Various - Radio Bremen Die 'B' Seiten - Radio Bremen 1

1-CD, 20 page booklet, 20 tracks, playing time 49:23.

This compilation presents treasures hidden by the hits, Country & Western, Pop, Rock 'n' Roll, Super stars from the 1950s and 1960s, including an early masterpiece by The Beatles, songs by top-class authors, hidden pearls, to be discovered.

From 'flip' to hit - from a B-side to success: more often than expected in the history of rock and pop, things turned out differently. All of a sudden, a 45 B-side became a non-expected success. Sometimes alert dee jays did recognize the real potential of certain tunes, thus playing the flip-side rather than the A-side. Needless to say, this attention did not generally lead to big sales - but even without a listing in the charts numerous B-sides had style and class. Some turned into favorites by fans, critics and disc jockeys alike.

Bear Family Records is presenting a collection of 20 songs, tunes you would never get tired of because they stood in the shadow of the A-side. This compilation features B-sides by American top artists like
Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, Connie Francis, Gene Pitney, and The Everly Brothers. And even The Beatles are here, under their early name, The Beat Brothers, then the unknown backing group of British performer Tony Sheridan.

Highly respected composers and authors like Pomus/Shuman, Greenfield/Sedaka, Oldham/Penn, and Pockriss/Vance wrote excellent songs. All these tracks were originally hidden on the flip sides of popular hits on 45s during the 1950s and 1960s. They all have in common that even today they have the quality to be (re-)discovered as treasures in sound.

Radio Bremen Eins Oldiebörse CD album series by Bear Family Records

Radio Bremen One

Oldiebörse as CD-Album Series from Bear Family Records

When I met Thomas Schönherr in 1995 in a hotel bar in Bremen, I could not know what the consequences of this encounter would be. The relaxed appointment to perhaps do something 'oldies' together on the radio became a long and successful cooperation and a radio format that is unparalleled in Germany. Today the OLDIE-BÖRSE is a guarantor for the successful search for lost record treasures and a pool of rarities of rock and pop history of past decades. Bremen's largest record collector became a reliable contact in the search for titles - Thomas Schönherr meticulously and passionately searched and found everything that many people had grown in heart and ear musically for his listeners. Countless letters, faxes and emails testify to the gratitude and joy of our 'customers', who are now scattered far beyond our broadcasting area.

Thomas Schönherr and Dirk Böhling, the Oldie Stock Exchange team on 'bremen eins', have released several CD albums for Bear Family with acoustic rarities that not only make the hearts of radio listeners beat faster:

There are the most famous recognition melodies from 60 years of Radio Bremen Eins.
The most successful tracks from the cult show "Oldiebörse
Cool B-sides of once successful singles on this CD album series.