Ricky Nelson
Greatest Hits (2005)
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Rick Nelson was one of the very biggest of the 1950s teen idols, so it took awhile for him to attain the same level of critical respectability as other early rock greats. Yet now the consensus is that he made some of the finest pop/rock recordings of his era. Elvis, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, and others may have rocked harder, but Nelson was extraordinarily consistent during the first five years of his recording career, crafting pleasant pop-rockabilly hybrids with ace session players and projecting an archetype of the sensitive, reticent young adult with his accomplished vocals. He also played a somewhat underestimated role in rock & roll's absorption into mainstream America -- how bad could rock be if it was featured on one of America's favorite family situation comedies on a weekly basis?

Nelson entered professional entertainment before his tenth birthday, when he appeared with father Ozzie (once a jazz musician), mother Harriet, and brother David on a radio comedy series based around the family. By the early '50s, the series was on television, and Ricky grew into a teenager in public. He was just the right age to have his life turned around by rock & roll in 1956 and started his recording career almost accidentally the following year. The story has sometimes been told that he had no professional singing ambitions until he recorded his debut single to impress a girlfriend. The single, a cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" that went to number four, was helped immensely (as all of his early singles would be) by plugs on the Ozzie & Harriet TV show.


Tracklist:

01 - Travelin' Man
02 - Hello Mary Lou
03 - Poor Little Fool
04 - Lonesome Town
05 - Believe What You Say
06 - I'm Walkin'
07 - Waitin' In School
08 - Everlovin'
09 - Fools Rush In
10 - Teenage Idol
11 - Stood Up
12 - Be Bop Baby
13 - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
14 - It's Late
15 - Never Be Anyone Else But You
16 - I Got A Feeling
17 - Sweeter Than You
18 - Young Emotions
19 - A Wonder Like You
20 - Just A Little Too Much
21 - It's Up To You
22 - Young World
23 - I Wanna Be Loved
24 - You Are The Only One
25 - Garden Party


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