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BARGAIN BASEMENT
COMPACT DISCS - Vintage Rock 'n' Roll & Rockabilly
Various Artists
| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Ace CDCHD 289 | Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll | ● CD |
| 30 tracks, very highly recommended The first volume in this long running series. All 30 songs in this collection are pre-British Invasion era, the earliest from 1954 and the latest from 1963. The expected classics are here: The Penguins' Earth Angel, Bobby Day's Rockin' Robin, The Skyliners' Since I Don't Have You, Crests' 16 Candles and so on. But it also contains the less-often collected Sally Go Round The Roses by The Jaynetts, My True Story from The Jive Five, The Genies' Who's That Knocking, I Love How You Love Me by The Paris Sisters, and more. You get over 78 minutes of great music, without having to change 45's every other minute. Liner notes are excellent, and provide the US and UK labels, numbers and peak chart position for every cut. This is a collection put together by people who love the music, on a CD that looks like a 45! Nice touch, no? (JC) THE CADETS: Stranded In The Jungle/ CLAUDINE CLARK: Party Lights/ THE CORSAIRS: Smoky Places/ JOHNNY CRAWFORD: Cindy's Birthday/ THE CRESTS: Sixteen Candles/ BOBBY DAY: Rockin' Robin/ THE DREAMLOVERS: When We Get Maried/ PRESTON EPPS: Bongo Rock/ THE FENDERMEN: Mule Skinner Blues/ MISS TONI FISHER: The Big Hurt/ THE GENIES: Who's That Knocking/ RON HOLDEN: Love You So/ THE INNOCENTS: Gee Whiz/ THE JARMELS: A Little Bit Of Soap/ THE JAYNETTS: Sally Go Round The Roses/ THE JIVE FIVE: My Trun Story/ THE KINGSMEN: Louie Louie/ CURTIS LEE: Pretty Little Angel Eyes/ BOBBY LEWIS: Tossin' and Turnin'/ CHRIS MONTEZ: Let's Dance/ THE PARIS SISTERS;: I Love How You Love Me/ THE PENGUINS: Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)/ RANDY & THE RAINBOWS: Denise/ ROSIE & THE ORIGINALS: Angel Baby/ THE SAFARIS: Image Of A Girl/ SKIP & FLIP: Cherry Pie/ THE SKYLINERS: Since I Don't Have You/ THE TEEN QUEENS: Eddie My Love/ LENNY WELCH: Since I Fell For You/ KATHY YOUNG WITH THE INNOCENTS: A Thousand Stars |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Ace CDCHD 445 | Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 2 | ● CD |
| 30 tracks, 74 min., recommended Sometimes a well-chosen, long, various artist program is just what the CD format seems to have been made for. And this one's a good one. A generous slice of mostly top 40 material recorded between 1956 and 1964, and the companion piece to the earlier issued Volume 1 of the same name (Ace 289). Featured numbers include Memphis by Lonnie Mack, You Belong To Me by the Duprees, A Million To One by Jimmy Charles, Stay by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, You By The Aquatones, I've Had It by the Bell Notes, and Buzz, Buzz, Buzz by the Hollywood Flames. The focus is clearly on the fifties. Sound quality, cover art, and notes are up to Ace's usual high standards. (DH) THE AQUATONES: You/ THE BELL NOTES: I've Had It/ BILLY BLAND: Let The Little Girl Dance/ THE BLUE BELLES: I Sold My Heart To The Junkman/ THE CAPRIS: There's A Moon Out Tonight/ JIMMY CHARLES: A Million To One/ BOBBY COMSTOCK: Let's Stomp/ THE CRESCENDOS: Oh Julie/ KENNY DINO: Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night/ HAROLD DORMAN: Mountain Of Love/ THE DUPREES: You Belong To Me/ THE ETERNALS: Rockin' In The Jungle/ THE FIVE SATINS: In The Still Of The Night/ GABRIEL & THE ANGELS: That's Life (That's Tough)/ BARBARA GEORGE: I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)/ THE GLADIOLAS: Little Darlin'/ THE HALOS: Nag/ THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES: Alley Oop/ THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES: Buzz Buzz Buzz/ LONNIE MACK: Memphis/ SANDY NELSON: Teen Beat/ THE PARADONS: Diamonds And Pearls/ THE QUINTONES: Stay Aisle Of Love/ THE RIVIERAS: California Sun/ THE ROCKIN' REBELS: Wild Weekend/ THE SILHOUETTES: Get A Job/ THE VIDELS: Mister Lonely/ THE WILLOWS: Church Bells May Ring/ LINK WRAY: Rumble |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat 6000 | The Rock 'n' Roll Explosion | ● CD |
| 6 CDs, 120 tracks, 300 Mins, highly recommended This is a massive amount of music, in a tight little package (though not a terribly functional little package) for very little money. If you wanted to teach a class on Rock 'N' Roll, this set would pretty much be the perfect collection to tell the story. So many of the classic hits are here, with all of the big names represented - Elvis, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and all of their contemporaries as well as some greats that aren't necessarily household names. Next to Gene Vincent's Be Bop A Lu La, there is also his Bluejean Bop, and Race With The Devil. Next to The Platters, there are The Turbins, Cadilacs, Five Keys, and Domino's. Then there's Bo Diddley, Bill Haley, Smiley Lewis--it goes on and on. This is an instant jukebox, and even some of the hardcore collectors might find a track or two that they don't have. Only the full track listing will tell for sure, but I am guessing this could easily replace a lot of lesser compilations in our collections with its fantastic sound and thorough line-up. (JM) LAVERN BAKER: Jim Dandy/ Tra La La/ Tweedlee Dee/ CHUCK BERRY: Brown Eyed Handsome Man/ Maybellene/ No Money Down/ Roll Over Beethoven/ Thirty Days/ Too Much Monkey Business/ You Can't Catch Me/ JACKIE BRENSTON: Rocket 88/ RUTH BROWN: 5-10-15 Hours/ Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean/ JOHNNY BURNETTE: Train Kept A Rollin'/ THE CADILLACS: Speedo/ SANFORD CLARK: The Fool/ BO DIDDLEY: Bo Diddley/ Bring It To Jerome/ Diddley Daddy/ Pretty Thing/ Who Do You Love/ BILL DOGGETT: Honky Tonk Part 1/ Honky Tonk Part 2/ FATS DOMINO: Ain't It A Shame/ All By Myself/ Blue Monday/ Blueberry Hill/ Bo Weevil/ I'm In Love Again/ My Blue Heaven/ Poor Me/ When My Dreamboat Comes Home/ THE DOMINOES: Sixty Minute Man/ THE DRIFTERS: Bip Bam/ Lucille/ Money Honey/ Ruby Baby/ Such A Night/ Whatcha Gonna Do/ THE ELDORADOS: At My Front Door/ THE FIVE KEYS: Ling Ting Tong/ THE FIVE SATINS: In The Still Of The Nite/ THE G CLEFS: Ka Ding Dong/ BILL HALEY: Birth Of The Boogie/ Burn That Candle/ Choo Choo Ch'boogie/ Dim Dim The Lights/ Don't Knock The Rock/ Hot Dog Buddy Buddy/ Mambo Rock/ R.O.C.K./ Razzle Dazzle/ Rip It Up/ Rock A Beatin Boogie/ Rock Around The Clock/ Rudy's Rock/ See You Later Alligator/ Shake Rattle And Roll/ Two Hound Dogs/ CLARENCE 'FROGMAN' HENRY: Ain't Got No Home/ SMILEY LEWIS: I Hear You Knocking/ LITTLE RICHARD: All Around The World/ Heebie Jeebies/ Long Tall Sally/ Ready Teddy/ Rip It Up/ She's Got It/ Slippin And Slidin/ The Girl Can't Help It/ Tutti Frutti/ JIM LOWE: Green Door/ FRANKIE LYMON AND THE TEENAGERS: I Promise To Remember/ I Want You To Be My Girl/ The A B C's Of Love/ Who Can Explain/ Why Do Fools Fall In Love/ ROY ORBISON: Ooby Dooby/ Rockhouse/ CARL PERKINS: Blue Suede Shoes/ Boppin The Blues/ Dixie Fried/ Honey Don't/ THE PLATTERS: My Prayer/ Only You/ The Great Pretender/ The Magic Touch/ You'll Never Know/ ELVIS PRESLEY: Anyway You Want Me/ Baby Let's Play House/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky/ Blue Suede Shoes/ Don't Be Cruel/ Good Rocking Tonight/ Heartbreak Hotel/ Hound Dog/ I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine/ I Forgot To Remember To Forget/ I Want You I Need You I Love You/ I Was The One/ I'm Left You're Right I'm Gone/ Love Me/ Love Me Tender/ Milkcow Blues Boogie/ Money Honey/ My Baby Left Me/ Mystery Train/ Paralyzed/ That's Allright/ You're A Heartbreaker/ THE ROBINS: Smokey Joe's Cafe/ SHIRLEY AND LEE: I Feel Good/ Let The Good Times Roll/ WARREN SMITH: Ubangi Stomp/ THE TURBANS: When You Dance/ BIG JOE TURNER: Corrinne Corrina/ Honey Hush/ Lipstick Powder And Paint/ GENE VINCENT: Be Bop A Lu La/ Bluejean Bop/ Race With The Devil |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat ACQCD 7002 | 1956 British Hit Parade, Part 1 | ● CD |
