Navigation for 50's Rock and Roll
57,58, 59 + the 1963 Cash Box Top 100
The Songs
The .mid files are downloadable. For your information, the mp3's are original Northern Lights Recordings and were made in the Bell Sound Studios in New York City at the first recording session the summer of 1958. The song "Hear Me Cry" was recorded the same place but in the fall of 1959.
If you are interested in receiving the Northern Lights CD with all the available songs of the "Band" (Northern Lights & Busters) please send me a e-mail and I'll make sure you get one.
Labels From the Album "College Hop"
Original ........ Astronauts.mp3 Frankenstein No9.mp3 Typhoid.mp3 Slick Chick.mp3
The original songs above are available in .mp3 format if you send me a request via e-mail. Each one is over 1mb so please only request one at a time. I will be happy to send it to you as an attachment to your e-mail. For more songs you will want to order the CD.
The CD
1-Bustout 2-Astronauts 3-Saphire Rock 4-The Swirl 5-Do You Know 6-All Alone 7-Summertime 8-Rokin Piper 9-Frankenstein #9 10-Please Love Me Now 11-Slick Chick 12-Typhoid 13-Talk About Love 14-Let's Rock 15-Blue Meteor Rock 16-St. Louis Blues 17-Age For Love 18-Hear Me Cry 19-Shortnin Bread 20-Deep Red
other songs in our Repertoire tequila.mid blueberry.mid
Blackout - All American Surfer - Pine Tree Hop - Heartaches - Torid Zone - Swirl -
These songs are Lloyd Price songs which were favorites of ours....
Lawdy Miss Clawdy" ('52 #1 R&B)
"Oooh, Oooh, Oooh" ('52 #4 R&B)
"Ain't It A Shame" ('53 #4 R&B)
"Just Because" ('57 #3 R&B, #29 Pop)
"Stagger Lee" ('58 #1 R&B, #1 Pop)
"Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day)" ('59 #4 R&B, #23 Pop)
"Personality" ('59 #1 R&B, #2 Pop)
"I'm Gonna Get Married" ('59 #1 R&B, #3 Pop)
"Come Into My Heart" ('59 #2 R&B, #20 Pop)
"Lady Luck" ('60 #3 R&B #14 Pop)
"No If's - No And's" ('60 #40 Pop)
"Question" ('60 #19 Pop)
"Misty" ('63 #21 Pop)