NEWSLETTER #138
Rhythm & Blues,
Soul & Doo-Wop
Various Artists
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Bear Family 20129 |
The !!! Beat, Vol. 04 : Shows 14-17 |
● DVD $31.98 |
The last three volumes of this great series devoted to this
groundbreaking TV show that aired over Southern TV stations in 1966
featuring well known and obscure blues, R&B and soul performers are now
available. Show #15 on this disc is mostly devoted to the great R&B pioneer
Louis Jordan & His Tympany who after more than 30 years could still knock 'em
dead. Other artists on this volume include FReddie King, Maurice & The
Radiants, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Lattimore Brown, Gwen Davis, Joe Simon
and others including the great house band featuring guitarists Clarence
"Gatemouth" Brown and Johnny Jones who do some great instrumentals including
a sensational version of Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
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Bear Family 20130 |
The !!! Beat, Vol. 05 : Shows 18-21 |
● DVD $31.98 |
Among the artists on these four shows are Chuck Bernard,
Robert Parker, Jamo Thomas, Freddie King (doing Papa's Got A Brand New
Bag!), Lou Rawls, Z.Z. Hill, Rodge Martin, Earl Gaines, Bobby Hebb,
Jimmy Church and more.
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Bear Family 20131 |
The !!! Beat, Vol. 06 : Shows 22-26 |
● DVD $31.98 |
The five final shows including one featuring Willie Mitchell
and various Hi artists like Big Amos and Don Bryant and the final show
featuring Otis Redding and various Stax/ Atlantic artists like Percy Sledge,
The Bar-Kays and Sam & Dave. Artists on the other show include Johnny Lorand,
Bobby Hebb, Earl Gaines, Joe Simon, Freddi King, Little Milton and others.
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Storyville Films 16002 |
Harlem Roots, Vol. 3 - Rhythm In Harmony |
● DVD $9.98 |
A collection of 20 shorts taken from "soundies" filmed
between 1941 and 1945 focussing on vocal group harmony including songs by
The Mills Brothers, Delta Rhythm Boys, Deep River Boys, Charioteers and
Jubalaires.
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Ace CDCHD 1048 |
Hunky Dory - King Vocal Groups, Vol. 3 |
● CD $18.98 |
Another great collection of doo-wop from the vaults of King
and affiliated labels features 24 rare tracks including six previously
unissued titles.
THE BLUE CHIPS: Appointment With Love/ Come Back/ THE
BUCKEYES: Begging You Please/ Since I Fell For You/ THE CHANTERS: At My
Door/ THE CHECKERS: A Friend In Need (*)/ THE DIKES: Don't Leave Poor Me/
Light Me Up/ GEORGIE DORN & GROUP: Angel In The Sky/ Too Late For School/
BOBBY FREEMAN & GROUP: Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (*)/ THE GUYTONES:
Hunky Dory/ Lovers And Losers (*)/ THE LAMPLIGHTERS: Tell It To Me/ THE
MAGIC-TONES: How Can You Treat Me This Way/ When I Kneel Down To Pray/ KENNY
MARTIN & GROUP: Darling, Please Be Mine/ THE MIDNIGHTERS: Why Are We Apart/
THE MYSTICS: Humpty Dumpty (had A Great Fall) (*)/ Stars In The Sky (*)/ THE
ROYALS (AKA THE MIDNIGHTERS): Every Beat Of My Heart (*)/ CATHY RYAN & THE
ADMIRALS: It's A Sad Sad Feeling/ THE STRANGERS: Drop Down To My Place/
Hoping You'll Understand
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Acrobat ACRCD 206 |
Hot Harmony Groups, Vol. 3 - When The Old
Gang's Back |
● CD $10.98 |
21 tracks, 59 min, highly recommended
Pre-doo wop harmony
groups have always been a favorite of mine & this set has a lot of great
tunes from that period that you probably haven't heard before. In fact, the
first two tracks are worth the price of admission. Both are late 40s
recordings by The Dixieaires, who's leader later formed The DuDroppers. -
Joe Louis Was a Fighting Man & Your Red Wagon (probably best
known by Mose Allison). Some of the more well-known groups include The Cats
& Jammers 3 (I Cover The Waterfront), The Charioteers (I Don't
Want To Set The World On Fire), & The Four Vagabonds (title track), with
such obscure groups as The Four Blues (Chitlins & Pigs Feet), The
Four Blues & The Four Blue Jackets. There's even some big bands with vocal
groups - The Three Varieties with the Earl Hines Orch, & Jimmie Lunceford
Orch with The Lunceford Quartet. Includes brief bios of each band & label
pics. (GM)
THE CATS N’ JAMMER THREE: I Cover The Waterfront/ My
Bicycle Tillie/ THE CHARIOTEERS: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire/ THE
COLEMAN BROTHERS: Get Away Mr Satan Get Away/ Raise A Ruckus Tonight/ THE
DIXIEAIRES: Joe Louis Is A Fighting Man/ Your Red Wagon/ THE FOUR BLUE
JACKETS: Rock A My Soul/ THE FOUR BLUES: Bell Bottom Trousers/ Chitlins And
Pigsfeet/ THE FOUR VAGABONDS: A G.i. Wish/ When The Old Gangs Back On The
Corner/ THE FOURTONES AND EDDIE BEAL TRIO: Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat/
THE HARMONAIRES: You Can Depend On Me/ EARL HINES & HIS ORCHESTRA (VOCALS
THE 3 VARI: It Had To Be You/ THE JAMES QUINTET: I'm Just A Fool/ HERB
JEFFRIES & THE 3 SHADES OF RHYTHM: At Least You Could Save Me A Dream/ THE
LUNCEFORD QUARTET: It Had To Be You/ THE MASTER KEYS: You're Not The Only
Apple On The Apple Tree/ THE SOUTHERN SONS: Praise The Lord And Pass The
Ammunition/ THE SYNCOPATORS: River Stay Away From My Door
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Acrobat 4197 |
R&B JUkebox Hits - 1953, Vol. 1 |
● CD $13.98 |
25 tracks, 70 mins, highly recommended
Unlike similarly
themed anthologies this disc actually presents the biggest R&B hits (based
on chart positions) that hit the charts between January and May of 1953
presented in chronological order of appearance. Includes Baby Don't Do It
by the Five Royales, Cross My Heart by Johnny Ace, The Bells
by Billy Ward & The Dominoes, (Mama) he Treats Your Daughter Mean by
Ruth Brown plus sides by Amos Milburn, Danny Overbea, Willie Mae "Big Mama"
Thornton, Fats Domino, Little Walter, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Willis, The
Vocaleers and more. Includes 12 page illustrated booklet with notes on each
performance. (FS)
JOHNNY ACE: Cross My Heart/ ANNISTEEN ALLEN: Baby I'm
Doing It/ BIG MAYBELLE: Gabbin' Blues/ EDDIE BOYD: 24 Hours/ TINY BRADSHAW:
Soft/ RUTH BROWN: (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean/ THE CLOVERS:
Crawlin'/ NAT "KING" COLE: Pretend/ FATS DOMINO: Going To The River/ THE DU-DROPPERS:
I Wanna Know/ THE FIVE ROYALES: Baby Don't Do It/ Crazy, Crazy, Crazy/ Help
Me Somebody/ LITTLE WALTER: Mean Old World/ Off The Wall/ Tell Me Mama/
WILLIE MABON: I'm Mad/ AMOS MILBURN: Let Me Go Home Whiskey/ DANNY OVERBEA &
HIS COMBO: Train, Train, Train/ RUFUS THOMAS: Bearcat (the Answer To The
Hound Dog)/ WILLIE MAE "BIG MAMA" THORNTON: Hound Dog/ THE VOCALEERS: Is It
A Dream/ BILLY WARD & HIS DOMINOES: Pedal Pushin' Papa/ The Bells/ CHUCK
WILLIS: Going To The River
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BGP 168 |
Southern Funkin' - Louisiana Funk & Soul,
1967-1979 |
● CD $18.98 |
A collection of rare Louisiana funk and soul recorded
between 1967 and 1979. Includes Tabby Thomas's rare One Day recorded
recorded for Soul International in 1972 plus sides by Eddie "G" Giles,
Abraham & The Casanovas, Camille "Lil" Bob, Freddie Love, The African Music
Machine, Johnny Truit, Katie Webster, Donnie Jacobs, Ernest Thomas, Bill
Parker, "Count" Rockin' Sidney and others.