| 4 CD set with 95 tracks featuring every record that
entered the UK charts between January and June of 1956 - Bill Hayes,
Frank Sinatra, Gary Miller, Dick james, Nat King Cole, Frankie Vaughan,
Ronnie Hilton, Dave King, Johnnie Ray, David Whitfield, etc. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat ACQCD 7008 | Brylcreemed Boys & Beehived Birds - Birth Of British Ro | ● CD |
| 4 discs, 128 tracks, recommended If you ever wanted to find out how British Rock n' Roll measures to the Yank variety, well here's your chance; this 4 disc box set does a good job of illustrating what went on in Britain while we were digging the R&B of LaVern Baker, Ray Charles, and Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and the Rock n' Roll of Bill Haley, Elvis, and Chuck Berry. The discs spotlight nearly everyone who loomed large in early Brit R 'N' R: Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde, Larry Page, Frankie Vaughan, Alma Cogan, Winifred Atwell and more. This music is not everybody's cup of tea (pun intended), but for anyone who wants to hear the British response to Bill Haley and the Comets, this is the box set for you. (GMC) BILLIE ANTHONY: Rock-A-Billy/ WINIFRED ATWELL: Boogie In The Groove/ Bumble Boogie/ Spaceship Boogie/ Vine Street Boogie/ JOHN BARRY SEVEN: Zip Zip/ ART BAXTER & HIS ROCK 'N' ROLL SINNERS: Don't Knock The Rock/ I Gotta Have Lovin'/ Rock You Sinners/ DICKIE BENNETT: Dungaree Doll/ THE BEVERLEY SISTERS: Born To Be With You/ Bye Bye Love/ I Dreamed/ Long Black Nylons/ RORY BLACKWELL: Bye Bye Love/ EVE BOSWELL: Where In The World Is Billy?/ JOHNNY BRANDON: Rock-A-Bye Baby/ Shim Sham Shuffle/ BERYL BRYDEN'S BACKROOM SKIFFLE: Rock Me/ THE CANADIANS: Blue Suede Shoes/ See You Later Alligator/ JOEY CASTELL: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone/ Trying To Get To You/ PETULA CLARK: Alone/ Gonna Find Me A Bluebird/ ALMA COGAN: Fabulous/ I'm In Love Again/ Paper Kisses/ This Ole House/ Willie Can/ TONY CROMBIE & HIS ROCKETS: Let's You And I Rock/ Short'nin' Bread Rock/ Stop It (I Like It)/ Teach You To Rock/ JIM DALE: Be My Girl/ Crazy Dream/ JILL DAY: I Hear You Knocking/ TERRY DENE: Baby She's Gone/ C'min And Be Loved/ Come And Get It/ Green Corn/ Star Movin' (In My Direction)/ LORRAE DESMOND & HER REBELS: You Won't Be Around/ JOHNNY DUNCAN & HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS: If You Love Me Baby/ Rockabilly Baby/ RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET: Giddy Up A Ding-Dong/ Left Hand Boogie/ Stranded In The Jungle/ That Rock 'n' Rollin' Man/ THE FIVE SMITH BROTHERS: ABC Boogie/ THE FOUR JONES BOYS: Tutti Frutti/ THE GOONS: Bloodnok's Rock 'n' Roll Call/ RUSS HAMILTON: We Will Make Love/ WEE WILLIE HARRIS: Rockin' At The 2 I's/ COLIN HICKS & HIS CABIN BOYS: Empty Arms Blues/ Wild Eyes And Tender Lips/ RICKY JAMES: Bluer Than Blue/ Knee Deep In The Blues/ Party Doll/ THE JOHNSTON BROTHERS: Sh'Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)/ THUNDERCLAP JONES: Ask For Joe/ THE KING BROTHERS: Wake Up Little Susie/ IVOR & BASIL KIRCHIN BAND: Tweedle Dee/ DON LANG: Rock Pretty Baby/ School Day/ Seventeen/ Six-Five Special/ LEE LAWRENCE: Rock 'n' Roll Opera/ LAURIE LONDON: He's Got The Whole World In His Hands/ DENNIS LOTIS: Honey Love/ Sugaree/ HUMPHREY LYTTELTON & HIS BAND: Bad Penny Blues/ KEN MACKINTOSH: Raunchy/ Slow Walk/ GARY MILLER: Since I Met You Baby/ The Garden Of Eden/ SUZI MILLER: Dance With Me Henry/ Tweedle Dee/ THE MOST BROTHERS: Whistle Bait/ LARRY PAGE: Cool Shake/ That'll Be The Day/ JIMMY PARKINSON: The Great Pretender/ JACK PARNELL: Birmingham Bounce/ Shake, Rattle And Roll/ JOAN REGAN: Love Me To Pieces/ LITA ROZA: Crazy Man Crazy/ Lucky Lips/ Oakie Boogie/ Two Hearts, Two Kisses/ MARION RYAN: Ding Dong Rock-A-Billy Wedding/ Why Do Fools Fall In Love?/ THE SAINTS JAZZ BAND: Boogie Woogie Stomp/ TOMMY SAMPSON: Rockin'/ JOAN SAVAGE: Lula Rock-A-Hula/ With All My Heart/ ANNE SHELTON: Seven Days/ PAULINE SHEPHERD: Treasure Of Love/ JOAN SMALL: Gonna Get Along Without You Now/ You Can't Say I Love You (To A Rock 'n' Roll Tune)/ JOHNNY SOUTHERN & THE WESTERN RHYTHM KINGS: She's Long, She's Tall/ THE SOUTHLANDERS: Ain't That A Shame/ Alone/ Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)/ Hush-A-Bye Rock/ BILLY SPROUD: Rock Mr Piper/ THE SQUADRONAIRES: Rock 'n' Roll Boogie/ THE STARGAZERS: She Loves To Rock/ TOMMY STEELE & THE STEELMEN: Build Up/ Butterfly/ Rock With The Caveman/ Singing The Blues/ Take Me Back Baby/ FRANKIE VAUGHAN: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine/ My Boy Flat Top/ The Green Door/ Wanderin' Eyes/ THE HEDLEY WARD TRIO: Rock Around The Clock/ GALE WARNING: Heartbreak Hotel/ TERRY WAYNE: Boppin' The Blues/ Matchbox/ Slim Jim Tie/ Your True Love/ BERT WEEDON: Flannel Foot/ Honky Tonk/ MARTY WILDE & THE WILD CATS: Honeycomb/ Love Bug Crawl/ Wild Cat/ ERIC WINSTONE & HIS ORCHESTRA: Rhythm 'n' Blues |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat 7009 | Pig Iron, Washboards, Freight Trains & Kazoos | ● CD |
| Four CD set with 120 tracks (!) features the most
in-depth look at that peculiarly British popular music phenomenon -
Skiffle. With it's home made, do it yourself ethos skiffle briefly
rivaled rock 'n' roll and the hot, new teenage craze during 1956 and
'57. This compilation features every major skiffle and all the genres
big names along with lots of lesser known artists. Includes Lonnie
Donegan, The Vipers Skiffle Group, Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group, City
Ramblers, Alan Lomax & The Ramblers, Johnny Duncan & His Bluegrass Boys,
Alexis Korner's Breakdown Group (with Cyril Davies), Johnny Parker's
Washboard Band, Ken Colyer Skiffle Group, Bob Wallis' Washboard Beaters,
Peggy Seeger with Guy Carawan, Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skiffle, The
Clyde Valley Stompers and others. Includes 48 page booklet with
extensive notes by Roger Dopson. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat ACTRCD 9005 | British No. 1 Hits, 1950-1957: Melodies, Mambo, Waltzes | ● CD |
| 3 discs, 75 tracks, recommended This box set is exactly what the title says: a collection of No. 1 British hits from the years 1050 to '57, and for the most part the music is pre-rock 'n' roll pop that runs the gamut from show tunes and movie music (Moulin Rouge, Mantovani; Secret Love, Doris Day; Three Coins in the Fountain, Frank Sinatra) to mainstream pop (The Tennessee Waltz, Patti Page; Comes A-Long-A-Love, Kay Starr) to novelty tunes (I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat, Mel Blanc) to country (Guy Mitchell, Frankie Laine, Tennesse Ernie Ford) and everything in between. Rock 'n' Roll rears its ugly head on disc 2 in the form of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock and Frankie Lymon & the Teenager's Why Do Fools Fall in Love, and fully takes hold on disc 3 with Johnny Ray, Tommy Steele, Lonnie Donegan (skiffle division), Elvis, and the Crickets (with Buddy Holly). Basically, this set is for musicologists, the curious, and anyone else who wants to know what our British cousins listened to before rock 'n' roll turned the world upside down. From this evidence, I'd say that British tastes weren't that different from American ones, at least during the first half of the decade. (GMC) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Charly CPCD 8137 | Unissued Sun Masters | ● CD |
