Say what you will about the slickly produced teen pop of the late '80s and its revival in the late '90s: Debbie Gibson made some of the best of either era. Her best material (nearly all of which she wrote ...
When RCA Records launched a new series of CD and cassette compilation albums under the name All Time Greatest Hits in March 1988, its first entries were by Neil Sedaka, Harry Belafonte, and José Feliciano. The Sedaka album is just ...
Teen Idol album. This set, with its self-explanatory title--ANTHOLOGY: 1961-1968-- provides a valuable service in compiling 16 of Gene Pitney's best moments from the '60s. Though Pitney is sometimes dismissed as a negligible teen-idol type, or criticized for his melodramatic delivery, his vocal ...
Teen Idol songs. While many Neil Sedaka compilations focus on either the Brill Building pop crooner's youthful 1950/'60s heyday or his '70s easy-listening comeback, 2007's DEFINITIVE COLLECTION includes both of those eras and even extends into the '90s, making it a set that ...
Teen Idol songs. Bobby Vee has a couple of hits collections on the market, but Absolutely the Best is the only one that boils his career down to just the hits. A whopping ten of the 14 songs on Absolutely the Best were ...