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NEWSLETTER
#123
Vintage Rock 'n' Roll & Rockabilly
Bill
Black's Combo -> Various Artists
| THOR'S HAMMER |
Big Beat 206 |
From Keflavik ... With Love |
● CD $16.98 |
20 tracks, 53 min, recommended VERY rare beat music from
Iceland by Hljomar (The Chords), better known (if at all) as Thor's
Hammer. This collects 20 of their tunes from 65-67, including their
original Icelandic tunes, stuff in '66 recorded in UK for Parlophone, even
a '67 Columbia session done by their leader in the US with John Simon
producing. Though some of the early material is very Mersey Beat, it's the
later fuzz-guitar laden '66 Freak Beat material that especially shines
through including I Don't Care/ My Life/ Big Beat Country Dance.
(GM)
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| BOBBY LEE TRAMMELL |
Buffalo Bop 55153 |
Arkansas Twist |
● CD $18.98 |
30 track collection of this Arkansas rocker recorded between
1960 and 1970 for small local labels like Vaden, Atlanta, Alley and
others. Includes Hi Ho Silver/ Woe Is Me/ Come On/ Arkansas Twist/ I
Like It/ Sally twist/ If You Ever Get It Once/ I Tried Not To Cry/ I Need
Love/ Mary Ann/ New Dance In France/ Skimmy Lou/ Betty Jean/ Toolie
Frollie and more. It seems like Buffalo Bop is using a new remastering
engineer as sound quality on their recent issues sound a bit muffled
compared to previous releases.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Ace CDCHD 832 |
Chartbusters USA - Vol. 2 |
● CD $16.98 |
Ace's second collection of U.S. rock hits from the mid/late
60s.
BOB & EARL: Harlem Shuffle/ THE BYRDS: Mr
Tambourine Man/ THE CASTAWAYS: Liar, Liar/ CLASSICS IV: Spooky/ BOBBY FULLER
FOUR: Love's Made A Fool Of You/ THE GANTS: Road Runner/ BOBBY HEBB: Sunny/
NEAL HEFTI AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Batman Theme/ JAN & DEAN: The Little Old
Lady (from Pasadena)/ JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Somebody To Love/ JOHN FRED &
HIS PLAYBOY BAND: Judy In Disguise (with Glasses)/ THE KINGSMEN: Louie
Louie/ LOVIN' SPOONFUL: Summer In The City/ MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS:
Dancing In The Street/ THE NEWBEATS: Bread & Butter/ THE RIGHTEOUS
BROTHERS: You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'/ MONGO SANTAMARIA: Watermelon Man/
LALO SCHIFRIN: Mission: Impossible/ SONNY & CHER: Baby Don't Go/
STEPPENWOLF: Magic Carpet Ride/ THE STRANGELOVES: Cara-lin/ SYNDICATE OF
SOUND: Little Girl/ IKE & TINA TURNER: I Can't Believe What You Say/ THE
TURTLES: Elenore/ JERRY JEFF WALKER: Mr Bojangles/ TONY JOE WHITE: Polk
Salad Annie/ MASON WILLIAMS: Classical Gas/ THE YOUNG RASCALS: Good Lovin'/
THE ZOMBIES: Time Of The Season
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
BGO BGOCD 504 |
Rock & Roll At The Capitol Tower |
● CD $17.98 |
English double LP from 1975 reissued on CD featuring a great
selection of rockabilly, rock 'n' roll and rockin' country from the
Capitol vaults.