| 30 tracks, 69 min., recommended These vintage rockabilly tracks, not up to Sam Phillips "release standard" at the time of their recording in the mid-50's to early 60's, may not compare handsomely with the prime works of Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny, Warren, Carl or Billy, but they still make most of the non-Sun competition look pretty weak. And this material is truly obscure, with many cuts not listed in previous "complete" discographies and all appearing on CD for the first time. Includes artists like Howard Chandler, Curley Money (the great Chain Gang Charlie with hot guitar), Andy Anderson (a slow alternate of his Johnny Valentine), Jesse Lee Turner, Narvel Felts, Carl McVoy, Curtis Hobeck, Teddy Reidel and others. There is even an unknown artist with a terrific bluesy Little Red Hen. If you're a got-to-have-it-all Sun Records fan, or if you're just a dyed-in-the-wool rockabilly lover, this is not a disc you'll want to pass by. A number of these tracks have subsequently turned up on Volume 14 of "That'll Flat Git" on Bear Family ($21.98) . Solid sound quality, and worthwhile artist-by-artist liner notes by Adam Komorowski. (DH/ FS) ANDY ANDERSON: Johnny Valentine/ HOWARD CHANDLER: Wampus Cat/ HAROLD DORMAN: I'm Stepping Aside/ NARVEL FELTS: Cry Baby Cry/ Did You Tell Me/ Teenage Way/ RAY GARDEN: This Chick/ RUDY GRAYZELL: Remember When/ JIMMY HAGGETT: Rabbit Action/ CURTIS HOBACK: King Is Back, The/ With My Best Friend/ GLENN HONEYCUTT: Campus Love/ CARL MCVOY: Little Girl/ You're The Only Star/ CURLEY MONEY: Chain Gang Charlie/ KEN PARCHMAN: Love Crazy Baby/ Treat Me Right/ DICK PENNER: Someday Baby/ JOHNNY POWERS: But Now That It's Over/ Don't Got Away/ LYNN PRATT: If I Can't Have You/ JIMMY PRITCHETT: Nothing On My Mind/ TEDDY REIDEL: Stop/ Tired Of Love/ GENE ROSS: Everybody's Trying To Kiss My Baby/ GENE SIMMONS: Peroxide Blond & Hopped Up Model Ford/ RAY SMITH: Right Behind You Baby/ CLIFF THOMAS: Dance Little Girl/ JESSE LEE TURNER: Put Me Down/ UNKNOWN ARTIST: Little Red Hen |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Charly CPCD 8318 | Sun Rock 'n' Roll, Vol. 2 | ● CD |
| 26 tracks from the Sun vaults - includes eight
previously unissued songs and one previously unissued alternate take -
Wade Cagle & The Escorts, Jerry McGill & The Topcoats, Smokey Joe Baugh,
James Woods, Roger Fakes, Alton & Jimmy, Ken Cook, EDdie Bush, Jimmy
Isle, Charlie Rich and others. ALTON & JIMMY: I Just Don't Know/ What's The Use/ Why Do I Love You/ ERNIE BARTON: Stairway To Nowhere/ SMOKEY JOE BAUGH: She's A Woman/ EDDIE BUSH: Baby I Don't Care/ WADE CAGLE: Forty Days (unissued)/ Oowee Oowee (unissued)/ KEN COOK: Don't Be Runnin' Wild (problem Child)/ I Was A Fool/ ROGER FAKES: Somehow We'll Find A Way/ CURTIS HOBACK: Trip Into Love/ GLEN HONEYCUTT: Bagpipe Rock/ Hula Lula/ JIMMY ISLE: Without A Love/ ROLAND JAMES: Little Bitty Pretty Girl/ CARL MANN: Stop The World And Let Me Off/ JERRY MCGILL: Lovestruck/ CARL MCVOY: Born To Lose/ I'll Be Satisfied/ It Makes No Difference Now/ JOHNNY POWERS: Trouble/ CHARLIE RICH: Yes Ma'am/ JAMES WOODS: Gonna Give A Party/ Hey Mr. Shoes/ Lock You In My Heart |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Collector 4501 | Have A Boogie Christmas Rock & Roll | ● CD |
| Fine collection of 29 Christmas songs - mostly
rockabilly and rock 'n' roll from the 50s plus some piano boogie,
country, bluegrass and, out of left field, the pre war black group The
Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers with the great Christ Was Born
On A Christmas Morn. The opening track by Ricky Godfrew and Rudy
Blue sounds like a recent recording but most of the rest is from the 50s
and 60s and most of them are making their first appearance on a
Christmas themed anthology. Includes Ted Daigle, Rusty Richmond, Sonny
Moore, nelson Young, Big Bud, Paul Bain, etc. PAUL BAIN: Santa Claus Boogie/ BIG BUD: Rock Around The Christmas Tree/ Snow Man Rock/ JERRY CLAYTON: Santa Claus/ COTTON TOP MOUNTAIN SANCTIFIED SINGERS: Christ Was Born On Christmas Morn/ TED DAIGLE: New Baby For Christmas/ THE FABULOUS: Thunderbirds-Rockin Winter Wonderland/ LITTLE JOEY FARR: Rock & Roll Santa/ RICKY GODFREW & RUDG BLUE: Shoes-Boogie Woogie Christmas/ THE JACKSON TRIO: Jingle Bell Hop/ CAROLYN KAG & GRAND PAREES: A Christmas Halo/ BIG TINY LITTLE: Silver Bells/ Ting's Christmas Medley/ GORDON MACMILLAN & DIPLOMAT TRIO: Jingle Bells Boogie/ SAMMY MARSHALL: Jingle Mint Twist/ SONNY MOORE: Santa's Lil Helper/ LITTLE BOBBY RAG: Rockin J Bells/ RUSTY RICHMOND: Santa's Here To Stay/ THE ROBIN SISTERS: Chimney Top Twist/ Santa's Little Workshop/ SHOO & THE RAINDROPS: Jingle Bell Stomp/ GERRY STEADMAN & THE ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN BOGS: Holiday Rock/ ROY TAN & COMBO: Happy New Year/ THE UNIGUES: Rock 'N' Rudolph/ UNKNOWN BAND: December Rock (Take3)/ THE VEL-MARS: Jingle Bell's/ MICHAEL T. WALL: Rock Around The Christmas Tree/ Rockin Santa Claus/ NELSON YOUNG: Christmas Time Is Near |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Collectables 5319 | Have Yourself A Ball | ● CD |
| Originally an LP on the English Krazy Kat label. A set
of 14 sides from Gotham's rock'n'roll subsidiary 20th Century. Most of
the tunes are in a Bill Haley-ish rockaphilly jive style featuring brass
sections, sax solos and forced-sounding "teenaged" lyrics. The best here
are the 5 earliest Charlie Gracie sides, pre-Cameo, backed by The
Wildcats - helped quite a bit by Charlie's great guitar solos - Honey
Honey/ Wildwood Boogie + 3. There's a couple alternate takes by
Bobby Boyd's Jazz Bombers, unissued material by The Playboys and
coverboys Don Haven & The Hi-Fi's (which may also be The Playboys, The
Nu-Tones, heard here on Jump Figaro Jump and The Bombers) and
finally 2 by Mike Pedicin Quintet including his hit cover of Shake A
Hand. BOBBY BOYD'S JAZZ BOMBERS: Dilly Dally/ Rockin' And Rollin' The Blues/ CHARLIE GRACIE & THE WILDCATS: Frankie And Johnny/ Head Home Honey/ Honey Honey/ My Baby Loves Me/ Wildwood Boogie/ DON HAVEN & THE HI-FI'S: Everybody's Going Crazy/ Have Yourself A Ball/ THE NUTONES: Jump Figaro Jump/ MIKE PEDECIN QUINTET: Shake A Hand/ THE MIKE PEDECIN QUINTET: Disc Jockey's Boogie/ THE PLAYBOYS: Everybody's Going Crazy/ Mambo Boogie |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Collector 7757 | Early Rock & Roll from New Zealand, Vol. 9 & 10 | ● CD |
| Another two CD set for the price of one from Collector documenting early
rock 'n' roll from New Zealand. This double set features 47 tracks
recorded for the Viking label in the late 50s and the 60s. A lot of
covers of American hits along with some home grown original compositions
- The Q-Tees, Cole Wilson & Tumbleweeds, The Reataz with The Satellites,
Bill Morton & the Al Paget Sextet, Dave Henry & The Sundowners, Peter
Posa, Little Joy Yates, etc. Includes 20 page booklet with detailed
notes, photos, etc. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Del-Fi 9008 | Wild Surf | ● CD |
| 24 tracks, 55 min, recommended This solid sampler collects top-notch tracks from Del-Fi's finest and even throws in some lesser-knowns as a bonus. The Lively Ones start things off with Surf Rider/Wipeout!/Misirlou/Surf Beat and their awesome Exodus with energy to spare, followed by the Centurions with 3 of their best Surfin' At Mazatland/Bullwinkle Pt. II/Body Surfin'. Dave Myers and the Surftones pile on the reverb for the staples Church Key/Moment Of Truth, while San Luis' Sentinals get exotic on 5 more, including Latin Soul/Exotic. The Impacts (featuring Merrel Fankhauser) slow it down with the excellent Blue Surf, only to follow it with the thundering Impact. You'll also find the (Original) Surfaris classic 2-sided blast Bombora/Surfari, 2 tunes from the pre-Lively Ones Surfmen (Paradise Cove/Ghost Hop), both sides of the mysterious Pharos' single (Pintor/Rhythm Surfer), and the Gonzos (actually the Centurions in disguise) wacky vocal take of Church Key. Good notes give background on all the bands. If you're wondering what the Del-Fi surf sound is all about, here's your answer. (GDR) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Dragon Street 70100 | The Big "D" Jamboree - Live, Vols 1 & 2 | ● CD |
