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| Since our Second Time Around listings are so popular this list includes some great releases which have been out for a while but you may have missed them the first time we listed them.To avoid you getting possible duplicates we have added asterisks (**) after these particular titles. |
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COMPACT DISCS |
| BUDDY ACE | Jasmine 3167 | Meets Al "TNT" Braggs | ● CD |
| Sides recorded in late 50s/ early 60by two soul music
pioneers - 16 by Ace and 10 by Braggs. |
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| JOHNNY ACE | Jasmine 3206 | The Complete Duke Recordings and More | ● CD $13.98 |
| 24 tracks, 66 mins, highly recommended The complete Duke recordings cut between 1952 and 1954 by this popular blues/ ballad singer from Memphis who died Christmas Eve 1954 while playing Russian Roulette. He was a fine piano player and an excellent singer and although he was a fine blues performer he achieved his biggest success with his rendition of tender and bluesy ballads including My Song/ The Clock/ Please Forgive Me and the classic Pledging My Love which rocketed up the charts following his untimely death and became his only crossover hit reaching #17 in the pop charts (it was #1 in the R&B charts). The more includes two tribute songs to Johnny and a remastered version of Pledging My Love that was issued in 1958. Includes informative notes by Austin Powell. (FS) |
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| JIMMY CLANTON | Acrobat 3385 | The Jimmy Clanton Collection, 1957-1962 | ● CD |
| 2 CDs, 62 tracks, 148 mins, Strongly Recommended It's a trip to think about just how big an artist Jimmy Clanton was for a short time. I used to only know him for Venus In Blue Jeans, and for the "Go Johnny Go" movie from 1959, but he sold at least 4 million singles and starred in another movie with a bunch of Rockers in 1961: "Teenage Millionaire." I always watched "Go Johnny Go" for the other performers in it like Chuck Berry, Ritchie Valens, Jackie Wilson, etc., but over the years I have definitely developed more of an appreciation for Jimmy Clanton, especially his records that fall under the Swamp Pop banner. This expansive collection should delight the long time fans as well as recent converts like me. Set includes all the big hits: Just A Dream/ A Letter to an Angel/ A Part Of Me/ Ship on a Stormy Sea/ Go, Jimmy, Go/ Another Sleepless Night and Venus in Blue Jeans, plus many, many more classic tracks. Sound is excellent throughout both discs, and the CD booklet includes extensive liner notes and recording info. (JM) |
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| SANFORD CLARK | Bear Family BCD 17664 | Sanford Clark Rocks! | ● CD $19.98 |
| 31 tracks, strongly recommended In depth survey of the recordings of this fine rocker and country singer who only managed to get one hit but it was a corker - The Fool in 1956. Almost all all the tunes were produced by Lee Hazelwood (who also wrote many of them) with the outstanding Al Casey on lead guitar. Most tunes cut in Phoenix and some in Hollywood including a few with Duane Eddy on rhythm guitar. Clark hit big with his first recording The Fool, originally on MCI and leased to Dot. He spent the rest of his career trying for a second hit. The tunes here, done between 1956-1967 for MCI, Dot, Trey, Project, Warner Bros and Ramco are often very good but success eluded Sanford. He was not the world's most compelling singer - he sounded like a cross between Ricky Nelson & Johnny Cash but there are some fine songs here like Lonesome For A Letter/ Usta Be My Baby/ A Cheat/ NIne Pound Hammer/ Ooh Baby/ Modern Romance/ Modern Romance/ Travelin' Man/ Just Bluesin' and others including an odd 1965 remake of The Fool produced by Waylon Jennings and Donnie Owens. It includes a few tracks that were not originally issued but, curiously, none of his excellent Jamie sides from 1958 and '59. Includes a 36 page booklet with detailed notes by Bill Dahl. An enjoyable collection. (FS) |
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| EDDIE COCHRAN | Rockstar RSRCD 026 | Portrait Of A Legend | ● CD $10.98 |
| 35 tracks, 79 mins, highly recommended Rockstar Records found some copies of this long out of print release and are offering them at a bargain price. This is an expanded version of their 16 track LP of the same name from 1984 with 19 additional sides all drawn from the Liberty vaults including several items that have never been unearthed before though no new songs. Among the highlights are 12 tracks in stereo including a fabulous version of Cut Across Shorty with a more country feel. It also includes the master of this song (one of his best) at the original tempo (it was speeded up for single release). It includes the great bluesy instrumental Jam Sand-Witch, the British single version of Summertime Blues lacking added reverb and with the ending intact and the version of Somethin' Else is also minus the fade out. The disc also includes the undubbed version of Eddie's fine version of Ray Charles' Hallelujah, I Love Her So along with the stereo version of the version with string overdubs. Cochran helped spread the word about Ray on his European tours. The disc also includes the never before reissued backing tracks for My Way and Rock 'n' Roll Blues which are interesting but a bit redundant. As always with Eddie there are a few drab ballads (ballads were not his strong suit) but the majority of the set is fine and worthwhile even if you're not a Cochran fanatic. Sound is superb and the 8 page booklet includes detailed notes by Stu Coleman and some great photos including a priceless one of Eddie with Gene Vincent. (FS) |
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| EDDIE COCHRAN & FRIENDS | Fantastic Voyage 228 | Gold Star Rockers | ● CD |
| Three CD set with 108 tracks featuring a selection of
recordings with Eddie Cochran on guitar or by artists associated with
Eddie. The notes in the 12 page booklet are a bit ambiguous but I think
many of these were recorded at the famed Gold Star studios in Hollywood,
California. Includes sides recorded between 1956 and '59 by Lee Denson
(who helped Elvis learn to play guitar when he lived in Memphis), The
Cochran Brothers (Eddie Cochran and Hank Cochran who were not related),
Ray Stanley, Mamie Van Doren (singing was not her strong point), Jerry
Capeheart, Skeets McDonald, Bo Davis, Baker Knight, Dosey BUrnette,
Troyce Key, Gene Vincent (four songs including Git It which is
one of my favorites of Gene with Eddie on guitar and vocal chorus) and
many more. Lots of rarities plus some originally unissued recordings and
demos. JOHN ASHLEY: Born To Rock/ Let The Good Times Roll/ Little Lou/ THE BLOCKBUSTERS: Fulltime Baby/ Take It And Git/ GENE BROWN: Big Door/ DORSEY BURNETTE: Misery/ JOHNNY BURNETTE: Me And The Bear/ SAM BUTERA: Equator/ JERRY CAPEHART: Heart Of A Fool/ Rockin' And Flyin'/ Rollin'/ That's What It Takes To Make A Man/ Walkin' Stick Boogie/ AL CASEY: Willa Mae/ CHUCK AND GENE: No Rockin' And Rollin'/ HANK COCHRAN: I'm Ready/ Latch On/ THE COCHRAN BROTHERS: Fool's Paradise/ Latch On/ Open The Door/ Slow Down/ Tired And Sleepy/ DICK D'AGOSTIN: Afraid To Take A Chance/ Nancy Lynne/ Night Walk/ EDDIE DANIELS: Hug Me,Kiss Me/ Hurry Baby/ Playin' Hide Go Seek/ Whoa-Whoa Baby/ BO DAVIS: Drownin' All My Sorrows/ Let's Coast Awhile/ GENE BO DAVIS: Curfew/ Thanks/ BO DAVIS & EDDIE COCHRAN: Latch On/ DON DEAL: Sweet Love/ The First Teenager/ BUDDY DEE: Country Rockin' And Flyin'/ LEE DENSON: Devil Doll/ Heart Of A Fool/ High School Hop/ New Shoes/ The Pied Piper/ BOB DENTON: 24 Hour Night/ Always Late/ Playboy/ Pretty Little Devil/ Skinny Minnie/ Thinkin' About You/ NICK GREENE: Later For You Baby/ My Lovin' Baby/ GARY HODGE: Not For Love Or Money/ THE HOLLY TWINS: The Tender Age/ JESSE JAMES: Red Hot Rockin' Blues/ South's Gonna Rise Again/ JEWEL AND EDDIE: Opportunity/ Who Can I Count On ?/ JAY JOHNSTON: Walk A Dog/ THE KELLY FOUR: Guybo/ Strollin' Guitar/ TROYCE KEY: Baby Please Don't Go/ Watch Your Mouth/ BAKER KNIGHT: Dum Dum Diggley Dum/ Just Relax/ Love-A Love-A Love-A/ Reelin' And Rockin'/ ALIS LESLEY: He Will Come Back To Me/ Heartbreak Harry/ JACK LEWIS: I.O.U./ Someone To Love Me/ Toodle-De-oo/ BUDDY LOWE: It Happened To Me/ Ummm-Kiss Me Goodnight/ JIMMIE MADDIN: Jeannie,Jeannie,Jeannie/ LYNN MARSHALL: Borrowed Love/ BARRY MARTIN: Minnie The Moocher/ The Willies/ SKEETS MCDONALD: Heart Breakin' Mama/ You Oughta See Grandma Rock/ EDDIE MILLER: Patty Cake Man/ You Walked Away/ JERRY NEAL: Scratchin'/ BOB ORRISON: Sarah Lee/ ELROY PEACE: Quick Like/ Where Did I Goof ?/ SHERMAN SCOTT: How'dja Do/ Way Out Far/ RAY STANLEY: Equator/ I Can't Wait/ Kiss And Make Up/ Let's Get Acquainted/ Love Charms/ Market Place/ My Lovin' Baby/ Over A Coke/ Pushin'/ KIP TYLER: Let's Monkey Around/ She's My Witch/ Vagabond Mama/ MAMIE VAN DOREN: Oo Ba La Baby/ Rollin' Stone/ Salamander/ GENE VINCENT: Five Feet Of Lovin'/ Git It/ Somebody Help Me/ Teenage Partner |
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| BOB CROSBY & HIS ORCHESTR | Acrobat 3373 | All The HIts And More, 1935-1951 | ● CD $16.98 |
| Bob Crosby was the younger brother of Bing Crosby, and
made his own way in the music business as a vocalist and bandleader,
having a string of more than forty hits which spanned the era covered by
this collection, especially as leader of his well-known band The Bob
Cats and in later years as a solo singer. This 50-track 2-CD collection
comprises all Bob Crosby's forty and more career hits, with his
orchestra, with The Bob Cats and as solo singer and duettist, plus
selected other noted A&B sides on Decca from this era. It features his
No. 1 hits In A Gypsy Tearoom/ Whispers In The Dark and Day
In, Day Out, and his other Top 3 hits Over The Rainbow/ Lilacs In
The Rain/ With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair and Down
Argentina Way. Also included are famous jazz-focused pieces like
South Rampart Street Parade/ Big Noise From Winnetka and March Of
The Bob Cats and his theme tune Summertime along with hits
with other classics from the era like Two Sleepy People/ Let It
Snow!/ Goody Goody/ A Foggy Day and Play A Simple Melody. It
features Crosby himself on vocals, with performances also by his
featured vocalists Frank Tennille, Kay Weber, Eddie Miller, Marian Mann,
Nappy Lamare, Helen Ward, Teddy Grace and Marion Morgan, plus vocal
duets with Patty Andrews and Georgia Gibbs. |
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| CLARENCE EDWARDS | Wolf 120.635 | Louisiana Swamp Blues Vol. 9 - Baton Rouge Downhome BLu | ● CD $14.98 |
| 16 tracks, highly recommended Louisiana performer Clarence Edwards was a terrific performer with a dark powerful voice and funky down home guitar style and his music recalls the heyday of Excello artists like Lightnin' Slim and Silas Hogan. These recordings were made between 1990 and 1993 by his producer at the time Steve Coleridge who produced Clarence's highly regarden first album "Swamp's The Word" (sadly, out of print). All tracks feature Clarence accompanied by Coleridge on bass and Ronnie Huston on drums with various additional musicians added on harmonica, guitar and violin - the latter is particularly effective. Many of the songs here are familiar down home blues songs from the repertoire of Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Guitar Slim and others (Every Night About This Time/ All Your Love/ Still A Fool/ Rocky Mountain Blues, etc) but Clarence's approach renders them fresh. NOthing fancy here, just solid down home blues. (FS) |
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| RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT | Acrobat 7174 | 100 Classic Recordings From The Early Years | ● CD $24.98 |
| Four CDs, 100 tracks, highly recommended Ramblin' Jack Elliot is an important figure in the American folk music revival and this is a most welcome compilation of his early recordings. Born the son of a New York doctor he became entranced by cowboy music at an early age and traveled the country eventually meeting up with Woody Guthrie in the late 40s. Guthrie became a close friend and inspiration and Jack's music marks a transitional phase between Guthrie and some of the younger disciples like Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs. He is an excellent singer with a lovely melodic quality and a country twang that belies his urban upbringing. He is also a fine guitarist in both finger and flat pick style. He also occasionally plays harmonica on a harp rack. It features most of the titles from his albums for the Elektra, Topic, 77, Prestige & Columbia UK labels, "Bad Men And Heroes", "Woody Guthrie's Blues", "Jack Elliot Sings", "Jack Takes The Floor", "Ramblin' Jack Elliot In London", "Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers", "Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie", "Ramblin' Jack Elliot", "Jack Elliott at the Second Fret - Recorded Live" and "Country Style" The material is a mix of traditional songs, songs from the repertoire of Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Gary Davis, Jessie Fuller, Red Foley, Jimmy Driftwood and others. It includes a version of Midnight Special by the City Ramblers Skiffle Group with Jack on vocals that was originally issued on an obscure Storyville EP in 1956. Sound quality is excellent and the 24 page booklet has informative notes by Paul Watts. (FS) RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT: 1913 Massacre/ Arthritis Blues/ Bed Bug Blues/ Black Baby/ Boll Weevil/ Brother Won't You Join in The Line?/ Brown Eyes/ Candy Man/ Charles Guiteau/ Chisholm Trail/ Cocaine/ Cool Water/ Dead Or Alive/ Detour/ Diamond Joe/ Dink's Song/ Do-Re-Mi/ Dust Storm Disaster/ East Virginia Blues/ Fifteen Cents/ Fifteen Cents And A Dollar/ Git Along Little Doggies/ Good Morning Blues/ Grand Coulee Dam/ Grey Goose/ Hard Traveling/ Hobo's Lullaby/ How Long Blues/ Howdido/ I Ain't Got No Home/ I Belong To Glasgow/ I Ride An Old Paint/ In The Jailhouse Now/ In The Willow Garden/ Jack O' Diamonds/ Jesse James/ Jimmie The Kid/ John Henry/ Lovesick Blues/ Low And Lonely/ Ludlow Massacre/ Mean Mama Blues/ Midnight Special/ Mother The Queen Of My Heart/ Mule Skinner Blues/ New York Town/ Night Herding Song/ Ol' Riley/ Old Blue/ Old Shep/ Philadelphia Lawyer/ Pretty Boy Floyd (Eletra, 1953)/ Pretty Boy Floyd (Topic, 1955)/ Railroad Bill/ Riding In My Car/ Rock Island Line/ Rocky Mountain Belle/ Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms/ Rusty Jiggs And Sandy Sam/ Sadie Brown/ Salty Dog/ San Francisco Bay Blues/ So Long/ So Long (It's Been Good To Know You)/ Soldier's Last Letter/ South Coast/ T For Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)/ Take Me Back And Love Me/ Talking Blues/ Talking Columbia (Prestige, 1960)/ Talking Columbia Blues (Topic, 1955)/ Talking Dust Bowl (Prestige, 1960)/ Talking Dustbowl Blues (Topic, 1955)/ Talking Miner Blies (Topic, 1955)/ Talking Miner Blues (Prestige, 1960)/ Talking Sailor/ Tennessee Stud/ The Cuckoo/ The Last Letter/ There are Better Things to Do/ This Land Is Your Land/ Those Brown Eyes/ Tom Joad/ Tramp On The Street/ Tyin' Knots in the Devil's Tail/ Wabash Cannonball/ Waiting For A Train/ Whippin' That Old T.B./ Wreck Of The Old '97 |
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| FRANKIE FORD | Acrobat 4406 | Sea Cruise - The Complete Releases, 1958-1962 | ● CD $16.98 |
| 30 tracks, strongly recommended Frankie Ford was one of the better white interpreters of rhythm & blues to emerge during the 1950s. Growing up in New Orleans in 1950s and playing in local clubs he got exposed to the great sound of New Orleans R&B which he absorbed. He made his Ace debut in 1958 with the fine R&B rocker Cheatin' Woman which he followed with his big hit novelty Sea Cruise and Roberta. Originally recorded by Huey Smith & The Clowns, Ace owner Johnny Vincent wasn't satisfied with Bobby Marchan's lead vocals and decided to "improve" it by erasing Marchan's vocals and having Ford singing to Smith's accompaniment and the result reached #11 in the R&B charts and #14 in the pop charts. His follow up, the catchy, Alimony, co-written by Frankie, was a minor pop hit and has been recorded by a number of New Orleans artists. His last for Johnny Vincent was a single issued on Vin as by Morgus & The Three Ghouls - one side featured Frankie with Mac Rebennac. In 1960 he switched to Imperial where he came under the guidance of Dave Bartholomew. His first Imperial release was a fine cover of Joe Jones You Talk Too Much which crept into the pop charts and he had another nimor pop hit with the pop ballad Seventeen. This collection features all his Ace, Vin and Imperial singles plus tracks from his Ace LP "Let's Take A Sea Cruise." His material is a mix of rockin' R&B, doo-wop styled ballads and straight ahead pop - the latter being pretty forgettable. (FS) |
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| SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS | Sunset Boulevard 7034 | Because You're Mine | ● CD $23.98 |
| A varied collection by one of the wildest of R&B singers
- 29 tracks on two CDs ranging from the early 50s to the mid 1970s.