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Central 2602 |
The Best Of Central Records |
● CD $17.98 |
Fine collection of 16 doo-wop and solo R&B vocals and one
rocking R&B instrumental from the mid 50s. According to "The R&B Indies"
there were two New York labels with this name - one active 1953/54 and one
from 1956/57 and this compilation appears to be drawn from both of them.
Includes sides by The Laddins, Excels, Gloria Lynn, Patti Jerome, The
Charmers, Georgia Lane, Emmett Hobson & Raga Muffin, The Pretenders and
Maurice Simon. Most of the doo-wop sides have been out on CD before but most
of the solo R&B artists are new to CD.
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Charly SNAJ 730 |
The Fire & Fury Story |
● CD $32.98 |
Expanded version of Charly CD LAB 102. A three CD set with
89 tracks and a 48 page booklet devoted to the music produced for New York
entrepreneur Bobby Robinson's Fire, Fury, Red Robin, Everlast and other
affiliated labels. Robinson was one of the first African-American record
company owners and was responsible for producing many fine and important
recordings in the 50s and early 60s. The first disc of 30 cuts is mostly
doo-wop with cuts from The Mello Moods, Vocaleers, Topps, Channels, Louis
Lymon & The Teenchords, The Federals, The Empires and others. The other two
discs features blues and rhythm & blues from Wilbert Harrison, Gladys Knight
& The Pips, Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford, Wild Jimmy Spruill, King Custis,
Tarheel Slim, Dr. Horse, Mary Ann Fisher, Lee Dorsey, Elmore James, Sammy
Myers, Champion Jack Dupree, Arthur Crudup, Tiny Grimes, Sonny terry and
others. The sound quality is satisfactory and the copiously illustrated
booklet has background on Robinson and his career and information on each of
the performances.
JOHNNY ACEY: I Go Into Orbit/ What Am I Going To Do/ MARY
B: Something For You Baby/ ALLEN BAUM: My Kind Of Woman/ CHUCK BRADFORD:
You're Going To Miss Me/ ROCKIN' BRADLEY: I Have News For You/ BUSTER BROWN:
Dr Brown/ Fannie Mae/ Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (my Baby)/ Sugar Babe/ THE
CHANNELS: My Lovin' Baby/ The Closer You Are/ The Gleam In Your Eye/ LES
COOPER & THE SOUL ROCKERS: Wiggle Wobble/ ARTHUR CRUDUP: Mean Ole Frisco/
Rock Me Mama/ That's All Right/ KING CURTIS: Twistin' With The King/ Soul
Twist/ LARRY DALE: Rock A While/ LEE DORSEY: Do Re Mi/ Hoodlum Joe/ Ya Ya/
DR. HORSE: Jack That Cat Was Clean/ Salt Pork West Virginia/ THE DU MAURIERS:
All Night Long/ Baby I Love You/ THE DU-DROPPERS: Can't Do Sixty, No More/
Go Back/ CHAMPION JACK DUPREE: Shake Baby Shake/ Shim Sham Shimmy/ Stumbling
Block Blues/ THE EMPIRES: Linda/ Whispering Heart/ THE FEDERALS: While Our
Hearts Are Young/ You Gotta Love Me Baby/ MARY ANN FISHER: Put On My Shoes/
DON GARDNER & DEE DEE FORD: Don't You Worry/ I Need Your Lovin'/ TINY
GRIMES: Juicy Fruit/ WILBERT HARRISON: Kansas City/ Let's Stick Together/
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Mojo Hand/ JACKIE & THE STARLIGHTS: Valerie/ ELMORE
JAMES: It Hurts Me/ Look On Yonder Wall/ Shake Your Moneymaker/ Something
Inside Me/ Sunnyland Train/ The Sky Is Crying/ GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS:
Every Beat Of My Heart/ Letter Full Of Tears/ THE KODOKS: Little Girl,
Little Boy/ Oh Gosh Oh Gee/ Runaround Baby/ THE MORRIS LANE BAND: Bobby's
Boogie/ LOUIS LYMON & THE TEENCHORDS: Honey-honey/ Lydia/ BOBBY MARCHAN: All
In My Mind/ There Is Something On Your Mind/ BROWNIE MCGHEE: Don't Dog Your
Woman/ THE MELLO MOODS: How Could You/ SAMMY MYERS: Sad Sad Lonesome Day/
You Don't Have To Go/ RED PRYSOCK: Wiggles/ THE RAINBOWS: Mary Lee/ BOBBY
RIVIERA & THE HEMLOCKS: Cora Lee/ THE SCARLETS: Indian Fever/ THE SCARLETTS:
Dear One/ THE SEQUINS: Why Can't You Treat Me Right/ JIMMY SPRUILL: Honky
Tonk Huckle Buck/ WILD JIMMY SPRUILL: Kansas City March/ TARHEEL SLIM &
LITTLE ANNIE: Don't Ever Leave Me/ Lock Me In Your Heart/ TARHEEL SLIM &
LITTLE ANN: Much Too Late/ TARHEEL SLIM: No. 9 Train/ Wildcat Tamer/ SONNY
TERRY: Doggin' My Heart Around/ Harmonica Hop/ THE TOPPS: What Do You Do/
TITUS TURNER: Bow-wow/ THE UPSETTERS: Jay Walking/ THE VOCALEERS: Angel
Face/ Is It A Dream/ NOBLE WATTS: Jookin'/ Go Away Mr Blues/ THE WHIRLERS:
Magic Mirror/ MIGHTY JOE YOUNG: Empty Arms/ Why Baby
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Charly SNAJ 731 |
The Instant Minit Story |
● CD $32.98 |
Expanded version of Charly CDLAB 101 this three Cd set
features 89 tracks of great New Orleans R&B and rock 'n' roll recorded for
Joe Banashak's Minit and Instant labels (and various subsidiaries) in the
60s. With Alan Toussaint on board as producer and songwriter the result was
some of the biggest New Orleans hits of the 60s. Includes sides by Jessie
Hill, The Showmen, Roy Montrell, Benny Spellman, Art Neville, Joe (Mr. G)
August, Chris Kenner, Ernie K. Doe, Lee Diamond, Eddie Bo, Irma Thomas,
Aaron Neville, Eskew Reeder and many more. Includes 40 page illustartaed
booklet with notes on all the performers.
