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NEWSLETTER #126
Vintage Rock 'n' Roll & Rockabilly
The Blasters ->
Gene Vincent
| THE BLASTERS |
Hightone 8148 |
Live 2002 |
● CD $15.98 |
17 tracks, 67 min, recommended The original Blasters back &
loud! Led by the feudin' Alvin brothers, Phil on vocals & rhythm & Dave on
lead (I heard rumors that Dave may be joining Dylan's band!) with original
rhythm section of Jon Bazz & Bill Bateman, with relative newcomer Gene
Taylor on piano - he didn't join the band until after their 2nd LP! Very
solid & rockin', with all the faves from the old days (American Music/
Marie Marie/ Long White Cadillac/ Hollywood Bed/ Trouble Bound. Recorded
live at the House of Blues in L.A. during two 2002 reunion shows. (GM)
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| JAMES BURTON |
A&M (UK) 540 553-2 |
The Guitar Sounds Of James Burton |
● CD $13.98 |
Reissue of 1971 solo album by legendary guitarist which
proves once again that great sidemen should rarely give up their day job.
James does some fine playing here but the choice of tunes and arrangements
gives him little chance to shine - includes Polk Salad Annie/ Fire And
Rain/ Johnny B. Goode/ Delta Lady/ Rock & Raunch/ Hi-Heel Sneakers, etc.
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| THE DIXIE CUPS |
Varese 66375 |
The Complete Red Bird Recordings |
● CD $13.98 |
18 tracks, 45 min, highly recommended. New Orleans meets the
Brill Building with wonderful results! The New Orleans trio did songs produced
by Leiber & Stoller, written by Barry & Greenwich (& Phil Spector - some of
their original recordings, including the perennial Chapel Of Love,
were originally written for Spector acts), & arranged by Joe Jones & Wardell
Quezerque, who first made his name with the arrangement of I Got You Babe
& later was on the Dr John The Night Tripper LPs! As the name implies, all
the Red Bird tunes are here (also Gee Baby Gee/ Girls Can Tell/ I'm Gonna
Get You Yet). There's also the mono 45 version of Gee The Moon Is
Shining Bright, an alternate take of People Say, & the original
acapella version of Iko Iko, the tune that, when I saw them do it on
Shindig as a kid, turned me into a lifelong New Orleans fan (now if someone
will only reissue their ABC sides so I can get a copy of Two-Way Poc-A-Way!)
(GM)
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| ROY HALL |
TRG 505101 |
Diggin' That Rock-A-Billy Boogie |
● CD $17.98 |
28 Tracks, 75 mins, highly recommended. Available again. Do
you dig that rockabilly boogie? If you do, then this CD is actually
essential to you. Roy Hall pounds his boogie woogie piano to 13 songs
recorded for Decca in 1956. Included is the original version of Whole
Lotta Shakin' Goin' On which was co-written by Hall. The other 15 cuts
are made up recordings for the Strate-8, Hi-Q, Fortune (these are from 1949)
and Bullet labels. Some were made with a group Hall led called the Cohutta
Mt. Boys and feature vocals by members of the group as well as by Hall. A
few of the cuts have a more C&W, Western Swing stlye with a pedal steel or
fiddle thrown in. But the whole thing will get you rockin'. A great release
featuring one of the true characters of rockabilly. (RS)
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
BGO BGOCD 564 |
That'll Be The Day/ Remember |
● CD $17.98 |
Reissue of two LPs by the great Buddy Holly. "That'll Be The
Day" is the album Decca issued in 1958 after Buddy & The Crickets hit it big
on Brunswick with "That'll Be The Day" and includes the original Decca
version of that song as well as other early sides, mostly with Nashville
sidemen, including Blue Days, Black Nights/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee/
Ting-A-Ling/ Love Me and others. "Remember" was a 1971 British album
featuring a mixture of material including several by Buddy & The Crickets,
an undubbed version of That Makes It Tough, overdubbed versions of
some of the other "Apartment Tapes", the wonderful Reminiscing with
King Curtis on sax and Jerry "Ivan" Allison doing his idiosyncratic real
Wild Child with superb guitar from Buddy.