Includes three versions of his most famous song I Put A Spell On You
- the first recording from 1955 (a year before his hit version), a 1973
remake and a live version. Includes sides from his earliest recordings
with Tiny Grimes for Timely plus sessions for Mercury, Grand, Red Top,
Enrica (the crazed I Hear Voices), Providence and other labels. |
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| FLETCHER HENDERSON | Acrobat 3468 | The Golden Years, Hits and Classics, 1925-1937 | ● CD $16.98 |
| Fletcher Henderson was a jazz pianist, arranger,
composer and bandleader who is regarded as one of the most influential
figures of the early jazz and swing eras, bridging the gap between
Dixieland, swing and the big band as one of the most prolific and
innovative arrangers of his time, ranked by some critics on a par with
Duke Ellington in terms of influence. During his heyday as a bandleader
in the 1920s and '30s he had a string of big sellers and recorded
definitive versions of some of the classics of those times. This
48-track 2-CD set comprises selected recordings with the various
incarnations of his orchestra on the Vocalion, Columbia, Brunswick,
Harmony and Bluebird labels during this era, before he largely turned
his attention towards arranging, including a couple of recordings as The
Dixie Stompers and The Baltimore Bellhops. It features all his 20 chart
hits, including Sugar Foot Stomp/ Dinah/ Henderson Stomp/ Honeysuckle
Rose/ King Porter Stomp/ It's The Talk Of The Town/ Until Today and
many more. There are performances by Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Don
Redman, Tommy Ladnier, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, John Kirby, Henry
'Red' Allen, Dicky Wells, Horace Henderson, Edgar Sampson and many other
notable musicians who passed through his ranks over the years. |
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| ELMORE JAMES | Sunset Boulevard 7947 | The Sky Is Crying - The Ultimate Collection | ● CD $31.98 |
| Three CDS, 54 tracks, almost essential I say "almost" since this set of recordings made for Bobby Robinson between 1959 and 1963 would have been complete and essential if it wern't missing several alternate takes and the completely different version of Look On Yonder Wall. Apart from that, this is the most comprehensive currently available set of these incredible recordings. There is no doubt in my mind that Elmore James was one of the greatest bluesmen to ever record - a powerful and intense singer and a masterful guitarist. His slide guitar techniques were to inspire and influence generations of blues guitarists though none had the skill, sensitivity or imagination Elmore brought to the instrument. His early death in 1963 at the age of 45 robbed the world of a major talent. In the 4 years prior to his death he was recorded quite extensively by New York producer Bobby Robinson for his Fire & Enjoy labels and these three CD presents most of these recordings in approximately chronological order. It includes his two last R&B chart hits - The Sky Is Crying and his update of Tampa Red's It Hurts Me Too which was issued two years after his death. He pays tribute to his mentor Robert Johnson with versions of Standing AT The Crossroads and Rambling On My Mind (called So Unkind) updated to the 1960s. There are incredibly intense blues ballads like I Need You and the phenominal five minute long Something Inside Me, both featuring some truly sublime slide guitar., the amazing stop time Done Somebody Wrong |
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| LITTLE WILLIE JOHN | Real Gone 046 | Complete Hit Singles A's & B's** | ● CD $24.98 |
| 2 CDs, 32 tracks, very highly recommended There are other collections saluting the great unsung (no pun intended) Detroit R&B/ soul singer, but this is the first one to bring together all the A- and B-sides he cut for King Records between 1955 and 1961. So while we get the radio hits like All Around the World/ Fever/ Talk To Me, Talk To Me, and Leave My Kitten Alone, we also get smokin' flip sides like My Nerves/ Spasms/ Don't Be Ashamed to Call My Name, and I'm Shakin' too. Booklet includes notes by BIll Dahl and rare photos from the King archive. All and all, this is the best non-Import Little Willie John currently available, and these wondrous tracks belong in the home of every R&B and soul collector. (GMC) LITTLE WILLIE JOHN: (I've Got) Spring Fever/ All Around the World/ Cottage for Sale/ Do Something for Me/ Do You Love Me/ Don't Be Ashamed to Call My Name/ Don't Leave Me Dear/ Fever/ Flamingo/ Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me)/ Home at Last/ I'm Shakin'/ I'm Sorry/ Leave My Kitten Alone/ Let Nobody Love You/ Let Them Talk/ Let's Rock While the Rockin's Good/ Letter from My Darling/ My Nerves/ Need Your Love So Bad/ Now You Know/ Right There/ Sleep/ Spasms/ Take My Love (I Want to Give It All to You)/ Talk to Me, Talk to Me/ Tell It Like It Is/ The Very Thought of You/ There's a Difference/ Walk Slow/ You Hurt Me/ You're a Sweetheart |
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| THE JUBALAIRES | Heritage 48 | The Singing Waiters, 1947-1948 | ● CD |
| 25 tracks, 52 mins, highly recommended Excellent quartet from the 40s who performed both sacred and secular material though the majority of the material here is sacred. The group has a complicated history which is elaborated upon in the 12 page booklet by compiler Opal Louis Nations. This set features previously unissued radio transcriptions from 1947 & '48. Featuring the fine lead of William Johnson they perform 19 gospel songs and 6 secular pieces sung acapella or accompanied by Jimmie O'Brien on piano. The material is performed in fine jubilee style inspired by the Golden Gate Singers but with a harder, more contemporary, edge on some of the tracks like You Better Run and When The Moon Goes Down. Titles include John Saw The Number/ Ezekiel/ I Declare This World Is In A Bad Condition/ Wade In the Water/ Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again/ My Father's Rich/ Old Lamb/ Live A-Humble/ My Trouble Is Hard/ Jube's Blues/ Casey Jones (with some nice boogie piano from O'Brien)/ Long, Lean & Lanky and others. Sound quality is superb. (FS) |
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| ALBERT KING | Stax 8546 | Blues At Sunrise** | ● CD $12.98 |
| 7 tracks, very highly recommended Those relentless vault-probers at Fantasy Records have provided us with a newly discovered (as of 1990) live tape from the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival, and it is amazing. Aside from the previously issued For The Love Of A Woman this disc is an all killer, no filler, King-sized thriller. Potent vocals throughout, and when he makes that guitar talk you better hold on to your beret and listen up good. Nobody wrings as much emotion out of an amplified wire, and on this day he was ON, boy; we're talkin' about slash and burn playing with a level of inventive genius that other recordings only hint at.And the band is exquisitely attuned to Albert's singing and playing. The recording (by Swiss radio engineers) is less than perfect but who cares - this music is the real deal and the ticket is a steal. (MB) ALBERT KING: Blues At Sunrise/ Don't Burn Down The Bridge/ For The Love Of A Woman/ I Believe To My Soul/ I'll Play The Blues For You/ Little Brother (Make A Way)/ Roadhouse Blues |
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| ROSE MADDOX | Acrobat 3467 | Sing A Little Song of Heartache - The Solo Singles, 195 | ● CD $16.98 |
| Two CD set featuring most of the singles issued by Rose
Maddox on Columbia and Capitol between 1953 and 1962 issued under her
name (i.e.without her brothers) plus some tracks from her Capitol album
"One Rose." It includes her #3 country hit Sing A Little Song of
Heartache and her other solo country hits from this era Gambler's
Love/ Kissing My Pillow/ I Want To Live Again and Conscience I'm
Guilty", plus her Top 10 duet hits with Buck Owens "Mental Cruelty
and Loose Talk. Includes 24 page booklet with extensive notes and
full discographical info. ROSE MADDOX: 1-2-3-4 Anyplace Road (Somewhere USA)/ Billy Cline/ Birthday Card Song (The Card That You Sent On My Birthday)/ Breathless Love/ Burrito Jo/ Conscience I'm Guilty/ Custer's Last Stand/ Down, Down, Down/ False Hearted/ Fool Me Again/ Gambler's Love/ Hasty Baby/ Here We Go Again/ Hey Little Dreamboat/ Honky-Tonkin'/ Humming Bird/ I Want To Live Again/ I Wonder If I Can Lose The Blues This Way/ I'd Rather Die Young/ I'll Go Steppin' Too/ I'm A Little Red Caboose (On The Choo-Choo Train Of Love)/ I'm Happy Every Day I Live/ Just One More Time/ Kiss Me Like Crazy/ Kissing My Pillow/ Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me/ Let's Pretend We're Strangers/ Life That You've Led/ Lonely Street/ Looky There Over There/ Loose Talk/ Lost Today/ Marry Me Again/ Mental Cruelty/ My Little Baby/ Please Help Me I'm Falling/ Poor Little Heartbroken Rose/ Second Choice/ Shining Silver Gleaming Gold/ Sing A Little Song Of Heartache/ Take A Gamble On Me/ Take Me Back Again/ Tall Men/ The Nightingale Song/ There Ain't No Love/ There's No Right Way To Do Me Wrong/ Tie A Ribbon In The Apple Tree/ Waltz Of The Pines/ Was There A Teardrop/ Wasted Years/ What Makes Me Hang Around/ When The Sun Goes Down/ Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me/ Wild Wind/ Wild, Wild Young Men/ Words Are So Easy To Say/ Your Kind Of Lovin' Won't Do/ Your Sweet Mean Heart |
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| SARAH MAKEM | Topic TSCD 674 | The Heart Is True | ● CD |
| 17 tracks, 69 mins, very highly recommended A fabulous collection of traditional Irish singing recorded in the 1950s and 60s by this superb and influential singer from Co. Armagh. Sarah, who was the mother of Tommy Makem, does lovely unaccompanied versions of songs like The Banks Of Red Roses/ The Canny Ould Lad/ The Factory Girl/ Jackets Greeen/ Mary Of Kilmore/ I Courted A Wee Girl and others. Beautifully remastered from the original field recordings the CD comes with a 52 page booklet with in depth notes about Sarah and the songs. (FS) |
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| SAX MALLARD | Jasmine 3256 | In Session - The Mojo, 1946-1954 | ● CD $13.98 |
| 26 tracks, highly recommended Oett "Sax" Mallard was an excellent Chicago based tenor and alto saxist and clarinetist who worked for several months with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the early 40s and subsequently went on to work with Jump Jackson and his band and appeared on dozens of blues, R&B and doo-wop sessions between 1946 and 1970. This collection features a small selection of sides he appeared on betwween 1946 and 1954. It includes eight tracks of fine bluesy jazzy instrumentals by Mallard and his band along with accompaniments to Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, Mitzi Mars, Guitar Slim and others. (FS) BIG BILL BROONZY: Leavin' Day/ Tomorrow/ THE CORONETS WITH SAX MALLARD AND COMBO: Baby's Coming Home/ Should I/ GUITAR SLIM AND HIS BAND: Later For You Baby/ SAX MALLARD AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Accent On Youth/ I'm Yours/ Leap Year Blues/ Rolling Tears/ Slow Caboose/ Summit Ridge Drive/ Teen Town Strut!/ The Bunny Hop/ The Mojo/ SAX MALLARD AND HIS SEXTET: Aching Heart/ You Can't Win/ MITZI MARS WITH SAX MALLARD AND ORCHESTRA: I'm Glad/ Roll 'Em/ ROOSEVELT SYKES AND HIS HONEY DRIPPERS: Fine And Brown/ Heavy Heart/ ROOSEVELT SYKES AND HIS ORIGINAL HONEYDRIPPERS: Bop De Bip/ Flames Of Jive/ TAMPA RED: She's A Solid Killer Diller/ You May Be Down Someday/ WASHBOARD SAM AND HIS WASHBOARD BAND: Facing Life/ Love Me Or Let Me Be |
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| BROTHER JOE MAY | Acrobat 7173 | Singles, Album Tracks and Live Recordings, 1949-1962 | ● CD $24.98 |
| Four CDs, 83 tracks, very highly recommended What a nice surprise - an extensive overview of the recordings of the superb solo gospel vocalist Brother Joe May. Though little heard today, he was one of the most popular and influential gospel singers of the 1950s and 60s. He was born in Macon, Mississippi in 1912 and starteed singing at an early age. He was a member of a Church Of God denominations where all male members are referred to as Brother. He was influenced by the singing of Mahalia Jackson and Bessie Smith and he in turn, influenced singers like Little Richard. He started recording for Specialty in 1949 where he stayed for five years and after an hiatus he joined Nashboro in 1958. This superb collection features a selection of Specialty and Nashboro singles, tracks from Nashboro LPs and live recordings cut between 1951 and 1955. Joe was a powerful and expressive vocalist who, like his influence Mahalia Jackson, was able to invoke a great intensity without having to resort to histrionics. His material is a mix of traditional gospel, old favorites and newer songs, including several originals. Arrangements are basic with piano or organ (sometimes both) and rhythm section. In addition to his solo sides there are four stupendous duets with Wynona Carr and there are also tracks with The Sallie Martin Singers and The Pilgrim Travelers. Sound quality on the live sides is a bit rough but features some great performances and are quite listenable. Overall sound quality is excellent and the 16 page booklet has informative notes by Paul Watts. (FS) |
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| AUGIE MEYERS & OTHERS | Bear Family BCD 17700 | On The Honky Tonk HIghway with Augie Meyers & The Texas | ● CD $19.98 |
| First CD reissue drawn from Augie Meyer' Texas Re-Cord
Co label that was active in the 70s issuing country, rock, Tex-Mex dance
hall music, western swing and more. 26 track including 12 by Augie
Meyers with various groups along with sides by Sir Douglas Quintet,
Danny Ezba, Brother Al Stricklin, The Buckboard Boogie Boys and others.