ALLEN & ALLEN: Beverly Baby/ JOE (MR G) AUGUST: Everything
Happens At Night/ EDGAR BLANCHARD & THE PRINCE ROYALS: I'm Gone And That's
All/ Keep My Pockets Clean/ Tight Like That/ EDGAR BLANDCHARD: Somebody's
Doin' Me Wrong/ EDDIE BO: (oo Wee, Baby) What You Gonna Do/ Fence Of Love/ I
Just Keep Rollin'/ S.g.b. (stone Graveyard Business)/ Lover And A Friend/
CHICK CARBO: Inthe Night/ Run Henry/ LARRY DARNELL: Stomp Down Soul/ THE DEL
ROYALS: Who Will Be The One/ THE DEL-ROYALS: Always Naggin'/ LEE DIAMOND: It
Won't Be Me/ Please Don't Leave Me/ DIAMOND JOE: Moanin' And Screamin' Parts
1 & 2/ ERNIE K DOE: Mother-in-law/ LEE DORSEY: Lottie Mo/ THE FABULETTES: If
It Wasn't For Girls/ CHINA FLAIR: Rockin' Way/ BARBARA GEORGE: Something You
Got/ WILLIE HARPER: Grumblin', Fussin',nag Nag/ New Kind Of Love/ JESSIE
HILL: Oogsey Moo/ Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Parts 1 & 2/ The Pot's On Strike/ Why
Holler/ ELDRIDGE HOLMES: The Sooner You Realise/ THE HUEYS: Coo Coo Over
You/ THE HUMDINGERS: For You My Darling/ Skinny Mcginny/ MATTHEW JACOBS: (if
I Only A) Chance For Your Love/ Loaded Down/ ERNIE K-DOE: A Certain Girl/ I
Cried My Last Tear/ Popeye Joe/ T'ain't It The Truth/ Te-ta-te-ta-ta/
There's A Will, There's A Way/ SAX KARI: Dream Girl/ CHRIS KENNER: (big Hunk
O' Woman) Come Back And See/ Anybody Here Seen My Baby?/ I Like It Like
That/ Land Of 1,000 Dances/ Mini Skirts And Soul/ My Wife/ Something You
Got/ EDDIE LANG: I'm Gonna Make You Eat Those Words/ Souling/ The Sad One/
RAYMOND LEWIS: I'm Gonna Put Some Hurt On You/ LITTLE BUCK: Whisper My Name/
AL MICHAEL: Creole Baby/ Jump And Shout/ ROY MONTRELL: Mudd/ OLIVER MORGAN:
The La La Man/ AARON NEVILLE: Over You/ Reality (even Though)/ Show Me The
Way/ ART NEVILLE: All These Things/ Hook, Line And Striker/ House On The
Hill (rock N Roll Hootenanny)/ THE NIGHT HAWKS: Rockin' With The Hawks/ THE
PITTER PATS: Nervous Condition/ POLKA DOT SLIM: Ain't Hungry, Ain't Broke/
ESKEW REEDER: Green Door/ I Waited Too Long/ No Never Again/ The Flu/ ROGER
& THE GYPSIES: Pass The Hatchet/ RUBY & THE PEARLS: Boys/ THE SHOWMEN:
39-21-46 Shape/ It Will Stand/ True Fine Mama/ The Owl Sees You/ BENNY
SPELLMAN: 10-4/ Fortune Teller/ Lipstick Traces (on A Cigarette)/ THE
STOKES: Whipped Cream/ DOYLE TEMPLET: Betty Jane/ IRMA THOMAS: It's Raining/
It's Too Soon To Know/ Ruler Of My Heart/ You Love Is True (demo)/ ALLEN
TOUSSAINT (& THE STOKES): Poor Boy Got To Move/ ALLEN TOUSSAINT & THE
STOKES: The Fat Cat
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Christy 101 |
The Best Of Christy Records |
● CD $17.98 |
A collection of 27 mostly doo-wop tracks from the mid/ late
50s recorded for the Northern California based Christy label. Highlights are
eight fine sides by The Jades and four by Bobby KLint with vocal
accompaniment from the Jades. His Rock Me The Blues is particularly
nice with very fine guitar. Other artists include The Strangers (including
the novelty Crab Louis), Tony Padua & The Cruisers, the incredibly
awful Joey Berlin, Cecil Morse & The Franciscans, The Savoys and The
McMillin Brothers.
JOEY BERLIN: Beverly Angel/ Just You Andi And Love/ With
Hope In My Heart/ THE JADES: Applesauce/ Big Beach Party/ Blue Memories/
Don't Be A Fool/ Friday Night With My Baby/ Look For A Lie/ Oh Why/ Tell Me
Pretty Baby/ BOBBY KLINT: Lovely Lady/ Moana/ Pretend/ Rock Me The Blues/
THE MCMILLIN BROTHERS: Let It Be Me/ Satisfied/ CECIL MORSE & FRANCISCANS:
Don't Think I'll Like Tomorrow/ King Of The Fools/ TONY PAUDA & THE
CRUISERS: Barbara Ann/ JOEY POWELL: Lidid/ THE SAVOYS: You Heartless One/
You're The Beating Of My Heart/ THE STRANGERS: A Song About J-u-d-y/ Crab
Louis/ Lord Will Always Welcome You/ We're In Love, We're In Love, We're In
Love
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Crystal Ball 1061 |
Rarest Of The Rare, Vol. 11 |
● CD $17.98 |
25 vocal group rarities. According to the cover over 90% of
the tracks are new to CD and the set includes 5 previously unreleased sides.
CHARLIE ALLEN: Sweetie Pie/ THE AVALONS: Picture of You/
THE BEAU-JIVES: Mr Sandman/ RON BENNET: Dingle Dangle Doll/ BILLY BROWN &
THE BALLARDS: Why Baby Why/ THE CONTINENTALS: Don't Leave Me/ THE CYMBALS:
My Darling/ BOBBY DOBSON & THE DELTAS: Diamonds and Pearls/ THE GARY MICKS:
Johnny Dollar/ THE GOOD GUYS: Dom-De-Dom/ THE JACK-O-LANTERNS: The Great
Pumpkin/ THE KENTS: Go Astray (prev. unrel.)/ Your Graduation (prev. unrel.)/
LITTLE JAN & THE RADIANTS: Heart and Soul/ THE MONTEREYS: Darlin/ THE
PERFECTIONS: No More Love For You/ LEON PETERSON & THE MEL-O-DEES: This
Creation/ ANNA RAYE: Will You Be There/ DARRYL RHOADES: Burgers From Heaven/
RICH & THE ROYS: My Heart (prev. unrel.)/ The Way You Look Tonight (prev.
unrel.)/ THE TORPEDOS: My Little Angel/ THE TRAMPS: No Hope (prev. unrel.)/
THE VEL-VETTES: I'd Like To Know/ ROBERTA WATSON & THE CALENDARS: Dear
Donnie
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Dee-Jay Jamboree 55111 |
Explosive Doowops, Vol 13 |
● CD $17.98 |
First album in a while in this series features 26 tracks of
obscure doo-wop from the 50s and early 60s - most of them making their first
appearance on CD. Includes 12 page booklet with artist photos and
label shots.
