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The Best of the Rivieras: California Sun | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Rivieras
Label: Norton
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 81167
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 272
UPC: 731253027222
EAN: 0731253027222
ASIN: B00004RDRZ
Release Date: April 18, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | California Sun - The Rivieras, Glover, Henry | | • | Danny Boy - The Rivieras, Weatherly, Frederic | | • | Twist and Shout - The Rivieras, Medley, Phil | | • | Little Donna - The Rivieras, Dobslaw, B. | | • | Church Key - The Rivieras, Darnold, Dan | | • | Killer Joe - The Rivieras, Russell, Bert | | • | Let's Have a Party - The Rivieras, Robinson, Jessie Ma | | • | Rockin' Robin - The Rivieras, Thomas, Jimmie | | • | H.B. Goose Step - The Rivieras, Rivieras [1] | | • | Keep a Knockin' - The Rivieras, Little Richard | | • | Oh, Boy! - The Rivieras, West, Sonny | | • | When the Saints Go Marching In - The Rivieras, Traditional | | • | Played On - The Rivieras, Fortson, M. | | • | Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On - The Rivieras, Williams, D.C. | | • | Battle Line - The Rivieras, | | • | Rip It Up - The Rivieras, Marascalco, John | | • | Let's Go to Hawaii - The Rivieras, Dobslaw, B. | | • | Lakeview Lane - The Rivieras, Dobslaw, B. | | • | Tossin' and Turnin' - The Rivieras, Adams, Ritchie | | • | Bug Juice - The Rivieras, Nuss, O. | | • | Comin' Back Home - The Rivieras, Dobslaw, B. | | • | Fortune Teller - The Rivieras, Neville, Naomi | | • | Church Key, Pt. 2 - The Rivieras, Darnold, D. | | • | California Sun '65 - The Rivieras, Glover, Henry |
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Rivieras on c/d May 10, 2008
Their title song is great. Have liked it since the sixties. But never could find a copy, till I saw it available from Amazon. I also did'nt
know they had so many other songs available.
 As Complete As You Can Get August 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll say one thing for this Norton release - it is complete, giving you all six sides of their four hits (one was a double-sided hit) from 1964, coupled with excellent sound quality.
But if ever a group was said to have "fallen off the table" following their initial hit it's this bunch from South Bend, Indiana. With Marty Fortson providing the lead on California Sun, and taking their name from the Riviera label, they fairly exploded onto the scene early in 1964, taking it all the way to # 5 Billboard Pop Hot 100. Not bad in the very midst of the earliest stages of the British Invasion and at a time when The Beatles alone had SEVENTEEN hits competing for chart positions.
Both B-sides to that hit are here as well, with H.B. Goose Step appearing on some and Played On on others. Perhaps they should have hung on to Fortson, because after he left following that hit Bill Dobslaw took over on Little Donna. By May, however, the British Invasion was in full force and this blatant rip-off of Chuck Berry's Sweet Little 16 struggled to a # 93 Hot 100. The flipside, a cover of Wanda Jackson's 1960 hit, Let's Have A Party, just made the Hot 100 at # 99.
Their final hit came that September when their cover of Rockin' Robin clocked in at # 96 Hot 100 b/w Battle Line. That would turn out to be the poorest showing for this bouncy tune, first taken to # 2 in 1958 by Bobby Day, and then to # 2 again in 1972 by Michael Jackson.
After that they faded quickly from the scene. So, not exactly a memorable group, but one that did flirt briefly with fame with that one big hit. And speaking for completist collectors everywhere, may I say this is what we like to see when it comes to an artist or group with but a handful of hits. Take note Collectables.
Made us all want to move to California July 29, 2007
I bought one of the first copies of the album at the behest of drummer Paul Dennert's father, a fabulous man who sadly had become nearly totally paralyzed. He found joy in this band and told me they were going to "be big." We in South Bend knew the Buick Riviera with Illinois plates was sitting on a Lake Michigan beach, but we still wanted to believe. I did make it to living on the California beach for part of the next decade. Sadly, I lost that Rivieras album along with my whole record collection to Hurricane Alicia that hit Galveston in 1983. Most were scratched and beer soaked by then anyway. I have replaced some over the years by scouring used record stores and now, the internet. The problem is I find I don't listen to them and one needs to assess the value of nostalgia. The Rivieras did represent an era of innocence and abandon just before our nation plunged into the darkness of racial strife and war. It was to be two more years before I smelled my first marijuana smoke. Surf music by then was being replaced by acid rock.
RELATED July 23, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am wanting to let all the main singer of The Rivieras
(MARTY), know that we are related and i have been looking on-line for your CD. Also i just read you have your own band now , please e-mail me with more information on your new band. I would love to come listen to you all play.
hope to hear from you soon.
WARDEN
RELATED July 19, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am wanting to let all the main singer of The Rivieras
(MARTY), know that we are related and i have been looking on-line for your CD. Also i just read you have your own band now , please e-mail me with more information on your new band. I would love to come listen to you all play.
hope to hear from you soon.
WARDEN
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