(Part 2) Best pop oldies according to redditors

Night of the Lions by Mark Eric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPas1VG9rOw

Legally? Only the most recent season on ABC.com. There’s also 3 DVDs available from the original run:

Season 1 DVD

The Best and Worst of Seasons 1-4

Season 6 Finale

The Ventures of course.
Samples on amazon.

$5 on the nose.

Intro - check

Gifted - check

Adorable animal

I don't need no man. (*any)

I just picked up this compilation: The Birth of Surf. It has overwhelmingly good reviews on amazon.com.

I checked out a lot of the songs, but this one was my favourite on the compilation: Pipeline, by the Chantays. Amazing.

As 0verture mentioned, one problem you're going to run into is that many of those 50s rock songs were released only as singles. So compilation albums are often the only way to get those songs.

Get any album by Eddie Cochran or Gene Vincent; their influence was huge. I do think compilations are the best for those: this one for Gene Vincent and this one for Eddie Cochran are my favorites. Also, early Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly (whose influence on The Beatles was huge).

Edit: Forgot to mention Larry Williams, who wrote several songs that The Beatles covered ("Bad Boy", "Slow Down", "Dizzy Miss Lizzy").

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|about|Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003) was an American soul music singer. Born Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee, Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit War. Edwin Starr was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1942. He and his cousins (soul singers Roger and Willie Hatcher) moved to Cleveland, Ohio where they were raised.|
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Don't be a fool - spend the $12 and buy this.

https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Projects-Brian-Wilson-Productions/dp/B000083LRM

It's streaming on Spotify (Edit: Sorry, it doesn't seem to actually be streamable on there), and Apple Music if that helps. As for purchasing, google says it's available from Amazon.

See that's the thing -- I kind of love all of it, even the so-called "crap" stuff from the decade. I love the rock stuff and the disco stuff and the soul stuff. All of it. (well, mostly)

For lesser-known soul stuff, I like the What It Is! box set. And there's some amazing stuff in the 70s-era part of the Quincy Jones box set. But as far as straight-up groups, Earth Wind & Fire and Sly & the Family Stone are where it's at for me.

Rock stuff, I have a soft spot in my heart for Big Star, but I'll take the more popular stuff, as well, like Bowie and Zeppelin and former Beatles' solo stuff, or even the so-called "lighter" Doobies or Steely Dan. And goddam if Loggins & Messina's "Sittin' In" isn't just the most blissful. And holy crap, of course there's Harry Nilsson and his entire catalogue.

But the thing I love most about the 70s is discovering all these bands that are relatively under the radar these days, or groups that artists were in before they got big. Relatively recent discoveries for me include the band Lake and Klaatu and Brian Protheroe.

But I'm honestly equally happy putting on the 1970s station and listening to Brandy or Amie or Angie Baby or pretty much whatever.

EDIT: cleaned up some links

http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Parade-Hits-40s-50s/dp/B000UCH5VU

I don't remember if it was for my birthday, or Christmas, but around 2010 my now ex-wife gave me this set:
https://www.amazon.com/Bada-Bing-Music-Heard-Sopranos/dp/B000SAAUBG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520181889&sr=8-1&keywords=music+heard+on+the+sopranos

At the time, it was the only place I could find Dean's Vegas medley (one of the songs they play from the boat to harass the Sapinsly house in Whitecaps). It's mostly got the more subtle, background stuff; it doesn't have stuff like Thru and Thru (end of Funhouse), Bad 'N' Ruin (Tony B whacking Joe Peeps), or Don't Stop Believin', but it's got a ton of the music that's from Tony's childhood, plus quite a bit of Sinatra and Martin.

This Sadies album is cool:

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Ratfink-O-S-T-Sadies/dp/B000I5YCM4

You can buy it!

...but it's mostly gospel stuff, not much rock n roll.

I know this is a vinyl reddit, but I would recommend this compilation on CD. Most of them were 45's. Pricey and difficult to find in good shape.


http://www.amazon.com/Rockin-Bones-1950s-Punk-Rockabilly/dp/B000FOQ0JG

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Some great ones have been mentioned...

Such as Conan the Barbarian's soundtrack:

Romeo + Juliet's soundtrack:

Forrest Gump's soundtrack:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's soundtrack:

and Braveheart's soundtrack:

To these I would add the fantastic soundtrack to the the somewhat lousy and sucky 1999 modern adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons called Cruel Intentions:...

and the classic original soundtrack to legendary anime Ghost in the Shell:...

And yet...my favorite is the soundtrack to a movie I would not be eager to watch twice. One that I actually dislike, heh.

But the soundtrack to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me is, quite simply, brilliant. The latter part of the CD is particularly great.