M.R. BASEMAN & THE SYMBOLS: Rip Van Winkle/ JOHNNY BLAKE &
THE CLIPPERS: Bella-marie/ THE CYCLONES: Say What?/ THE EL DOMINGOS: Lucky
Me I'm In Love/ JERRY EVANS & THE OFF KEYS: Oh Little Girl/ THE FIVE EMBERS:
I'm Free/ FLASH & THE MEMPHIS CASUALS: I Promise To Remember/ JIMMY GALE
QUARTET: School Is Over/ THE GALES: Baby Come Home/ STEVE GIBSON & THE RED
CAPS: It's Love/ THE HIDE-A-WAYS: I'm Coming Home/ THE INTERIORS: Love You
Some More/ THE JO-VALS: I Want You (to Be My Girl)/ RONNIE JONES & THE
CLASSMATES: My Baby Cries/ RONNIE MADISON & GROUP: Here I Stand/ THE
MONTEREYS: So Deep/ THE ORIGINALES: Bandstand Sound/ THE PARAMONTS: When I
Dream/ THE RENDEZVOUS: It Breaks My Heart/ S & H SCAMPS: Sassy/ THE SAVOYS:
Oh Gee Oh Gosh/ THE SONNETS: Oh, Judy/ THE TRIDELS: Land Of Love/ THE
UNIQUES: It's Got To Come From Your Heart/ THE VISIONS: Tell Me You're Mine/
SONNY VITO & THE FOUR JS: Put 'em Down Joe
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DRCD 0555 |
The Best Of Derby Records, Vol. 1 |
● CD $17.98 |
The first of three volumes presenting up tempo blues, R&B
and vocal group sounds from the New York based Derby label recorded between
1949 and 1952. Tenor sax giant Freddie Mitchell who later went on to lead
Alan Freed's band is featured prominently with his own orchestra and
accompanying various vocalists. This volume has 26 tracks from Sammy Cotton,
Freddie Mitchell, The Four Fellows, The Majors, Cootie Williams (his great
cover of Tennessee Ernie Ford's Shotgun Boogie), The Carnations,
Jimmy Preston, Doc Pomus, The King Odom Quartet and others.
JOE BLACK ORCH.: The Mainliner/ HONEY BROWN: Rockin and
Jumpin/ THE CARNATIONS: Clown of the Masquerade/ Tree in the Meadow/ SAMMY
COTTON: We're Gonna Ball This Morning/ SARA DEAN: I Got Your Boogie/ JACK
DUPREE: Drinking Little Woman/ BILLY FAIR: Boogie In the Morning/ THE FOUR
FELLOWS: Bend in the River/ I Tried/ WILLIE HUNTER: Willie's Blues/ THE
JAMES QUINTET: Paws in the Kitchen/ THE MAJORS: At Last/ Laughing On the
Outside/ BROWNIE MCGHEE: All Night Party/ FREDDIE MITCHELL: Mama Inez/ Mary
Ann/ Hog Head/ Jersey Bounce/ KING ODOM QUARTET: Lover Come Back To Me/ DOC
POMUS: Kiss My Wrist/ Traveling Doc/ JIMMY PRESTON: Oh Babe/ Rock Roll Roll/
CEDRICK WALLACE: Flying Star Boogie/ COOTIE WILLIAMS: Shotgun Boogie
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DRCD 0556 |
The Best Of Derby Records, Vol. 2 |
● CD $17.98 |
26 more fine sides from Freddie Mitchell, Eunice Davis,
Cootie Williams (this time covering Divorec Me C.O.D.), The King Odom
Quartet, Champion Jack Dupree, Willie Hunter, The Majors, Honey Brown,
Walter "Sandman" Howard, etc.
JOE BLACK ORCH.: The Beetle/ HONEY BROWN: Lonesome and
Mistreated/ SAMMY COTTON: Here Comes the Pain/ EUNICE DAVIS: Long Lean
Daddy/ Rock Little Daddy/ JACK DUPREE: Baby You Say You Love Me/ BILLY FAIR:
I'll Be True To You/ BOB FERGUSON: Hard Lovin Woman/ WALTER "SANDMAN"
HOWARD: Cuttin Out/ WILLIE HUNTER: I'm In Love With You Baby/ THE IMPERIALS:
Hard Working Woman/ THE MAJORS: Come On Up To My Room/ You Ran Away With My
Heart/ BROWNIE MCGHEE: I'm Gonna Move Across the River/ BOB MITCHELL: Red
Beans and Rice/ FREDDIE MITCHELL: Hot Ice/ Madera Hop/ Moondog Boogie/
National Emblem March/ KING ODOM QUARTET: All of Me/ My Heart Cried For You/
JIMMY PRESTON: Front Door Blues/ My Baby Done Left Me/ Stop That baby/
COOTIE WILLIAMS: Beauty Parade Boogie/ Divorce Me C.O.D.
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DRCD 0557 |
The Best Of Derby Records, Vol. 3 |
● CD $17.98 |
26 more on the final volume including Freddie Mitchell, The
King Odom Quartet, Bobby Harris, Sammy Cotton, Brownie McGhee, Big Dale
Scott, Champion Jack Dupree, The King Odom Quartet, etc.
SAMMY COTTON: Back Bitin'/ EUNICE DAVIS: Evening Train/
I'm A Wild West Woman/ JACK DUPREE: The Woman I Love/ BOB FERGUSON: Wine
Head/ BOBBY HARRIS: Up and Down the Hill/ WALTER "SANDMAN" HOWARD: Willow
Tree Blues/ THE IMPERIALS: Why Did You Leave Me/ BROWNIE MCGHEE: Sleepless
Nights/ BOB MITCHELL: My Girl Wants A Millionaire/ FREDDIE MITCHELL: Cold
Heat/ Home Sweet Home/ Indiana Express/ Louise/ Pony Express/ Roll 'em
Boogie/ Summertime Boogie/ Wedding March/ KING ODOM QUARTET: I'm Glad I Made
You Cry/ Rain is the Teardrops of Angels/ What A Wonderful Feeling/ JAMES
QUINTET: I'm Just a Fool/ BIG DALE SCOTT: Bewitched/ Body & Soul/ CEDRICK
WALLACE: Walking Holmes/ JIMMY WILLIAMS: Rock With It Baby
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Dynamite 4001 |
Dynamite Group Sounds - Cover Versions, Vol.
1 |
● CD $17.98 |
25 tracks featuring cover versions of doo-wop songs
including both familiar and obscure titles. Includes Sh-Boom by
Arthur Lee Maye & The Jayos, Honey Love by Billy Storm & Group,
Maybe by Bobby Pedrick & Group, When You Dance by Glen Madison &
The Delcos plus sides by The Spinners, Gems, Vilons, Johnny Flamingo &
Group, Otis Williams & The Charms. The original recordings are from the 50s
and early 60s - the cover versions range from the 50s to 1990.