| Two Cds, 54 tracks, 145 mins, highly recommended Last copy.Another amazing production from Dragon Street Records - this one features two CDs of live recordings made at Dallas's Big "D" in the 50s drawn from recently discovered transcriptions. Most of the recordings were made between 1956 and 1959 along with a short show from 1950. Disc one is all country and disc two is rockabilly and rock 'n roll. Highlight of the set are five live tracks by the great Carl Perkins with his band including his takes on some recent hits by other artists including a fabulous version of That's All Right based on the Elvis version. Some of the tracks from the rockabilly disc have been out on previous Dragon Street issues (Groovey Joe Poover, Johnny Dollar, Gene Vincent) but we also get to hear Johnny Carroll, the mediocre Belew Twins, local rocker Tommy Mitchell doing a good version of Elvis's Too Much, Warren Smith (great!), Jerry Reed, Sid King & The Five Strings, Werly Fairburn, Orville Couch and Ronnie Dee (Dawson). On the country side we get Johnny Cash doing doing three of his recent recordings, The Texas Stompers (the house band which was basically an augmented version of the Light Crust Doughboys), Cowboy Copas, ferlin Husky, Hank Locklin, The Kentucky Mountain Boys, Sherry Davis, Leon Payne, Wanda Jackson and others. There's lots of interesting between song patter and introductions from announcer Johnny Hicks. Sound quality is superb and the set is beautifully packaged in a fold out digipack and comes with a 32 page booklet with extensive notes by Kevin Coffey and lots of great vintage photos - many of them from the Jamboree itself. A class production all round. (FS) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Eagle 90205 | Chicken Rock - Rockin' Around The Mountain | ● CD |
| 29 tracks, 65 mins, highly recommended Excellent and intriguing collection of mostly unissued tracks (at least that's what it claims!) of rockabilly and rock' n' roll. Highlight is four cuts by Carl Perkins, supposedly from an acetate featuring him doing four Sun era songs - Movie Magg/ Turn Around/ Put Your Cat Clothes On/ Look At The Moon. Are these Sun outtakes? Lot's of other good cuts too particularly from The Kingbeats, Jimmy Evans, Red Hadley (a great version of Piano Red's She Knows How To Rock Me), John Kline & Eddie Bond (his Cotton Patch Hop is mistitled Patchuko Hop). There are a couple of excellent instrumentals from The Gentry Brothers. Some nice photos in booklet but no notes - I'd love to know the story behind these sides. (FS) EDDIE BOND: Patchako Hop/ WAYNE BUSBY: Live Your Life With Care/ JIMMY EVANS: I Hate To Say Goodbye/ Pink Cadillac/ What Am I Gonna Do/ THE GENTRY BROTHERS: Swanky (alt) (inst)/ Swooney (alt) (inst)/ RED HADLEY: She Knows How To Rock Me (unissued)/ NEVILLE HAWKS: I Got A Baby (unissued)/ Make It Like Rock 'N' Roll (unissued)/ Morse Code (unissued)/ THE KINGBEATS: I'll Tell My Mama On You/ I've Been A Bad Bad Boy/ I've Been A Bad Bad Boy (alt)/ JOHN KLINE: Rock-A-Billy Baby (unissued)/ DICKEY LEE: She Wears My Goin' Steady Ring/ CURTIS LITTLE: She Won't Let Me Down (unissued)/ WAYNE MCGINNIS: Rock 'N' Roll Rhythm(alt)/ THOMAS MITCHELL: I'm A Wise Ole Cat/ THE MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: Rockin' Round The Mountain/ CARL PERKINS: Look At That Moon (vers. 1)/ Movie Magg(alt)/ Put Your Cat Clothes On (vers. 3)/ Turn Around(alt)/ JOHNNY POWERS: Fallin' Star/ The Bigger They Are/ TOMMY TUCKER: Little More Lovin'/ Rock 'N' Roll Mama/ THE YELVINGTON: Malcolm, It's Me, Baby(alt) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | El Toro 1011 | Tennessee Rock 'n' Billy 1955 | ● CD |
| 33 tracks, 77 min., recommended The territory covered here is mostly familiar, despite (or because of?) the narrow theme chosen for this album. Sun cuts (usual suspects and a few surprises, including Rock 'n' Roll Baby and You're My Baby, demos from Johnny Cash, later recorded for real by Warren Smith and others. Johnny Burnette's Von recordings are here (both of them) with enough surface noise to make them sound authentic. And while aural imperfections derived from vinyl source material (hear Oh Stop! by The Tunesmiths) comes with the rockabilly addiction, why the Sons Of The Pioneers' The Tennessee Rock And Roll (which it isn't) suffers from an embarrassing amount of surface noise is tough to figure, since it came out on a major label. Surely Bear Family has already digitized it, no? Other labels represented include the Hollywood-based Ekko, Columbia, Mercury, Atomic, Meteor, Hickory, and others. A pleasing and generous collection where every song is at least pretty good and many are wonderful. (JC) SMOKEY JOE BAUGH: Hula Bop/ Listen To Me/ EDDIE BOND: Double Duty Lovin'/ Talking Off The Wall/ BARNEY BURCHAM: Can't Steal My Way Around/ JOHNNY BURNETTE: Go Mule Go/ You're Undecided/ THE CARLISLES: Nine Have Tried (And Nine Have Died)/ JOHNNY CASH: Rock 'n' Roll Ruby/ You're My Baby/ ERNIE CHAFFIN: Get Me On Your Mind/ I Can't Lose The Blues/ JACK EARLS: Hey Jim/ They Can't Keep Me From You/ CURLEY GRIFFIN: You Gotta Play Fair/ RED HADLEY: Brother, That's All!/ Ring Out Those Bells/ JESS HOOPER: All Messed Up/ Sleepy Time Blues/ RUSTY & DOUG KERSHAW (WITH WILEY BARKDULL): So Lovely Baby/ MAC & JAKE: Yakety Yak/ LLOYD MCCULLOUGH: Oh Darling/ Watch That Girl/ CARL PERKINS: Gone, Gone, Gone/ You Can't Make Love To Somebody/ ELVIS PRESLEY: I Forgot To Remember To Forget/ I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone/ MAC SALES: A Gal Named Joe/ THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS: The Tennessee Rock and Roll/ HAYDEN THOMPSON: Act Like You Love Me/ I Feel The Blues Comin' On/ THE TUNESMITHS: Baby, I'm Ready/ Oh Stop! |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | K-Tel 6256 | Kahuna Classics - A Collection Of Surf Music | ● CD |
| 32 surf tunes from The Surfaris, Beach Boys, Mar-Ketts,
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Mr. D.J. 101 | Cruisin' Classics, Vol. 1 - Lost Rock 'n' Roll Treasur | ● CD |
