Trini Lopez - Teenage love songs (1995)

1 	The Right To Rock 	
2 	Just Once More 	
3 	Love Me Tonight 	
4 	Chain Of Love 	
5 	Then You Know (You've Been In Love) 	
6 	I'm Just A Poor Little Schemer 	
7 	Jeanie Marie 	
8 	One Heart, One Life, One Love 	
9 	You Broke The Only Heart That Ever Loved You 	
10 	The Club For Broken Hearts 	
11 	Nobody Listens To Our Teenage Problems 	
12 	My Runaway Heart 	
13 	I'm Grateful 	
14 	It Hurts To Be In Love 	
15 	Yes You Do 	
16 	Don't Treat Me That Way 	
17 	Since I Don't Have You 	
18 	The Search Goes On 	
19 	It Seems 	
20 	Won't You Be My (Queen For A Day) 	
21 	Rock On 	
22 	Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die 	
23 	Here Comes Sally 	
24 	Nobody Loves Me 	
25 	Sweet Thing 	
26 	Don't Go 	
27 	Sinner Not A Saint 	
28 	Where Can My Baby Be 	
29 	Rosita 	
30 	Only In My Dreams

Trini Lopez - Primary Artist, Vocals 

Almost certainly an unauthorized release, this 30-track CD claims to include all the songs Lopez recorded before his "If I Had a Hammer" hit in 1963, although it doesn't give original issue dates or labels for any of the cuts. Actually, it's missing a few of his pre-Reprise sides, including his late '50s singles with the Big Beats, as well as his 1959 King single "Nola"/"Rosalia." But it does have all of the other late '50s/early '60s tunes that showed up on King singles, along with one-off 45s during the same era for Volk, DRA, and United Modern. At this point in his career, Lopez was not a folk/pop troubadour, but a pop-rock singer, spooning out generic recordings in the teen idol and mild rockabilly styles. There's barely a hint of the Tex-Mex-Latin lilt that would characterize his famous '60s hits, though you can hear that come through fairly strongly on one of the better songs, "Jeanie Marie." In fact this is largely given over to sub-Elvis Presley ballads, with occasional more swinging cuts that rise above that level, such as the R&B-tinged "It Hurts to Be in Love," and the moody "The Search Goes On," which again hints a bit at his future incarnation as folk/pop troubadour. (It's also one of the few songs here on which Lopez has a piece of the songwriting credits.) Really, it's difficult to imagine how anyone could have had high hopes for this stuff; the material is often embarrassingly derivative and unmemorable, and Lopez does not invest it with overwhelming passion or personality. Incidentally, "Sinner Not a Saint" was written by Shel Talmy, later producer of the Who, the Kinks, and numerous other notables; Lopez was the first artist he produced. ---Richie Unterberger, AllMusic Review

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