THE ACADEMICS: Darla My Darlin/ THE ARTISTS: A Thousand
Miles Away/ THE CUPIDS: Troubles Not At End/ THE DEEP RIVER BOYS: Rock-a-beatin
Boogie/ JOHNNY FLAMINGO & GROUP: You're Mine/ THE GEMS: Teardrops Are
Falling/ WILLIE GREENE & THE HARRISONTONES: I Really Love You/ THE HI-LITES:
Maybe You'll Be There/ THE JOKERS: Whisper (you Love Me)/ LOS 5: Wonderful
Wonderful/ GLEN MADISON & THE DELCOS: When You Dance/ ARTHUR LEE MAYE & THE
JAYOS: Sh-boom/ ARTHUE LEE MAYE & THE JAYOS: Sincerely/ NEW EDITION: Since I
Don't Have You/ BOBBY PEDRICK & GROUP: Maybe/ THE PLATTERS: Sweet Sixteen/
THE SOFTONES: Can't Help Falling In Love/ THE SPINNERS: Dream/ BILLY STORM &
GROUP: A Kiss From Your Lips/ Honey Love/ THE TEENERS: I Want You To Be My
Girl/ NICK THOMAS & THE TOPPERS: Once Upon A Time/ THE VIBRATIONS: Stardust/
THE VILONS: Wish She Was Mine/ OTIS WILLIAMS & THE CHARMS: Creation Of Love/
United
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Funky Delicacies 011 |
Funky Funky New Orleans |
● CD $15.98 |
14 tracks, 50 min., highly recommended
A collection of high
octane, superfunk recorded in the land of Mardi Gras between 1969-1975,
which will forever be known as the golden age of extreme funkifacation. If
Eddie Bo doesn't get your blood and muscle moving, check your big toe for a
white tag. Songs such as Louisiana Homegrown's Chiller are literally
too funky for words, while others, including Chuck Cornish's Ali; Funky
Thing (about the boxer) and Sonny Jones' Lighten Up, find the
occasional vocal poking through the bass thump. The best track might just be
If It's Good To Ya, It's Good For Ya (an Eddie Bo classic), in all
its previously-unreleased extended-mix greatness. Louisiana Homegrown's two
cuts are previously unreleased as well, as are The Scram Band's Don't
Change Nothin' and I've Got Reasons. And while Jimmy Hicks'
answer song I'm Mr. Big Stuff rides in a similar groove as the
original Jean Knight classic, it doesn't touch it for attitude. Send more
Eddie Bo. (JC)
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Funky Delicacies 018 |
Funky Funky New Orleans 2 |
● CD $15.98 |
18 tracks, 67 min., highly recommended
Even better than
volume one, with more songs and greater diversity of style, FFNO2 features
small combos such as Leroy Clofer & Company, whose Mr. Big Man sounds
as if it were recorded in a Buick, as well as groups like the Dome City Rock
Orchestra--their Quiet Village (Parts 1 & 2) sound like the forgotten
theme song to "Shaft Goes To Studio 54". Count Ernie (Vincent) and the Top
Notes' Things Are Better and Gary Brown and Soul Machine 2's Get
Down Parts I & II among the finest funk examples. Eddie Bo is
represented by the James Brown-like Sissy Walk and by Inell Young's
The Next Ball Game, which Bo arranged. Trick Bag turns out a pair of
excellent sides with their horn-soaked instrumental Dull Knifin' and
Tennessee Waltz, featuring the vocal assurance of Luther Kent. Other
highlights include Git-It by Sam & The Soul Machine, the slightly
didactic Thief by Enticers, and Richard Caiton's Take A Hold
Brother & Sister, featuring a vocal that is an appeal for togetherness
and some cool bass work. This release might just make your CD player sweat.
(JC)
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Funky Delicacies 057 |
Funky Funky New Orleans 3 |
● CD $15.98 |
17 tracks, 54 min., highly recommended
You've just got to
admire Wardell Quezerque for having produced the Jean Knight hit Mr. Big
Stuff (not included) and the answer song to it (That's Who I Think I
Am) I'm Mr. Big Stuff (included) by the Wardell Quezerque Band. This is
the third time around for small-time funksters in the Big Easy (cut between
1967-74) and includes such obscurities as the minimalist I'm Your Sex
Machine by Unknown Male Singer, who also contributes Freakenstein--both
previously unreleased. Carl Marshall & Sound Dimension offer up some
Neville-esque second-line strut with Mardi Gras Party, originally on
the Big Mama label. Burnt Toast & Coffee's Give Your Love To Me is
previously unreleased and a bit shaky, but their I Love You Girl, Parts 1
& 2 redeems them. Other reasons not to let this slip away include Bobby
McLaughlin's jazzy-funk workout Funky Birthday which would replace
Happy Birthday at all such parties from now on if there were any justice
in the world. Reuben Bell's Superjock is a nicely realized if
predictable piece of funkiness. The Barons Love Power, "released here
for the first time from the original master tapes," is built like a Hummer
but gets better mileage. And count the Eddie Bo-produced Goody Man by
Walter "Wolfman" Washington & The Soul Powers among the coolest cuts. (JC)
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Grapevine Soul GVCD 3009 |
William Bell Presents Atlanta Soul -
Peachtree Records |
● CD $21.98 |
20 tracks, 57 min., essential
The Peachtree label (started
by William Bell and his manager Henry Wynn) existed between 1968-71 and has
acquired near mythical associations among soul 45 collectors because of the
high quality of music and the scarcity of available copies. This welcome
collection represents thousands of dollars in vinyl. The Four Dynamics'
Things That A Lady Ain't Supposed To Do b/w That's What Girls Are
Made For (Peachtree 129) is probably the rarest, though as Emory And The
Dynamics their Let's Take A Look At Our Love b/w It Sure Would be
Nice (Peachtree 107) isn't far behind. All four tracks are here, as is
the northern soul classic by James Fountain Seven Day Lover. The
label's biggest seller and, arguably greatest talent, Mitty Collier, is
represented by four cuts, including the stunner Share What You Got.
The CD offers nearly half the label's output, including Susie Rainy's You
Hurt So Good, issued as a vanity record. Most tracks have never been on
CD or anywhere else since their initial release. Gorgeous George's foray
into deep soul It's Not A Hurting Thing is previously unreleased.
Informative booklet notes but unfortunately no discography. (JC)
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Henry Stone Music 25012 |
Miami Funk |
● CD $11.98 |
14 tracks, 39 min, highly recommended
Most of the groups
here are obscure but come with a pedigree. Funky Nassau (the group, not the
song) and James Knight & The Butlers were both used on the early Blowfly
LPs. The Ocenaliners became KC's Sunshine Band, & Tony Ward, guitarist of
Wizdom, did the guitar work on the classic Ring My Bell. Also great
funk from The Mighty Dogcatchers - It's Gonna Be A Mess, King Tutt -
Hey Sexy, Mr. Perculator - I've Got A Thing For You Baby and
more. (GM)
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IRCD 006 |
Rare Doo-Wops Of Infinity Records |
● CD $18.98 |
Fine collection of early 60s doo-wop, R&B and girl group
sounds from this small West Coast label. Includes The Electras, The
Younghearts, Shad Printer, Penny Rae, Billy Storm (a very fine version of
Since I Fell For You wounding like Jackie Wilson), Betty Turner, The
Younghearts, The Ring A Dings (the hot rocking two part Snacky Poo),
etc.