Includes 36 page booklet with extensive notes by compiler Martin
Hawkins. |
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| FRANK MOTLEY & HIS CREW | Jasmine 3247 | Go Man Go! | ● CD $13.98 |
| 33 tracks, strongly recommended Frank Motley was a famous R&B and Jazz trumpeter and bandleader, who recorded prolifically throughout the 1950s and was known for his his ability to play two trumpets simultaneously, which earned him the nickname 'Dual Trumpeter' Motley. They recorded extensively for Washington-based DC Records from 1951, who licensed many of their recordings to other labels like Gotham, Specialty, RCA, Big Town, Hollywood and Gem. The Gotham sides were reissued by Flyright many years ago and those are not included here. This set includes sides issued as singles on Specialty, Gem, Big Town, Hollywood and DC and a whole heap of sides from the DC vaults that ended up on budget label LPs on Grand Prix and Design. Apart from singer and pianist Curley Bridges and vocalist Elsie "Angel Face" Kenley most of the band members are unknowns but if you like solid sax honking, blaring trumpets and hard driving rhythm sections you won't be disappointed. About one third of the tracks are vocals - a mix of blues, R&B and doowop. Bridges is a fine vocalist and his sides include a supercharged version of Hound Dog with composer credit to Motley! The rest of the tracks are mostly hard driving R&B instrumentals and on several you can hear Motley doing his dual trumpet routine. Very entertaining. (FS) |
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| LES PAUL & FRIENDS | Fantastic Voyage 035 | How High The Moon - Hits & Rarities From The Wizard Of | ● CD |
| 3 CD set with 76 tracks. What
more is there to said about Les Paul? The man who has influenced
countless musicians for decades, needs no introduction for guitar
aficionados. This set contains tracks chronicling the years 1937 to
1958, and features Paul solo, with then-wife and partner Mary Ford, the
Les Paul Trio, and with, variously, Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters,
the Delta Rhythm Boys, Nat "King" Cole, and Helen Forrest. Although
discs one and two contains his well known solo recordings and work with
Ford, it's disc three that will no doubt be of interest to collectors:
his recordings with the Trio and session playing behind big stars of the
time (1937 to 1947) are tantalizing listening. THE ANDREWS SISTERS WITH LES PAUL: Rumors Are Flying/ BING CROSBY WITH LES PAUL TRIO: It's Been A Long, Long Time/ THE DELTA RHYTHM BOYS WITH LES PAUL TRIO: What Would It Take?/ HELEN FORREST WITH LES PAUL TRIO: Baby, What You Do For Me/ LES PAUL: Brazil/ Caravan [multi-tracked version]/ Deep In The Blues/ Goofus/ Hip-Billy Boogie/ Jazz Me Blues/ Jingle Bells/ Josephine/ Lady Of Spain/ Little Rock Getaway/ Lover/ Mammy’s Boogie/ Mandolino/ Meet Mister Callaghan/ Moritat (Theme from Three Penny Opera)/ Nola/ Sleep (Fred Waring’s theme song)/ The Carioca/ The Kangaroo/ The Swiss Woodpecker/ What Is This Thing Called Love?/ Whispering/ Out Of Nowhere/ Amukiriki (The Lord Willing)/ Bye Bye Blues/ Cinco Robles (Five Oaks)/ Don’cha Hear Them Bells/ How High The Moon/ Hummingbird/ I Really Don’t Want To Know/ I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine/ In The Good Old Summertime/ I’m A Fool To Care/ I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)/ I’m Sitting On Top Of The World/ Johnny (Is The Boy For Me)/ Just One More Chance/ Magic Melody/ Mockin' Bird Hill/ Mr Sandman/ My Baby’s Coming Home/ Nuevo Laredo/ Put A Ring On My Finger/ Smoke Rings/ Song In Blue/ Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me/ Tennessee Waltz/ Texas Lady/ That’s What I Like/ The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise/ Tiger Rag/ Vaya Con Dios/ Whither Thou Goest/ Deep Elem Blues/ Just Because/ At Sundown/ Begin The Beguine/ Blue Skies/ Caravan [earlier Decca version]/ Coquette/ Danger, Men At Work/ Dark Eyes/ Dream Dust/ Guitar Boogie/ Hand Picked/ I Found A New Baby/ Melodic Meal/ Short Circuit/ Steel Guitar Rag/ Subterfuge/ Body And Soul/ Rosetta |
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| P.J. PROBY | Bear Family BCD 17678 | Presley Style - Lost Elvis Songwriter Demos | ● CD $19.98 |
| Collection of 21 tracks featuring previously unissued
demonstration recordings for Elvis pitched to him by songwriters, all
sung by P.J. Proby, Texas born Proby sang these demos for Elvis between
1961 and '63 before permanently residing in the UK where he had several
major hits. Includes 36 page booklet with extensive notes by Elvis
expert Trevor Simpson. Songs include Cotton Candy Land/ Me andMi
Amigo/ Which Way Do I Turn/ Happy Go Lucky Me/ Everything I Need/
Comeand Get It/ Whatta They Know etc. |
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| BIG AL SEARS | Jasmine 3215 | Goin' Uptown - THe R&B Years** | ● CD $13.98 |
| 30 tracks, 79 mins, highly recommended Here's a fine collection from one of the most respected session musicians and small band leaders of his day. This collects the best of both aspects, featuring several of Big Al's combos, as well as Sears lending his talents to the heavy hitters like Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roy Hamilton, Nappy Brown, Roya Gaines, etc. Highlights include Just Another Woman with Cousin Joe with Leonard Feather's Hiptet, Castle Rock - Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, Don't You Ever Let Me Go - Ernestina, Well I Tried - (Screamin') Jay Hawkins, and many, many more great tracks. (JM) NAPPY BROWN: Baby-Cry-Cry-Cry-Baby/ CHARLES CALHOUN: My Pigeon's Gone/ Jamboree/ HERBIE COOPER WITH BIG AL SEARS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Come A Runnin'/ COUSIN JOE WITH LEONARD FEATHER'S HIPTET: Just Another Woman/ ERNESTINA: Don't You Ever Let Me Go/ ROY GAINES: You're Right, I'm Left/ BARBIE GAYE: My Boy Lollypop/ JOHN GREER & HIS RHYTHM ROCKERS: Ride Pretty Baby/ ROY HAMILTON: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)/ JAY HAWKINS: Well, I Tried/ THE HEARTS WITH AL SEARS' ORCHESTRA: Oo-Wee/ JOHNNY HODGES & HIS ORCHESTRA: Castle Rock/ Something To Pat Your Foot To/ BIG AL SEARS: So Glad/ AL SEARS & ALL STAR RHYTHM SECTION: Searsy/ AL SEARS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Marshall Plan/ Sear-Iously/ BIG AL SEARS & HIS ORCHESTRA: Right Now, Right Now/ Tina's Canteen/ Tom, Dick 'N' Harry/ AL SEARS & HIS ROCK 'N' ROLLERS: Goin' Uptown/ Tweedle Dee/ AL SEARS & THE SPARROWS: 125th Street, New York/ Shake Hands/ AL SEARS SWINGS: Vo-Sa/ MELVIN SMITH: I Don't Have To Hunt No More/ THE THRILLERS: 'Lizabeth/ JOE TURNER & HIS BLUES KINGS: Hide And Seek/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON: All Right Miss Moore |
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| JOHNNY SHINES | Omni 328 | The Blues Came Falling Down - Live 1973 | ● CD |
| 20 tracks, 80 mins, strongly recommended A previously unissued live set from 1973 by the great Johnny Shines recorded in St. Louis. Johnny is in fine form on a selection of original songs, blues standards and, of course, some Robert Johnson songs accompanying himself on acoustic guitar on most cuts plus a few with a steel bodied National which are particularly nice. On three tracks he is joined by Leroy Jody Pierson providing some tasteful second guitar work. A number of cuts feature Johnny's excellent slide guitar playing and while this is not among Johnny's more exciting releases, is ceratinly worth a listen. Songs include Big Boy Boogie/ Kind Hearted Woman Blues/ Stand By Me/ Someday Baby Blues/ Sweet Home Chicago/ Tell Me Mama/ How You Want Your Rollin' Done, etc. (FS) |
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| AL SMITH | Jasmine 3234 | In Session, 1952-1958 - Foolin' Around Slowly | ● CD $13.98 |
| 29 tracks, strongly recommended Al Smith was a Chicago based bassist, songwriter, producer and bandleader. This 29 track collection features 12 fine instrumentals by Al with his band which included "Red" Holloway on tenor sax (Lucius Washington on the later cuts), McKinley Easton on baritone and the under-appreciated guitarist Lefty Bates who has some tasty solos on several cuts. The rest featuring his band accompanying various blues singers, R&B singers and doo-wop groups including Big Bertha Henderson, Dizzy Dixon, Little Junior Parker, The Lyrics, Larry Birdsong and more. (FS) LARRY BIRDSONG WITH AL SMITH'S ORCHESTRA: Fannie's Place/ Goodbye Goodbye/ DIZZY DIXON WITH AL SMITH'S COMBO: Soup Line/ THE FALCONS WITH AL SMITH'S ORCHESTRA: My Only Love/ Now That It's Over/ BIG BERTHA HENDERSON WITH AL SMITH ORCHESTRA: Rock, Daddy, Rock/ Tears In My Eyes/ THE LYRICS: Come On Home/ Why Don't You Stop/ LITTLE JUNIOR PARKER WITH AL SMITH ORCHESTRA: Peaches/ Pretty Little Doll/ BOBBY PRINCE WITH AL SMITH'S ORCHESTRA: Better Think It Over/ I Want To Hold You/ If You Only Knew/ Tell Me Why, Why, Why/ AL SMITH: A Distant/ Christopher Columbus/ Get Up And Go/ Left Field/ One, Two, Cha Cha Cha/ Quarter Party/ Road House/ Wabash Blues/ Slow Mood/ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/ Annie's Answer/ Fooling Around Slowly/ Living With Vivian/ LUCIUS WASHINGTON QUINTET: Jammin' For Diggy |
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| THE STANLEY BROTHERS | Revenant 203 | Earliest Recordings** | ● CD $14.98 |
| 14 tracks, 35 minutes, highly recommended We've turned up a few copies of this long out of print set featuring the earliest recordings (1947-1952) by possibly the greatest of all bluegrass groups. Ten songs date from the brothers' 1947-48 sessions; two showcase tenor singer/ mandolinist Pee Wee Lambert. After three years on Columbia, the Stanleys briefly returned to Rich-R-Tone in 1952, recording four songs that anticipated the classic Mercury sides to follow. This release shuffles songs from both Rich-R-Tone periods and while the remastering isn't exceptional it's wonderful to hear these rare and iconic recordings in their entirety. Handsomely packaged in a fold out digipack it comes with a 20 page booklet with detailed notes by bluegrass expert Gary Reid along with some great photos and full discographical info.(FS) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Acrobat 9133 | The Herald Records Doowop Collection, 1953-1963 | ● CD $19.98 |
| Complementing Acrobat's recent two CD set of doo-wop
from Al Silver's Ember label (Acrobat 3457 - $16.98) this three CD set
is devoted to doo-wop on Silver's other label, Herald. It includes
Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs chart topper Stay plus other
iconic recordings like Story Untold by The Nutmegs and When
You Dance by The Turbans along with sides by The Five Willows, The
Embers, The Rocketeers, Little Butchie Sanders, The Mint JUleps and
more. THE 5 WILLOWS: Baby Come A Little Closer/ Lay Your Head On My Shoulder/ THE CASHMERES: Do I Upset You/ Little Dream Girl/ THE CONCORDS: Marlene/ Our Love Wasn't Meant To Be/ THE DESIRES: Bobby You/ Cold Lonely Heart/ THE DYNAMICS FEAT. TONY MARESCO: Betty My Own/ Forever Love/ THE EMBERS: Paradise Hill/ Sound Of Love/ THE FIVE WILLOWS: Look Me In The Eyes/ So Help Me I Love You/ THE FOUR J'S: Dreams Are A Dime A Dozen/ Kissin' At The Drive-In/ THE HERALDS: Eternal Love/ Gonna Love You/ THE LOUNGERS: Dizzy Spell/ Remember The Nite/ THE MELLO KINGS: Baby Tell Me Why Why Why/ Chapel On The Hill/ Dear Mr. Jock/ Kid Stuff/ Love At First Sight/ Our Love Is Beautiful/ Penny/ Sassafras/ She's Real Cool/ The Only Girls I'll Ever Know/ Till There Were None/ Valerie/ THE MELLO-KINGS: Chip Chip/ THE MELLOKINGS: Do Baby Do/ Running To You/ Tonite-Tonite/ THE MINT JULEPS: Bells Of Love/ Vip-A-Dip/ THE NUTMEGS: A Love So True/ Betty Lou/ Comin' Home/ Crazy 'Bout You/ Gift O' Gabbin' Woman/ Key To The Kingdom (Of Your Heart)/ Make Me Lose My Mind/ My Story/ My Sweet Dream/ Rip Van Winkle/ Rock Me, Squeeze Me/ Ship Of Love/ Story Untold/ Whispering Sorrows/ THE PREMEERS: Diary Of Our Love/ THE ROCKETEERS: Foolish One/ Gonna Feed My Baby Poison/ LITTLE "BUTCHIE" SAUNDERS AND HIS BUDDIES: Great Big Heart/ Lindy Lou/ Rock 'N' Roll Indian Dance/ THE SONNETS: Please Won't You Call Me/ Why Should We Break Up/ THE SUNBEAMS: Come Back Baby/ Tell Me Why/ THE THRILLERS: Lizabeth/ Please Talk To Me/ THE TURBANS: All Of My Love/ B-I-N-G-O (Bingo)/ Congratulations/ I'll Always Watch Over You/ I'm Nobody's/ It Was A Night Like This/ Let Me Show You (Around My Heart)/ Sister Sookey/ The Wadda-Do/ When You Dance/ Bye And Bye/ Valley Of Love/ THE VOCALAIRES: Dance-Dance/ These Empty Arms/ MAURICE WILLIAMS AND THE ZODIACS: Always/ Come Along/ Come And Get It/ Do I/ Do You Believe/ High Blood Pressure/ I Remember/ It's Alright/ Please/ Some Day/ Stay |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Airline 57817 | The Jewel/ Paula Rock Story | ● CD |
| 2 CD, 36 tracks, highly recommended Back in 2012, Fuel Records issued a collection called The Jewel/Paula Soul Story (Fuel 61897) which focused on the R&B output of Stan Lewis' family of labels, Jewel, Paula, and Ronn. Now, three years later, we have a sister release that concentrates on the rock and pop artists that recorded for those labels; it's not a little ironic that a label renowned for its' stellar R&B sides should have had its' biggest hit with a pop/rock throwaway, Judy in Disguise (With Glasses), which reached Number One on the pop charts in 1968 for John Fred & His Playboy Band. That song is here in all its pseudo-psychedelic glory, along with the follow-up, Hey Hey Bunny, and the garage band-y Outta My Head and Boogie Children which presents Fred & the Playboys at their greasy best. In fact, it can be said that many of these songs, released roughly between 1964 and 1969, do sound like they came straight from the garage. That's not necessarily a bad thing, especially when there's some actual talent involved, e.g. Bobby Charles' revved up remake of Jimmy McCracklin's 1958 hit The Walk, Mickey Gilley's boogie version of Little Walter's My Babe, and Charlie Daniels' (yes, that Charlie Daniels, of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" fame) quietly intense The Middle of a Heartache. It's not all Beatles/ Stones/ Animals/ Yardbirds wannabes-Tom & the Cats (The Wine Song), The Uniques (You Ain't Tuff), The Chaps (Forget Me), and The Bad Boys (Love), for example; there's also some rockabilly from Ed Forsyth, a dance track or two (The Five Jets' The Shake, The Boogie Kings' Philly Walk), blue-eyed soul (The Bad Habits' version of Delaney and Bonnie's It's Been a Long Time Coming), and teen pop (Goodbye Sue from Eddie Powers, who sounds uncannily like Elvis Costello). Heck, there's even a riotous cover of Jimi Henrdrix's Fire from Five By Five that needs to be heard to be believed. In short, there's nearly something for everyone, and this set gives a fairly accurate picture of mid-60s pop/ rock from an indie label perspective. (GMC) 5 X 5: Shake a Tail Feather/ THE BAD BOYS: Black Olives/ Love/ THE BAD HABITS: It's Been a Long Time Coming/ THE BOOGIE KINGS: Bony Moronie/ I've Got Your Number/ Philly Walk/ THE CHAPS: Forget Me/ Tell Me/ You'll Be Back/ BOBBY CHARLES: The Walk/ CHARLEY DANIELS & THE JAGUARS: The Middle of a Heartache/ DANNY & JERRY: Mo'reen/ We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'/ FIVE BY FIVE: Fire/ She Digs My Love/ THE FIVE JETS: Sugaree/ The Shake/ ED FORSYTH: Baby What's Wrong/ Come on Everybody/ JOHN FRED & HIS PLAYBOY BAND: Hey, Hey, Bunny/ Judy in Disguise/ JOHN FRED AND THE PLAYBOYS: Outta My Head/ MICKEY GILLEY: My Babe/ THE IN-CROWD: In the Midnight Hour/ THE PLAYBOYS: Boogie Children/ EDDIE POWERS: Goodbye Sue/ THE SPECTRES: I Cried/ SKIP STEWART: Sweet Little Rock & Roller/ TOM & THE CATS: Good Good Lovin'/ Summertime Blues/ The Wine Song/ THE UNIQUES: Goodbye So Long/ Not Too Long Ago/ Sha-La Love/ You Ain't Tuff |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Analog Africa 070 | Bambara Mystic Soul - THe Raw Sound of Burkino Faso, 19 | ● CD |
| 16 track collection of the rarely heard music of Burkina
Faso recorded between 1974 and 1979. The raw sound of Burkina Faso
combined Afro-Funk, traditional Islamic rhythms and Afro-Latin sounds
brough over by visiting Cuban ensembles. Includes 44 page booklet with
extensive notes. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Atomicat 036 | Rock and Roll Floozy 3 - Ping Pong Baby | ● CD |
| 28 more obscure rockabilly and rock & roll sides - Billy
Barnette and The Searchers, Vince Malloy, The Instrumentals, LInk Wray,
Chuck Howard, The Vox Poppers, etc. BUDDY ALDO: Gotta Get To Memphis/ BILLY BARNETTE AND THE SEARCHERS: Stomp, Shake And Twist/ JACKIE CANNON: Proof Of Your Love/ JACKIE CARBONE: Jam Up/ BILL CARTER AND THE COOPER BROS.: Cool Tom Cat/ THE COACHMEN (VOCAL RICKY MANN): Merrianne/ LINK DAVIS: Sixteen Chicks/ DAVID EDE AND THE GO MAN GO MEN: Last Night/ THE FIREBALLS (VOCAL CHUCK THARP): I Don't Know/ JERRY FULLER: I've Found A New Love/ J.C. GILBERT AND THE RHYTHM SHAKERS: Bring Back Your Love/ CHUCK HOWARD: Out Of Gas/ THE INSTRUMENTALS: Chop Suey Rock/ JOHN AND JACKIE: Raging Sea/ JOHNNY KNIGHT: Snake Shake/ LITTLE “E™ AND THE MELLO-TONE THREE: Candy Apple Red Impala/ VINCE MALLOY: Soda Pop/ BOB MILLER: Great Balls Of Fire/ RAY PENNINGTON: My Steady Baby/ PICO PETE: Chicken Little/ JOHNNY REBB AND HIS REBELS: Hey Sheriff/ COOKIE ROBERTS: Draggin' The Drive-Inn's/ THE ROCK-A-BOUTS: She's A Fat Girl/ JIMMIE SKINNER: One Dead Man Ago/ RONNIE SUMMERS: Lonesome Road/ THE VOX POPPERS: Ping Pong Baby/ JIMMY WOODARD: My Name Is Jimmy/ LINK WRAY AND THE WRAYMEN: Mary Ann |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Atomicat 038 | Let's THrow A Pajama Party, Vol. 1 | ● CD |
| The first of three volumes of music for a pajama party.
