not add anything to the positive reviews than simply summing up my personal view:
30 tracks per cd! (Time life is also excellent, but you get 15 per cd!)
excellent booklets with background info (not surpassed by any label).
not the same old songs over again, but many rare and still excellent tracks!
last but not least amazing sound quality.
So although you might have some songs there on other collections, it is for above mentioned points alone worth it to always have an ACE copy as well."
Turns Out This Wasn't The Last One
A. J., Lawrence | 07/30/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Back when I thought this was to be the final volume in the series I reflected on what I liked best about the Ace of London classic releases. The golden oldies music, of course, with its flawless sound reproduction, is terrific, and if you have all ten volumes you have 300 of some of the best that age had to offer.
But I also love the insert in each with its vintage poster and record cover reproductions, photographs [including one of a "derelict Sun studio" front door taken in the 1970s in this volume] and, most of all, the track-by-track liner notes, here written once again by Rob Finnis. With all ten volumes you will also have close to 300 pages which, collectively, put most historical book accounts of that era to shame.
For example, I had always been under the assumption that Dedicated To The One I Love had been recorded by The Shirelles first, in 1959 when it was a minor hit, before breaking out in a 1961 re-release to become another smash following the runaway success of Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Now, thanks to Mr. Finnis [who I think should publish a book along the lines of his notes], we learn that The "5" Royales had actually recorded it in the summer of 1957 and that, withheld from being released by King until late in the year, it failed to chart at that time.
Just how meticulous they are when it comes to sound is best exemplified by the notes on Sammy Masters' Rockin' Red Wing and Jerry Butler & The Impressions' For Your Precious Love. For the former Mr. Finnis states "the version heard here is the Lode release without the distorting echo that mars the Warner pressings and is taken directly from the master tape." For the Butler cut, he says "All previous digital re-issues ... feature a "stereo" version with a drum overdub and added reverb that went on at some point in the late 1960s when stereo re-issues were all the rage ... Ace Records have located a pristine mono master without the overdub ..." The Curtis Lee "Under The Moon Of Love" is also the cleanest I have ever heard, and I have it on several other compilations.
I won't go into the music too much - the other reviewers have already covered that aspect very well - but I must mention the driving, pounding You Can Have Her by Roy Hamilton, backed by the Sammy Lowe orchestra. Known more for his ballads such as Unchained Melody and Pledging My Love, on this one he demonstrates that he could handle Rock 'N Roll with the best of them and that, had he chosen that route instead, he would be remembered today as one of the very best artists of that genre.
Ace Records Ltd., meanwhile, stands alone at the top of the heap when it comes to the oldies. No one else even comes close when you take into account all aspects of a CD. Give yourself a treat and check out their site on the web where they list their entire inventory. Then, after you have found some you think you might like, look them up on Amazon and place your orders. You will NOT be disappointed.
In the meantime, I was absolutely thrilled to see that a Volume 11 is scheduled for release on August 28, 2007, and whereas the previous ten all had a sprinkling of bona-fide hard-to-find hits, this one has at least 16 out of the 30 falling into that category. I've already placed my advance order, and what's even more promising is that no self-respecting distributor would end a series at Volume 11. So, Ace, we fans fully expect to see a Volume 12 at some future date. And more! Keep it going."
Rock n' Roll rules!
Charles Harlow | Kearns, Utah United States | 04/09/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A valuable addition to the set and a necessity for any collection of the genre."
Track Listings (30) - Disc #1