THE CHERIOS: Ding Dong Honeymoon/ Where Are You Tonight?/
THE DEBS: Dreamboat/ The Mask/ THE ELECTRAS: Boo Babe/ Ten Steps To Love/
The Stomp/ You Lied/ SHAD PRINDER: Here Goes A Fool/ Willow Tree/ PENNY RAE:
Chugga Lugga Choo Choo/ Shame Shame Shame/ THE RING-A-DINGS: Snacky Poo/
Snacky-Poo Part 2/ RAY SMITH: Turn on the Moonlight/ BILLY STORM: Since I
Fell For You/ BETTY TURNER: I Believe In You/ Life Is Like the River/ Stay
Away From Jim/ Yo Yo Love/ THE YOUNGHEARTS: Do Not Forsake Me/ Unwelcomed
Guest
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JSP JSPCD 7748 |
Ham Hocks And Cornbread: The Pounding
Pulsating Roots O |
● CD $28.98 |
Four CDs, 118 tracks, approx 5 hours, highly recommended
If
you like hot blues and R&B with lots of honking saxes, tough blues shouting
and energetic piano pounding then this will be the set for you featuring
fine sides from the 40s and early 50s. Although many of the tracks have been
out before there are lots of tracks that are not currently readily available
or are only on single artist discs and a few tracks making their first
appearance on CD. Among the many artists included are Little Willie
Littlefield, Big Bob Dougherty, Andrew Tibbs ( how can you not love a song
called Drinking Ink Splink?), Billie McAllister, Clifford Bivens,
Marbin Phillips, Big Jim Wynn, Joe Morris, The Jackson Brothers, Jimmy
Witherspoon, King Carl (Davis), Pinocchio James, Cousin Joe, Little Eddie,
Jimmy Crawford, Mr. Swing (Rufus Thomas), Percy Mayfield, Smiling Smokey
Lynn, Big Al Sears, Calvin Boze, Felix Gross, Sonny Parker, James Von
Streeter, Grant "Mr. Blues" Jones, B.B. King, Tommy Ridgley, J.T. Brown,
Robert Tucker, Herman Manzy, Lester Williams and many more. Excellent sound,
informative notes by Neil Slaven and discographical info. (FS)
JO-JO ADAMS: Don't Give It Away/ BUDDY BANKS: Banks
Boogie/ CLIFFORD BIVENS: Achin' Heart Boogie/ ZUZU BOLLIN: Why Don't You Eat
Where You Slept Last Night/ CALVIN BOZE: Safronia B/ TINY BRADSHAW: Walk
That Mess/ J.T. BROWN: Walkin' Home/ PINEY BROWN: That's Right Baby/ ROY
BROWN: Mighty Mighty Man/ TOMMY BROWN: V-8 Baby/ WALTER BROWN: Stop Light/
CARL CAMPBELL: Ooh Wee Baby/ IKE CARPENTER ORCH: Pachuko Hop/ GOREE CARTER:
I'll Send You/ I'm Your Boogie Man/ EDDIE CHAMBLEE: Walkin' Home/ TUCKER
COLES: House Rockers Jamboree/ JACK COOLEY: Dyna-Flow/ COUSIN JOE: Hole In
The Ground/ JIMMY CRAWFORD WITH FRANK MOTLEY: Heavy Weight Baby/ FRANK
CULLEY: Floorshow/ DICK DAVIS: Screamin' Boogie/ MAXWELL DAVIS: Royal
Boogie/ FLOYD DIXON: That'll Get It/ BIG BOB DOUGHERTY: Big Bob's Boogie/
TOMMY DOUGLAS: Douglas Boogie/ JOE DYSON ORCHESTRA: Merc-O-Matic Boogie/
H-BOMB FERGUSON: Bookie's Blues/ JIMMY FORREST: Night Train/ T.J. FOWLER:
Red Hot Blues/ ROSCO GORDON: T-Model Boogie/ STOMP GORDON: Damp Rag/ RUDY
GREENE: Buzzard Pie/ BIG JOHN GREER: Rockin' With Big John/ FELIX GROSS:
Walkin' The Floor/ RENE HALL SEXTETTE: Blue Creek Hop/ BERNIE HARDISON: Love
Me Baby/ PEPPERMINT HARRIS: The Blues Pick Om Me/ WYNONIE HARRIS: She's Gone
With The Wind/ ROY HAWKINS: On My Way/ DUKE HENDERSON: Lucy Brown/ JOHNNY
HODGES: Castle Rock/ JOE HOUSTON: Cornbread And Cabbage Greens/ BULL MOOSE
JACKSON: Moose On The Loose/ EARL JACKSON: Jackson's Blues/ FRED JACKSON:
Buck Fever/ LITTLE WILLIE JACKSON: Jackson's Boogie/ THE JACKSON BROTHERS:
Theres No Other Way/ PINOCCHIO JAMES: Your Mouth Got A Hole In It/ PLAS
JOHNSON: Worrying Blues/ GRANT "MR BLUES" JONES: For You My Love/ B.B. KING:
Take A Swing With Me/ KING PERRY: Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket/ FREDDIE
KOHLMAN: Easy Rockin'/ MORRIS LANE: Down The Lane/ LITTLE EDDIE: My Baby
Left Me/ LITTLE MAXIE: My Baby's Blues/ LITTLE RICHARD: Get Rich Quick/
LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD: Happy Pay Day/ JOE LUTCHER: Rockin' Boogie/
SMILING SMOKEY LYNN: Run, Mister Rabbit, Run/ EDDIE MACK: How About That/
HERMAN MANZY: I'm Your Rockin' Man/ PERCY MAYFIELD: Baby You're Still A
Square/ BILLIE MCALLISTER: I Go For That/ JIMMY MCCRACKLIN: What's Your
Phone Number/ BIG JAY MCNEELY: Insect Ball/ JACK MCVEA: Inflation Blues/
SYLVESTER MIKE: Rubber Leg Woman/ ROY MILTON: Baby, Don't You Know/ FREDDIE
MITCHELL: Fish Market Boogie/ Moondog Boogie/ GATEMOUTH MOORE: Did You Ever
Love A Woman/ WILD BILL MOORE: Hey Spo-Dee-O-Dee/ WILL BILL MOORE: Swingin'
For Pappy/ JOE MORRIS: Weasel Walk/ MR SWING (RUFUS THOMAS): Gonna Bring My
Baby Back/ JIMMY NELSON: Right Around The Corner/ ELMORE NIXON: Forgive Me
Baby/ FATS NOEL: Rocket Flight/ JOHNNY OTIS: Barrelhouse Stomp/ SONNY
PARKER: She Sets My Soul On Fire/ CECIL PAYNE: Ham Hocks/ GENE PHILLIPS:
Flying Home/ MARVIN PHILLIPS: Wine Woogie/ RED PRYSOCK: Red's Blues/ The
Hammer/ TODD RHODES: Page Boy Shuffle/ TOMMY RIDGLEY: Come Home Baby/ HUBERT
ROBINSON: High Class Woman/ JIMMY RUSHING: Hi-ho Sylvester/ BIG AL SERS:
Marshall Plan/ HAL SINGER: Cornbread/ Rock Around The Clock/ CHARLIE
SINGLETON: Blow Mr Singleton/ JIMMY SMITH: Cheatin' Woman/ LLOYD "FAT-MAN"
SMITH: Giddy-Up Giddy-Up/ ARBEE STIDHAM: Stidham Jumps/ KID TANNER: Wino/
RABON TARRANT: Blues With A Feeling/ SONNY THOMPSON: The Fish Part 2/ ANDREW
TIBBS: Drinking Ink Splink/ HAROLD TINSLEY: Fan Your Fanny Blues/ ROBERT
TUCKER: It Sure Cost Money To Live/ JOE TURNER: Wine-O-Baby/ DAVID VAN DYKE:
Dyke Takes A Hike/ EDDIE "CLEANHEAD" VINSON: I'm Gonna Wind Your Clock/
JAMES VON STREETER: Chit'lins/ Landslide/ CROWN PRINCE WATERFORD: Time To
Blow/ L.C. WILLIAMS: Louisana Boogie/ LESTER WILLIAMS: I Can't Lose With The
Stuff I Use/ PAUL WILLIAMS: 35-30/ Boogie Mr Williams/ SHERMAN WILLIAMS: I'm
Lucky With My Brown Gal/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON: Take Me Back Baby/ BIG JIM WYNN:
Blow Wynn Blow
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Kent 237 |
Mirwood Soul Story |
● CD $18.98 |
24 tracks, 61 min., highly recommended
These two dozen
up-tempo dance floor stompers produced for Mirwood between 1965-68 ought to
keep the Northern Soul fanatics on their feet for at least another hour.