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| TEDDY REDELL |
Collector 4470 |
Young And Still Young |
● CD $18.98 |
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| AL ROBERTS JR. |
Sequel NEM CD 928 |
Hello, It's Really Me - The Al Roberts Jr
Memorial Album |
● CD $10.98 |
27 tracks, 60 mins, highly recommended
Al Roberts Jr. was an
English one man rockabilly band who released two albums and a couple of EPs
in 1978 and 1979 and then "died" or more likely reverted to his alter ego
Bob Clifford. Roberts generated a really nice groove, played fine guitar and
wrote some very funny and clever songs like Spider In The Bath/ Electric
Chair Rock 'n' Roll (he's going to the chair for killing his manager who
cheated him out of royalties!)/ I'll Be Your Hamburger King ("If
you'll be my ketchup queen")/ Motorway Food/ 2% of 90% of 1% (another
song about managers and royalties - "2% of 90% of 1% of Fuck All")/ He
Ate Too Many Burgers and his classic My Granpappy Don' Smoke No Grass
which has become a standard on Dr. Demento's radio show. I really like this
guy - too bad he had to die! (FS)
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| THE ROCK-A-TEENS |
Sparkletone 99015 |
Woo-Hoo & Other Classics |
● CD $21.98 |
Everything you could possibly want by this vocal and
instrumental quintet who hit it big in 1959 with the title tune. It includes
their only album in both stereo an mono versions along with some alternate
takes and false starts for a total of 34 tracks.
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| DEAN TORRENCE |
Varese 66349 |
Legendary Masked Surfer Unmasked |
● CD $17.98 |
18 tracks, 48 min, recommended First overview of Dean's solo
material. When Jan Barry had his car crash & subsequent coma & rehab, Dean
kept the Jan & Dean name alive with the "Jan & Dean" label material ("Save
For A Rainy Day" LP, etc) & Columbia. Later on there was the legendary
Vegetables 45 done as Laughing Gravy, which has Dean recording over the
original Smile version of that Beach Boys tune. After that, Dean was
playing around with old Jan & Dean tapes with a lot of the original backing
musicians & came up with one of my all time faves, (When Summer Comes)
Gonna Hustle You, which was done over the original tapes for New Girl
In Scholl & put out as The Legendary Masked Surfers. All this is here,
along with stuff done for Radio Shack with Mike Love in the 80s, a new
version of Eleanor with Flo & Eddie, & a brand new version of Barbara
Ann done techno style with The Vertikals. The liner notes have a fine
interview with Dean which you already read if you get Goldmine - however, it
doesn't give you specific info on the tracks contained here! (GM)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Ace CDCHD 641 |
Hey Baby! The Rockin' South |
● CD $18.98 |
Back in stock at a lower price. 30 rockabilly and rock 'n'
roll sides recorded for Excello and it's subsidiary Nasco in the mid 50s
TOMMY ANGEL: Black Night/ Honey Bee (i Love You)/ RAY BATTS: Stealin' Sugar/
TOMMY BELL: Swamp Gal/ BOB & RAY: Shorty Shorty/ TOMMY FACENDA: Little Baby/
AL FERRIER: Hey! Baby/ I'm The Man/ BILLY FORTUNE: Trapped/ DON HAGGARD &
THE SUNSET DRIFTERS WITH JULIE: Somebody Clipped Your Wings/ SLIM HARPO:
Bobby Sox Baby/ JOHNNY JANO: Havin' A Whole Lot Of Fun/ I'd Make A Good Man
For You/ BOBBY JENKINS: My Baby's Gone/ THE LINDSEY BROTHERS: Big Hearted
Joe/ Let's Get Down To Business/ LOWELL MCGUIRE WITH THE CRESCENDOS: Leave
My Girlie Alone/ Spellbound/ THE MONORAYS: It's Love Baby/ What's Your
Name?/ WARREN STORM: I'm A Little Boy (looking For Love)/ Mama, Mama, Mama
(look What Your Little Boy's Done)/ So Long, So Long (good Bye Good Bye)/
Troubles, Troubles (troubles On My Mind)/ THE SURF RIDERS: I'm Out/ ROY TEO:
Mama Doll/ JACKSON TOOMBS: Kiss-a-me Quick/ THE TRENDS: Tell Me/ JACKIE
TRENT: Little Andy/ GARY WARREN: Werewolf
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Ace CDCHD 850 |
Golden Age Of American Rock 'n' Roll, Volume
10 |
● CD $18.98 |
The latest in this great series features another 30 hot 100
hits from the pre-Beatles era, immaculately remastered from the best
possible sources and including a fully illustrated 28 page booklet.