| 30 tracks, 67 mins, highly recommended A very hot collection of black and white rock 'n roll from the 50s. Intriguingly it includes a track from 1954 called Oh Maria which is supposed to be by the Cubans featuring Chuck Berry before he signed to Chess! Is it? Could be - it is a calypso flavored number not unlike some of those Chuck recorded for Chess but no guitar - so.... Among the rockin' gems here are Buck Rogers & His Jets doing Rose Marie, The Satans cover Lazy Lester's rockin' blues Sugar Coated Love, Sleepy LaBeef outrasps Hank Ballad on his version of Tore Up, T.V. Slim tells what happened when Flatfoot Sam Met Jim Dandy, Clyde Stacy does one of those great clanging guitar instrumentals, the previously unissued Tranquilizer which is anything but tranquil and Terry Clement & His True Tones treat us to a great Cajun instrumental with accordion French Blues.. Lots more from Big Al Downing, Claude Robinson & Group, the wonderful Five Chavis Brothers, Floyd Dakil Combo, Paul Peek, James Carter & The Sentimentals, Dick Holler, Rod Bernard (about the only slow number here!), Lee Diamond & The Upsetters and many others. Some duplication with other reissues. (FS) T.V. SLIM : Flat Foot Sam Meets Jim Dandy/ ROD BERNARD: These Were Our Songs/ CHUCK BERRY: Oh Maria/ THE BLONDE BOMBER: You Can Run But Can't Hide/ JAMES CARTER: Hey Baby Hey/ THE CHAVIS BROTHERS: Old Time Rock And Roll/ EDDIE CLEARWATER: Hey Bernadine/ TERRY CLEMENT: French's Blues (instr.)/ THE CYCLONES: Bullwhip Rock (instr.)/ FLOYD DAKIL: Dance Franny Dance/ LEE DIAMOND: Mama Loochie/ BIG AL DOWNING: Miss Lucy/ RONNIE HAIG: Rocking With The Rhythm And Blues/ STACY HENRY: Jimmy Plays A Horn/ THE HIGHLIGHTS: Studio Blues(instr.)/ DICK HOLLER: Double Shot/ DUSTY KEITH: Hold Me Baby/ SLEEPY LABEEF: Tore Up/ BILL LITTLE: Bye Bye Baby/ FRANKIE LOWERY: Kansas City Train/ MARLON "MADMAN" MITCHELL: Ice Cold Baby/ PAUL PEEK: Sweet Skinny Jenny/ BIG WALTER PRICE: Ain't No Use You Lyin'/ CLAUDE ROBINSON: Cotton Pickin' Mama/ BUCK ROGERS: Rose Marie/ THE SATANS: Sugar Coated Love/ CLYDE STACY: Tranquilizer (instr.)/ GENE TERRY: Cinderella Cinderella/ KID THOMAS: Rockin' This Joint Tonight/ DANNY ZELLA: Sapphire |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Proper BOX 103 | From Boppin' Hillbilly To Red Hot Rockabilly | ● CD |
| Four CDs, 120 tracks, highly recommended Fabulous collection of up-tempo hillbilly and rockabilly from the period 1951 to 1955. The first two discs are predominantly country artists and the second predominantly rockabilly though the transition between the two is pretty seamless and Hardrock Gunter's 1951 recording of Hesitation Boogie rocks almost as hard as recordings made four years later and Billy Starr's 1953 cover of Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog is just as wild as Elvis's version from three years later though not as good. Many of the sides here have been on CD before though a number are pretty hard to find and the presentation here is great with superb sound and a 68 page illustrated booklet with extensive notes by rock 'n' roll expert Adama Komorowski and full discographical info. Artists include Rose Maddox, Forest Rye, Jess Willard, Lucky Joe Almond, Charline Arthur, Little Jimmy Dickens (a great cover of Piano Red's Rock Me), Ray Batts, Lattie Moore, Johnny Hicks, Jimmy & Duane, Frankie Miller, Lloyd McCullough, Jimmy Myares, Carl perkins, Sid King & the Five Strings, The Miller Sisters, Rudy Gray, gene Henslee, Skeeter Bonn, Charlie Adams, Buck Griffin, Chuck Murphy, Malcolm Yelvington, Elvis Presley, Charlie Brown, Werly Fairburn, Barney Burcham, The farmer Boys, Sonny Fisher and many more. CHARLIE ADAMS: Cattin’ Around/ TANI ALLEN & HIS TENNESSEE PALS: When Hillbilly Willie Met Kitty From The City/ LUCKY JOE ALMOND: Rock Me/ EDDY ARNOLD: Hepcat Baby/ CHARLINE ARTHUR: I Heard About You/ Looking At The Moon Wishing On A Star/ JIM ATKINS: I’m A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)/ GLENN BARBER: Ice Water/ LONNIE BARRON: You’re Not the First Girl/ RAY BATTS: Wild Man Boogie/ LEE BELL: Beatin’ Out The Boogie On The Mississippi Mud/ EDDIE BOND: Double Duty Lovin’/ SKEETER BONN: Rock-a-Bye Baby/ CHARLIE BROWN: Have You Heard The Gossip/ Mean Mean Mama/ BARNEY BURCHAM: Can’t Steal My Way Around/ Much Too Young For Love/ THE CARLISLES: Busy Body Boogie/ Is Zat You Myrtle/ JOHNNY CASH: Hey Porter/ ALVADEAN COKER: We’re Gonna Bop/ LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS: Hillbilly Fever/ Rock Me/ ARLIE DUFF: You All Come/ TIBBY EDWARDS: Flip Flop And Fly/ WERLY FAIRBURN: Baby He’s A Wolf/ Good Deal Lucille/ I Guess I’m Crazy (For Loving You)/ THE FARMER BOYS: It Pays To Advertise/ You’re A Humdinger/ TERRY FELL: That’s What I Like/ SONNY FISHER: Hey Mama/ Hold Me Baby/ Rocking Daddy/ Rockin’ And A Rollin’/ THE FIVE STRINGS: Drinkin’ Wine Spo Dee O Dee/ Put Something In the Pot Boy/ RUDY GADDIS: Uranium Fever/ LOU GRAHAM: Long Gone Daddy/ RUDY GRAY: Hearts Made Of Stone/ Please Big Mama/ It Ain’t My Baby (And I Ain’t Gonna Rock It)/ Ocean Paradise/ BUCK GRIFFIN: Meadowlark Boogie/ One Day After Pay Day/ GAYLE GRIFFITH: Rockin’ And A Knockin’/ HARDROCK GUNTER: Hesitation Boogie/ ROY HALL: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On/ HAWKSHAW HAWKINS: Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)/ R.D. HENDON & HIS WESTERN JAMBOREE COWBOYS: Music Makin’ Mama From Memphis/ GENE HENSLEE: Diggin’ And Datin’/ Rockin’ Baby/ JOHNNY HICKS: Get Your Kicks (From The Country Hicks)/ EDDIE HILL: The Hot Guitar/ JESS HOOPER: All Messed Up/ Sleepy Time Blues/ JOHNNY HORTON & BILLY BARTON: Bawlin’ Baby/ AUTRY INMAN: Uh-Huh-Honey/ JIMMY & DUANE: I Want Some Lovin’ Baby/ JIMMY & JOHNNY: Sweet Singing Daddy/ NEAL JONES: I’m Playin’ It Cool/ MERLE KILGORE: Seein’ Double Feelin’ Single/ SID KING & FIVE STRINGS: Sag Drag & Fall/ SID KING & HIS FIVE STRINGS: Purr Kitty Purr/ JIMMY LEE & WAYNE WALKER: Love Me/ MAC & JAKE: Yakety Yak/ BILL MACK: Play My Boogie/ ROSE MADDOX: Kiss Me Like Crazy/ THE MADDOX BROS & ROSE: I Gotta Go Get My Baby/ GEORGE MCCORMICK: Don’t Fix Up The Doghouse/ LLOYD MCCULLOUGH & THE DRIFTING HILLBILLIES: Watch That Girl/ LUKE MCDANIEL: Whoa Boy/ FRANKIE MILLER: Hey Where Ya Goin’/ THE MILLER SISTERS: There’s No Right Way To Do Me Wrong/ LATTIE MOORE: Pull Down The Blinds/ CHUCK MURPHY: Rhythm Hall/ They Raided The Joint/ JIMMY MURPHY: Here Kitty Kitty/ JIMMY MYERS: Ding Dong Mama From Tennessee/ CARL PERKINS: Gone Gone Gone/ Let the Jukebox Keep On Playin/ Movie Magg/ DOUG POINDEXTER & THE STARLITE WRANGLERS: My Kind Of Carryin’ On/ ELVIS PRESLEY: Baby Let’s Play House/ I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine/ I Forgot To Remember To Forget/ I’m Left You’re Right She’s Gone/ Milkcow Blues Boogie/ Mystery Train/ You’re A Heartbreaker/ MARVIN RAINWATER: I Gotta Go Get My Baby/ SLIM REDMAN & DONNIE BOWSHIER: Strut My Stuff/ MARTY ROBBINS: Maybelline/ Mean Mama Blues/ Pretty Mama/ That’s All Right/ WELDON ROGERS: I’m Building A ?? (On The Moon)/ FOREST RYE: Wild Cat Boogie/ MAC SALES: A Gal Named Joe/ TOMMY SCOTT: Cat Music/ Rockin’ And Rollin’/ REECE SHIPLEY & HIS RAINBOW VALLEY BOYS: Hillbilly Jive With A Hillbilly Beat/ CARL SMITH: Dog-gone It Baby I’m In Love/ Go Boy Go/ RED SMITH: Whoa Boy/ EARL SONGER: Whoopie Baby/ ANDY STARR: Dig Them Squeaky Shoes/ BILLY STARR: Hound Dog/ FIVE STRINGS: I Like It/ JUSTIN TUBB & GOLDIE HILL: Sure Fire Kisses/ WAYNE WALKER: Now Is the Time For Love/ THE WESTERN MELODY MAKERS: Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle’s Girdle/ ONIE WHEELER: Run ‘Em Off/ JESS WILLARD: Honkytonk Hardwood Floor/ MALCOLM YELVINGTON: Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee/ Just Rollin’ Along/ FARON YOUNG: If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’/ EDDIE ZACK & COUSIN RICHIE: I’m Gonna Roll & Rock |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Proper BOX 122 | Classic Rockabilly | ● CD |