Bobby Garrett breaks the land speed record on My Little Girl with the
seemingly obligatory, Motown-derived tambourine beating throughout. Jimmy
Thomas' beater Where There's A Will features sole burning rhythm and
frenetic horns going off in the background like fireworks. Girl Group
aficionados will drool over The Belles' Words Can't Explain, The
Mirettes' (formerly The Ikettes) Van McCoy-produced Now That I Found You
Baby, and The Darlettes' Lost. Without any ballads for a break,
just listening to this set is tiring. The closest thing to a slow song is
the duet Whether It's Right Or Wrong by Jackie Lee & Delores Hall,
which, as it happens, is the finest soul song here and perhaps the best
vocal performance on the label. Contains wonderfully informative booklet
notes by Adrian Croasdell, who claims that Vol. 2 will be out in 2006 and
include a label discography. (JC)
THE BELLES: Don't Pretend/ Words Can't Explain/ BOB AND
EARL: Baby, Your Time Is My Time/ EARL COSBY: Ooh Honey Baby/ THE DARLETTES:
Lost/ BOBBY GARRETT: I Can't Get Away/ Keep It Coming/ My Little Girl/
CURTIS LEE: Is She In Your Town/ JACKIE LEE: Anything You Want, Any Way You
Want/ Do The Temptation Walk/ Oh My Darlin'/ Whether It's Right Or Wrong/
THE MIRETTES: Now That I've Found You Baby/ Your Kind Ain't No Good/ THE
OLYMPICS: Baby, Do The Philly Dog/ I'll Do A Little Bit More/ The Same Old
Thing/ THE PERFORMERS: I Can't Stop You/ Set Me Free/ THE SHEPPARDS:
Stubborn Heart/ RICHARD TEMPLE: That Beatin' Rhythm/ JIMMY THOMAS: Just
Tryin' To Please You/ Where There's A Will
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Kent CDKEND 245 |
Does Anybody KNow I'm Here |
● CD $18.98 |
Complementing Kent 226 this is another fine collection of
soul songs commenting on the Vietnam war - 23
tracks in all.
J. W. ALEXANDER: Keep A Light In The Window Until I Come
Home/ WILLIAM BELL: Soldier's Goodbye/ ARCHIE BELL & THE DRELLS: A Soldier's
Prayer 1967/ BROTHERS OF SOUL: Wait For Me/ ROY C: Open Letter To The
President/ THE CHARMELS: Please Uncle Sam (send Back My Man)/ THE DELLS:
Does Anybody Know I'm Here?/ INEZ & CHARLIE FOXX: Vaya Con Dios/fellows In
Vietnam: Fellows In Vietnam/ FUNKADELIC: March To The Witch's Castle/ MARVIN
GAYE: Soldier's Plea/ THELMA HOUSTON: Don't Cry My Soldier Boy/ THE
IMPRESSIONS: Don't Cry My Love/ TONY MASON: Take Good Care/ THE MASTERS OF
SOUL: Please Wait For Me (my Darling)/ BILL MOSS & THE CELESTIALS: Welcome
The Boys Back Home/ MARTHA REEVES & THE VANDELLAS: I Should Be Proud/ KING
SOLOMON: Please Mr President/ THE SWEET INSPIRATIONS: Am I Ever Gonna See My
Baby Again?/ THE TEMPTATIONS: War/ JOE TEX: I Can't See You No More (when
Johnny Comes Marching Home)/ MELVERINE THOMAS: A Letter From My Son/ THE
VELVELETTES: Your Heart Belongs To Me/ WATSON AND THE SHERLOCKS: Standing On
The Corner
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Kent CDKEND 248 |
Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities 2 |
● CD $18.98 |
24 hard to find titles.
THE ANGELS: You Got What You Want/ THE ATHENS ROGUES: She
Could Love Me/ CARL BURNETT & THE HUSTLERS: Jerk Baby Jerk/ BILL BUSH: I'm
Waiting/ EDDIE CAMPBELL: Contagious Love/ THE CHARMELS: Sea Shells/ JANICE
CHRISTIAN WITH JOHNNY & THE CHARMERS: Just A Bad Thing/ THE EXTREMES: How I
Need Your Love/ THE FASHIONETTES: Losin' Control/ GINO: It's Only A Paper
Moon/ JIMMY "BO" HORNE: I Can't Speak/ WILLIAM HUNT: Would You Believe/
HERBERT HUNTER: Love Has Taken Over Me/ DENITA JAMES: Wild Side/ TY KARIM:
You Just Don't Know/ BILLY KEEN: I Finally Got Wise/ THE MAGICIANS: (just A
Little) Faith And Understanding/ PEGGY PAXTON: It Ain't What I Do (it's The
Way I Do It)/ JOE TEX: I Wanna Be Free/ THE VOICE MASTERS: Two Lovers/
JACKIE WASHINGTON: Why Won't They Let Me Be/ JENNIFER WELLS: Dining In
Chinatown/ DANNY WHITE: Miss Fine Miss Fine/ LOUISE WHITNEY: Gotta Keep On
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Kent CDKEND 250 |
The Return Of Mod Jazz |
● CD $18.98 |
24 sides of soulful jazz and jazzy soul including two
previously unissued sides.
THE AFRO BLUES QUINTET PLUS ONE: Liberation/ MOSE ALLISON
TRIO: I Love The Life I Live/ CLARENCE ARMSTRONG: Beaver/ THE GEORGE BENSON
QUARTET: Summertime/ OSCAR BROWN JR: Humdrum Blues/ RAY BRYANT COMBO: Sack
O' Woe/ THE DAVE DAVANI FOUR: Top Of The Pops/ BILL DOGGETT: Twenty Five
Miles/ LEON HAYWOOD: Ray's Theme/ THE HIDEAWAYS: Hide Out/ RED HOLLOWAY:
Monkey Sho' Can Talk/ HANK JACOBS: East Side/ GENE MCDANIELS: Sweet Lover No
More/ BUDDY MCKNIGHT: Everytime Pt 2/ JOHNNY OTIS: Banana Peels/ BILLIE
POOLE WITH THE JUNIOR MANCE TRIO: Them Blues/ PUCHO & HIS LATIN SOUL
BROTHERS: Canteloupe Island/ THE GOOGIE RENE COMBO: Wild Bird/ KENNY RICE
AND LEO'S FIVE: Hold It/ MONGO SANTAMARIA: El Pussy Cat/ JOE SWIFT'S
INTERNATIONALS: Bell Bottoms/ THE SWINGIN' TOMATOES: Get It/ TIMMY THOMAS:
Have Some Boogaloo/ THE TKO'S: Getting Into Something
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Magic Rabbit 3012 |
The Kiddie Sound - "So Young", Vol. 12 |
● CD $17.98 |
Another three volumes in this fine and popular series of
teen doo-wop. Like the previous volumes each one starts with a different
version of Why Do Fools Fall In Love and with a total of 30 tracks.
This volume includes 18 songs on CD for the first time including two
previously unissued.
WAYNE ANTHONY: Little Miss Lonely/ BECKY LEE BECK: Oh
Please/ JIMMY CASTOR & THE JUNIORS: Without Your Love (pre unrel)/ THE
CHANTERS: Row Your Boat/ THE COEDS: Time After Time/ THE COMBINATIONS:
Pretty Boy/ LITTLE BECKY COOK & THE RAGMOPS: God Bless This Moment/ THE
CRYSTALETTES: Please Stay Away/ NICK D'ALESSANDRO: I'm So Young/ THE
DESIRES: Set Me Free/ THE DIAL TONES: Rock All Night/ DINO & THE DIPLOMATS:
Hushabye My Love (pre unrel, alt ver)/ THE DOWNBEATS: My Girl/ THE ESSEX:
Why Do Fools Fall In Love/ THE FIVE EMBERS: Love Birds/ THE HARMONAIRES:
Come Back/ THE HEARTBREAKERS: My Love/ RONNIE JONES & THE CLASSMATES:
Teenage Rock/ THE KODAKS: Look Up to the Sky/ LITTLE LINDA: Don't Take Your
Love From Me/ LITTLE LISA: Hang On Bill/ LITTLE RAY: Come Baby Dance/ LITTLE
TONY & THE HAWKS: Do What You Did/ LEWIS LYMON & THE TEENCHORDS: Lydia/
DONNY OSMOND: When I Fall In Love/ THE RIPPLES: Cowgirls to Boys/ TOMMY
TOMORROW & THE YESTERDAYS: You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover (pre unrel)/
THE UNISONS: Losers Seem to Know/ LINDA YELARDY: Can't You See/ YOUNG
JACKONS: Under the Boardwalk
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Magic Rabbit 3013 |
The Kiddie Sound - "So Young", Vol. 13 |
● CD $17.98 |
30 more tracks - 21 on CD for the first time - 3 previously
unissued.