To quote the liner notes "The parents are away for the weekend, so lets
throw a pajama party! Glad that dad bought this RCA Victor 10 records
changer, so let's fill it up with some slow romantic songs, dancefloor
fillers and a few rockin platters. While Beat and Surf is knocking at
the door we enjoy some country hits, a little Bit of doo-wop, a small
portion of Blues and a lot of Rock and Roll ! It includes Midnighter
By The Champs, A Rockin' Good Way by Priscilla Bowman (the
original recording), Come Back, My LOve by The Wrens, Little
Girl of Min by The Cleftones plus Wayne Cochran, Sandy Nelson, Budd
Albright, Wynona Carr, George Morgan, Ernie Fields & His Orchestra and
more. A mix of familiar tracks and some obscurities. BUDD ALBRIGHT: Got No Sunshine In My Soul/ RICHARD BERRY: Louie Louie/ PRICILLA BOWMAN: A Rockin Good Way/ JOHNNY BURNETTE: You're Sixteen/ WYNONA CARR: Jump Jack Jump/ THE CHAMPS: Midnighter/ THE CLEFTONES: Little Girl Of Mine/ WAYNE COCHRAN: Last Kiss/ BOB CORSO: Bad, Bad Woman/ JIMMY ELLEDGE: Funny How Time Slips Away/ ERNIE FIELDS ORCHESTRA: In The mood/ THE FLAMINGOS: I Only Have Eyes For You/ DON GIBSON: Sweet Dreams/ LARRY HALL: Sandy/ THE HEARTBEATS: Crazy For You/ BOB KEENE: La Bamba/ CURTIS LEE: Under The Moon Of Love/ BOBBY LEWIS: Tossin' And Turnin'/ JOHNNY MANN: Chick-A-Lou/ THE MOONGOONERS: Willie And The Hand Jive/ GEORGE MORGAN: Rockabilly Bungalow/ SANDY NELSON: Teen Beat/ FREDDIE NORTH: Ok, So What/ CHUCK REED: Females/ JIMMY RODGERS: Honycomb/ AL SIMMONS: Old Folk Boogie/ THE STARRS: Aint Got No Home/ CONWAY TWITTY: It's Only Make Believe/ FRANKIE TYLER: I Go Ape/ THE WRENS: Come Back My Love |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Atomicat 092 | Rock and Roll Floozy 5 - Fatty Patty | ● CD $12.98 |
| After a bit of an absence this series with another fine
collection of varied rockabilly and rock 'n' roll sides. Includes
Wigwam Willie by Carl Phillips, Tear Down The House by Marty
Marker and The Impalas, Rock The Joint by John "Rocky" Rhule &
His Combo, Cottonpickin' by The Night Raiders plus sides by
Ronnie Allen, Doug Powell, Robert Lee Harshman, Kenny Baker and more. CHUCK ALAIMO QUARTET: Hop In My Jalop/ RONNIE ALLEN: Juvenile Delinquent/ ANGIE AND THE CITATIONS: I Wanna Dance/ JACK BAILEY & THE NATURALS: Oh What Love Is/ KENNY BAKER: Goodbye Little Star/ WALT BENTON AND THE SNAPPERS: Big Wheel/ THE CHAVIS BROTHERS: Slippin’ An Slidin’/ PETE CIOLINO: Daddy Joe/ GARY CRISS: Good Golly Miss Molly/ CHUCK DOCKERY: Baby Let’s Dance/ JOEY DU’AMBRA AND HIS MELLOW-D’S: Come Back A-Little Baby/ ROBERT LEE HARSHMAN: Stop Talkin’, Start Lovin’/ WALLY LEWIS: Lover Boy/ MORTY MARKER AND THE IMPALAS: Tear Down The House/ CHARLIE MCCOY: Rooster Blues/ JOEY MICHAELS: Sixteen Chicks/ THE NIGHT RAIDERS: Cottonpickin’/ KENNY OWEN: I Got The Bug/ THE OX TONES: Fatty Patty/ CARL PHILLIPS: Wigwam Willie/ DOUG POWELL: The Lord Made A Woman/ JOHN “ROCKY™ RHULE AND HIS COMBO: Rock The Joint/ THE ROCK-A-TEENS: Doggone It Baby/ THE TEEN BEATS: The Slop Beat/ JESSE LEE TURNER: Shotgun Boogie/ WILLIE WARD: Iggy Joe/ THE WHITE CAPS: Rock ‘n‘Roll Saddles/ HAL WILLIS: Bop-A-Dee, Bop-A-Doo |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Atomicat 093 | Atomicat Rockers, Issue #1 - Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie | ● CD |
| The first in another new series from Atomicat is a
varied selection of rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, uptempo country,
instrumentals and doo-wop. Most of it is fairly undistinguished or
overly familiar. Among the highlights are It Won't Be Long by
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Honey Stop Twistin' by Jimmy Donley,
Boogie Woogie Country Girl by Big Joe Turner, Foggy River by
Conway Twitty and the doo-wop favorite Church Bells May Ring by
The Willows. Other artists include Rick Nelson, Ray Charles, Paul
Marvin, Earl Williams & His Quintette, Otis Williams and His Charms,
Elvis Presley, Eddie Bond, etc. THE BELAIRS: Louisiana Rug Roll/ BOYD BENNETT AND HIS ROCKETS: Blue Suede Shoes/ EDDIE BOND: Hersey Bar/ THE CADILLACS: Cool It, Fool/ RAY CAMPI AND THE SNAPPERS: Give That Love To Me/ RAY CHARLES: Leave My Woman Alone/ JIMMY DONLEY: Honey Stop Twistin'/ THE DRIFTERS: I Gotta Get Myself A Woman/ NARVEL FELTS: Rocket Ride/ CLARENCE 'FROGMAN' HENRY: It Won't Be Long/ CHUCK JOHNSTON AND THE JAYCEES: Stop Baby/ LEE LAMAR: Teenage Pedal Pushers/ THE LARKS: Honey In The Rock/ PAUL MARVIN: Gamblin' Man/ RICK NELSON: Oh Yeah, I'm In love/ ELVIS PRESLEY: One-Sided Love Affair/ ROCKIN' BRADLEY: Lookout/ ELSON SMITH: Flip Flop/ JEEP SMITH: Chemise/ SUGAR BOY AND HIS CANE CUTTERS: Overboard/ THE TOKENS: Tonight I Fell In Love/ THE TRENIERS: Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie/ BIG JOE TURNER FEATURING VAN "PIANO MAN" WALLS: Boogie Woogie Country Girl/ THE TWIN TONES: Before You Go/ CONWAY TWITTY: Foggy River/ OTIS WILLIAMS AND HIS CHARMS: Gum Drop/ EARL WILLIAMS AND HIS QUINTETTE: You Ain't Puttin Out/ THE WILLOWS: Church Bells May Ring |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bear Family BCD 17576 | The Right To Rock - The Mexicano & Chicano Rock 'n' Roll** | ● CD $19.98 |
| 37 tracks, 79 mins, highly recommended You can probably guess by the title what to expect, lots of great early Rock & Roll by Hispanic artists, most in English, some in Spanish, plus lots of unique touches like Maybelline with accordion! There are a few familiar tracks like Chan Romero's - The Hippy Hippy Shake, Eddie Quinteros' - Lindy Lou, and a couple Ritchie Valens classics, plus a some rare tracks from artists ealy in their career like Freddy Fender, but by and large the tracks here were unfamiliar to me, so there are a lot of gems that I heard for the first time, and the definitely inspired me to seek out more from these acts. Highlights for me include: Los Gibson Boys - Rock De La Noche (Good Rockin' Tonight), Pico Pete doing his best Little Richard on Chicken Little, the fantastic Los Xochimilcas with Rock Rollin' Rock, Danny Boy (aka Chuck Rio) - Don't Go Pretty Baby, Los Gibson Boys - El Vampiro, Eddie Quinteros with some blistering guitar on Slow Down Sandy, and many more. You also get a mystery Sun records demo by an unknown artist - Mexican Rock'n'Roll. Lastly, R.I.P. Trini Lopez (damn Covid) who's The Right To Rock (his debut single as a solo artist from 1958), lays out the legal precedent for all of our Rockin' rights! All in all a fantastic release, with deep liner notes as well. (JM) ARVEE ALLENS (RITCHIE VALENS): Fast Freight/ ARMANDO ALMENDAREZ: Maybelline/ JOHNNY AMELIO & THE DOWNBEATS: Jo Ann, Jo Ann/ THE CARLOS BROTHERS: Come On, Let's Dance/ TONY CASANOVA: Boogie Woogie Feeling/ Showdown/ Yea! Yea! Come Another Day/ DANNY BOY (CHUCK RIO): Don't Go Pretty Baby/ THE DOWNBEATS FEAT. JOHNNY AMELIO: Jugue/ FREDDY FENDER: Bailando El Rock & Roll/ AUGIE GARCIA QUINTET: Hi Yo Silver/ LOS GIBSON BOYS: Be-Bop-A-Lula/ Buen Rock Esta Noche (Good Rockin' Tonight)/ El Vampiro/ LALO GUERRERO: Pound Dog (Hound Dog)/ TITO GUíZáR & HIS EL RANCHO ROCKS: La Paloma/ BALDEMAR HUERTA (FREDDY FENDER): El Rock Rock De La Carcel (Jailhouse Rock)/ BALDEMAR HUERTA CON LOS ROMANCEROS: No Seas Cruel (Don't Be Cruel)/ LOS LOCOS DEL RITMO: La Chica Alborotada (Tallahassee Lassie)/ TRINI LOPEZ: The Right To Rock/ MANDO & THE CHILI PEPPERS: South Of The Border/ CHRIS MONTEZ: Rockin' Blues/ BOB ORRISON: Sarah Lee/ PICO PETE: Chicken Little/ EDDIE QUINTEROS: Come Dance With Me/ Lindy Lou/ Slow Down Sandy/ CHUCK RIO: Denise/ CHAN ROMERO: I Want Some More/ My Little Ruby/ The Hippy Hippy Shake/ LOS TEEN TOPS: La Plaga (Good Golly Miss Molly)/ MAX UBALLEZ: Rock Little Darlin'/ UNKNOWN CHICANO SINGER: Mexican Rock'n'Roll/ RITCHIE VALENS: Dooby-Dooby-Wah/ Ooh! My Head/ LOS XOCHIMILCAS: Rock Rollin' Rock |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bear Family BCD 17639 | That'll Flat Git It! Vol. 39 - United Artists | ● CD |
| 33 tracks, highly recommended A fine and varied collection of sides recorded for the United Artists and Unart label in the late 50s encompassing, rockabilly, rock 'n' roll, teen-rockers and country. It includes two rockabilly classics Let's Go Baby by BIlly Elledge who also provides the hot guitar solo and Rockin' By Myself by Sammy Gowans with hot guitar from studio musician Kenny Burrell. There are four sides by Chuck Wiley - all of them excellent and Warren Miller's hot :Everybody's Got A Baby But Me features some fine Jerry Lee Lewis style piano poundiong. There are several fine instrumentals including the novelty minor hit The Green Mosquito RONNIE BRENT: My Sweet Verlene/ WES BRYAN: Freeze!!/ AL CASEY: The Stinger/ JOYCE DAVIS: Superman/ THE DELICATES: Black And White Thunderbird/ BILLY ELDRIDGE WITH THE FIREBALLS: Let's Go, Baby/ BRIEN FISHER: Double Dating/ It's Up To You/ THE FOUR J'S: Be Nice, Don't Fight/ Rock And Roll Age/ JACKIE FRISCO: Wait A Minute/ When You Ask About Love/ SAMMY GOWANS: Kissin' At The Drive-In/ Rockin' By Myself/ HOYT HUDSON: They Took John Away/ GEORGE JONES: Root Beer/ WARREN MILLER: Everybody's Got A Baby But Me/ SAL MURE: Desire/ RALPH & RANDY: Hungry/ RAY & LINDY: Yes, That's Love/ DENNY REED: I'm Comin' Home/ WENDELL SMITH: Nashville, Tennessee/ Puddin' Pie/ HUNT STEVENS: I Feel It For You/ Johnny On The Spot/ THE STRAITJACKETS: That Cat/ GENE THOMAS: Sometime/ THE TUNE ROCKERS: The Green Mosquito/ Warm Up/ CHUCK WILEY: Door To Door/ Right By My Side/ Shake Up The Dance/ Tear It Up |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bear Family BCD 17669 | That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 42 | ● CD $19.98 |
| The King label (and its affiliated labels Federal &
DeLuxe) issued some superb rockabilly and rock & roll recordings and
this is the first of two volumes from Bear Family exploring those
recordings. It includes great sidesfrom Charlie Feather, Mac Curtis,
Rusty York, Delbert Barker, Bob & Lucille and more. 30 track and comes
with a 36 page booklet with detailed notes. DELBERT BARKER: No Good Robin Hood/ BILL BEACH: You're Gonna Like My Baby/ BOYD BENNETT AND HIS ROCKETS: Put The Chain On The Door/ You Upset Me Baby/ BOB & LUCILLE: Eeny-Meeny Miney Mo/ THE BON-AIRES: Stop The World (guitar version)/ WAYNE CARROLL: Chicken Out/ BRUCE CHANNEL: Slow Down Baby/ MAC CURTIS: Don't You Love Me/ If I Had Me A Woman/ Say So/ DAVE DUDLEY: Rock And Roll Nursery Rhyme/ CHARLIE FEATHERS: Nobody's Woman/ One Hand Loose/ HARDROCK GUNTER: I'll Give 'em Rhythm/ TRINI LOPEZ: Rock On/ Yes You Do/ LUKE MCDANIEL: One More Heart/ KEN MCDONALD: Good, Good, Good/ CECIL MCNABB JR.: Clock Tickin' Rhythm/ HANK MIZELL: Jungle Rock/ MOON MULLICAN: I'm Mad With You/ Rock 'n' Roll Mr. Bullfrog/ BOB NEWMAN: Haulin' Freight/ JOE PENNY: Bip A Little, Bop A Lot/ FULLER TODD: Top Ten Rock/ WES VOIGHT & THE TOWN THREE: Midnight Blues/ RONNIE WADE: Annie Don't Work/ DONNIE WHITE: Your Kind Of Lovin'/ RUSTY YORK: Shake 'Em Up |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Bear Family BCD 17716 | Destination Freeway - 33 Cruisin' Deuces For Your Summer | ● CD $11.98 |
| 33 tracks on the ever popular subject of the automobile
- a mix of rock 'n' roll, R&B, pop, blues and doo-wop and being Bear
Family they manage to turn up some real obscurities. Includes Keep-A
Driving by Chuck Willis, See The U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet by
Dinah Shore, The Drive- In by The Aquatones, Convertible Car
by Wally Hughes plus sides by Sammy Hagan & The Viscounts, Gene Vincent
& The Blue Caps, Jimmy Carroll, Howlin' Wolf and more. Even though a
budget release it includes a 36 page, full color booklet with rare
photos, illustrations and memorabilia. CHUCK ALAIMO QUARTET: Hop In My Jalop/ THE AQUATONES: The Drive-In/ THE BONNEVILLES: Freeway U.S.A./ AL BROWN & HIS TUNETOPPERS: Route 66/ BUCKY & PREMIERES: Cruisin'/ JIMMY CARROLL: Big Green Car/ BUZZ CLIFFORD WITH THE WHEELS: Pididdle (The Car With One Light)/ THE DEL VIKINGS: Flat Tire/ LORRAE DESMOND: Get Your Daddy's Car Tonight/ DON ELLIOTT: Long Black Automobile/ CLARENCE 'BON TON' GARLOW AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Route 90/ SAMMY HAGAN AND THE VISCOUNTS: Tail Light/ HOWLIN' WOLF: Riding In The Moonlight/ WALLY HUGHES: Convertible Car/ BOBBY JACKSON: Wow, Man!/ BURT KEYES: Stop Jivin', Start Drivin'/ THE LANCERS: Get Out Of The Car/ LINDA LAURIE: Soupin' Up Your Motor/ JERRY LEWIS: Sunday Driving/ MIKE PAGE: Long Black Shiny Car/ THE PREMIERS: Jolene/ JOHNNY REDD: Take A Ride With Me/ SONNY SHEETS WITH FLOYD TERRY, THE PIRATES AND: Wheels/ DINAH SHORE: See The U.S.A. In Your Chevrolet/ THE SPANIELS: Automobiles/ HOYT STEVENS & THE TENNESSEE RAMBLERS: 55 Chevy/ HAYDEN THOMPSON: Fairlane Rock/ GENE VINCENT: Why Don't You People Learn How To Drive (Stereo)/ Cruisin'/ FARON WARMER: Cruisin' Central/ GEORGE WESTON: Hey Little Car Hop/ CHUCK WILLIS: Keep-A-Driving/ GEORGIE YOUNG AND THE ROCKIN' BOCS: Nine More Miles (The 'Faster Faster' Song) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Buda 860225 | Treasures Of Algiers: Chaabi** | ● CD $16.98 |
| 15 tracks, highly recommended Lovely and very varied collection of Chaabi music from Algiers - the capital of Algeria. Like rembetika and fado this music emerged from the underprivileged class - in this case in the early years of the 20th century from residents of the walled enclave of the Kasbah. The music features mournful Arab styled vocals along with elements of Berber Andalusian music and the vocalists are accompanied by various sized groups ranging from a couple of musicians to a dozen or more and includes traditional and western instruments - violin, santur, mandole (an instrument resembling an elongated mandolin with eight, ten or twelve strings), piano, percussion and more. The Algerian Jewish community was very active in the dissemination of the music. In the 1950s and 60s the music spread beyond the walls of the Kasbah and the style was adopted throughout other regions of the middle east. The songs are usually based on poetry and frequently deal with the vicissitudes of daily life. The music here is exciting and haunting at the same time. Unfortunately the booklet, which gives a nice history of the music, tells us nothing about the artists or the recordings and an internet search was unproductive. I'm guessing they are from the 70 and 80s but they are all very fine and very accesible to western ears. (FS) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Doctor Bird 081 | The Best of Reggae - Expanded Original Edition | ● CD |
