Sandy Nelson Golden Hits - Best Of The Beats (CD)

(See For Miles) 24 tracks (54:07) two original albums from 1962 and 1963

Golden Hits (from the original sleeve notes)
Every generation of music lovers has its own collection of favorite tunes. favored artists and special records. This has been ever since the first recording artist cut the first session back in the ear, pioneer days of cylinder wordings a hand-wound Phonographs. It is true today and will still be so in years to come. When one particular music lover finds a new release that has the perfect marriage of a favored artist performing a favorite tune it immediately becomes a special record. And when that just-right combination appeals to a million music lovers, their special record becomes a Golden Hit by selling a million copies and earning the performer a gold disc. This collection of 'Golden Hits' is just that - a compilation of the most popular songs of record buyers during the past several years, the tunes that shot up to the top of everybody's Top Ten hit parade and stayed there while sales soared into the golden atmosphere of a million-plus. This collection of Golden Hits may well become a Golden Hit album for it has those magic ingredients that make a special record - favorite tunes and a favored artist in drummer boy Sandy Nelson....

The Best Of The Beats (from the original sleeve notes)
There are many reasons why Sandy Nelson has zoomed so rapidly and unanimously to the rery top rung of the ladder in the esteem of Young American music lovers - why the young drummer boy from Santa Monica is acclaimed by teenagers and young adults from coast to coast as the Pied Piper of this musical generation. Among these reasons are the fact that, being young himself, Sandy knows and recognizes the type of music young people like and want: being a solid musician he is to translate these desires into music: being talented. he is able to present this music with exactly the right beat. the correct mood. the proper tempo to convince his fans that he is genuinely one of them and playing their kind of music for them alone. 'The Best Of The Beats' shore yet another reason - his versatility. Drummer boy Sandy does not rigidly lock himself into an inflexible formula...