10/30/09 – Halloween 3 – Death By Teenage!
Posted: October 30th, 2009 | Author: Matt The Cat | Filed under: Pop, Rock n' Roll | Tags: Death By Teenage!, Friday Night Cat Fight, Matt The Cat, Podcast, Teenage Tragedy Songs | 12 Comments »Death By Teenage – Teen Tragedy Songs From The 50s and 60s!
Death By Teenage was a feature that I used to run every Halloween night on my old XM Radio Show, “The Night Prowl”. Each year, I examined this sub-genre of rock n’ roll chart phenomenon. Most of these songs were huge records and the writers and artists just kept pumping them out. It wasn’t enough that many of these songs featured love tortured teens dying in car crashes, no no, they soon added plane crashes, train crashes, shark encounters and even lightning strikes. All of these teens share one comonality, they all suffered “DEATH BY TEENAGE!”
So let’s listen to some of the greatest, melodramatic teenage tragedy songs ever recorded. You’ll here 2 by Ray Peterson and Dickey Lee. Songs by The Shangri-Las, Cathy Carroll and Johnny Cymbal will also be featured.
Then, vote below for your all-time favorite teenage tragedy tune. Vote for “Other”, if yours is not listed and tell us why you voted in the “comments” section.
Get ready to cry until you laugh…it’s “Death By Teenage!”
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