| Four CDs, 120 tracks, highly recommended If you're only get one rockabilly collection this is probably the one to get with 120 classic sides covering rockabilly's heyday from late 1954 to late 1956. All the rockabilly heroes are here - Elvis, Carl Perkins, Billy Lee Riley, Johnny Carroll, Warren Smith, Charlie Feathers, Gene Vincent, Roy Orbison, Eddie Bond, Johnny Burnette, etc. along with country stars who hitched their wagon to the rockabilly style with verve - Skeets McDonald, Red Foley, Webb Pierce, George Jones, Freddie Hart, etc. as well as a host of performers who only recorded a few sides but left an indelible mark on the music - Jeff Daniels, Wayne McGinnis, Sammy Masters, Sonee West, Lew Williams, Bill Flagg, Joe Clay, Hal Willis, Jaycee Hill, Jimmy Johnson and many more. Diehard rockabilly fans will probably have everything here but just about every track is, indeed, a classic and the set comes with a thick 68 page booklet with extensive notes by rockabilly expert Adam Komorowski (who also compiled this set) along with loads of artists photos and label shots and full discographical details. Tracks are arranged in a cute way - disc one is all songs with "Rock" in the title, disc has "Cat" or "Chick" in the title, disc 3 has "Bop","Shake" or "Boogie" in the title and the fourth disc has "Baby" in each title. If you have any interest in rockabilly this is an indispenible collection. (FS) DOUG AMERSON: Bop Man Bop/ MACK BANKS: Be-Boppin' Daddy/ GLENN BARBER: Shadow My Baby/ LONNIE BARON: Teenage Queen/ BILL BEACH: Peg Pants/ ARKIE BITTLE: Jitterbug Drag/ TOMMY BLAKE: Koolit/ EDDIE BOND: Boppin' Bonnie/ Rockin' Daddy/ BILL BOWEN: Don't Shoot Me Baby/ SONNY BURGESS: We Wanna Boogie/ JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO: Oh Baby Babe/ Tear It Up/ SONNY BURNS: Real Cool Cat/ JOHNNY CARROLL: Hot Rock/ Wild Wild Women/ JEAN CHAPEL: I Won't Be Rockin' Tonight/ SANFORD CLARK: Usta Be My Baby/ JOE CLAY: Ducktail/ Sixteen Chicks/ JACKIE COCHRAN: Hip Shakin' Mama/ AL COKER: Don't Go Baby (Don't Go)/ THE COLLINS KIDS: Beetle Bug Bop/ SIMON CRUM: Bop Cat Bop/ PAT CUPP: Come Back Baby/ MAC CURTIS: Grandaddy's Rockin/ JEFF DANIELS: Daddy-O Rock/ DENVER DUKE & JEFFREY NULL: Rock And Roll Blues/ EARL EPPS: Be Bop Blues/ WERLY FAIRBURN: Everybody's Rockin'/ THE FARMER BOYS: Cool Down Mame/ My Baby Done Left Me/ CHARLIE FEATHERS: Bottle To The Baby/ Everybody's Lovin' My Baby/ Tongue Tied Jill/ AL FERRIER: My Baby Done Gone Away/ No No Baby/ SONNY FISHER: Pink And Black/ BILL FLAGG: Go Cat Go/ RED FOLEY: Rock 'N' Reelin'/ TRUITT FORSE: Chicken Bop/ JAMES GALLAGHER: Crazy Chicken/ DICK GLASSER: Catty Town/ BEN HALL: Moo Mama/ RAY HARRIS: Come On Little Mama/ FREDDIE HART: Dig Boy Dig/ J.C. HILL: Romp Stompin' Boogie/ THE HODGES BROTHERS: I'm Gonna Rock Some Too/ AUTRY INMAN: Be-Bop Baby/ EDDIE JACKSON: Rock And Roll Baby/ JIMMY JOHNSON: Cat Daddy/ How About Me Pretty Baby/ THUMPER JONES: Rock It/ RANDY KING: Be Bopping Baby/ SID KING: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight/ Good Rockin' Baby/ BAKER KNIGHT: Bring My Cadillac Back/ BOBBY LORD: Everybody's Rockin' But Me/ DICK LORY: Ballroom Baby/ BILL MACK: Cat Just Got Into Town/ THE MADDOX BROS & ROSE: The Death Of Rock 'N' Roll/ JOE MAPHIS: Rock 'N' Roll Guitar/ JANICE MARTIN: Let's Elope Baby/ JANIS MARTIN: Barefoot Baby/ Drugstore Rock 'N' Roll/ SAMMY MASTERS: 2 Rock-A-4/ Pink Cadillac/ Whop-T-Bop/ SKEETS MCDONALD: You Ought To See Grandma Rock/ WAYNE MCGINNIS: Rock Roll And Rhythm/ JOE MONTGOMERY: Cool Cat/ SPARKLE MOORE: Rock-A-Bop/ ROY MOSS: You're My Big Baby Now/ JIMMY MURPHY: Granpaw's A Cat/ My Gal Dottie/ ROY ORBISON: Rockhouse/ You're My Baby/ CARL PERKINS: Blue Suede Shoes/ Boppin' The Blues/ WEBB PIERCE: Teenage Boogie/ LYNN PRATT: Tom Cat Boogie/ ELVIS PRESLEY: Good Rockin' Tonight/ My Baby Left Me/ VERN PULLENS: Bop Crazy Baby/ GLEN REEVES: Rockin' Country Style/ THE RHYTHM JESTERS: Rock To The Music/ THE RHYTHM ROCKERS: Fiddle Bop/ BILLY RILEY: Rock With Me Baby/ HOYT SCOGGINS: Tennessee Rock/ TOMMY SCOTT: Cat Music/ JIMMY SELPH: Tom Cattin' Around/ RAY SMITH: Gone Baby Gone/ Swinging Boogie/ WARREN SMITH: Rock 'N' Roll Ruby/ TOMMY SPURLIN: Hang Loose/ One Eyed Sam/ ANDY STARR: Rockin' Rollin' Stone/ JIMMY STAYTON: Hot Hot Mama/ HOYT STEVENS: 55 Chevy/ BRAD SUGGS: Bop Baby Bop/ JIMMY SWAN: Country Cattin'/ JUNIOR THOMPSON: Mama's Little Baby/ JUSTIN TUBB: I Gotta Go Get My Baby/ JOHNNY TYLER: Lie To Me Baby/ RUCKUS TYLER: Rollin' And A Rockin'/ CAL VEALE: Don't Cry Baby/ GENE VINCENT: Be-Bop-A-Lula/ Blue Jean Bop/ CLEVE WARNOCK: My Baby Is Gone/ ALVIS WAYNE: Swing Bop Boogie/ SONNY WEST: Rock-Ola Ruby/ Sweet Rockin' Baby/ ONIE WHEELER: Onie's Bop/ LEW WILLIAMS: Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop/ Cat Talk/ HAL WILLIS: Bop-A-Dee Bop-A-Doo/ My Pink Cadillac/ BILL WOODS: Bop/ LUCKY WRAY: What'cha Say Honey/ MALCOLM YELVINGTON: Rockin' With My Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Proper BOX 143 | Rockin' Memphis | ● CD |
| 4 CDs, 118 tracks, highly recommended Considering this set focuses on one of the all-time great music cities in it's prime, the main question about this is whether you have this material or not; if you don't, then you need it. Disc one concentrates on the Blues and Rhythm & Blues backbone of the Memphis scene with key recordings like B.B. King's B.B. Boogie, Jackie Brenston (with Ike Turner's band) doing Rocket 88, Rufus Thomas' version of Decorate the Counter, along with his Bear Cat, and Tiger Man, Little Junior Parker's Mystery Train, as well as great tracks by Johnny Ace, Little Milton, Roscoe Gordon, Willie Nix and more. Disc two digs up the Country roots with great tracks by Slim Rhodes, Malcolm Yelvington, Charlie Feathers, Eddie Collins and more, with the certain appeal of having lesser-known tracks by well known artists like Warren Smith's Black Jack David, and Dorsey Burnett's Let's Fall in Love. Disc three takes us to when the black & white combined to make things red-hot! Featuring essential tracks by The Rock & Roll Trio, Carl Perkins, Warren Smith, Sonny Burgess, Elvis, and Johnny Cash, etc, alongside lesser known tracks by Eddie Bond, Junior Thompson, Charlie Feathers, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. If the first three discs didn't knock you out completely disc four is another heavy dose, but this time mostly compromised of great, rarer tracks. Probably the best known track on this disk is Billy Lee Riley's Red-Hot, but it is in great company next to tracks like Carl Mann and his Kool Kats Gonna Rock and Roll Tonight, Hayden Thompson's One Broken Heart, Cliff Gleaves' Love is My Business, and Lee Carzle with Bobby Mizzel & the Le-Bows' (they are a household name right?) I'm Asking, But I'm Not Getting. All this and more plus a thick booklet packed with all kinds of obscure information. (JM) JOHNNY ACE: Follow The Rule/ Burley Cutie/ TOMMY BLAKE: Flat Foot Sam/ EDDIE BOND & THE STOMPERS: Baby Baby Baby (What Am I Gonna Do)/ Flip Flop Mama/ I've Got A Woman/ JACKIE BRENSTON: Juiced/ My Real Gone Rocket/ Rocket 88/ EDWIN BRUCE: Rock Boppin' Baby/ BARNEY BURCHAM WITH THE MOON BEAMS: I Fell/ SONNY BURGESS: Red Headed Woman/ DORSEY BURNETTE: Let's Fall In Love/ The Devil's Queen/ JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO: Blues Stay Away From Me/ Eager Beaver Baby/ Rockabilly Boogie/ Train Kept A Rollin'/ You're Undecided/ FREDDIE BURNS: I'm Just A Pore Unlucky Dog/ Two Piano Boogie/ STEVE CARL & THE JAGS: Curfew/ LEE CARZLE WITH BOBBY MIZZEL & LE-BOW'S: I'm Asking But I'm Not Getting/ JOHNNY CASH: I Walk The Line/ Get Rhythm/ EDDIE COLLINS: Can't Face Life Alone/ Patience Baby/ MASON DIXON: Don't Worry 'Bout Nothin'/ JACK EARLS & THE JIMBOS: Slow Down/ BILLY "THE KID" EMERSON: Move Baby Move/ Red Hot/ CHARLIE FEATHERS: Defrost Your Heart/ Get With It/ EARL FOREST & BEALE STREET RUNNERS: Pretty Bessie/ Rock The Bottle/ CLIFF GLEAVES: Love Is My Business/ ROSCO GORDON: Booted (Chess version)/ Do The Chicken (Dance With You)/ CURLEY GRIFFIN: Got Rockin' On My Mind/ LEN GRIFFIN & HIS BOYS: Spanish Rock-A-Rolla/ JIMMY HAGGETT WITH THE DAYDREAMERS: Gonna Shut You Off Baby/ HARMONICA FRANK: Step It Up And Go/ RAY HARRIS: Where'd You Stay Last Night/ BILLIE HIGH & THE FOUR RECORDERS: Wondering If You Still Care/ HOWLIN' WOLF: Howlin Wolf Boogie/ LOST JOHN HUNTER: Cool Down Mama/ HOYT JOHNSON & FOUR RECORDERS: Eenie Meenie Minie Mo/ B.B. 