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The Crests - The Best Of The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro flac album
  • Performer The Crests
  • Title The Best Of The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro
  • Date of release 1990
  • Country UK
  • Style Doo Wop
  • Other formats RA MOD WMA AIFF MPC AAC AHX
  • Genre Pop
  • Size MP3 1187 mb
  • Size FLAC 1829 mb
  • Rating: 4.3
  • Votes: 219

Rhino's The Best of the Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro is a generous 18-track collection that contains all of the doo wop group's greatest hits, along with a selection of singles, B-sides, and album tracks that prove that the Crests were one of the finest outfits of their time. Johnny Maestro & the Crests.

Between the end of 1958 and late 1960, New York based vocal group The Crests had 9 top 100 hit singles in the . of these and possibly the most well known Doo-Wop of all time was 16 Candles, the kind of record that Frank Zappa (him again!!) called 'greasy love songs of cretin simplicity' -. and none the worse for it. 16 Candles is the epitome of the American Teen Dream and no 50s revival movie would be complete without it. It was a number 2 hit on Billboard and is of course included in our Best Of package as are all other 8 hits from The Crests.

Gee (But I'd Give The World). The Way You Look Tonight.

The Crests were an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist . Carter in the mid 1950s. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records. Their most popular song, "16 Candles", rose to on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1959 selling over one million copies and earning a gold disc status.

Full title is Best Of The Crests: featuring Johnny Maestro. Between the end of 1958 & late 1960, New York based vocal group The Crests had 9 top 100 hit singles in the .

Studio album by Johnny Maestro. Please write a description for this profile. View All . Thank you to the following people for keeping this profile up-to-date.

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Tracklist

1 16 Candles
2 What A Surprise
3 Trouble In Paradise
4 Gee (But I'd Give The World)
5 Pretty Little Angel
6 Flower Of Love
7 Model Girl
8 The Angels Listened In
9 Six Nights A Week
10 Isn't It Amazing
11 I Thank The Moon
12 A Year Ago Tonight
13 Journey Of Love
14 Step By Step
15 It Must Be Love
16 Young Love
17 Mr. Happiness
18 I Remember (In The Still Of The Night)

Notes

some tracks newly remastered in Stereo

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 8122 70948 2 9

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
CDCHD 297 The Crests The Best Of The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro ‎(CD, Comp, RM) Ace CDCHD 297 UK 1990
R4 70948 The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro - The Best Of The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro ‎(Cass, Comp) Rhino Records R4 70948 USA & Canada 1990
J-1000 The Crests The Best Of The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro ‎(LP, Comp) Not On Label J-1000 Unknown
CHD 297 The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro The Crests Featuring Johnny Maestro - The Best Of... ‎(LP, Comp) Ace CHD 297 Germany 1990