| Two CDs, 55 tracks, strongly recommended This is an expanded version of the 30 track double LP originally issued by K-Tel in 1973 and advertised on British TV. It featured some of the most popular reggae songs issued in the U.K. between 1968 and 1973 on the Trojan label. This reissue drops the tracks by JImmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals (presumably for copyright reasons) but has added 28 tracks from the same period. Since the original set was intended to reach as wide an audience as possible there is an emphasis on some of the more pop flavored titles like Young GIfted and Black by Bob & Marcia, Moon River by Greyhound and Love of The Common People by Nicky Thomas, but there are also plenty with a more authentic sound like Israelites and It Miek by Desmond Dekker, 54-46 That's My Number by The Maytals. The 28 bonus cuts includes a number of artists not featured on the original album like Teddy Brown, John Holt, Owen Gray, The Ethiopians, The Melodians and others. Overall, a bit of a mixed bag, but with many superb performances. (FS) BOB & MARCIA: Pied Piper/ Young Gifted And Black/ TEDDY BROWN: What Greater Love/ THE CHOSEN FEW: Everybody Plays The Fool/ DAVE & ANSEL COLLINS: Double Barrel/ Monkey Spanner/ DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN: Dancing In The Sun/ DESMOND DEKKER: Sing A Little Song/ You Can Get It If You Really Want/ 007/ Israelites/ It Miek/ Pickney Gal/ JUDGE DREAD: Oh! She Is A Big Girl Now/ JACKIE EDWARDS: Come On Girl/ THE ETHIOPIANS: Train To Skaville/ HORACE FAITH: Black Pearl/ BORIS GARDINER: Elizabethan Reggae/ OWEN GRAY: Suffering In The Land/ GREYHOUND: Black And White/ Dream Lover/ Floating/ I Am What I Am/ Moon River/ JOHN HOLT: Reggae From The Ghetto/ The Further You Look/ THE HOTSHOTS: Snoopy Versus The Red Baron/ HARRY J ALL STARS: Liquidator/ DANDY LIVINGSTONE: Big City/ Come Back Liza/ Suzanne Beware Of The Devil/ Think About That/ LORD CREATOR: Kingston Town/ THE MAYTALS: 54-46 That'S My Number/ Monkey Man/ THE MELODIANS: Rivers Of Babylon/ Sweet Sensation/ FREDDIE NOTES & THE RUDIES: Montego Bay/ THE PARIS CONNECTION: Who'S That Lady/ THE PIONEERS: Give And Take/ I Need Your Sweet Inspiration/ Let Your Yeah Be Yeah/ Long Shot Kick The Bucket/ Roll Muddy River/ DANNY RAY: I'M Gonna Get Married/ BRUCE RUFFIN: Mad About You/ One Big Happy Family/ Rain/ TITO SIMON: Build It Up/ NICKY THOMAS: Love Of The Common People/ Yesterday Man/ TONY TRIBE: Red Red Wine/ THE UPSETTERS: Return Of Django/ DELROY WILLIAMS: Down In The Boondocks/ ZAP POW: This Is Reggae Music |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | El ACMEM 363 | Ban The Bomb - Songs of The Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Ma | ● CD |
| Two CD set, 52 tracks, recommended A powerful selection of songs and music associated with the marches in England in the late 50s and 60s opposing the decision by the British government to become the third country to develop nuclear weapons. This led to the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a group headed by Anglican priest John Collins and the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Attracting support from across a broad spectrum of the public, a march was organised from London to the atomic weapons plant near the village of Aldermaston in Berkshire, a peaceful protest involving people of all ages; united in their horror at finding themselves living in the shadow of the bomb and in their fear for the future of mankind. So, from Trafalgar Square on Good Friday 1958, in dismal weather, they marched to a soundtrack of folk songs and jazz; the protest songs of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, Fred and Betty Dallas and John Brunner, complemented by the revivalist New Orleans style of Ken Colyer's Omega Brass Band and standards popularized by such British jazz giants of the era as Chris Barber, Ottilie Patterson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk. Though this collection tends to be far too heavily weighted towards trad jazz there are also a selection of powerful folk songs (some based on traditional songs) on the first disc as well as brief interview with the great philosopher Bertrand Russell. Includes a 36 page booklet with a detailed history of the anti nuclear movement in Britain including photos of some of the participants and the musicians, posters for the marches, album covers and more. There were certainly many more folk songs associated then are presented here and if they had included more of them I would have given this a higher rating. (FS) THE ALBERTS: Morse Code Melody/ Sleepy Valley/ KENNY BALL AND HIS JAZZMEN: 1919 Rag/ Breezin' Along with the Breeze/ Riverboat Shuffle/ CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ AND BLUES BAND: Just a Little While to Stay Here/ CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND: Didn't He Ramble/ Everybody Loves My Baby/ High Society/ Sweet Georgia Brown/ Down By the Riverside/ Just A Closer Walk with Thee/ When The Saints Go Marching In/ ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND: Blaze Away/ C.R.E. March/ El Abanico/ Under The Double Eagle/ JUDY COLLINS: The Crow On The Cradle/ KEN COLYER'S JAZZMEN: Easter Parade/ Isle of Capri/ The Original Tuxedo Rag/ KEN COLYER'S OMEGA BRASS BAND: Gettysburg March/ Isle Of Capri/ Just A Closer Walk With Thee/ Over In Gloryland/ Panama Rag/ Tiger Rag/ FRED DALLAS: Doomsday Blues (sung in the film "March to Aldermaston")/ FRED AND BETTY DALLAS: Hey Little Man/ Strontium 90/ RON FIELDER, RAY EDWARDS AND MEMBERS OF THE: That Bomb Has Got to Go/ SHEILA HANCOCK AND SYDNEY CARTER: Coming Down From Aldermaston/ THE LONDON YOUTH CHOIR: Hoist the Window/ Song of Hiroshima/ The Family of Man/ The H-Bomb's Thunder/ HUMPHREY LYTTELTON AND HIS BAND: Christopher Columbus/ Ice Cream/ The Onions/ EWAN MACCOLL AND BETTY SEEGER: Brother Won't You Join In The Line?/ March With Us Today/ The Crooked Cross/ There's Better Things For You/ EWAN MACCOLL AND PEGGY SEEGER: The Ballad of the Five Fingers/ The Crooked Cross/ EWAN MACCOLL, PEGGY SEEGER AND JACK ELLIOTT: Brother Won't You Join in the Line?/ MARGARET MCKEOWN: The Dove/ GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN AND HIS BAND: I'm A Ding Dong Daddy/ GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN'S BAND: Magnolia/ GEORGE MELLY WITH MICK MULLIGAN'S MAGNOLIA JAZZ: Mama Don't Allow/ There'll be Some Changes Made/ OTTILIE PATTERSON WITH CHRIS BARBER'S JAZZ BAND: St Louis Blues/ BERTRAND RUSSELL: Interviewed at Ban the Bomb rally/ PEGGY SEEGER: There are Better Things to Do |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 08 | 75 Pumpin' Piano Greats | ● CD |
| Three CD set with 75 tracks featuring rock 'n' roll,
boogie Woogie, blue and country boogie all sharing one thing in common -
hot piano work. Among the many artists here are Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck
Miller, Champion Jack Dupree, Janis Martin (with Floyd Cramer on the
ivories), Moon Mullican, Cecil Gant, Lloyd Glenn, Roy Hall, Camille
Howard, Amos Milburn, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Merrill E. Moore,
Piano Red, Tennessee Ernie Ford (with Moon Mullican). No real rarities -
just lots of hot piano pounding. Excellent sound and 16 page booklet has
informative notes by Stu Coleman. CHUCK BERRY (FEATURING JOHNNIE JOHNSON): Rock And Roll Music/ Roll Over Beethoven/ You Can't Catch Me/ JACKIE BRENSTON & HIS DELTA CATS (FEATURING IKE: Rocket 88/ GUNTER LEE CARR (AKA CECIL GANT): We're Gonna Rock/ RAY CHARLES: Hallelujah I Love Her So/ It Should've Been Me/ Mess Around/ DON COLE (FEATURING AL CASEY): Snake-Eyed Mama/ FATS DOMINO: All By Myself/ Please Don't Leave Me/ The Fat Man/ CHAMPION JACK DUPREE: Bad Whiskey & Wild Women/ Daybreak Rock/ Shake Baby Shake/ TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD (FEATURING BILLY LIEBERT): Shot Gun Boogie/ TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD (FEATURING MOON MULLICAN): Country Junction/ CECIL GANT: Cecil Boogie No. 2/ Cecil's Googie/ LLOYD GLENN: Chica Boo/ Honky Tonk Train/ Old Time Suffle/ ROSCO GORDON: T Model Boogie/ HARDROCK GUNTER (FEATURING HUEL MURPHY): Birmingham Bounce/ Gonna Dance All Night/ ROY HALL: All By Myself/ Don't Stop Now/ She Sure Can Rock Me/ CAMILLE HOWARD: Fire-Ball Boogie/ Instantaneous Boogie/ X-Temporaneous Boogie/ WANDA JACKSON (FEATURING MERRILL MOORE): Cool Love/ JERRY LEE LEWIS: Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee- O-Dee/ It'll Be Me/ Pumpin' Piano Rock/ LITTLE RICHARD: Long Tall Sally/ Slippin' And Slidin'/ Tutti-Frutti/ LITTLE WILLIE LITTLEFIELD: Jim Wilson's Boogie/ DICK LORY (FEATURING OWEN BRADLEY): Ballroom Baby/ JANIS MARTIN (FEATURING FLOYD CRAMER): Let's Elope Baby/ Will You, Willyum/ JANIS MARTIN (FEATURING SHORTY LONG): Barefoot Baby/ AMOS MILBURN: Amos Boogie/ Chicken Shack Boogie/ Down The Road Apiece/ CHUCK MILLER: Boogie Blues/ Chuck's Boogie/ House Of Blue Lights/ Miller's Boogie/ Vim Vam Vamoose/ MERRILL E. MOORE: Fly Right Boogie/ Red Light/ Rock-Rockola/ ELLA MAE MORSE (FEATURING GERRY WIGGINS): Rock Me All Night Long/ ELLA MAE MORSE WITH FREDDIE SLACK: House Of Blue Lights/ Pigfoot Pete/ MOON MULLICAN: Country Boogie/ I Done It/ I'll Sail My Ship Alone/ I'm Mad At You/ Pipeline Blues/ Seven Nights To Rock/ CARL PERKINS (FEATURING JERRY LEE LEWIS): Put Your Cat Clothes On/ PIANO RED: Rockin' With Red/ Wildfire/ Woo-Ee/ PROFESSOR LONGHAIR: Hey Little Girl/ Ball The Wall/ Walk Your Blues Away/ FREDDIE SLACK: Blackout Boogie/ HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH: The Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu'/ BIG JOE TURNER WITH PETE JOHNSON: Roll 'Em Pete/ DON WOODY (FEATURING OWEN BRADLEY): Barking Up The Wrong Tree/ Bird Dog |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 097 | The Quiller Memorandum, Vol. 1 | ● CD |
| 25 tracks, 57 mins, highly recommended This is a wonderful collection dedicated to the legendary songwriting team of Felice & Boudleaux Bryant. Although most famous for their songs performed by the Everly Brothers -- Wake Up Little Susie/ Love Hurts/ Bye, Bye, Love/ All I Have to Do Is Dream/ Bird Dog, etc.--many artists made great records with the Bryants' compositions. On this CD we get a lot of the early recordings done with their songs, so you get the Everly's doing .Susie, and Nashville Blues, Rusty & Doug (Kershaw) with "the rambunctious Hey Sheriff, Wanda Jackson doing the confusingly Calypso Don'a Wan'a, Sammy Salvo with Wolf Boy, Webb Pierce with Bye, Bye Love, Roy Orbison with Jolie, Buddy Holly's heartbreaking Raining In The Heart, and many more outstanding tracks from the likes of Porter Wagoner, Bob Luman, Billy Grammer, The Browns, etc. So essentially a whole lot of great songs, many that were big hits, others that were just about as great, but aren't as well known. All pretty essential stuff and the people who put this out did a great job with it, with thorough liner notes and fantastic sound. (JM) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 116 | Doo Wop - The R&B Vocal Group Sound, 1950-1960 | ● CD |
| Three CD set with 89 tracks. A particularly nice
collection of vocal group sounds featuring
some of the finest tracks recorded between 1950 and 1960 starting with
Double Crossing Blues by the Johnny Otis Quintette from 1950 and
ending with Shop Around by The Miracles from 1960. Along the way
we hear The Dominoes, Clovers, Spaniels, Drifters, Platters, Teen
Queens, Dell-Vikings, Bobbettes, Coasters, Maurice Williams & The
Zodiacs and many more. Includes 24 page booklet with detailed notes by
doo wop expert Marv Goldberg. THE 5 ROYALES: Baby Don't Do It/ Help Me Somebody/ THE BOBBETTES: Mr Lee/ JAMES BROWN & THE FAMOUS FLAMES: Please, Please, Please/ Try Me/ JERRY BUTLER & THE IMPRESSIONS: For Your Precious Love/ THE CADETS: Stranded In The Jungle/ THE CADILLACS: Speedoo/ THE CARDINALS: The Door Is Still Open/ THE CHANTELS: Maybe/ THE CHARMS: Hearts Of Stone/ THE CHORDS: Sh-Boom/ THE CLOVERS: Devil Or Angel/ Don't You Know I Love You/ Fool, Fool, Fool/ Good Lovin'/ Lovey Dovey/ Middle Of The Night/ One Mint Julep/ Ting-A-Ling/ THE COASTERS: Charlie Brown/ Poison Ivy/ Searchin'/ Yakety Yak/ Young Blood/ THE CORONETS: Nadine/ THE CROWS: Gee/ THE DANLEERS: One Summer Night/ BOBBY DAY: Rock-in' Robin/ THE DELL-VIKINGS: Come Go With Me/ THE DELLS: Oh What A Nite/ THE DOMINOES: Have Mercy Baby/ Sixty-Minute Man/ THE DRIFTERS: Adorable/ Dance With Me/ Save The Last Dance For Me/ There Goes My Baby/ Honey Love/ THE DU DROPPERS: I Wanna Know/ THE EL DORADOS: At My Front Door/ THE FALCONS: You're So Fine/ THE FIESTAS: So Fine/ THE FIVE KEYS: Ling, Ting, Tong/ The Glory Of Love/ THE FIVE SATINS: In The Still Of The Nite/ THE FLAMINGOS: I Only Have Eyes For You/ THE FOUR BUDDIES: I Will Wait/ THE FOUR FELLOWS: Soldier Boy/ THURSTON HARRIS: Little Bitty Pretty One/ THE HEARTBEATS: A Thousand Miles Away/ THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES: Buzz-Buzz-Buzz/ THE JACKS: Why Don't You Write Me/ JOHNNIE & JOE: Over The Mountain, Across The Sea/ LITTLE ANTHONY & THE IMPERIALS: Tears On My Pillow/ FRANKIE LYMON: I Want You To Be My Girl/ Why Do Fools Fall In Love/ CLYDE MCPHATTER & THE DRIFTERS: Money Honey/ Such A Night/ THE MIDNIGHTERS: Sexy Ways/ THE MIRACLES FEAT. SMOKEY ROBINSON: Shop Around/ THE MONOTONES: Book Of Love/ THE MOONGLOWS: Sincerely/ THE NUTMEGS: Story Untold/ THE OLYMPICS: Western Movies/ THE ORIOLES: Crying In The Chapel/ JOHNNY OTIS QUINTETTE WITH THE ROBINS AND LITTL: Double Crossing Blues/ THE PENGUINS: Earth Angel/ PHIL PHILLIPS WITH THE TWILIGHTS: Sea Of Love/ THE PLATTERS: (You've Got) The Magic Touch/ Heaven On Earth/ I'm Sorry/ My Prayer/ Only You (And You Alone)/ Smoke Gets In Your Eyes/ The Great Pretender/ Twilight Time/ THE RAYS: Silhouettes/ THE ROYALS: Work With Me Annie/ THE SILHOUETTES: Get A Job/ HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & HIS CLOWNS: Don't You Just Know It/ THE SPANIELS: Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite/ THE SPIDERS: I Didn't Want To Do It/ THE TEEN QUEENS: Eddie My Love/ THE TUNE WEAVERS: Happy, Happy Birthday Baby/ THE TURBANS: When You Dance/ BILLY WARD AND HIS DOMINOES: Rags To Riches/ Stardust/ MAURICE WILLIAMS & THE ZODIACS: Stay/ OTIS WILLIAMS AND HIS CHARMS*: Ivory Tower |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 121 | Jazz Noire - Darktown Sleaze From The Mean Streets Of | ● CD |
