As the Rock'n'Roll wave losrollte ...

A culture shock shook the hitherto wohlgesittete world of popular music in the 1950s. The launch made 1955 feature film The Blackboard Jungle (Original: Blackboard Jungle). Its theme song Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley And The Comets became almost overnight a valve rebellious youth. Like wildfire spread to these teenage revolution with its Rock`n`Roll called new music of America coming from all over the world.

This fine Box documents the career starts of twenty later stars of this music revolution. Your LPs debuts from between 1956 and 1960 many hits this year spread over ten CDs are all coveted Sahneschnittchen of oldies lovers. The 20 individual albums have been digitized in very good sound equipment. The colorful, appealing artwork from Pappschuber show at any inliegenden CD on the front of the two corresponding miniatures of each original album covers. On the back, the details can be found on the title and duration of 240! Songs.Den start making Bill Haley And His Comets with their debut album Live It Up by 1956. The influence of jump blues and western swing combo sound of this band from the north dominated the American scene before it of Elvis Presley's rockabilly (a fusion of country and rhythm and blues) was ousted.

1956 appeared its debut album Elvis Presley and became a number 1 in the US. At the same time this publication was also the first record of the record company RCA ever that sold more than one million copies. Elvis Presley's rapid rise in 1956 then provided the template for a whole range of other rock'n'roll singer ..

Elvis' ex-colleague from the early days when the record company wanted him SUN in no way inferior: Carl Perkins managed with Blue Suede Shoes (here on his debut album Dance, 1959) to second place in the charts. But the rockabilly star could in the course of his career not against stars like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis (First Album Jerry Lee Lewis, 1958) argue. Only in the 1960s the great songs of his debut as Matchbox, Honey Don`t or Everybody is Trying To Be My Baby arrived late to honor, as the Beatles they interpreted new.

Even Gene Vincent is represented with his debut 1956 Blue Jean Bop in this first-class collection. Together with his backing band Blue Caps 1956 he sang his hit Be-Bop-A-Lula in the movie The Girl Can`t Help It (German title The Girl), for many still the biggest rock'n'roll movie of all time, in which his friend Eddie Cochran, one of the most famous artists of the Liberty label in Hollywood, made his first appearance. Its first top20 hit Sittin`In The Balcony appeared a year after the shooting and is included on the debut album from 1959 Singin` To My Baby ..

In 1958, the then 19 year old Eddie Cochran already a million Star. He, Gene Vincent and Buddy Holly & The Crickts of Texas celebrated in England giant success. Buddy Holly & The Crickets had with her new guitar rock a first top 10 hit Peggy Sue (on the debut Buddy Holly 1958). By 1959 the group had eleven hits in England alone, once even four songs simultaneously in the Top Twenty. A great tragedy occurred on February 3, 1959, when in a plane crash three Rock`n`Roll - Stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper died. Only one year later, Eddie Cochran died after the end of a tour of England in a car accident. Gene Vincent, who also was in the car, survived.

The electric guitar has become a symbol of rock'n'roll and Duane Eddy king of guitar instrumentals. Its typical twang sound brought him the dozen hits. The pioneer of the electric guitar rock is here, among others, with its mega-success Rebel Rouser heard on debut Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel 1958. Another typical representative of the instrumental sounds of those days are Johnny & The Hurricanes. Their debut from 1960 Featuring Red River Rock also includes the US chart hit Crossfire.

Rock`n`Roll in the Chicago tradition of rhythm and blues represent Bod Diddley and Chuck Berry. Diddley designed his colorful guitars himself. His first hit Bo Diddley can be heard on his 1958 eponymous debut. Chuck Berry's teenage anthem School Day resounds on his - also published in 1958 - First After School Session. The songs of the two giants were rock'n'roll in the 1960s inspired the Beatles, the Stones, the Yardbirds or the Beach Boys (Berry's hit Surfin` USA). Rock`n`Roll from New Orleans was in the blues and boogie tradition of the South. Two performers are typical with Fats Domino (Rock & Rollin` With Fats Domino, 1956) and Little Richard (Here Is Little Richard, 1958) also rediscover in this collection. Just as the only woman among all those gathered here Rock`n`Roll male colleagues: rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson with her super hit Let`s Have A Party on their debut LP Wanda Jackson from 1958th

The brave Frankie Avalon was the late 1950s to entities controlled by adult pop managers teenage scene. His millions success De De Dinah heard on the debut Frankie Avalon in 1958. The newly discovered teenage market was a hotbed of artists, who were not much older than their audience: including Paul Anka (here with his number 1 hit Diana on the first- Paul Anka 1958), Fabian (First Album Hold That Tiger, 1959) and Ricky Nelson (debut Ricky, 1957). They celebrated the white audience many successes with cover versions of black R & B and rock'n'roll singer.

From the beginning of rock'n'roll was a world phenomenon. So there were in England soon the first local rock'n'roll musicians such as Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard. Richards Cliff debut from 1959 (unfortunately annoying by the constant shrieking, which is intended to simulate a live recording) was the start of a fabulous career that continues to the present day. 1959/60 then repressed Chubby Checker to rock'n'roll from the jukeboxes. Checker had with
the Hank Ballard HitThe Twist (also on his debut LP Twist With Chubby Checker in 1960) a huge success, prompting a new dance craze wave. The New Yorker Local Peppermint Lounge became an overnight meeting No.1 Twist fans. The vastly expanding record market rose through the new youth music, meanwhile, nearly three hundred percent. Thus the triumph of Rock`n`Roll also helped the record final breakthrough.

Conclusion: A hit-compatible compilation often sought after debut albums that some lucky fan if at all - has standing only as a scratched vinyl record on the shelf - but now can enjoy crackle first.

Rock'n'Roll Is Here To Stay!