Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Go Away Don't Bother Me
2. Rock & Roll Polka
3. Move a Little Closer
4. My First Love
5. Hush Money
6. I Wish
7. Cuckoo Rock
8. Beetle-Bug-Bop
9. I'm in My Teens
10. Rockaway Rock
11. They're Still in Love
12. Make Him Behave
13. Hop, Skip and Jump
14. Shortnin' Bread Rock
15. Just Because
16. Hoy Hoy
17. Hot Rod
18. Heartbeat
19. Mama Worries
20. Party
21. Walking the Floor over You
22. Missouri Waltz
23. You Are My Sunshine - Gene Autry, Don Cherry, Rosemary Clooney, The Collins Kids, , Carl Smith
24. Soda Poppin' Around (Pts. 1 & 2)
25. Young Heart
26. Ain't You Ever
27. What'cha Gonna Do Now?
28. Waitin' and Watchin'
29. Home of the Blues

Disc 2:

1. Lonesome Road
2. Early American [Instrumental] - The Collins Kids, Joe Maphis
3. Rockin' Gypsy [Instrumental] - The Collins Kids, Joe Maphis
4. Bye, Bye [Instrumental] - The Collins Kids, Joe Maphis
5. Hurricane [Instrumental] - The Collins Kids, Joe Maphis
6. Mercy
7. Rock Boppin' Baby
8. Whistle Bait
9. Sweet Talk
10. Soda Poppin' Around [2][Alternate Take]
11. Spur of the Moment [Instrumental]
12. Rebel - Johnny Yuma [Instrumental]
13. There'll Be Some Changes Made [Duet]
14. Fireball Mail [Instrumental]
15. T-Bone [Instrumental]
16. What About Tomorrow
17. Get Along Home, Cindy
18. You've Been Gone Too Long
19. One Step Down
20. There Stands the One
21. Wild and Wicked Love
22. Hey Mama Boom-A-Lacka
23. More Than a Friend
24. Pied Piper Poodle
25. Blues in the Night
26. Another Man Done Gone
27. Sugar Plum
28. Kinda Like Love
29. Are You Certain?
30. That's Your Affair

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144236 in Music
• Released on: 1999-12-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: 1.39 pounds

Customer Reviews

Legendary rockabilly from 50s brother-sister act
Though the Collins Kids appeal initially as a novelty, with Larry as the young-teen guitar ace and older-teen Laurie as the babeful singer, they were (and are, since they still turn up at the occasional rockabilly festival) a terrific roackabilly act.

Their music tends more to the pop end of the rockabilly spectrum, but Larry's stinging guitar leads (often matched against those of his mentor Joe Maphis) are bona fide. Their unabashedly teen-oriented songs fit them to a tee. Even Larry's few turns at vocals, like "Hot Rod," are filled with the sort of exuberance rarely heard in todays highly-polished world of pop music.

This double disc is just about everything they recorded in the studio. Disc two is filled out with a number of Larry's later solo country recordings, and, truthfully, they don't measure up to their duet tracks. (True, he did go on to cowrite "Delta Dawn," but he was a better songwriter and guitarist than he was a singer.) The single disc compilation that Columbia has put out avoids these later tracks, but also loses a number of the duet tracks (as well as extra intrumentals that Larry cut with Joe Maphis).

It's expensive, but you get the requisite Bear Family quality: a huge number of well remastered tracks stuffed onto each disc, and an excellent full-size (12x12) book crammed with great photos. If you love the Collins Kids, it's worth the money. If you're only curious, the single disc domestic compilations may suffice (or may lead you to buy this one in the end).

Classic 50's teenage rockabilly
This 2-CD box set gathers all the Collins Kids' best, and that means poppy rockabilly with a real whallop! Larry Collins was a real guitar whiz, and is frequently joined by his mentor Joe Maphis on many of these tunes. And the songs themselves are real doozies, '50s rock classics such as "Whistlebait," "Hod Rod" and "Hoy Hoy," as well as revved-up, rockified goofs on old country and pop standards like "Walkin' The Floor" and "Soda Poppin' Around." Sure, the Collins Kids were spunky and cute, but they were hardly just a novelty act... they really did tear the roof down!