ROD BERNARD: This Should Go On Forever/ CHUCK BERRY: Maybellene/ THE
BOBBETTES: I Shot Mr Lee/ JERRY BUTLER AND THE IMPRESSIONS: For Your
Precious Love/ THE CHARMS: Hearts Of Stone/ THE CHORDS: Sh-Boom/ THE
CLEFTONES: Little Girl Of Mine/ THE COASTERS: Searchin'/ THE CUES: Why/ LEE
DORSEY: Ya Ya/ DONNIE ELBERT: What Can I Do/ THE FIVE ROYALES: Dedicated To
The One I Love/ PAUL GAYTEN: The Hunch/ ROY HAMILTON: You Can Have Her/
CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY: Ain't Got No Home/ CURTIS LEE: Under The Moon Of
Love/ CARL MANN: Mona Lisa/ JANIS MARTIN: Will You, Willyum/ SAMMY MASTERS:
Rockin' Red Wing/ CLYDE MCPHATTER: A Lover's Question/ RICKY NELSON: Stood
Up/ ROY ORBISON: Ooby Dooby/ LLOYD PRICE: Just Because/ THE RINKY DINKS
FEATURING BOBBY DARIN: Early In The Morning/ THE ROYAL TEENS: Believe Me/
THE SCHOOLBOYS: Shirley/ SONNY SPENCER: Gilee/ TITUS TURNER: We Told You Not
To Marry/ THE VOLUMES: I Love You/ RUSTY YORK: Sugaree
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Bop 111 |
Saturday Night On Bop Street |
● CD $17.98 |
30 tracks, 67 mins, highly recommended. Great collection of
50s rockabilly. It opens with Gene Vincent's Bop Street and after
that it's on to mostly obscure artists. Quite a few of these tracks have
been reissued on CD before but some were on no longer available collections
on Chief, Flesh Den, Classic, etc. and the standard here is very high. Among
the tracks that have not been on CD before are Don French's fabulous
Little Blonde Girl, Kenny Baker's Goodbye Little Star and Larry
Trider's Hollyish version of the Fiestas So Fine. There are also
sides by Wayne Walker, Carl McVoy, The Raiders, Sammy Gowans (his great
Rockin' By Myself), The Recalls, Huelyn Duvall, Mel Dorsey, The Jiants,
Curtis Potter and others. Excellent sound quality. (FS)
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 51554 |
Squeeze |
● CD $18.98 |
30 rock 'n' roll sides from the 50s, often with a teen
flavor.
DON ARMSTRONG: Tough Luck/ GEORGE AVAK: Lindy Lou/ CHUCK BAKER: Lovin At The
Drive-In/ The Return Of The Fungus/ AL BARKLE: Wolf, Wolf/ CARLO & THE
CUPIDS: Crazy Rock/ BERNIE DEE: Knocked Out Rock/ DUKE DICKSON: Is You Is,
Or Is You Ain't?/ LOUIS HOBBS: Mama,Mama, Mama/ R.C. HOLMES: Does A Cat Have
A Tail?/ JOHNNY HUGHES: Grounded/ DEAN HUNTER: Rockin' Band/ J & THE SABERS:
Twist Mary Sue/ THE LEGENDS: Bop A Lena/ RICHARD MORELAND: Mailman Blues/
BILL MORGAN: What's A Few More Tears/ BILL MUNDY: Whirlwind/ THE NIGHT
HAWKS: Sock Hop/ JIMMY NULL: My Girl/ The Wrong Way/ BILLY OSBORNE: My Baby
Blues/ GLEN OWENS: I Got A Right To Cry/ THE OX TONES: Fatty Patty/ BILLY
PATCH: Patsy Walzy/ DUSTY PAYNE: Long Time Gone/ JERRY RAINES: Dangerous
Redhead/ THE RHYTHM ROYALS: Prove It/ TED RUSSELL: Bright Lights/ THE THREE
D'S: Squeeze/ THE YOUNG LIONS: Oh Daddy
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 55155 |
Live It Up |
● CD $18.98 |
30 rock 'n' roll rarities.
OLEN BINGHAM: Bayou Queen/ THE CARPENTER BROTHERS: I Had A Date/ JERRY DEAN:
Walkin' In My Sleep/ T.K. HULIN: Baby Be My Steady/ UNCLE "BUCK" LITE: Mr.
