Classic Rock (Time-Life Music)

Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by Time Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Unlike what the name may imply, the series spotlighted popular music played on Top 40 radio stations of the mid-to-late-1960s.

Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Classic Rock" series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others. Each volume was issued on a compact disc, cassette or (on volumes issued through 1990) 2-LP vinyl record set. Individual volumes generally contained 22 tracks, and represented the highlighted time period's most popular and noteworthy tracks. Also included was a booklet, containing liner notes written by some of the most respected historians of the genre, photographs of the artists, and information on the songs (writers, performers and peak position on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart).

History

"Classic Rock" was first issued in the winter of 1988, with the first volume in the series titled Classic Rock: 1965. Like most compilation albums, songs by two of the era's most successful groups – The Beatles and The Rolling Stones – were not included due to licensing issues; however, several albums had cover art with drawings of male rock signers resembling The Beatles.

As was the case with Time-Life's other series, "Classic Rock" was advertised in television and magazine advertisements. The series was available by subscription (by calling a 1-800 number); those who purchased the series in that fashion received a new volume roughly every other month (on the format of their choice), and had the option of keeping the volumes they wanted.

Each volume was also offered for individual sale. When the series was fully issued, a customer could purchase the entire series at once (or a group of albums, as packaged by Time-Life as part of a promotion), often at a discounted price.

New volumes continued to be issued through 1991, the final one being a volume titled Classic Rock: Rock Renaissance IV (an album of hard rock from the mid- to late-1960s). An additional volume, titled Totally Fantastic '60s, were released sometime later in the 1990s.

Time-Life continued to offer "Classic Rock" through the early-2000s (decade), after which it was replaced by other series.

In 1999, Time-Life issued a "budget" box set, "Classic '60s: Greatest Hits", containing three CDs or cassettes of 12 songs each, for retail sale.

The series

Album listing

As with many of Time-Life Records' multi-volume releases, the volumes were not issued in a logical, sequential order by date or era of the subject; that is, issuing volumes covering 1964 before progressing to 1965. In the track information section, the volumes will be listed sequentially by era; the following list is the order in which the volumes were released.

1988

1989

1990

1991

mid-1990s

Track listing

1964

1964: The Beat Goes On

1964: Shakin' All Over

1965

1965: The Beat Goes On

1965: Shakin' All Over

1965: Blowin' Your Mind

1966

1966: The Beat Goes On

1966: Shakin' All Over

1966: Blowin' Your Mind

1. Hollies - Bus Stop 2. Diana Ross and the Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love 3. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon 4. The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind of Love 5. Bobby Hebb - Sunny 6. Slim Harpo - Baby, Scratch My Back 7. Them - Gloria 8. Junior Walker and the All Stars - (I'm a) Road Runner 9. The Temptations - Get Ready 10. The Mamas and Papas - I Saw Her Again Last Night 11. Percy Sledge - Warm and Tender Love 12. Billy Stewart - Summertime 13. Bob Kuban and the In-Men - The Cheater 14. Lou Christie - Rhapsody in the Rain 15. The Cyrkle - Turn-Down Day 16. The Beach Boys - Sloop John B 17. Shades of Blue - Oh How Happy 18. Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly 19. The Turtles - You Baby 20. J. J. Jackson - But It's Alright 21. Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow 22. Deon Jackson - Love Makes the World Go Round

1967

1967: The Beat Goes On

1967: Shakin' All Over

01 - Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man 02 - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough 03 - Hollies - On a Carousel 04 - Jay & the Techniques - "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" 05 - Monkees - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone 06 - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Tramp 07 - Easybeats - Friday On My Mind 08 - Etta James - Tell Mama 09 - Fantastic Johnny C - Boogaloo Down Broadway 10 - Mamas & Papas - Creeque Alley 11 - Brenda & The Tabulations - Dry Your Eyes 12 - Association - Windy 13 - Keith - Ninety-Eight Point Six 14 - Supremes - Reflections 15 - Music Machine - Talk Talk 16 - Aretha Franklin - Baby I Love You 17 - Janis Ian - Society's Child 18 - The Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me 19 - Sonny & Cher - The Beat Goes On 20 - Rascals - I've Been Lonely Too Long 21 - Bar-Kays - Soul Finger 22 - Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe

