Product Description
2009 collection. Teenage Heaven is a unique large-scale musical survey of the girl group explosion of 1958, comprising the best, most historically significant and rarest selections from the vanguard of the genre. Although the phenomenon actually reached its height between 1960 and 1963, The Chantels' 1958 song 'Maybe' is generally regarded as the first girl group recording to break into the mainstream and it is included here along with hits by such popular contemporaries as The Shirelles, The Poni-Tails and The Bobbettes. Of the lesser known items, The Threeteens' forgotten ode to the G.I. Elvis Presley 'Dear 533-10761', The Deltairs' 'A Schoolgirl in Love' and The Baby Dolls' 'Go Away Baby' are all examples of clever, passionate, original songwriting that still speaks to us today; genuinely independent music that blew the cobwebs off the fifties and in its energy and ambition parallels the Punk Rock explosion of 20 years later. El.

1. I Met Him On A Sunday - The Shirelles
2. I Want You To Be My Boyfriend - The Shirelles
3. I Got The Message - The Shirelles
4. Maybe - The Chantels
5. Prayee - The Chantels
6. He Promised Me - The Blossoms
7. Move On - The Blossoms
8. Have Faith In Me - The Blossoms
9. Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes
10. Look At The Stars - The Bobbettes
11. Rock And Ree Ah Zole - The Bobbettes
12. Dear 533-10761 - The Threeteens
13. Doo Waddie - The Threeteens
14. Just My Luck To Be Fifteen - The Poni-Tails
15. Born To Be Late - The Poni-Tails
16. Seven Minutes In Heaven - The Poni-Tails
17. Down The Aisle Of Love - The Quin-Tones
18. Please Dear - The Quin-Tones
19. Go Away Baby - The Baby Dolls
20. Boyfriend - The Baby Dolls
21. Schoolgirl In Love, A - The Sharmeers
22. Lullaby Of The Bells - The Deltairs
23. Standing At The Altar - The Deltairs
24. Please Ring My Phone - The Starlettes
25. Please Mr. Disc Jockey - The Sensations
26. Little Wallflower - The Sensations
27. Johnny O - The Antwinettes
28. Believe In Me - The Copesetics
29. Oh What A Baby - The Tonettes
30. Howie - The Tonettes
31. Oh Tonight - The Georgettes
32. Gee What A Boy - The Joytones
33. Is This Really The End - The Joytones

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The Blossoms. That'll be Darlene Love, I hope. Spector's best singer and one of the top session singers in the '60s.

Doo Waddie and (probably) Dear 533-10761 - both by The Threeteens involve Duane Eddy on guitar. Doo Waddie is featured on the Bear Family Eddy boxset of all his Jamie label items.