| 2 CDs, 50 tracks, 152 mins, very highly recommended I've been dying for a collection like this for a long time; one full of great Jazz themes to 1940's and '50s Noir films and cool Jazz & R&B that the great characters in those movies would have hypothetically been listening to while they did their sordid deeds. You get big brassy horns backing big brassy dames, cool cats singing about shady deals, tracks that are so smoky they make your eyes water, so cool you need to put on a sweater. The highlights are far too many to mention, but some of my favorites include: Johnny Otis - Harlem Nocturne, Jimmy Witherspoon - Skid Row Blues, Amos Milburn - Money Hustlin' Woman, Baron Mingus & His Octet - This Subdues My Passion, themes from "The Killers," "Double Indemnity," and "High Sierra," plus Charlie Parker, Billy Holliday, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynonnie Harris, T-bone Walker, Percy Mayfield, Julia Lee, etc., etc. Cool Noir packaging, deep notes, this is pretty much the perfect stocking stuffer for any street hood, gun moll, crooked cop, or doomed lavers that might be on your naughty list this year. (JM) CHARLES BROWN TRIO: How High The Moon/ WINI BROWN WITH LIONEL HAMPTON & HIS ORCH.: Gone Again/ CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCH.: San Francisco Fan/ KING COLE TRIO: Blues In My Shower/ Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?/ ADOLPH DEUTSCH: Theme from "High Sierra" (1941)/ BILLY ECKSTINE & HIS ORCH.: Jelly Jelly/ Prisoner Of Love/ ELLA FITZGERALD: I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So/ DIZZY GILLESPIE SEXTET: All The Things You Are/ LIONEL HAMPTON & HIS ORCH.: Midnight Sun/ WYNONIE 'MR BLUES' HARRIS & HIS ALL-STARS: Whiskey And Jelly-Roll Blues/ AL HIBBLER: I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)/ BILLIE HOLIDAY: Don't Explain/ Good Morning Heartache/ No Good Man/ Billie's Blues/ HELEN HUMES WITH BUCK CLAYTON & HIS ORCH.: Blue And Sentimental/ ILLINOIS JACQUET & HIS ALL STARS: Goofin' Off/ BUDDY JOHNSON & HIS ORCH.: Far Cry/ If I Ever Find You, Baby/ ELLA JOHNSON WITH BUDDY JOHNSON & HIS ORCH.: Since I Fell For You/ ELLA JOHNSON WITH BUDDY JOHNSON & HIS ORCHEST: You Can't Tell Who's Lovin' Who/ ETTA JONES WITH JC HEARD & HIS ORCH.: I Sold My Heart To The Junkman/ ETTA JONES WITH LUTHER HENDERSON & HIS ORCH.: What Ev'ry Woman Knows/ LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE: Why'd You Do It, Baby?/ JULIA LEE: Marijuana/ NELLIE LUTCHER & HER RHYTHM: Fine And Mellow/ PERCY MAYFIELD WITH MONROE TUCKER & HIS ORCH.: Leary Blues/ AMOS MILBURN: Money Hustlin' Woman/ BARON MINGUS & HIS OCTET: This Subdues My Passion/ THELONIOUS MONK QUINTET: 'Round About Midnight/ ALFRED NEWMAN: Theme from "Cry Of The City" (1948)/ JOHNNY OTIS, HIS DRUMS & HIS ORCH.: Harlem Nocturne/ CHARLIE PARKER: Lover Man/ Dark Shadows/ LEO PARKER'S ALL STARS: Solitude/ ARTHUR PRYSOCK WITH BUDDY JOHNSON & HIS ORCH.: I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone/ Serves Me Right/ ALICE ROBERTS WITH DIZZY GILLESPIE & HIS ORCH.: Good Dues Blues/ MIKLOS ROZSA: Theme From "The Killers" (1946)/ Theme from "Double Indemnity" (1944)/ CLAUDE TRENIER WITH CHARLES MINGUS SEXTETTE: Weird Nightmare/ SARAH VAUGHAN WITH DIZZY GILLESPIE & HIS ORCH.: Interlude/ T-BONE WALKER & HIS GUITAR: Call It Stormy Monday/ DINAH WASHINGTON WITH DAVE YOUNG & HIS ORCH.: You Satisfy/ DINAH WASHINGTON WITH LUCKY THOMPSON'S ALL STA: Pacific Coast Blues/ CROWN PRINCE WATERFORD: LA Blues/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON WITH JAY MCSHANN & HIS ORCH.: Skid Row Blues/ LESTER YOUNG & HIS SEXTET: No Eyes Blues |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 131 | Heavy Sugar - Second Spoonful: More Pure Essence Of New | ● CD |
| 3CD, 75 tracks, very highly recommended The follow up volume to the first "Heavy Sugar" compilation (not available), dishes up more tasty slabs of Nawlins R&B from the likes of Little Richard (the movie soundtrack version of "The Girl Can't Help It", oh yeah), Huey "Piano" Smith, Frankie Ford, Lee Allen, Bobby Charles, Charles Brown, Fats Domino, Wynona Carr, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Bobby Marchan, Amos Milburn, and more. As usual with these collections, the discs are given names: disc one is "cat walk", disc two is "shake shake", and disc three is "top notch grade A"; each name refers to a song on the disc and gives a general idea of what to expect, but don't let any abstract thought get in the way of enjoying some prime cuts. This set digs deeper into the talent from obscure labels like Rustone, Pontchartrain, Athens, Winner, and Spinett, resulting in tracks like Preacher's Daughter from Roland Stone, Alonzo Stewart's I Get the Blues When It Rains, Willie West's A Man Like Me, Top Notch Grade A by Al Reed, and Chris Kenner's Don't Make No Noise which he cut for Pontchartrain after leaving Imperial. The tracks date from 1954 to 1960 (except for Roy Brown's 1947 recording of Good Rocking Tonight, which the compilers kindly included to illustrate the roots of rock 'n' roll), the first golden age of R&B (in my humble opinion), and the songs collected here do not disappoint. If you have the first Heavy Sugar, you owe it to yourself to get this second helping, and if you don't have either, then now is a good time for catching up. (GMC) LEE ALLEN: Cat Walk/ ARTHUR & BOOKER: You're Near Me/ JIMMY BEASLEY: Good Lovin/ Little Coquette/ She's Good To Me/ LARRY BIRDSONG: I'm Pleading Just for You/ EDDIE BO: Every Dog Got Its Day/ We Like Mambo/ CHARLES BROWN: It's A Sin To Tell A Lie/ ROY BROWN: Good Rocking Tonight/ JO-ANN CAMPBELL: Funny Thing/ LENNY CAPELLO & THE DOTS: Tootles/ WYNONA CARR: I'm Mad At You/ BOBBY CHARLES: Why Can't You/ DEE CLARK & THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RICHARD BAND: Oh Little Girl/ COLLAY & THE SATELLITES: Little Girl Next Door/ JAMES "SUGAR BOY" CRAWFORD: Morning Star/ She's Gotta Wobble When She Walks/ You have Me Love/ ERNIE K. DOE: Make You Love Me/ FATS DOMINO: Don't You Know I Love You/ Tell Me That You Love Me/ When I See You/ FRANKIE FORD: The Groom/ Watchdog/ You Talk Too Much/ JOHNNY FULLER: Sister Jenny/ PAUL GAYTEN: Tickle Toe/ Mule Face/ THE HAWKS: School Girl/ CLARENCE HENRY: Just My Baby And Me/ CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY: I'm In Love/ JESSIE HILL: High Head Blues/ Scoop Scoobie Doobie/ MATTHEW JACOBS: Loaded Down/ AL JOHNSON: Carnival Time/ CHRIS KENNER: Don't Make No Noise/ You Can't Beat Uncle Sam/ EARL KING: Funny Face/ SMILEY LEWIS: Can't Stop Loving You/ I Shall Not Be Moved/ Lil Liza Jane/ LI'L MILLET: Rock Around The Clock/ LITTLE RICHARD: All Night Long/ Can't Believe You Wanna Leave/ The Girl Can t Help It (soundtrack version)/ BOBBY LONERO: Little Bit/ JOHNNY LOVE & HIS ORCHESTRA: Chills And Fever/ BOBBY MARCHAN: Quit My Job/ Snoopin' And Accusin'/ PAUL MARVIN: Hurry Up/ AMOS MILBURN: Shake Shake/ THE MONITORS: Candy Coated Kisses/ BIG BOY MYLES: She s So Fine/ AARON NEVILLE: Get Out Of My Life/ PROFESSOR LONGHAIR: Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand/ Go To The Mardi Gras/ If I Only Knew/ AL REED: Top Notch Grade A/ TOMMY RIDGLEY: Jam Up/ HUEY SMITH & HIS CLOWNS: Just A Lonely Clown/ HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & HIS CLOWNS: Beatnik Blues/ For Cryin' Out Loud/ CALVIN SPEARS: Baby Come On Home/ BENNY SPELLMAN: Ammerette/ THE SPIDERS WITH CHUCK CARBO: Honey Bee/ ALONZO STEWART: I Get The Blues When It Rains/ ROLAND STONE: Preacher's Daughter/ BILLY TATE: Single Life/ IRMA THOMAS: A Good Man/ BILLY TIRCUIT: Crazy Green Lizard/ AL TOUSAN: Chico/ THE UPSETTERS: Jaywalking/ WILLIE WEST: A Man Like Me/ LESTER WILLIAMS: McDonald s Daughter |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 140 | Jamaica Presents Jump Blues Strictly For You | ● CD |
| 3 CDs, 85 tracks, 230 mins, highly recommended I have no idea what Jamaica was really like in the 1940's through the 1960's, but it definitely has a legendary standing of being a time and place of amazingly good musical tastes. The Jamaican listening public embraced sublime hits like When You Dance by The Turbans, I Got Loaded by Peppermint Harris, Since I Met You Baby by Ivory Joe Hunter, Let The Good Times Roll by Shirley & Lee, etc. They also had a knack for rooting out artists' hidden gems that we Americans undervalued, like Goin' Home by Fats Domino (a huge influence on Jamaican music,) Messy Bessy by Louis Jordon, Rock & Cry by Clyde McPhatter, and so on. Then also appreciating obscure songs by obscure artists like Country Woman by Boo Breeding, All That Oil In Texas by Oscar McLollie, and Give It Up (Or Tell Me Where It Is) by Vince Monroe. These and many, many more great tunes can be found on this superb collection, which also features great sound and interesting notes. All goes to show that they really knew their stuff down there in Jamaica; must have been something in the water (or possibly in the air.) (JM) SIL AUSTIN: Slow Walk/ DAVE BARTHOLOMEW: Country Boy/ The Monkey/ THE BOBBETTES: Mr Lee/ CALVIN BOZE: Waiting And Drinking/ TEDDY BRANNON: Don Newcomb Really Throws That Ball/ BOO BREEDING: Country Woman/ NAPPY BROWN: Don't Be Angry/ PRESTON BROWN: Walk On/ ROY BROWN: New Rebecca/ RUTH BROWN: 5-10-15 Hours/ HAROLD BURRAGE: Way Down Boogie/ ROY BYRD: Bald Head/ THE CHARMS: Bye Bye Baby/ EARL CURRY: I Want Your Lovin'/ FLOYD DIXON: Moonshine/ THE DODGERS: The Cat Hop/ FATS DOMINO: Goin Home/ Going To The River/ JACK DUPREE: Ain't No Meat On De Bone/ Walking The Blues/ ERNIE FREEMAN: Live It Up/ LOWELL FULSON: Rocking After Midnight/ LLOYD GLENN: Cuba Doll/ THE GONE ALL STARS: The Gee Gee Walk/ MIKE GORDON: You Got To Give/ ROSCO GORDON: Booted/ New Orleans Wimmen/ Surely I Love You/ KENNY GRAHAM'S AFRO CUBISTS: Bongo Chant/ GEORGE GREEN: Brand New Rockin' Chair/ FELIX GROSS: Worried About You Baby/ GUITAR SLIM: Well, I Done Got Over It/ ERLINE HARRIS: Jump And Shout/ PEPPERMINT HARRIS: I Got Loaded/ THE HAWKS: I-Yi/ CHUCK HIGGINS: Motor Head Baby/ EARL HOOKER: Do The Chickin'/ BILLY HOPE: Riding West/ LYNN HOPE: Blue Moon/ IVORY JOE HUNTER: Since I Met You Baby/ WILLIS JACKSON: Call Of The Gators/ PLAS JOHNSON: Blue Jean Shuffle/ LOUIS JORDAN: GI Jive/ Messy Bessy/ Run Joe/ EARL CONNELLY KING: I Don't Want Your Love/ SMILEY LEWIS: She's Got Me Hook, Line And Sinker/ JIMMY LIGGINS: Saturday Nite Boogie Woogie Man/ JOE LIGGINS: TWA/ The Honeydripper Parts 1 And 2/ MARVIN AND JOHNNY: Tick Tock/ JIMMY MCCRACKLIN: What's Your Phone Number/ OSCAR MCLOLLIE: All That Oil In Texas/ The Honey Jump/ Hey Boy Hey Girl/ CLYDE MCPHATTER: Rock And Cry/ THE MELLO-HARPS: Ain't Got The Money/ AMOS MILBURN: Bad, Bad Whiskey/ Sax Shack Boogie/ ROY MILTON: Milton S Boogie/ VINCE MONROE: Give It Up Or Tell Where It's At/ JOHNNY OTIS SHOW: You Just Kissed Me Goodbye/ HAL PAIGE AND THE WHALERS: Going Back To My Home Town/ THE PASTELS: Been So Long/ THE PENGUINS: Baby Let's Make Some Love/ JOHNNY PERRY'S ORCHESTRA: Got Good News For Ya, Baby/ GENE PHILLIPS: Slippin' And Slidin'/ LLOYD PRICE: Forgive Me, Clawdy/ PROFESSOR LONGHAIR: Misery/ TOMMY RIDGLEY: Jam Up/ THE ROCKING BROTHERS: Play Boy Hop/ SLIM SAUNDERS: Let's Have Some Fun Honey/ SHIRLEY AND LEE: Let The Good Times Roll/ HAL SINGER: Corn Bread/ GEORGE STEVENSON: Meet Me At Grandma's Joint/ JOE THOMAS: Raw Meat/ THE TURBANS: When You Dance/ BIG JOE TURNER: Flip, Flop And Fly/ T-BONE WALKER: Strollin' With Bones/ JAMES WAYNES: Please Baby Please/ PAUL WILLIAMS: The Huckle-Buck/ SHERMAN WILLIAMS: Baby Don't You Want To Go/ Sherman's Boogie/ CHUCK WILLIS: You're Still My Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 160 | She's So Fine - The Rise Of The Girl Groups | ● CD |
| 3 CDs, 95 tracks, very highly recommended This latest collection from the gang at Fantastic Voyage manages to spotlight nearly every important 60's girl group (exceptions: the Shangri-Las, and the Ronettes) over three CDs. We get the seminal girl groups (The Chantels, the Hearts), the hitmakers (the Shirelles, the Crystals), Motown's contribution (the Marvelettes, the Supremes), solo artists working in the style (Claudine Clark, Dee Dee Sharp, Little Eva, Shelley Fabres), glorious one-shots (the Ikettes, the Blue-Belles), and second line acts (The Exciters, The Cookies, The Paris Sisters). There are also some questionable inclusions - Etta James, Bettye LaVette - that don't really qualify as "girl group" records. But for every stone cold classic (Little Eva's The Loco-Motion, The Shirelles' Will You Love Me Tomorrow) there's several great obscurities (The Donays' Devil in His Heart, The Blossoms' Son-in-Law) and lesser known tracks by the headliners (The Shirelles' Everybody Needs a Lover for example) that make this package a treat for fans of unassuming pop music. (GMC) THE 5 CHANELS: The Reason/ THE ANGELS: 'Til/ Cry Baby Cry/ ANITA AND TH' SO-AND-SO'S: Joey Baby/ ANNETTE AND THE VONAIR SISTERS: Dreamin' About You/ THE BLOSSOMS: Son-In-Law/ THE BLUE-BELLES: I Sold My Heart To The Junkman/ THE BOBBETTES: Dance With Me Georgie/ I Don't Like It Like That/ I Shot Mr Lee/ Mr Lee/ THE BONNIE SISTERS: Cry Baby/ THE BRACELETS: Waddle, Waddle/ THE CHANTELS: Every Night (I Pray)/ He's Gone/ Here It Comes Again/ I Love You So/ Look In My Eyes/ Maybe/ THE CHARMAINES: What Kind Of Girl (Do You Think I Am)/ THE CHIFFONS: He's So Fine/ THE CHORDETTES: Lollipop/ CLAUDINE CLARK: Party Lights/ THE COOKIES: Chains/ In Paradise/ THE CRYSTALS: He's A Rebel/ He's Sure The Boy I Love/ I Love My Baby/ Oh, Yeah, Maybe Baby/ There's No Other (Like My Baby)/ Uptown/ What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen/ THE DELICATES: Ronnie Is My Lover/ THE DELTAIRS: Lullaby Of The Bells/ THE DONAYS: Devil In His Heart/ LITTLE EVA: The Loco-Motion/ THE EXCITERS: Tell Him/ SHELLEY FABARES: Johnny Angel/ MISS TONI FISHER: The Big Hurt/ THE FOUR COQUETTES: Sparkle And Shine/ MAUREEN GRAY: Dancin' The Strand/ SHIRLEY GUNTER AND THE QUEENS: Oop Shoop/ THE HEARTS: Lonely Nights/ THE IKETTES: I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)/ ETTA JAMES: Good Rockin' Daddy/ The Wallflower/ BETTYE LAVETTE: My Man - He's A Lovin' Man/ LITTLE EVA: Keep Your Hands Off My Baby/ MARCY JOE: Ronnie/ THE MARVELETTES: Beechwood 4-5789/ Forever/ Playboy/ Please Mr Postman/ Someday, Someway/ Strange I Know/ Twistin' Postman/ THE MCGUIRE SISTERS: Sincerely/ THE ORLONS: Don't Hang Up/ The Wah-Watusi/ THE PARIS SISTERS: Be My Boy/ He Knows I Love Him Too Much/ I Love How You Love Me/ Let Me Be The One/ THE PEARLETTES: Duchess Of Earl/ THE PONI-TAILS: Born Too Late/ Seven Minutes In Heaven/ THE QUIN-TONES: Down The Aisle Of Love/ TINA ROBIN: Dear Mr DJ Play It Again/ RONNIE & THE RELATIVES: I Want A Boy/ DEE DEE SHARP: Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)/ Mashed Potato Time/ THE SHEPHERD SISTERS: Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)/ THE SHERRYS: Pop Pop Pop-Pie/ Slop Time/ THE SHIRELLES: A Thing Of The Past/ Baby It's You/ Big John/ Dedicated To The One I Love/ Everybody Loves A Lover/ I Met Him On A Sunday (Ronde Ronde)/ It's Love That Really Counts (In The Long Run)/ Mama Said/ Soldier Boy/ Stop The Music/ Tonight's The Night/ Welcome Home Baby/ What A Sweet Thing That Was/ Will You Love Me Tomorrow/ THE STARLETS: Better Tell Him No/ P.S. I Love You/ THE STOREY SISTERS: Bad Motorcycle/ THE SUPREMES: Let Me Go The Right Way/ Your Heart Belongs To Me/ THE TEEN QUEENS: Eddie My Love/ BABY WASHINGTON: The Bells (On Our Wedding Day) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 165 | After Sun - What The Stars Of The Sun Label Did Next | ● CD |