1967: Blowin' Your Mind

01 - The Byrds - So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star 02 - The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains 03 - The Mamas and the Papas - Words of Love 04 - Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston - It Takes Two 05 - Robert Knight - Everlasting Love 06 - Peaches and Herb - Close Your Eyes 07 - James and Bobby Purify - Shake a Tail Feather 08 - Joe Tex - Skinny Legs and All 09 - The Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game 10 - The Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby 11 - Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness 12 - The Four Tops - Seven Rooms of Gloom 13 - Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata 14 - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Honey Chile 15 - The Casinos - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye 16 - The Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941 17 - The Lovin' Spoonful - Darling Be Home Soon 18 - The Box Tops - Neon Rainbow 19 - The Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) 20 - The Turtles - She's My Girl 21 - The Young Rascals - How Can I Be Sure 22 - Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

1968

1968: The Beat Goes On

1968: Shakin' All Over

1968: Blowin' Your Mind

1969

1969: The Beat Goes On

1969: Shakin' All Over

Rock Renaissance

Rock Renaissance II

01 - Cream - White Room 02 - Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard 03 - Byrds - My Back Pages 04 - Hollies - Pay You Back With Interest 05 - Searchers - Bumblebee 06 - Pretty Things - Don't Bring Me Down 07 - Troggs - I Can't Control Myself 08 - Love - My Little Red Book 09 - Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion 10 - Santana - Evil Ways 11 - Traffic - Forty Thousand Headmen 12 - Them - Mystic Eyes 13 - Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane 14 - Van Morrison - Moondance 15 - Flying Burrito Brothers - Chrsitine's Tune 16 - Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature 17 - Yardbirds - Stroll On 18 - Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysses 19 - Standells - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White 20 - Sir Douglas Quintet - The Rains Came 21 - Quicksilver Messenger Service - Who Do You Love 22 - Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

Rock Renaissance III

01 - Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road 02 - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Steppin' Out 03 - Searchers - When You Walk In the Room 04 - Bobby Fuller Four - Love's Made a Fool of You 05 - Troggs - With A Girl Like You 06 - Barbarians - Are You a Boy Or Are You a Girl 07 - Seeds - Can't Seem to Make You Mine 08 - Sonics - Psycho 09 - Byrds - 5 D (Fifth Dimension) 10 - Chocolate Watch Band - Let's Talk About Girls 11 - Five Americans - I See the Light 12 - Nazz - Hello It's Me 13 - Procol Harum - A Salty Dog 14 - Moody Blues - Ride My See Saw 15 - Cream - I Feel Free 16 - Joe Cocker - Delta Lady 17 - Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider 18 - Steppenwolf - The Pusher 19 - Blood Sweat & Tears - I Can't Quit Her 20 - Electric Flag - Groovin' Is Easy 21 - Van Morrison - Caravan 22 - Blind Faith - Presence of the Lord

Rock Renaissance IV

1. I’m So Glad _Cream 3:57 2. Alone Again Or _Love 3:14 3. When I Was Young _Eric Burdon and the Animals 2:59 4. Season of the Witch _Donovan 4:55 5. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) _The Moody Blues 4:50 6. Jesus is Just Alright _The Byrds 2:10 7. Open My Eyes _Nazz 2:39 8. Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love In) The Chocolate Watchband 2:25 9. Blackberry Way _The Move 3:35 10. Flying High _Country Joe and the Fish 2:38 11. Darkness, Darkness _The Youngbloods 3:49 12. Shakin’ Street _MC5 2:21 13. Whiskey Train _Procol Harum 4:30 14. Second Generation Woman _Family 3:15 15. Meet on the Ledge _Fairport Convention 2:51 16. Fresh Air _Quicksilver Messenger 5:20 17. Space Cowboy _The Steve Miller Band 4:57 18. San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native) _Fever Tree 3:57 19. Buy for Me the Rain _The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 2:24 20. Abba Zaba _Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band 2:42 21. Venus in Furs _The Velet Underground and Nico 5:06

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