Hollywood Flames - Buzz Buzz Buzz: The Singles Collection 1950-62 (CD)

The Hollywood Flames were a doowop and R&B vocal group, who formed in Los Angeles in 1949, and remained active under a variety of names and with evolving line-ups through into the early 1960s, enjoying a major pop and R&B hit with "Buzz Buzz Buzz" in 1957, and with Bobby Day as featured singer had big hits as Bobby Day & The Satellites. With Robert Byrd (aka Bobby Day), David Ford, Gaynel Hodge and Earl Nelson as long serving key members among the changing personnel, they recorded variously as the Flames, Hollywood Four Flames, The Jets, The Question Marks, The Satellites, The Ebbtides, and The Turks, their records being released on an equally bewildering array of labels. This great-value 78-track 3-CD set comprises most of their A & B sides of their releases under those names on the Selective, Unique, Fidelity, Specialty, Recorded In Hollywood, Spin, 7-11, Swing Time. Lucky, Aladdin, Money, Cash, Class, Ebb, Chess, Goldie and Coronet labels during these years. It features their pop No. 11 and R&B No. 5 "Buzz Buzz Buzz", and R &B No. 26 "Gee", plus the pop No. 2 and R&B No. 1 "Rockin' Robin", and the pop chart entries "Little Bitty Pretty One" and "Over And Over". As a group whose music had to compete a dynamic and rapidly evolving market, it encompasses old-school doowop, R&B, and in the later years pure rock 'n' roll, and this substantial collection is thoroughly entertaining showcase for their talent and versatility.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Please Tell Me Now
2. Young Girl
3. Sugar Man Pt. 1
4. Sugar Man Pt. 2
5. Dividend Blues
6. W-I-N-E
7. Tabarin
8. The Wheel of Fortune
9. Later
10. Cryin' for My Baby
11. I'll Always Be a Fool
12. She's Got Something
13. Young Girl
14. Baby Please
15. Strange Land Blues
16. Cryin' for My Baby
17. The Glory of Love
18. Volcano
19. Gomen Nasai (Forgive Me)
20. Keep on Smiling
21. Baby Baby Baby
22. Baby, Pretty Baby
23. Let's Talk It Over
24. I Know
25. Go and Get Some More

Disc: 2

1. One NGHT with a Fool
2. Ride Helen Ride
3. I'll Hide My Tears
4. Got a Little Shadow
5. Peggy
6. Ooh la la
7. Fare Thee Well
8. Clickety Clack I'm Leaving
9. Emily
10. Wagon Wheels
11. It Can't Be True
12. The Sound of Your Voice
13. My Confession
14. I Bow to You
15. Oh Gee, Oh Golly
16. Little Bitty Pretty One
17. When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano
18. Buzz Buzz Buzz
19. Beep Beep Beep
20. Give Me Back My Heart
21. A Little Bird
22. Two Little Bees
23. It's Love
24. Strollin' on the Beach
25. Frankenstein's Den
26. Little Turtle Dove
27. Rockin' Robin

Disc: 3

1. Over and Over
2. Heavenly Angel
3. You Ain't Saying Nothing
4. I'll Get By
5. A Star Fell
6. I'll Be Seeing You
7. Just for You
8. So Good
9. There Is Something on Your Mind
10. Now That You're Gone
11. Hawaiian Dream
12. Much Too Much
13. In the Dark
14. Every Day, Every Way (I'll Always Be in Love with You)
15. If I Thought You Needed Me
16. Ball and Chain
17. I Found a Boy
18. Devil or Angel
19. Do You Ever Think of Me
20. Money Honey
21. My Heart's on Fire
22. Gee
23. Yes They Do
24. Believe in Me
25. Elizabeth
26. I Can't Get a Hit Record