This article does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and. (June 2014) Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Unlike what the name may imply, the series spotlighted played on of the mid-to-late-1960s. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the 'Classic Rock' series covered a specific time period, including single years in some volumes and stylistic trends in others. Each volume was issued on a, or (on volumes issued through 1990). Individual volumes generally contained 22 tracks, and represented the highlighted time period's most popular and noteworthy tracks.
Also included was a booklet, containing liner notes written by some of the most respected historians of the genre, photographs of the artists, and information on the songs (writers, performers and peak position on 's chart). Contents. History 'Classic Rock' was first issued in the winter of 1988, with the first volume in the series titled Classic Rock: 1965. Like most compilation albums, songs by two of the era's most successful groups – and – were not included due to licensing issues; however, several albums had cover art with drawings of male rock singers resembling The Beatles. As was the case with Time-Life's other series, 'Classic Rock' was advertised in television and magazine. The series was available by subscription (by calling a ); those who purchased the series in that fashion received a new volume roughly every other month (on the format of their choice), and had the option of keeping the volumes they wanted. Each volume was also offered for individual sale.
When the series was fully issued, a customer could purchase the entire series at once (or a group of albums, as packaged by Time-Life as part of a promotion), often at a discounted price. New volumes continued to be issued through 1991, the final one being a volume titled Classic Rock: Rock Renaissance IV (an album of hard rock from the mid- to late-1960s).
An additional volume, titled Totally Fantastic '60s, were released sometime later in the 1990s. Time-Life continued to offer 'Classic Rock' through the early-2000s (decade), after which it was replaced by other series. In 1999, Time-Life issued a 'budget' box set, 'Classic '60s: Greatest Hits', containing three CDs or cassettes of 12 songs each, for retail sale.
The series Album listing As with many of Time-Life Records' multi-volume releases, the volumes were not issued in a logical, sequential order by date or era of the subject; that is, issuing volumes covering 1964 before progressing to 1965. In the track information section, the volumes will be listed sequentially by era; the following list is the order in which the volumes were released.
Country Ballads-The Greatest Country Love Songs in the World Ever VBRkbps/44.1 Khz 124 mb CD-1 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay.mp3 Brooks and Dunn - The Long Goodbye.mp3 Charlie Rich - The Most Beautiful Girl.mp3 Crystal Gayle - Talking In Your Sleep.mp3 Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You.mp3 Dr.
Time Life Classic Rock
Soft Classic Rock
Summer Breeze Disc 1: 01 - Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze 02 - Bertie Higgins - Key Largo 03 - Bread - Make It With You 04 - Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is 05 - Gary Wright - Dream Weaver 06 - Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me 07 - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Sara Smile 08 - Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.' The Air That I Breathe 01 - Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore 02 - Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 03 - Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman 04 - Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over) 05 - Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good 06 - Little River Band - Reminiscing 07 - The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe 08 - Don McLean - American Pie 09 - Robert John - Sad Eyes 10 - Paul Davis - I Go Crazy 11 - Marty Balin - Hearts 12 - Heart - These Dreams 14 - Wilson Phillips - Release Me 15 - The Doobie Brothers - The Doctor.