JOHNNY BURNETTE: Sweet Suzie/ DUB DICKERSON: My Gal
Gertie/ JIMMY HEAP: Go Ahead On/ WANDA JACKSON: Fujiyama Mama/ Hot Dog! That
Made Him Mad/ I Wanna Waltz/ Riot In Cell Block Nine/ Who Shot Sam/ SKEETS
MACDONALD: Don't Push Me Too Far/ Heart Breaking Mama/ You Better Not Go/
You Ought See Your Grandma Rock/ JERRY REED: Bessie Baby/ Heart Appeal/ I Am
Stuck/ I Have Had Enough/ Master Whiz/ When I Found You/ THE RIO ROCKERS:
Mexicali Baby/ Mexican Rock & Roll/ TOMMY SANDS: Blue Ribbon Baby/ Hey,
Midd Fanny/ I Ain't Getting Rid Of You/ Is It Ever Gonna Happen/ Man Like
Wow!/ Maybellene/ The Worrying Kind/ JACK SCOTT: One Of The Boys/ Strange
Desire/ GENE VINCENT: Important Words/ Look What You Have Gone And Done To
Me/ Teenage Partner
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 55150 |
Candy Doll |
● CD $18.98 |
30 track collection featuring all female rockers including
Patsy Clark, Silvia Mobley, June August, Jo Ann Perry, Roxie Williams,
Bonnie Guitar, Caroly Honeycutt, Joan Temple, Dottie Jones and others.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 55151 |
Skippin' Along |
● CD $18.98 |
| A mixed bag of 30 rock 'n' roll obscurities. Much of it is
relatively pedestrian though there are a few real winners like the Johnson
Brothers' great hard driving cover of Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven,
Glen Glenn's Don't You Love Me, Glen Mann's Truly Yours and
Marlon Grisham's Ain't That A Dilly though this latter one has been
reissued several time before. There are also several real dogs including
the painfully wretched Teen-Age Talk by Vincent Macree.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 55012 |
Choo Choo Bop |
● CD $18.98 |
30 tracks, 73 mins, highly recommended
The railroad is an
endless source of musical inspiration in American vernacular music and
this is Buffalo Bop's second compilation of rockabilly and rocking country
songs on the subject (the first is Buffalo Bop 55012 "Hobo Bob")
and is a winner. It opens with R&B singer Lloyd George's rocking down
home blues with harmonica Come On Train and swiftly charges into
rocking hillbilly in Clyde Arnold's Black Smoke & Blue Tears
and continues on with Phil Bo's bluesy Mr. Train. There are a few
big names - Johnny Cash with Hey, Porter and Blue Train,
Bill Haley with a version of Chattanooga Choo Choo and Harold
Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty) with his great early recording Long Black
Train. Norman Sullivan does a great cover of Cash's Folsom Prison
Blues, there are a couple of fine unissued Sun cuts from O.C. Holt and
Warne Perdie and Larry Harvey and Johnny Six do uncanny imitations of Hank
Snow on their cuts. Lots more fine stuff from Ken Patrick, Benny Martin,
Eddie Bond, Tommy Faile, Ray Scott and others and the set ends with actual
train sounds. Excellent sound and booklet has artist photos and label
shots. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 4467 |
Rock & Roll With Piano, Vol. 6 |
● CD $16.98 |
Another collection of piano oriented rockers featuring 30
tracks from Carl Dean, Gary Ray & The Charms, Chuck Jones, Mickey
Lynn, Danny Diamond & The Rubies, Herbie Smith, The Spacemen, Johnny
Bush & His Texas Plainsmen, Kenny Everett & The Texas Showboys,
Wallace Waters and others. Includes several previously unissued tracks,
alternate takes and demos.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 7754 |
Original Early Rockers - New Zealand Series,
Vol. 3 & 4 |
● CD $16.98 |
Two CD set
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Krypton 8065 |
Cruisin' Around |
● CD $18.98 |
A collection of 32 rock 'n' roll, R&B and doo-wop car
songs including the title song by Tommy Payne, Drive-In Movie by
The Academics, Dynaflo by The Cavaliers, I Love My Baby by
The Crystals, The Drive-In by The Aquatones, Corvette, Corvette,
Corvette by The Corvettes, Gasoline by The Jaytones, Flat
Tire by The Del Vikings, Little Forty Ford by Leon Smith, Hot
Rod by Little Joey & The Flips, Drop Top by Roy Perkins, Bring
MY Cadillac Back by Baker Knight, My Bonneville by The Rollers,
Hot Rod Man by Tex Rubinowitz, and lots more.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Stomper Time 13 |
Nashville Rock 'n' Roll |
● CD $18.98 |
35 tracks, 78 mins, recommended More excellent sides from
Murray Nash's Do-Ra-Me Records label and it's various affiliated labels
recorded between 1959 and 1969 including several previously unissued
tracks. There are five tracks by the excellent singer/ piano player Mel
Robbins who later went on to fame and frtune as Nashville sideman Hargus
"Pig" Robbins. There are some great instrumentals from Cliff
Nash, The Imps and The Sting Rays as well as fine vocals from Chuck Wiley,
Chuck Howard (two takes of the amusing Out Of Gas), Curtis Hobock
(including a fine cover of Charlie Rich's Lonely Weekends), Little
Willie Brown (fine R&B singer - one of the few black artists to record
for Nash), Fred Carter and others. Fine sound and nice illustrated booklet
with informative notes. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Stomper Time STCD 14 |
The Stomper Time Records Story |
● CD $18.98 |
Fine selection of 38 (yes 38) tracks of rockabilly, country
and rock 'n' roll from the vaults of Eddie Bond's Memphis based Stomper
Time label recorded between 1958 and 1966. Includes some unreleased
tracks, tracks not originally issued sides that were leased to other
labels. Besides 6 fine cuts by Bond himself it also includes sides by Bud
Deckleman, Melvin Endsley, Pat Ferguson, Adron Jumper, Larry Manuel, Wayne
Michaels, Willie Mitchell & The Four Kings, Jim Morgan, Ray Scott,
Leon Starr, Tommy Tucker and others.
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