Ducktail/ LITTLE PETE: KSO Val Air Hop/ VINCE MALOY: Flying Love/ Hubba
Hubba Ding Ding/ I've Been Around Your Door ... Before/ Indeed I Do/ JOE
MOON: Live It Up/ DARWIN NELSON: Good Gosh Gerty/ Lazy Lu/ Mary Sue/ EDDIE
PALACE: Lollipop Lover/ DON PERRY: I'm Leaving You/ STAN RANDAL: Be Sweet/
BOZO RATLIFF: Let Me In/ Rock Along Time/ AL REED: Top Notch Grade A/ DANNY
ROMAN: Bad Girl/ Let's Cut Out/ JOHNNIE SILVERS: Tuff Stuff/ PRENTIS SLADE:
I Gotta Have You/ THE STINSON BROTHERS: Diggin' That Rock N' Roll/ DELBERT
TROLINDER: So We Walked/ DART WARD: Q-T-Cute/ GARRETT WILLIAMS: Little
Darlin'/ DOYLE WILSON: Hey-Hey/ You're The One For Me
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Buffalo Bop 55156 |
Jungle Rock |
● CD $18.98 |
Collection of wild 50s and early 60s based around the theme
of the jungle including The Lion by Duke Mitchell, Deep In The
Jungle, Parts 1 & 2 by Lincoln Chase, Jungle Rock by Bo & Joe &
The Niteriders, Jungle Boogie by Ronny & Jonny, Jungle Call by
The "Rockin'" Raymonds, Screaming (Part 2) by The Metropolitans,
Voo-Doo Queen & The Medicine Man by Bill James & The Hex-O-Tones, Un-gowa
by The Rimfires and others. Lots of the tracks feature wild and crazy animal
and Tarzan sound effects.
BO & JOE & THE NITERIDERS: Jungle Rock/ JIM BOBO: Jungle Rock/ BOB BUSTER:
Swamp Hop/ THE CASANOVAS: Deep In The Heart Of The Jungle/ LINCOLN CHASE:
Deep In The Jungle, Part 1/ Deep In The Jungle, Part 2/ THE CONCEPTS:
Jungle/ THE CREW: The Jaguar Hunt/ DENNIS THE ROCKET: Jungle Jive/ AL ELIAS:
King Kong/ THE ETERNALS: Rockin' In The Jungle/ GENE GALIMORE: Sweet Jungle
Love/ HAROLD & BOB: Jungle Beat/ THE INDIVIDUALS: Jungle Superman/ BILL
JAMES: Voo-Doo Queen And The Medicine Man/ KAI-RAY: I Want Some Of That/ BEN
LEONARD: Congo Bongo/ THE LOAFERS: Crazy Talk/ THE METROPOLITANS: Screaming
(Part 2)/ DUKE MITCHELL: The Lion/ THE NOC-A-BOUTS: Jungle Safari/ THE
RAIDERS: Walking Through The Jungle/ THE RIMFIRES: Un-Gowa/ THE ROCKIN
RAMRODS: Jungle Call/ JACK RODGERS: Taheene/ RONNY & JOHNNY: Jungle Boogie/
EDDIE SEACRIST: Able One/ JERRY THOMAS: Jungle Dan/ THE VIBRATIONS: Stranded
In The Jungle/ THE WILDMEN: King Of The Jungle
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 4471 |
We're Gonna Rock |
● CD $18.98 |
30 rockin' rarities including some unissued demos and home
recordings - Billy Wayne & The Jackson Boys, Von Star, Bill Parker, Rod
Jamison & The Country Travelers, Jimmy Lawrence & Bill Willis Family, Price
Leggs, Steve Bledsoe, Jerry Hammond, Ken Darrow, Lee Harmon & The Circle C.
Band, Johnny & The Volumes, etc.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 4472 |
Misty Rockin' Nights |
● CD $18.98 |
30 tracks - five previously unissued including two by Benny
Joy - the Johnny Cash flavored Dark Angel and the hot rocker Wild,
Wild Lover. Includes Jim Oertling, Alan Riddle, Mark Evans, The Rav'Ons,
Burnell Martin, George Quarta Jr., Dobald Daffron, Joe Hall & The Corvettes,
Little Mojo & The Jesters, Billy taylor, Joe Diamond, etc.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Collector 4475 |
Rock 'n' Roll With Piano, Vol. 7 |
● CD $18.98 |
32 rockers with piano (no really?) - June August, Frankie &
Johnny, The Adventurers, Randy King & The FM Duo, Earl Jones & The
Southernaires, Jimmy Nelis & The Counts, Ted Patterson & The Tunesters,
Jimmy Barbee, etc.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Disky 793762 |
The Best Of Skiffle |
● CD $21.98 |
Three CD set at a bargain featuring 75 examples of the
British skiffle sound - except for the tracks by The Chas McDevitt Group and
a few recent groups it's all original 50s recordings including lots of
Lonnie Donegan plus The Vipers, Johnny Duncan & The Bluegrass Boys, Les
Hobeaux Skiffle Group, Don Lang Skiffle Group, Jimmy Jackson' Rock 'n'
Skiffle, Lorrae Desmond & Her Rebels, Original Barnstormers Spasm Group and
others.
