"Bubbling Under" Vol. 1

32 Tracks That Bubbled Under The Billboard Charts from 1961-1964The first installment in this series that focuses on oldies that reached the lower regions of the Billboard charts (usually between 101 and 140). All of these songs should have been and could have been big hits, proving just how Important the "bubbling under" charts were in the day to help promote new songs and this also shows that a Top 100 was not merely enough to showcase the amount of great songs that were recorded during the early 1960's. Features tracks from Rick Nelson, Del Shannon, Johnny Burnette, Teresa Brewer, The Murmaids and many others.

A first rate collection of forgotten oldies. Oldies junkies and even those not all that interested in blasts from the past will recognize many of the artists in this new collection of songs that bubbled under the Billboard music charts in the 1960s. That these tracks didn't earn a coveted spot in the hot 100 is no reflection on the artists themselves or these songs. As Mike Edwards points out in the liner notes,100 spots clearly wasn't enough to contain all the great tunes from that era. Take "Let me get close to you" for example. Written by the hallowed songwriting team of Goffin and King and performed by Skeeter Davis, the song just missed the hot 100 in 1964. It's a great tune and a worthy follow up to Skeeter's earlier smash "I can't stay mad at you" and features the crack production of Chet Atkins. Hindsight is invariably 20/20, but my bet would be that the British invasion that year changed the rules for music, and even worthy songs like this simply fell by the wayside. The 4-Evers "Say you love me" is another stellar track; produced by Bob Crewe and sounding an awful lot like Crewe's other vocal group The Four Seasons, this record just leaps out of the speakers at you-it's that strong. Changing musical tastes, poor promotion, laclustre distirbution; whatever the reason,these songs didn't make the hot 100 and with few exceptions have probably never been anthologized. Don't let that put you off this anthology. The songs, many in stereo and sounding great, deserve a second chance to be heard. (Dan Penwarn , Record Runner)

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1. There's Not A Minute (Stereo) - Rick Nelson 2. His Lips Get In The Way - Bernadette Castro 3. Just Another Fool - Curtis Lee 4. I Won't Be There - Del Shannon 5. She'll Never Never Love You (Like I Do) (Stereo) - Teresa Brewer 6. Roberta (Stereo) - Barry & The Tamerlanes 7. I Wanna Thank Your Folks (Stereo) - Johnny Burnette 8. Heartbreak Ahead - The Murmaids 9. Somebody Nobody Wants (Stereo) - Dion 10. Along Came Linda (Stereo) - Tommy Boyce 11. Dreamin' About You - Annette Funicello 12. A Little Like Lovin' (Stereo) - The Cascades 13. Sweet Sorrow (Stereo) - Conway Twitty 14. Let Me Get Close To You (Stereo) - Skeeter Davis 15. Tonight I Met An Angel (Stereo) - The Tokens 16. Halfway - Eddie Hodges 17. All I Want To Do Is Run - The Elektras 18. Cry On My Shoulder (Stereo) - Johnny Crawford 19. Say I Love You (Doo Bee Dum) - The Four-Evers 20. Permanently Lonely (Stereo) - Timi Yuro 21. You Should Have Been There - The Fleetwoods 22. I'm Leaving - Johnny Nash 23. Your Life Begins (At Sweet 16) - The Majors 24. Tomorrow Is Another Day - Doris Troy 25. The Masquerade Is Over (Stereo) - The Five Satins 26. I'm Tired (Stereo) - Ray Peterson 27. I'm Gonna Love That Guy - Linda Lloyd 28. Band Of Gold - The Roomates 29. Baby That's All - Jackie Wilson 30. Winter's Here - Robin Ward 31. Drums - Kenny Chandler 32. Don't Cross Over - Linda Brannon

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