The 30 tracks in this 4th entry in Ace of London's great series The Golden Age Of American Rock `N' Roll are shown in the Comments below. Eight of them made it into the lucrative Billboard Pop Top/Hot 10 (5, 8, 9, 17 - the only # 1 - 22, 24 and 30), joined by another five that found their way into the Top 20 (6, 10, 19, 23 and 29), seven more that finished Top 30 (3, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 21), and one that just made the Top 40 (track 11). That's 21 out of the 30 tracks which were solid hits by any standard. Many were also R&B cross-overs and most of the songs presented here were distributed by the small independent labels springing up all across the U.S. in the period covered (1954 - 1963). Most simply did not have the funds for publicity and promotion at the disposal of giants like Columbia (and their Okeh and Epic subsidiaries) and RCA, the mid-range outfits like Atlantic, Dot, Roulette and Scepter, or even some of the better-known small operations such as Swan and Josie.