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS |
Hop 999 |
Hillbilly Hop |
● CD $17.98 |
| WILEY BARKDULL: I Ain't Gonna Waste My Time/ LEON BASS: Country Hix's/ LEE
BELL: Beatin' Out The Boogie/ CHUCK BOWERS: Pig Pen Boogie/ EDDIE CLETRO:
Flyin' Saucer Boogie/ NOLAN CORMIER: Hee-haw Breakdown/ PAUL DAVIS: Big
Money/ THE DAVIS SISTERS: Rock-a-bye Boogie/ LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS: Salty
Boogie/ CHARLIE GORE: Oh! Mis'rable Love/ Somebody's Been/ NEAL GRAHAM: Stop
Your Teasing Me/ BUCK GRIFFIN: Stutterin' Papa/ JACK GUTHRIE: Oakie Boogie/
DOUG HARDEN: Dig That Ford/ JERRY JERICHO: When I'm Gone/ BETTY JOHNSON:
Honky Tonk Rock/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: Cash On The Barrel Head/ Red Hen Hop/
JACKIE LOWELL: Rocket Trip/ JOE MAPHIS: The Rockin' Gypsy/ SAMMY MASTERS:
Rockin' Red Wing/ CARL PHILLIPS: Salty Dog Blues/ MERLE RAY: I Won't Be Back
Tonight/ WADE RAY: Idaho Red/ RUSTY & DOUG: Hey Mae/ DICK STRATTON: Pistol
Boogie/ AL TERRY: Watch Dog/ ONIE WHEELER: Onie's Bop
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Speed 0000 |
Speed Crazy |
● CD $17.98 |
30 tracks, 66 mins, highly recommended A particularly nice
collection of 50s rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. About half the tracks are on
other CDs (Bear Family, Buffalo Bop, etc) but this is certainly worth it for
the ones that are not and there really isn't a dud here with lots of fiery
guitar work and the occasional pounding pinao or honking sax. Includes Chuck
Dockery, Jack lane, Trery Roberts (fine rocking version of Don Gibson's
Oh Lonesome Me), The Chessmen, Joe South, Dave Edge (Wham Bam - a
country flavored rocker in the vein of George Jones's Who Shot Sam),
Rusty Isabell, Johnny Leggett, Don Agee & The Digets, Roy Hall's Alleycats,
Loyd Howell, Leo Gosnell and others. Good sound and 8 page booklet has brief
notes and some label shots. (FS)
DON AGEE: My Car's (faster Than Your Car)/ RIC CARTEY: Scratching On My
Screen/ THE CHAPARRALS: Poor Gal/ THE CHESSMEN: Wild Little Willie/ DON
COLE: Sweet Lovin' Honey/ CHUCK DOCKERY: Baby Let's Dance/ THE ECHOMORES:
How Does It Feel To Be Lonely/ DAVE EDGE: Wham Bam/ JIM FOSTER: Rag Roof
Roadster/ LEO GOSNELL: Juke Joint Honey/ ROY HALL: Dig, Everybody, Dig That
Boogie/ JOHNNY RAY HARRIS: Lawdy Miss Clawdy/ LOYD HOWELL: Little Froggy
Went A Courtin'/ MAYLON HUMPHRIES: Worried 'bout You Baby/ RUSTY ISABELL:
The Blast/ JACK LANE: King Fool/ JOHNNY LEGGET: I've Been Had/ JERRY LYNN:
Bugger Burns/ FRED NETHERTON: Match Box/ WHITEY PULLEN: Moonshine Liquor/
JOHNNY REED: Take A Ride With Me/ TERRY ROBERTS: Oh Lonesome Me/ SANDY
SCOTT: Mister Big/ JOE SOUTH: I'm Snowed/ THE STARFIRES: Linda/ BILLY
STEPHENS: Dozen Diamond Man/ BILLY TAYLOR: After School/ TENNESSEE THOMPSON:
Saturday Ball/ MIKE WAGGONER: Guitar Man/ RONNIE WILSON: You Love That
Guitar Better Than Me
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| GENE VINCENT |
Capitol (UK) CDVG 1 |
The Gene Vincent Box Set |
● CD $149.98 |
What a nice surprise to turn up this beauty again - I
thought it was out of print. Compact disc set featuring all of Gene's
Capitol and Columbia recordings made between 1956 and '64. Six discs - 151
tracks in all including 29 previously unreleased out-takes. Superb sound
courtesy of Bob Jones. Has 48 page booklet with rare and previously
unpublished photos from the Capitol archives.
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