FRANKIE ANTHONY: I'm a New Personality/ WAYNE ANTHONY: You
Ain't Wrapped Too Tight/ LITTLE SHIRLEY CAPRI: Your Picture Neath My Pillow
(prev unrel)/ JIMMY CASTOR & THE JUNIORS: I Promise/ THE CHANTERS: Angel
Darling/ THE CO-EDS: To Be Or Not To Be/ THE COLLEGIANS: Zoom Zoom Zoom/ THE
CRYSTALETTES: Shy Guy/ THE DIAL TONES: Ring A Ding Ding/ THE DISTINCTIONS:
Token of Love/ DONNIE & THE DISCHORDS: Why Do Fools Fall In Love (prev unrel)/
THE EMPIRES: Please Tell Me Darling/ THE HEARTBREAKERS: Without A Cause/
LINDERELLA: I Don't Want To Walk Without You/ LITTLE BUDDY: Love Me Shirley
Lee/ LITTLE EDITH: I Believe In You/ LITTLE JAN & THE RADIANTS: If You Love
Me/ LITTLE LISA: Puppet On a String/ LITTLE RALPHIE MOLINA: Homework/ DONNY
OSMOND: Are You Lonesome Tonight/ JIMMY PEMBERTON: That's What You Think/
LITTLE DANNY PESCE & THE PESCES: I Love Mom & Dad (prev unrel)/ RIPPLE WAVES
& MICHAEL: Let Me Carry Your School Books/ THE SUGAR BUNS: Pajama Party/
JIMMY TAYLOR & THE TIKI-TURBANS: The Way of Love/ THE TEEN KINGS: That's A
Teenage Love/ THE UNISONS: As I Walk Down the Street/ THE VARNELLS: Strut
Time/ BABE WAYNE: There'll Bever Be Kissing Time/ THE YOUNG TONES: Come On
Baby
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Magic Rabbit 3014 |
The Kiddie Sound - "So Young", Vol. 14 |
● CD $17.98 |
Includes 15 songs on CD for the first time, 3 previously
unreleased.
FRANKIE ANTHONY: Little Girls Have Big Ears/ WAYNE
ANTHONY: A Thousand Miles Away/ BOBBY & BENGALS: No Parking/ BOBBY & THE
COUNTS: Too Young/ CARL CARLTON: So What/ CLAUDINE CLARK: The Get Set Song/
DOO WOP DOT COM: Why Do Fools Fall In Love (prev unrel)/ GWEN EDWARDS &
CO-EDS: Love You Baby All the Time/ THE FEDERALS: While Our Hearts Are
Young/ LITTLE JIMMY GANDY: Cool 13/ LEMMIE B. GOOD: Mother May I/ BUZZY
KING: Your Picture/ LITTLE LAMBSIE PENN: Painted Lips and Pig Tails/
LINDERELLA: All Cried Out/ LITTLE FRANKIE: The Kind Of Boy You Can't Forget/
LITTLE RICHIE & THE RICONS: Shank (prev unrel)/ LONNIE & CRISIS: Santa Town
USA/ BOBBY MAXELL & EXPLOTS: Stay With Me/ LITTLE RALPHIE MOLENA:
Rock-n-Roll the Vowels/ MIGUEL POVENTUD: My Amanda (Diana)/ ROBBIE REED &
TONY DANO: Love Is Bubble Gum/ THE STUDENTS: Mommy and Daddy/ FAITH TAYLOR &
THE SWEET TEENS: Your Candy Kisses/ THE TELLERS: I Wanna Run To You/ MICKEY
TOLICER & CAPITOLS: Millie/ TONY & THE TWILIGHTERS: Be My Girl/ THE UNIQUE
TEENS: Jeannie/ THE UNISONS: I'll Always Be Waiting (prev unrel)/ THE
VESTELLS: Come Home/ THE YOUNG LADS: I'm In Love
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Manteca 235 |
It Came From Memphis - The Legendary Sounds
Of Memphis |
● CD $19.98 |
Two CD set featuring 39 tracks of Memphis music ranging from
1927 (Gus Cannon's Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home) to 2004 (The
Country Soul Revue doing I'm Only Human). Along the way we hear
blues, R&B, soul, rockabilly, country gospel, folk, blues rock, rock and
more from Mose Vinson, The Mar-Keys, North Mississippi All Stars, Elder Beck
(the amazing two part Rock And Roll Sermon), The Million Dollar
Quartet, Syl Johnson, Sid Selvidge, Booker T. & The MG's, The Bo-Keys, The
Country Rockers, The Memphis Jug Band, The Tearjerkers, Donnie Fritts with
Lucina Williams, Bobby Rush and others. Compiled and annotate by Robert
Gordon who wrote the book with the same name.
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MRCD 100 |
The Best Doo-Wops Of Madison, Vol. 1 |
● CD $17.98 |
First of two volumes featuring recordings made for this New
York based label in the early/ mid 60s. 25 tracks.
THE FRECKLES: Freckle Face/ Little Star/ NINO & EBB TIDES:
Jukebox Saturday Night/ NINO & THE EBB TIDES: (someday) I'll Fall In Love/
Don't Run Away/ Those Oldies But Goodies/ THE PERRIS: Ballad Of A Happy
Heart/ Jerilee/ JIMMY RAND: Peggy Peggy/ The Only Girl In My Life/ THE
SINGING BELLES: High Noon/ THE TASSELS: My Guy & I/ To A Soldier Boy/ To A
Young Lover/ THE TASSLES: The Boy For Me/ TICO & THE TRIUMPHS: Motorcycle/
TICO & TRIUMPHS: I Don't Believe Them/ THE UNTOUCHABLES: Do Your Best/
Everybody's Laughing/ Goodnight Sweetheart/ New Fad/ Poor Boy Needs A
Preacher/ Raising Sugar Cane/ Sixty Minute Man/ Vickie Lee
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MRCD 200 |
The Best Doo-Wops Of Madison, Vol. 2 |
● CD $17.98 |
25 tracks.
HUGH BARRETT & THE VICTORS: Got The Bull By The Horns/
There Is A Fungus Among Us/ THE BELL NOTES: Friendly Star/ Real Wild Child/
Shortnin Bread/ To Each His Own/ BUDDY CLINTON: Joanies Forever/ Take Me To
Your Leader/ DANTE & EVERGREENS: Time Machine/ DANTE & THE EVERGREENS:
(gotta Be) The Right Time/ Alley Oop/ Da Doo/ Dream Land/ Think Sweet
Thoughts/ What Are You Doing New Years Eve/ Yeah Baby/ EDDIE DELMAR:
Blanche/ Love Bells/ MISS FRANKIE NOLAN: A Week From Sunday/ Say No More/
THE SINGING BELLES: Oh Happy Day/ Someone Love You Joe/ The Empty Mailbox/
GARY STITES: Honey Girl/ Little Lovely One
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Neil 100 |
The Best Of Neil Records |
● CD $17.98 |
Only 14 tracks on this collection but that seems to be the
entire output of this tiny New York based label that was active in 1956 &
'57. Mostly good black doo-wop from The Monarchs, The Young Lads, Jimmy
Williams and Bobby Williams plus two tracks from R&B singer Dorian Burton.
DORIAN BURTON: I Want You/ One Little Kiss/ THE KINGSMEN:
One Foolish Mistake/ Stranded Love/ THE MONARCHS: Always Be Faithful/ How
Are You/ In My Younger Days/ Pretty Little Girl/ BOBBY PIE | |