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Boogie/ She's Dynamite/ DICKEY LEE & THE COLLEGIATES: Good Lovin'/ Stay True Baby/ JERRY LEE LEWIS: Crazy Arms/ End Of The Road/ LITTLE JUNIOR'S BLUE FAMES: Feelin' Good/ LITTLE JUNIOR'S BLUE FLAMES: Love My Baby/ Mystery Train/ LITTLE MILTON: Beggin' My Baby/ If You Love Me Baby/ JOE HILL LOUIS: Boogie In The Park/ When I'm Gone (She Treats Me Mean And Evil)/ BILLY LOVE: Drop Top/ CARL MANN & THE KOOL KATS: Gonna Rock'n'Roll Tonight/ JIMMIE MARTIN COMBO: Red Bobby Sox/ Rock The Bop/ RAMON MAUPIN: Love Gone/ No Chance/ LLOYD MCCULLOUGH: 'Cause I Love You/ Gonna Love My Baby/ Oh Darling/ Until I Love Again/ WAYNE MCGINNIS WITH THE SWING TEENS: Lonesome Rhythm Blues/ CARL MCVOY: Tootsie/ THE MILLER SISTERS: Finders Keepers/ WILLIE NIX: Bakershop Boogie/ ROY ORBISON: Go Go Go/ ALLEN PAGE: Honeysuckle/ KENNIE PARCHMAN: Treat Me Right/ DICK PENNER: Cindy Lou/ CARL PERKINS: Dixie Fried/ EARL PETERSON: Boogie Blues/ BARBARA PITTMAN: I Need A Man/ DOUG POINDEXTER & STARLITE RAMBLERS: Now She Cares No More For Me/ ELVIS PRESLEY: Mystery Train/ SLIM RHODES: Bad Girl/ Gonna Romp And Stomp Tonight/ Hot Foot Rag/ Memphis Bounce/ Ozark Boogie/ Skunk Hollow Boogie/ BILLY RILEY & HIS LITTLE GREEN MEN: Flyin' Saucers Rock'n'Roll/ BILLY RILEY & THE LITTLE GREEN MEN: Red Hot/ Rock With Me Baby/ LOU SARGENT: Ridin' The Boogie/ RAY SCOTT & THE FOUR RECORDERS: Boppin' Wigwam Willie/ MACK SELF: Easy To Love/ Everyday/ MILLER SISTERS: Ten Cats Down/ WALTER "TANG" SMITH: Hi-Tone Mama/ WARREN SMITH: Black Jack David/ Got Love If You Want It/ So Long I'm Gone/ Ubangi Stomp/ LENDON SMITH & THE JESTERS: Woman/ BRAD SUGGS: Charcoal Suit/ HANK SWATLEY: Oakie Boogie/ JOHNNY TATE: Bop With Me Baby/ RUFUS THOMAS: Bear Cat/ Decorate The Counter/ Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle)/ HAYDEN THOMPSON: Love My Baby/ One Broken Heart/ JUNIOR THOMPSON: Raw Deal/ CARVIS TURNEY: Honky Tonk Ways/ THE VELVETONES WITH MEMPHIS RHYTHM BOYS: Real Gone Baby/ WADE & DICK & THE COLLEGE BOYS: Bop Bop Baby/ MALCOLM YELVINGTON & STAR RHYTHM BOYS: Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee/ Just Rollin' Along |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Proper BOX 146 | Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage | ● CD |
| Four CDs, 100 tracks, highly recommended Although there are quite a few collections out there that look at early rock 'n' roll from the perspective of rockabilly - that Southern blend of supercharged down home blues and honky tonk hillbilly this is the first in-depth look at the early days of urban rock 'n' roll. Apart from Boyd Bennet and the Rockets most of the artists here show very little hillbilly influence and the blues roots are the jump blues of artists like Louis Jordan and Jimmy Preston along with elements of pop and jazz thrown into the mix. The set opens with two tracks from 1951 by the remarkable Jimmy Cavello & His Rockers - Cavello, who is still active today 81. He was a fine singer and dynamite sax player and was one of the earliest white artists to perform jump R&B and these early sides include covers of tunes by Joe Morris and Jimmy Preston along with his own meaningful Leave Married Women Alone. The rest of the set draws from the period 1953 to 1957 and features several more fine sides by Cavallo though some are more geared towards a teen audience. The set features a fair proportion of sides recorded by the superb Boyd Bennett & His Rockets who were one of the best bands working in the pop rock genre in the 50's. They started off in a Bill Haley vein but rock a lot harder on their best stuff, probably due to their rubbing shoulders with all of those R&B greats at King records. Their repertoire includes a mix of originals and R&B and rock 'n' roll covers. Freddie Bell were a pioneering rock 'n' roll group in Philadelphia starting with the obscure Teen label before moving to Mercury. Although having no U.S. hits they made some fine music though occasionally strayed into teen pap. They were among the first white artists to cover Hound Dog and seeing them live led to Elvis recording the songs. This set includes their original 1955 Teen recording of Hound Dog along with their 1956 remake for Mercury. Some of their later sides feature the stellar guitar playing of Mickey Baker. There are 11 tracks by Jimmy Daley and The Ding-A-Lings but don't go looking for any biographica information on Daley as he was a fictional character from the movie "Rock Pretty Baby" buty Decca went ahead and issued an album from the movie as by Jimmy Daley & The Ding-A-Lings - the Ding-A-Lings were actually the Henry Macini Orchestra! Other artists include The Treniers, Dave Appel & The Applejacks (a pretty bland group), Rusty Draper, Eddie Fontaine, Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones (a fine, more rockabilly flavored group), Paul Hampton and others. Sound quality is superb and the 44 page booklet has extensive notes by Adam Komorowski and full discographical info. (FS) DAVE APPELL & THE APPLEJACKS: Applejack/ Country Dance/ Ooh, Baby, Ooh/ Ring Around My Baby/ Sweet Patootie Pie/ Teenage Meeting (Gonna Rock It Up Right)/ The Love Express/ The Rock And Roll Story/ FREDDIE BELL & THE BELL BOYS: All Right, Okay, You Win/ Big Bad Wolf/ Five-Ten-Fifteen Hours/ Giddy Up A Ding Dong/ Hey There You/ Hound Dog/ Hound Dog/ I Said It And I'm Glad/ Move Me Baby/ Rockin' Is My Business/ Rockin' The Polonaise/ Rompin' And Stompin'/ Stay Loose, Mother Goose/ Take The First Train Out Of Town/ Teach You To Rock/ The Hucklebuck/ Voo Doo/ BOYD BENNETT: Blue Suede Shoes/ Cool Disc Jockey/ Dig Like You've Never Dug/ Hit That Jive Jack/ The Most/ Right Around The Corner/ Seventeen/ Tenessee Rock 'N' Roll/ Banjo Rock 'N' Roll/ Boogie At Midnight/ High School Hop/ Little Ole You/ My Boy Flat Top/ Oo-Oo-Oo/ Partners For Life/ Poison Ivy/ Rockin' Up A Storm/ You Upset Me Baby/ JOE BENNETT & THE SPARKTONES: Black Slacks/ Boppin Rock Boogie/ Penny Loafers And Bobby Socks/ Rocket/ FRANKIE BRENT: Be My Girl/ Rockin' Shoes/ JIMMY CAVALLO: Cherry Pie/ Foot Stompin'/ Ha Ha Ha Blues/ I'm With You/ Leave Married Women Alone/ Let 'M Roll/ Ooh-Wee (You Sure Look To Me)/ Rock The Joint/ Rock, Rock, Rock/ Soda Shoppe Rock/ That's The Groovy Thing/ The Big Beat/ THE CUES: Crackerjack/ Crazy Crazy Party/ JIMMY DALEY: Big Band Rock 'N' Roll/ Can I Steal A Little Love/ Dark Blue/ Hot Rod/ Juke Box Rock/ Rock Pretty Baby/ Rockabye Lullabye Blues/ Rockin' The Boogie/ Teen Age Bop/ The Most/ The Saint's Rock 'N' Roll/ DANNY & THE JUNIORS: At The Hop/ Sometimes/ RUSTY DRAPER: Buzz Buzz Buzz/ No Huhu/ Pink Cadillac/ Tiger Lilly/ EDDIE FONTAINE: Cool It Baby/ Hey Marie! Dance With Me/ Honky Tonk Man/ One And Only/ Rock Love/ PAUL HAMPTON: Classy Babe/ Play It Cool/ Rockin' Doll/ BOB JAXON: Beach Party/ Come On Down/ I'm Hangin' Around/ THE TRENIERS: Bald Head/ Good Rockin' Tonight/ Rock 'N' Roll Call/ Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie/ Say Hey/ BIG T. TYLER: King Kong/ KIP TYLER: Bongo Rock/ How's About A Little Kiss/ Red Lips And Green Eyes |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Sequel NEM 670 | Roulette Rock & Roll, Vol 2 | ● CD |
| 22 tracks, 53 min., recommended An interesting and worthwhile set culled from various labels that originated with the highly successful George Goldner, including Roulette, Gone, Gee, Rama, and Mark X. The two opening tracks are The Whammy and Strange by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, followed by six 1960-1961 tracks by Wynonie Harris (four of which are previously unreleased), four early Isley Brothers numbers including Everybody's Gonna Rock, plus one generally upbeat number each by the Gone All Stars, the Duponts, the Cookies, The 4 Chaps, the Emanons, the Echoes, the Valentines, the Chaperones, Jesse Powell & the Caddies, and Mabel King. Most of the tracks are from the mid- to late 50's. A nice collection, with informative notes by Adam Komorowski, several vintage photos, and fine cover graphics. (DH) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Smith & Co. 1188 | Great British Rock 'n' Roll Instrumentals | ● CD |