| 3 CDs, 97 tracks, 239 mins, highly recommended There is no greater roster of talent than the roll call of names that recorded for Sam Phillips in the 1950s. There's Blues giants B.B. King, Howlin Wolf, Ike Turner, Little Milton, Rufus Thomas, etc., and there the Rockabilly kings Elvis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, but all of those big names are only half of the story, and the story didn't end after they recorded at 706 Union Ave. While there have been literally dozens of box sets and hundreds of compilations to scour the vaults of the Sun Record Company, there have been few releases to take this angle on the story, and none in my experience that have handled it so well. You get interesting, less compiled tracks from the big names, plus lots of great tracks like Jeff Daniels - Switch Blade Sam, Howard Chandler - Wampus Cat, Doctor Ross - Numbers Blues, (Harmonica) Frank Floyd - Rock A Little Baby, Scotty Moore Trio - Have Guitar Will Travel, and many, many more great tracks. A few of the artists that you would expect to be on this--Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich and a few others--aren't here and, even after reading the explanation in the liner notes, I'm not sure why. Otherwise, a fantastic collection. Includes 20 page booklet with notes and discographical information on all the tracks here. (JM) ANDY ANDERSON: Tough, Tough, Tough/ DEAN BEARD: Rakin' And Scrapin'/ JOHNNY BERNERO: Beautiful Dreamer/ BILL BLACK'S COMBO: Movin'/ TOMMY BLAKE: Folding Money/ EDDIE BOND: Boo Bop Da Caa Caa/ This Ole Heart Of Mine/ JACKIE BRENSTON: Gonna Wait For My Chance/ Trouble Up The Road/ JOHNNY CARROLL: Trudy/ JOHNNY CASH: Locomotive Man/ HOWARD CHANDLER: Wampus Cat/ JEFF DANIELS: Switch Blade Sam/ Uh-Huh-Huh/ BILLY EMERSON: Do The Chicken/ Every Woman I Know/ Holy Mackerel, Baby/ CHARLIE FEATHERS: Everybody's Lovin My Baby/ Too Much Alike/ When You Come Around/ Why Don t You/ NARVEL FELTS: Cry, Baby, Cry/ HARMONICA FRANK FLOYD: Rock A Little Baby/ ROSCO GORDON: Tummer Tee/ What I Wouldn t Do/ RUDY GRAYZELL: FBI Story/ HARDROCK GUNTER: Rock-A-Bop Baby/ Whoo! I Mean Whee!/ JIMMY HAGGETT: Gonna Shut You Off, Baby/ WALTER HORTON: Have A Good Time/ HOWLIN WOLF: Rockin Daddy/ You Be Mine/ HOWLIN' WOLF: Neighbors/ ROLAND JANES: Guitarville/ B.B. KING: Bim Bam/ Early In The Morning/ House Rocker/ I've Got Papers On You, Baby/ Mean Ole Frisco/ LITTLE MILTON: I'm Tryin'/ Long Distance Operator/ JOE HILL LOUIS: Hydramatic Woman/ Keep Your Arms Around Me/ LEE MITCHELL: Rootie Tootie Baby/ Who's That Big Man?/ SCOTTY MOORE TRIO: Have Guitar Will Travel/ WILLIE NIX: Just Can't Stay/ ROY ORBISON: Almost Eighteen/ Up Town/ With The Bug/ KENNY PARCHMAN: Don't You Know/ Get It Off Your Mind/ Satellite Hop/ Treat Me Right/ LITTLE JUNIOR PARKER: Barefoot Rock/ I Wanna Ramble/ My Dolly Bee/ That's My Baby/ CARL PERKINS: Honey, Cause I Love You/ L-O-V-E-V-I-L-L-E/ Pink Pedal Pushers/ That's All Right/ Where The Rio De Rosa Flows/ ELVIS PRESLEY: I Feel So Bad/ I Want You With Me/ I'm Comin Home/ Reconsider Baby/ So Glad You're Mine/ BILL RILEY: Is That All To The Ball Mr Hall/ BILLY RILEY: Flip Flop And Fly/ Teenage Letter/ DOCTOR ROSS: Cat Squirrel/ Numbers Blues/ GENE SIMMONS: Goin' Back To Memphis/ The Shape You Left Me In/ THE SIMMONS: Out Of This World/ CARL SIMMONS ORCHESTRA: Boodoo/ MACY SKIP SKIPPER: Quick Sand Love/ Who Put The Squeeze On Eloise?/ RAY SMITH: Makes Me Feel Good/ That's All Right/ SMOKEY JOE: Perfect Girl/ Start All Over Again/ THE SPITFIRES: Catfish/ WILD BILL TAYLOR: Little Jewel/ WILLIAM TELL TAYLOR: I Like It/ RUFUS THOMAS: The Easy Livin' Plan/ HAYDEN THOMPSON: Watcha Gonna Do/ IKE TURNER: Hey Hey/ Ho...Ho/ Jack Rabbit/ JESSE LEE TURNER: Shake, Baby, Shake/ CONWAY TWITTY: I Need Your Lovin/ Shake It Up/ ONIE WHEELER: White Lightning Cherokee/ JIMMY WILLIAMS: I Belong To You/ You're Always Late |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 197 | Breezy Sugar - The Pure Essence Of Chicago Rock & Roll | ● CD |
| 3CD, 75 tracks, highly recommended Two years after the last installment, Fantastic Voyage is back with another entry into the "Sugar" series of CDs ("Heavy Sugar," "Snazzy Sugar," "Savvy Sugar," etc. $21.98 each), with this one shining the spotlight on Chicago rock & roll and R&B. Compiler Stuart Colman, includes gems from the famous and not-so-famous movers and shakers from the 50's and early 60's to create an accurate picture of music from the Windy City. Naturally, Chess-the dominant force in Chicago R&B at the time-is prominently represented, but there's also room for other players-both major and minor-such as Vee-Jay, Mercury, Dot, Falcon, Cobra, Oriole, and Chief to name a few. As always, the discs are given outlandish sub-titles that may or may not describe the artists and music included therein: South Side Symphonies, Chi-Town Champs, and Urban Untouchables. But it doesn't matter, because the music speaks for itself, whether it come from old pros Chuck Berry, Dale Hawkins, Bo Diddley, or Ike Turner or from who-are-they's The Brothers, The Mark IV, Louis Hobbs, and Jerry Jaye. Make no mistake, this is another superb entry into the series, and the two-year break between releases has done nothing to dull Colman's impeccable taste in picking tracks for compiling. (GMC) CHUCK BERRY: Carol/ Go-Go-Go/ Sweet Little Sixteen/ THE BIG ROCKER: Rock-N-Roll Romance/ STEVE BLEDSOE AND THE BLUE JAYS: Cool Steppin' Baby/ THE BLUE ECHOES: Cool Guitar/ PRISCILLA BOWMAN: A Rockin' Good Way/ Ain't Givin' Up Nothin'/ Yes, I'M Glad/ THE BROTHERS: Lazy Susan/ HAROLD BURRAGE: Betty Jean/ You Eat Too Much/ BILLY CARROLL: Big Green Car/ BOBBY CHARLES: Don't You Know I Love You/ Watch It, Sprocket/ CLIFTON CHENIER: My Soul/ DEE CLARK: Seven Nights/ THE COASTERS: Idol With The Golden Head/ What Is The Secret Of Your Success?/ SONNY DAY: Speedillac/ BOBBY DEAN: It's A Fad, Ma!/ THE DEL VIKINGS: Jitterbug Mary/ THE DELEGATES: The Convention/ THE DELLS: Q-Bop She-Bop/ THE DELTONES: Early Morning Rock/ BO DIDDLEY: Bo Diddley/ Dancing Girl/ Little Girl/ RUSTY DRAPER: Good Golly, Pretty Molly/ Seven Come Eleven/ THE DREAM KINGS: Oh What A Baby/ THE EL DORADOS: At My Front Door/ Boom Diddie Boom/ BILLY EMERSON: Holy Mackerel, Baby/ THE EQUALOS: Patty-Patty/ BETTY EVERETT: Killer Diller/ NARVEL FELTS: Cry, Baby, Cry/ THE FLAMINGOS: Jump Children/ SONNY FREEZE: Welcome To My World/ WILD CHILD GIPSON: Uncle John/ ROSCO GORDON: Just A Little Bit/ GUITAR RED: Just You And I/ HARVEY: Da Da Goo Goo/ Mama Loocie/ DALE HAWKINS: Linda/ My Babe/ LOUIS HOBBS: Mama, Mama, Mama/ EARL HOOKER AND JUNIOR WELLS: Universal Rock/ JERRY JAYE: Sugar Dumplin'/ BETTE LAINE: Rock A Bye Rock/ JIM LOWE: Talkin' To The Blues/ The Bright Light/ WILLIE MABON: Just Got Some/ BOBBY MACK: She's My Little Baby/ THE MARK IV: 45Rpm/ TOBIN MATTHEWS: Slippin' And Slidin'/ JIMMY MCCRACKLIN: Everybody Rock/ I'm To Blame/ The Walk/ CHUCK MILLER: Cool It Baby!/ STANLEY MITCHELL: Would You, Could You/ BILLY PEEK: Rock To The Top/ BILLY PRAGER AND HIS CARAVANS: Do It Bop/ THE RIP-CHORDS: Let's Do The Razzle Dazzle/ THE ROCKIN' RS: Heat/ DUKE SAVAGE AND THE ARRIBINS: Hey Baby!/ SHAKEY JAKE: Roll Your Money Maker/ SHERIFF AND THE RAVELS: Shombalor/ CHUCK SIMS: Knowing The Part/ AL SMITH: Get Up And Go/ THE SPANIELS: Baby Sweets/ IKE TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM: You Don't Love Me/ JUNIOR WELLS: Little By Little/ WAYNE WORLEY: Red Headed Woman |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 202 | It Takes Two - Dynamic Duos Of The Rock & Roll Era | ● CD |
| 3 CD, 75 tracks, highly recommended Since the beginning of the Rock & Roll era, duos have been firm fixture in the genre-which makes sense, since the roots of Rock & Roll (country, blues, pre- and post- war pop) always highlighted more than a few duos. This three disc collection of duos is interesting because it is compiled from a British point-of-view (by a British label, of course); consequently, a few of the duos in question are U.K. and European bred and may or may not be well known to us colonials. Sure, names like Joy & Dave, Ping Ping & Al Verlane, and Nina & Frederik might be lost on us, but that doesn't make their offerings any less interesting. The compilers also managed to dig up some obscure American acts as well; for every Everly Brothers, Jan & Dean, Mickey & Sylvia, Shirley & Lee, and Ferrante & Teicher (!), there's an Eddy & Teddy, Chuck & Betty, The Duals, and Cornbread & Jerry. So, a varied collection with some pop, country, R&B, and rock 'n' roll is what has been presented to us to enjoy. And one can certainly enjoy cuts like Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford's I'm Coming Home to Stay, The Kalin Twin's Sweet Sugar Lips, Gene & Eunice's This is My Story, and Travis & Bob's Baby Stay Close to Me. For historians, there's early tracks from future stars Skip Batten (later of the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers), Doug Kershaw, Simon & Garfunkel (as Tom & Jerry), and the Addrisi Brothers. In short, there's much to savor and discover here so have at it! (GMC) THE ADDRISI BROTHERS: It's Love/ ALFI & HARRY: The Trouble With Harry/ LAVERN BAKER & JIMMY RICKS: You're The Boss/ THE BENTLEY BROTHERS: Ma, She's Making Eyes At Me/ BILLY & EDDIE: The King Is Coming Back/ BILLY & LILLIE: Bells, Bells, Bells/ THE BLUE DIAMONDS: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles/ BOB & EARL: That's My Desire/ THE BROOK BROTHERS: Look For A Star/ CHUCK & BETTY: Sissy Britches/ CINDY & LINDY: The Language Of Love/ CORNBREAD & JERRY: Lil' Ole Me/ BING CROSBY & GRACE KELLY: True Love/ THE DAVISON BROTHERS: Journey Of Love/ DERRICK & PATSY: Housewife's Choice/ DICK & DEE DEE: Tell Me/ DON & JUAN: Two Fools Are We/ LONNIE DONEGAN & MAX MILLER: Tit-Bits/ THE DUALS: Cruising/ EDDY & TEDDY: Star-Crossed Lovers/ ELAINE & DEREK: Wooden Heart/ LEE & JAY ELVIN: So The Story Goes/ THE EVERLY BROTHERS: Memories Are Made Of This/ FERRANTE & TEICHER: Goodbye Again/ DON GARDNER & DEE DEE FORD: I'm Coming Home To Stay/ GENE & EUNICE: This Is My Story/ GINO & GINA: Pretty Baby/ ROBIN HALL & JIMMIE MACGREGOR: Football Crazy/ HIGGS & WILSON: Manny, Oh/ HUEY & JERRY: Little Chicken Wah Wah/ THE JACKSON BROTHERS: Tell Him No/ ETTA JAMES & HARVEY FUQUA: If I Can't Have You/ JAN & DEAN: Heart & Soul/ JAN & KJELD: Oh Mein Papa/ JEANNE & JANIE: Under Your Spell Again/ JOE & EDDIE: And I Believed/ JOHNNIE & JOE: Over The Mountain, Across The Sea/ TEDDY JOHNSON & PEARL CARR: How Wonderful To Know/ JOY & DAVE: Joe's Been A-Gittin' There/ THE KALIN TWINS: Sweet Sugar Lips/ BILL & BRETT LANDIS: Baby Talk/ THE LINDYS: Train Of Love/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS: I Wish It Had Been A Dream/ MARVIN & JOHNNY: Cherry Pie/ OSCAR MCLOLLIE & JEANETTE BAKER: Hey Boy - Hey Girl/ MICKEY & KITTY: Buttercup/ MICKEY & SYLVIA: Bewildered/ MIKI & GRIFF: Don't Read The Letter/ THE MOST BROTHERS: Whole Lotta Woman/ NINA & FREDERIK: Listen To The Ocean/ PATIENCE & PRUDENCE: Dreamers' Bay/ PAUL PETERSEN & SHELLEY FABARES: Very Unlikely/ PING PING & AL VERLANE: Sucu Sucu/ LOUIS PRIMA & KEELY SMITH: That Old Black Magic/ MARVIN RAINWATER & CONNIE FRANCIS: The Majesty Of Love/ RONALD & RUBY: Lollipop/ ROY & MILLIE: We'll Meet/ RUSTY & DOUG: I Like You (Like This)/ BOBBY RYDELL & CHUBBY CHECKER: Swingin' Together/ SANTO & JOHNNY: Tear Drop/ SHIRLEY & LEE: That's What I Wanna Do/ SKIP & FLIP: Fancy Nancy/ THE SNAPPERS: Big Bill/ APRIL STEVENS & NINO TEMPO: Sweet & Lovely/ THE TEEN QUEENS: Rock Everybody/ ART & DOTTY TODD: Chanson D'Amour/ TOM & JERRY: Hey, Schoolgirl/ TONY & JOE: The Freeze/ TRAVIS & BOB: Baby Stay Close To Me/ IKE & TINA TURNER: It's Gonna Work Out Fine/ THE VALENTINES: Hey Ruby/ DINAH WASHINGTON & BROOK BENTON: Baby, You Got What It Takes/ THE WILBURN BROTHERS: Trouble's Back In Town/ JACKIE WILSON & LINDA HOPKINS: I Found Love/ TIMI YURO & JOHNNIE RAY: I Believe |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 204 | Hoosier Daddy: Mar-Vel And The Birth Of Indiana Rockabilly | ● CD |
| 3 CDs, 105 tracks, 236 mins, highly recommended Like
most birth of Rockabilly compilations, this one starts out by giving you
a healthy dose of Country Western Swing and Boogie. That's not a bad
thing at all in this case because the pre-Rockabilly stuff here is by
and large fantastic. Fine Country cuts by the likes of Bob Burton, Eddy
Star, Sherry Lee, and a number of other artists that you probably
haven't heard of, but will quickly earn your admiration. The Rockabilly
doesn't start firing on all cylinders til about _ through the first CD
with Herbie Duncan's rollicking Hot Lips Baby. Once it's started
though, things heat up quick and soon you are getting barnburners like
Little Angel also by Herbie Duncan, Saturday Night Special
by Jack Bradshaw, Jerry Seifert Dirty White Bucks (And Tight Pegged
Pants) which has a drum beat that gives Wipe Out a run for
its money, and Moon Twist by Billy Nix. Billy Nix is actually one
of the real stand-out artists on this collection, with no less than five
great tracks. Other stand- outs include The Gaye Sisters who fall
somewhere between the Collins Kids and The Everly Brothers, Chuck Dallis
who has a handful of great cuts as well and who amazingly sounds like
The Blasters on a couple of them, and Bill Sherrell who delivered
fantastic cuts like Yes, No, Or Maybe, Rock On Baby, and
probably the best known track on this collection Cadillac Baby.
