Ricky Nelson

The Best of Ricky Nelson
$19.98
This disc is loaded with the best that you can get. It contains all of his top 40 hits. Rarely do you see a collection so complete. They have compiled his life in music. You will not be dissapointed.

A Tribute to Ricky Nelson
$12.98
Excellent is all I can say about this DVD. I had it on VHS but the DVD version is so clear and the sound is super. Much better then the VHS version. What a shame the kids of today do not have someone like Ricky to look up too. He, as well as the whole Nelson family, brought my family and I so many years of laughter. If you are a fan of Ricky Nelson, this DVD is for you. It's highly recommended! And someday I hope there will be other high quality DVD's available of Ozzie, Harriet, David and Rick.

Ricky Sings Again/Songs by Ricky
$16.98
I remember watching Rick Nelson on "Ozzie and Harriet" when he was Ricky and I liked his music. I liked it a lot, bought his records. Both of these came out in 1959 and if they were packaged separately they'd both have made my list, but since Capitol has seen fit to re-package them together, I'm putting them on my list as a single record. Two excellent records for the price of one. You can't beat that.

The set opens with the rocking "It's Late", a song you gotta love. How many guys have found themselves out too late with a girl and now have to face her dad's wrath. I know that happened to me on more than one occasion. Lucky for me Vesta's dad liked me. And I did marry his daughter.

This set also includes "Lonesome Town" which, I believe is one of the best songs Rick has ever done. "Half Breed" is also on this set, a song that gets left off all those Rick Nelson compilations. The song is only two minutes, two seconds long, but it's got a message. Everybody, no matter the color of there skin, is equal, but sometimes you gotta stand up for your rights. A man is a man as long as long as he can stand and think straight.

Listening to this set you can see why Rick Nelson became the rocker he did. It's too bad his career was cut short. There'll never ever be anyone else like Rick Nelson.

This Record is Number 7 on my list of the Best Thirteen Records of 1959.

Ricky Nelson Sings
$19.98
The Cd is Immaculate, it has every song I could want on one disc. The DVD was only 20 minutes long. I was expecting a full length dvd with interviews of people who knew him OR that it would be the same dvd as "Ricky Nelson Sings" which is a 90 minute dvd with the same artwork as this/ same time of release. Originally I was going to buy the CD and the Ricky Nelson Sings DVD but I opted for this combo thinking I'd save some cash. If I had it to do over I'd buy the regular CD and Ricky Nelson Sings DVD separately.

But watching the DVD you see a very young Ricky Nelson who didn't perform with the intensity of most rock n' roll performers, instead he has a laid back, subtle, eerie, enchanted approach to his style of performance. With piercing eyes even in black and white. As far as being a teen idol which I'd equate with the type of idol that would appear in the teen beat magazines, Ricky has a great understanding of real true rock n' roll. For some reason i can't really put into words but his younger performances were more entertaining or memorizing. as he matures he seems a bit bored with the idea of tv performance/lip syncing. but understandably he kept doing the performances because it made sense with all the exposure each single got. The Young performances are true gems to me.