| Two CD with 61 tracks from the mid/ late 50s of rock 'n'
roll instrumentals by various British groups. Material is a mix of
covers of American songs and originals and artists include The
Sleepwalkers, Johnny Parker's Washboard Band, The Shadows/ Drifters
(Cliff Richard's backup band that were originally known as The Drifters
and was changed to The Shadows after they realized that there was an
American group with the same name), Winifred Atwell, Keith Bird & The
Birdies, Ernie Shear & The Lew Randall Band, Bert Weedon, Bob Cort
Skiffle Group, etc. BUD ASHTON: 40 Miles Of Bad Road/ Some Kind-a Earthquake/ WINIFRED ATWELL: Five Finger Boogie/ Vine Street Boogie/ CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND: Bearcat Crawl/ THE JOHN BARRY SEVEN: Little John/ Mab Mab/ Rebel Rouser/ ART BAXTER & HIS ROCK 'N' ROLL SINNERS: Art's Theme/ Bax To The Wall/ KEITH BIRD & THE BIRDIES: Peter Gunn/ KEN COLYER'S SKIFFLE GROUP: House Rent Stomp/ BOB CORT SKIFFLE GROUP FEATURING KEN SYKORA: Bouncing Around/ TONY CROMBIE & HIS ROCKETS: Rex Rocks/ THE DRIFTERS: Chinchilla/ Driftin'/ Jet Black/ RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET: Strip The Camshaft/ JOHNNY (THE GASH) GRAY: Big Guitar/ STAN GREIG'S JAZZ BAND: Skinnie Minnie/ WEE WILLIE HARRIS: Got A Match/ THE JETSTREAMS: Bongo Rock/ THUNDERCLAP JONES: Sound Barrier Boogie/ DON LANG & HIS FRANTIC FIVE: Hand Jive Boogie/ Riverside Rock/ Tequila/ The Climb/ LORD ROCKINGHAM'S XI: Hoots Mon/ KEN MACKINTOSH: Mojo/ Raunchy/ Squatty/ The Swivel/ JOHNNY PARKER'S BARRELHOUSE GROUP: Hold That Thing/ JOHNNY PARKER'S BARRELHOUSE FOUR: Mr. Freddy Blues/ JOHNNY PARKER'S WASHBOARD BAND: Canine Stomp/ No. 69/ Up There/ JACK PARNELL: The Golden Striker/ RED PRICE: Weekend/ THE ROCK 'N' ROLLERS: Applejack/ THE SAINTS JAZZ BAND: Boogie Woogie Stomp/ HERBERT SEITER WITH HIS RHYTHM GROUP: Crazy Fingers/ Eccentric Boogie/ RAY SENDIT & HIS ROCKEY TEAM: Spike's Rock/ THE SHADOWS: Bongo Blues/ ERNIE SHEAR & THE LEW RANDALL BAND: Cannonball/ VICTOR SILVESTER & HIS ROCK 'N' ROLL RHYTHM: Rockin' Rhythm Roll/ Society Rock/ THE SLEEPWALKERS: Golden Mile/ Sleepwalk/ STEVE STANNARD & HIS SEXTET: Reveille Rock/ THE TED TAYLOR FOUR: Son Of Honky Tonk/ THE VAMPIRES: Clap Trap/ OZZIE WARLOCK & THE WIZARDS: Juke Box Fury/ Wow/ BERT WEEDON: Big Beat Boogie/ Guitar Boogie Shuffle/ Lonely Guitar/ Nashville Boogie/ D.r. Rock/ Honky Tonk |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Spade 3013 | The Best Of Spade Records | ● CD |
| 31 tracks, 74 mins, recommended Previously issued as Spade 199955. Spade was a small Texas label run by hustler supreme Bennie Hess in the 50s and this collection features recordings issued on Spade as well as other Hess labels like Pearl, Show Land, TAP and Major. Hess himself contributes 11 tracks ranging from the fine rockers Bennie Hess Boogie and Boppin' The Rock to four acoustic blues songs featuring some mediocre guitar playing. He also does a nice Jimmy Rodgers style blues (Hess supposedly knew Rodgers) and a couple of straight country items. Vern Pullens is the most exciting artist here with six hot rockabilly numbers including the all time classic Bop Crazy Baby and a nice country performance. Royce Porter has a couple of nice songs and a couple of duds and the set is rounded out by some enjoyable sides from Donald Simpson, Ray Doggett, Meredith Neal, Carl Gillion and Carl Greene. The liner notes tell us a bit about Hess's life and business practices that is covered in length in the notes to Hydra 27129 Bennie Hess - Wild Hog Hop..!!! ($21.98) which also includes most of the Hess sides here. Most worthwhile. (FS) RAY DOGGETT: Go Go Heart/ It Hurts The One Who Loves You/ No Doubt About It/ CARL GILLION: Do Right Daddy/ Do Right Daddy (alt.)/ CARL GREENE: Nashville Boogie/ BENNIE HESS: Blue Monday Night/ Boppin' The Rock/ Gone Mama Blues/ Jungleland Rock/ Milk Cow Blues/ Non-pertinent Bennie Hess Boogie/ Side Track Blues/ Tennessee Mama Blues/ Wild Hog Hop/ You Called Me Honey/ You're Gonna Need Me/ MEREDITH NEAL: Gertrude/ ROYCE PORTER: A Woman Can Make You Blue/ A Woman Can Make You Blue (alt.)/ I End Up Crying/ Love Is Made Of This/ VERN PULLENS: Bop Crazy Baby/ It's My Life/ Long Gone/ Mama Don't Allow No Boppin' Tonight/ Rock On Mabel/ Would You Be Happy/ You Don't Mean To Make Me Cry/ DONALD SIMPSON: Save Me Your Love/ Woe Oh Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Varese 66382 | The Sun Songbook | ● CD |
| 18 tracks, 38 min, recommended When you have a label that was indeed a powerhouse in the 50s into the early 60s, as great as it is, there comes a time where everything's been put out. What you need is a marketing gimmick. What we have here is a disc full of tunes written by Sun artists but recorded by other Sun artists. There are a few that were actually released at the time by Sun - there's a great version of Charlie Rich's Break Up done by Ray Smith, & of course there's Billy Lee Riley's classic take on Billy "The Kid" Emerson's Red Hot, along with Jerry Lee Lewis' version of Roy Orbison's Rock House. But most of these tunes were unreleased at the time & include a few lesser tracks as Jeb Stuart's Just Walkin' In The Rain. But what may be most interesting is some demos done by the songwriters, my fave being Johnny Cash with Little Wooly Booger (You're My Baby), along with Harold Jenkins (later known as Conway Twitty) doing Rock House, a song he wrote with Roy Orbison, & a couple by Charlie Rich. (GM) SONNY BURGESS: Feelin' Good/ JOHNNY CASH: I Forgot to Remember to Forget/ Little Woolly Booger (You're My Baby)/ KEN COOK: Problem Child/ HAROLD JENKINS: Rock House/ JERRY LEE LEWIS: Down the Line/ Ooby Dooby/ Rock & Roll Ruby/ CARL MANN: Baby I Don't Care/ Ubangi Stomp/ ROY ORBISON: You Tell Me/ CHARLIE RICH: Right Behind You Baby/ Thanks a Lot/ BILLY LEE RILEY: Red Hot/ RAY SMITH: Break Up/ JEB STUART: Just Walkin' in the Rain/ VERNON TAYLOR: Mystery Train/ HAYDEN THOMPSON: Love My Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Vocalion 4360 | British Rock 'n' Roll At Decca, Vol. 1 | ● CD |
| 30 tracks recorded between 1957 and 1961 - Wee Willie
Harris, Little Tony, Nero & The Gladiators, The Most Brothers, etc. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Westside 555 | (Not Just) A Pretty Face And A Pompadour | ● CD |
| 24 tracks of teen rock 'n' roll recorded for Johnny
Vincent's Ace label between 1958 & 1963 - 6 previously unissued.
Includes The Emereldas, Jimmy Clanton, Bobby Jay, Ike Clanton, Roland
Stone, Scotty McKae and others. JOHNNY ANGEL: Teenage Wedding/ BAT CARROLL: Aw! Who/ IKE CLANTON: I'm Sorry [undubbed]/ Show Me The Way/ JIMMY CLANTON: I Wanna Go Home/ It Takes A Long,long Time/ THE EMERALDS: Only Time Will Tell/ JOHNNY FAIRCHILD: Someone For Me/ Well Never Get Tired/ You'll Find Your Way/ DICK HOLLER: Baby I Love You/ DICK&HIS RO HOLLER: Living By The Gun/ BOBBY JAY: Venus In Blue Jeans/ HARRY LEE: You Don't Know/ SCOTTY MCKAY: Cry Me A River/ Little Liza Jane/ Olive Learned To Popeye/ Roberta/ Sea Cruise/ ROLAND STONE: Because I Do/ Somebody Nobody Wants/ Something Special/ CLIFF THOMAS: Don't Pony With Tony/ I Kneel At Your Throne [undubbed] |
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