Then there's Ronnie Haig, Webb Foley, Tommy Lam, The Blankenship
Brothers, Keetie & The Kats, The Jiants, and many more, who all deliver
excellent tracks. Deep liner notes tell the story of the great Harry
Glenn the main man behind Mar-Vel (and was a one man promotion machine
on par with Stan Lee from that other Marvel,) as well as many of the
artists featured. (JM) HAROLD ALLEN: I Need Some Lovin'/ I'm Settin'You Free/ JIM ALLEY: The Great Pretender/ WALTER ARKIE BITTLE: Jitterbug Drag/ THE BLANKENSHIP BROTHERS: Hard Up Blues/ That's Why I Am Blue/ JACK BRADSHAW: Saturday Night Special/ Naughty Girls/ BOB BURTON: Tired Of Rocking/ Boogie Woogie Baby Of Mine/ AUBREY CAGLE: Be-Bop Blues/ STONEY CALHOUN: Bounce Baby Bounce/ HARRY CARTER WITH THE DIXIE RHYTHMAIRES: Jump Baby Jump/ Rhythm In My Soul/ HARRY CARTER WITH THE RHYTHMAIRES: I Don't Want You/ You Made Me Love You, Baby/ SKIP CODY: Feets Too Big (1st Version)/ Feets Too Big (2nd Version)/ CHUCK DALLIS: Come On Let's Go (1st Version)/ Come On Let's Go (2nd Version)/ Moon Twist/ So Close To Heaven/ PAT DAVIS: Spinner Hub Caps/ THE DENHAMS: Cry, Baby Cry/ HERBIE DUNCAN: That's All/ Escape/ Hot Lips Baby/ Little Angel/ RONNIE DURBIN: Ronnie's Boogie/ BILL ELKINS: You Made Me Mad (And That's Bad)/ BILL FERGUSON: Dark And Stormy/ THE FIVE STARS: Friction/ WEBB FOLEY: Bee Bop Baby/ Little Bitty Mama/ JIMMY GANZBERG: Hang-Out/ JIM GATLIN WITH LES SMITHHART & SUPER-X COWB: The Way You're Treating Me/ Would It Matter At All/ THE GAYE SISTERS, WITH REM WALL AND GREEN VA: Oh Ricky/ RONNIE HAIG: Don't You Hear Me Calling, Baby/ Hey Little Baby/ Money Is A Thing Of The Past/ Rocking With Rhythm And Blues/ BILL HALL: Let Me Love You/ Shootin'Pool/ BILLY HALL: I Need Some Lovin'/ Move Over Rover (2nd Version)/ Move Over Rover (1st Version)/ This Is The Blues/ LLOYD HARP: Slow Boogie Rock/ RALPH HODGES: Honey Talk/ BRENDA HOLLY: Crazy Little Heart/ HAROLD HUBBLE'S SPITFIRES: Let's Go Daddy-O!/ SKIPPER HUNT COMBO: Scalded/ What Am I Gonna Do/ REX JENNINGS & MID-WESTERN ALL STARS: Itchy Feet/ THE JIANTS: She's My Woman/ Tornado/ JIM JOHNSTON: Mean Woman Blues/ KEETIE AND THE KATS: That's The Way/ TOMMY LAM: Speed Limit/ SHERRY LEE & SHORTY ASHFORD WITH THE COUNTRY MU: I'm Crazy Darling/ SHERRY LEE, SIXTEEN YEAR OLD MISS COUNTRY MUSIC: Baby Honey/ BILLY LOVE: I'll Find My Way (Back To You)/ RAY LYNN: Mean, Mean Woman/ TEX NEIGHBORS: Ain't Going That Route/ Rock And Roll Dot/ Rockin'Beat/ BILLY NIX: Get With The Beat/ Moon Twist/ Perhaps/ Susie And Earl/ Your Flame Of Love/ Devoted Love/ JERRY PARSONS: Don't Need No Job/ Undecided/ JOHNNY PHELPS: Tom Katt/ DENNIS PUCKETT AND THE ROCKETS: Rockin'Teens/ BOB REED: Choctaw Boogie/ JIMMY RIDLEY: Rock A Bye Baby/ LAWSON RUDD: Shake This Town/ TED RUSSELL AND HIS RHYTHM ROCKERS: Real Cool/ JERRY SEIFERT WITH JIMMY COE ORCHESTRA: Dirty White Bucks (And Tight Pegged Pants)/ Never Baby Never/ SHORTY SERGENT: Record-Hop/ CURLEY SHELTON: Have You Seen My Baby?/ BILL SHERRELL: Cadillac Baby/ Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O/ Kool Kat/ Rock On Baby/ Yes, No, Or Maybe/ BOBBY SISCO: Go, Go, Go/ Honky Tonkin'Rhythm/ Tall, Dark & Handsome Man/ EDDIE SMALLING: Jeanie/ BASIL SMITH: Basil Smith Stomp/ EDDY STAR & HIS STAR DRIFTERS: Love Me, Love Me/ CHARLIE STEWART: Old Age And Rough Treatment/ THE THOMAS BROTHERS, MELVIN & ELVIN: Way High, Way Low/ TENNESSEE THOMPSON: Saturday Ball/ Slippin'And Slidin'/ THE VAN BROTHERS: Servant Of Love/ REM WALL & HIS GREEN VALLEY BOYS: Grown-Ups Sometimes Cry/ Heartsick And Blue/ NORMAN WITCHER: Somebody's Been Rocking My Boat/ Wake Me Up |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Fantastic Voyage 221 | Jamaica - Is The Place To Go | ● CD |
| Two CDs, 48 mins, very highly recommended Wonderful collection of Jamaican mento music recorded in the 1950s. Starting as a rural dance music using banjo, guitar, fife, maracs and "rumba box" ((a form of bass thumb piano)) mento eventually moved to the cities adding violin, clarinet, saxophone and featured lyrics often humorously commenting on everyday life, sex and cautionary tales. It bears a resemblance to Trinidadian calypso and both islands borrowed songs from each other though mento has a different feel. Ironically, the "craze" for Trinidadian calypso started with a couple of recordings made by Harry Belafonte singing a couple of mento songs and subsequently mento performers often called their groups Calypso bands. Although Trinidadian calypso had been recorded since 1912, it wasn't until 1950 that the first recordings were made of Jamican in London for the Melodisc label. Jamaican entrepreneur Stanley Motta built the first recording studio in Jamaica in the back room of a woodwork factory in 1951 and was shortly followed by Ivan Chin, Ken Khouri and Edward Seaga and over the next half a dozen years several hundred recordings were issued but by the end of the decade the interest in mento was almost non-existent - most young Jamaicans wanted to hear American rhythm & blues which they began to emulate subsequently leading to ska which included some elements of mento. This collection features irresistible performances from the likes of Lord Tanamo & Charlie Binger's Six, Lord Foodoos & His Calypso Band, Count Sticky & His Calypsonians (two great sides - one with an atypical steel guitar solo), Lord Flea & His Calypsonians (the risque Naughty LIttle Flea), Count Owen & His Calypsonians, Trenton Spence Quartet, Laurel Aitken (who was subsequently to become a major figure in ska music), Bertie King with Ernest Raglin, Count Zebra & The Seasiders and many more. Sound quality is generally excellent though some tracks were primitively recordeded and there is a 16 page full color booklet with background information as well as information on the artists and labels along with artist photos, label shots and album covers. (FS) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Kent CDKEND 485 | Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures, Vol. 5** | ● CD $17.98 |
| 25 tracks, very highly recommended David Godin was a fan of black American music from the mid 50s on, eventually turning his love of the music into becoming a writer, record company advisor, record shop owner and, for a short while, owner of his own label issuing soul music. He is credited with creating term "deep soul" - referring to soul music with a particular emotional intensity. In 1995 he compiled a collection of deep soul recordings for Ace Records Kent subsidiary - "Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures" (Kent 143 - $16.98). Over the next nine years he compiled three further volumes (Kent 158, 200 and 230) - the fourth volume being issued shortly before Dave's death in 2004. Working from lists that Dave had put together, Ace have taken their time in working at getting the rights to some of the records that Dave had most wanted to use and have come up with this fifth volume ranging from The Chantels 1958 recording of Every Night (I Pray), their gorgeous followup to Maybe to Esther Phillips' 1972 recording of the grim Home Is Where The Hatred Is and including Judy White's ferocious Satisfaction Guaranteed, Don't Pass Me By by Big Maybelle which was one of Dave's all time favorites, The Soul City's fabulous cover of Gladys Knight's Who KNows and more graet sides by Helena Ferguson, The Masqueraders, The Emotions, George Jackson, Betty Harris, Jerry Washington, Zilla Mays and others. The 32 page booklet includes an interview of Dave conducted between 1995 and '97 and notes on each of the tracks by noted soul music authorities. (FS) RENé BAILEY: It's Too Late (For Tears)/ BIG MAYBELLE: Don't Pass Me By/ LATTIMORE BROWN: I Will/ JAMES CARR: These Ain't Raindrops/ KENNY CARTER: I'm Not The One/ THE CHANTELS: Every Night (I Pray)/ EDDIE & ERNIE: Standing At The Crossroads/ THE EMOTIONS: Somebody New/ HELENA FERGUSON: Where Is The Party/ BETTY HARRIS: Can't Last Much Longer/ Z.Z. HILL: Nothing Can Change The Love I Have For You/ GEORGE JACKSON: My Desires Are Getting The Best Of Me/ LINDA JONES: What Can I Do (Without You)/ GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS: Lovers Always Forgive/ BARBARA LYNN: (Until Then) I'll Suffer/ MARK IV: I'll Be Right There (To Make Love To You)/ THE MASQUERADERS: I Ain't Got To Love Nobody Else/ ZILLA MAYES: All I Want Is You/ ESTHER PHILLIPS: Home Is Where The Hatred Is/ THE SOUL CITY: Who Knows/ CAROLYN SULLIVAN: Dead!/ RONNIE TAYLOR: Without Love/ DEE DEE WARWICK: Foolish Fool/ JERRY WASHINGTON: Right Here Is Where You Belong/ JUDY WHITE: Satisfaction Guaranteed |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 123 | Koko-Mojo Diner, Vol. 1 - Soul Food** | ● CD $12.98 |
| 28 tracks, highly recommended A delectable collection of blues and R&B songs and tunes based around the subject of food - particularly the kind of food popular with African-Americans - soul food. The Mighty Cravers give us a run down of some popular soul food items in Soul Food, The Five Royales present us a plate of Monkey Hips and Rice, Shorty Long seems to like Burnt Toast and Coffee and Fats Domino is down in his home state of Louisiana with a bowl of Jambalay. A number of tracks use food as a handy title for an instrumental as with Freddy King's Onion Rings and Edgar Hayes' Fat Meat and Greens. And in some cases food is a metaphor (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) as in Lil Johnson's Sam The Hot Dog Man and The Four Clefs with I Like Pie, I Like Cake and lots more to savor and the set ends with a track which is neither blues nor R&B with Jim Bakkus and Friend with their decidedly raunchy Delicious (The Laughing Song). Notes in the fold out digipack discuss the history of food in African-American culture. Lots of tasty fun and this is the first in a series of four so prepare your dining room. (FS) THE ALADDINS: Munch/ L. ANDERSON AND THE TORNADOES: Neck Bones & Hot Sauce (Part 1)/ JIM BACKUS AND FRIEND: Delicious (The Laughing Song)/ DOC BAGBY: Dumplin’s/ MICKEY “GUITAR™ BAKER AND HIS HOUSE ROCKERS: Greasy Spoon/ THE BEALE STREET GANG: Fat Stuff Boogie/ CLYDE BERNHARDT AND HIS KANSAS CITY BUDDIES: Cracklin’ Bread/ BOOKER T & THE MGS: Green Onions/ CHICO CHISM AND HIS JETANAIRS: Hot Tamales & Bar-B-Que/ THE CLICKETTES: Jive Time Turkey/ KING CURTIS AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Chili/ VARETTA DILLARD: Good Gravy Baby/ FATS DOMINO: Jambalaya/ CHAMPION JACK DUPREE AND HIS BAND: Chitlins & Rice/ THE EARTHWORMS: Mo' Taters/ WILLIE EGAN: Chitlins/ THE FOUR CLEFS: I Like Pie, I Like Cake/ T.J. FOWLER: Milkshake/ EDGAR HAYES: Fat Meat & Greens/ LIL JOHNSON: Sam The Hot Dog Man/ FREDDY KING: Onion Rings/ SHORTY LONG: Burnt Toast and Black Coffee/ THE MIGHTY CRAVERS FEAT. REX GARVIN: Soul Food/ CECIL PAYNE AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Ham Hocks/ THE ROBINS: Smokey Joes Café/ NOBLE “THIN MAN™ WATTS AND HIS RHYTHM SPARKS: Hot Tamales/ ANDRE WILLIAMS “MR. RHYTHM™: Bacon Fat/ THE “5™ ROYALES: Monkey Hips & Rice |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 135 | Sin on Saturday, Pray on Sunday, Vol. 1 | ● CD $13.98 |
| First in a new series from Koko-Mojo.This one juxtaposes
blues and R&B for your Saturday night sinning and gospel for your Sunday
morning praying. The ratio of blues & R&B to gospel is about 2:1 which
might tell you something about the folks compiling this collection. For
sinning we have Mister Froggie by Sonny & Jaycee, Satisfied
by LIttle Milton and 18 more and for praying we have Old Blind
Barnabus by The Macedonians, Where He Leads Me by The Swanee
Quintet and six more. Includes brief notes for each song. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 139 | Rhythm & Western, Vol. 2: Your Cheatin' Heart | ● CD |
| 28 tracks, 74 tracks, strongly recommended Is the concept for this compilation kinda confused? Yes it is. Is it still full of fantastic music? Yes it is. There are covers of Country songs here: Clyde McPhatter - I'm Movin' On, Damita Jo - Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Excuse Me (I've Got A Heartache), Bobby Hebb - Night Train To Memphis, Ray Charles - It Makes No Difference Now, etc. There are songs that are kinda Country like Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm - Going Home, Billy Bland - Uncle Bud, and Little Mack - Let Hootenanny Blues (Out Of Jail). Then there are songs that are good, but I don't see having much of anything to do with Country music like Lou Rawls - If He Holds Your Hand, The Soul Stirrers - Wade In The Water, and The Lovers - I Wanna Be Loved. So, a mixed bag and all, but plenty of good listening. (JM) ARTHUR ALEXANDER: I Wonder Where You Are Tonight/ ELTON ANDERSON: Humpty Dumpty Heart/ HANK BALLARD & THE MIDNIGHTERS: Excuse Me (I've Got A Heartache)/ JIMMY BEASLEY: Don't Break This Heart Of Mine/ BROOK BENTON: Got You On My Mind/ RICHARD BERRY AND THE PHARAOHS: You Are My Sunshine/ THE BIG THREE TRIO: Cigareets, Whuskey & Wild Women/ BILLY BLAND: Uncle Bud/ RUTH BROWN: I Burned Your Letter/ RAY CHARLES: It Makes No Difference Now/ KING CURTIS: Your Cheatin' Heart/ DAMITA JO: Jambalaya (On The Bayou)/ CECIL GANT: Goodnight Irene/ BOBBY HEBB: Night Train To Memphis/ IVORY JOE HUNTER: I Almost Lost My Mind/ EARTHA KITT: Long Gone/ LAZY LESTER: I Hear You Knockin'/ JOE LIGGINS AND HIS HONEYDRIPPERS: Whiskey, Women & Loaded Dice/ LITTLE MACK: Let Hootenanny Blues (Out Of Jail)/ THE LOVERS: I Wanna Be Loved/ CLYDE MCPHATTER: I'm Movin' On/ ESTHER PHILLIPS: Am I That Easy To Forget/ LITTLE ESTHER PHILLIPS: Why Should We Try Anymore/ LOU RAWLS: If He Holds Your Hand/ MABEL SCOTT: Catch Em Young, Treat Em Rough, Tell Em Nothin'/ THE SOUL STIRRERS: Wade In The Water/ IKE & TINA TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM: Going Home/ WILLY & RUTH: Farewell |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 141 | Rhythm & Western, Vol. 4: I Hang My Head & Cry | ● CD $13.98 |
| Another collection featuring country songs sung by R&B
artists and country flavored R&B. The title song is sung by Arthur
Alexander and we also have AA Little Bitty
Tear by Varetta Dillard, Love You, Love You, Love You by The
Marigolds, Beautiful Brown Eyes by King Curtis, Yanky Danky
Doddle by Jimmy Wilson plus The Shields, Ernestine Anderson, Angel
Face, Piney Brown and more. ARTHUR ALEXANDER: I Hang My Head And Cry/ ERNESTINE ANDERSON: Come On, Baby Let's Go/ ANGEL FACE: I Can't Look Back/ BROOK BENTON: Hotel Happiness/ BIG MAYBELLE: Cold Cold Heart/ BUSTER BROWN: Gonna Love My Baby/ NAPPY BROWN: Love Locks/ PINEY BROWN: Ooh You Bring Out The Wolf In Me/ KING CURTIS: Beautiful Brown Eyes/ BOBBY DAY: Ain't Gonna Cry No More/ VARETTA DILLARD: A Little Bitty Tear/ FATS DOMINO: Ida Jane/ BIG AL DOWNING: Just Around The Corner/ JOE GAINES: I Wanna Go Back Home/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN: Big Blue Diamonds/ Sleep/ THE MARIGOLDS: Love You-Love You-Love You/ BLIND WILLIE MCTELL: Hillbilly Willies Blues/ MICKEY & SYLVIA: To The Valley/ THE NITE RIDERS PRESENT MELVIN SMITH: Ugly George/ LULA REED: Rock Love/ TRAVIS RICKS: No Need To Cry/ JIMMIE RODGERS W LOUIS ARMSTRONG & LIL HARDIN: Blue Yodel No. 9/ THE SHIELDS: That's The Way It's Gonna Be/ SARAH VAUGHAN: True Believer/ ADAM WADE: The Writing On The Wall/ JIMMY WILSON: Yanky Danky Doodle |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 142 | Rhythm & Western, Vol. 5: Cold Cold Heart | ● CD $13.98 |
| 28 more songs including the title song by Nat "King"
Cole plus Crazy ARms by Damita Joe, I'm Movin' On by KIng
Curtis, I Got Loaded by Peppermint Harris, Look At Me by
The Sharps and tracks from Ted Taylor, Fats Domino, Smokey Hogg, Sister
Rosetta Tharpe and others. ARTHUR ALEXANDER: You're The Reason/ RUTH BROWN: Jack O'Diamonds/ SOLOMON BURKE: How Many Times/ NAT KING COLE: Cold Cold Heart/ PEE WEE CRAYTON: Little Bitty Things/ KING CURTIS: I'm Movin' On/ DAMITA JO: Crazy Arms/ BOBBY DAY: Undecided/ FATS DOMINO: Bo Weevil/ Jambalaya/ ELLA FITZGERALD: Solid As A Rock/ PEPPERMINT HARRIS: I Got Loaded/ SMOKEY HOGG: Late Prowling Girl/ PROFESSOR JOHNSON & HIS GOSPEL SINGERS: Where Shall I Be/ BEN E. KING: My Heart Cries For You/ KETTY LESTER: Love Letters/ LITTLE RICHARD: Do Lord, Remember Me/ MAGIC SAM: Square Dance Rock Part 1/ JOHNNY NASH: Cigareetes, Whusky & Wild Wild Women/ ROCHELL & THE CANDLES: When My Baby Is Gone/ THE SHARPS: Look At Me/ TED TAYLOR: Keep Walking On/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE: On My Way/ THE TWILIGHTERS: Hootenanny Stomp/ DINAH WASHINGTON: I Don't Hurt Anymore/ CASEY BILL WELDON: You Just As Well Let Her Go/ OTIS WILLIAMS & THE CHARMS: Hearts Of Stone/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON: Wake Up Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 166 | More Boss Black Rockers, Vol. 6 - Everything's Cool | ● CD $13.98 |
| 28 tracks, highly recommended Another exciting collection of rocking R&B and blues. It opens with some hot New Orleans R&B from Specialty featuring singer/ guitarist Roy Montrell with Ooh-Wow featuring a tough sax solo from Lee Allen. The Olympics are here with their raucous rendition of the old pop favorite - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate which has always been a personal favorite. Esquerita is here with his hot Believe Me When I Say Rock 'n' Roll Is Here To Stay with some fine squealing. Chuck Berry is here with his classic Too Much Monkey Business and more goodies from Bobby Dunn, Baby Washington, Ricky Dee, Billy BRooks, Chuck Higgins, Joe Shepard and more. (FS) CHUCK BERRY: Too Much Monkey Business/ MAMIE BRADLEY: I Feel Like a Million/ BILLY BROOKS: I'm Gone/ JOHNNY CHEF: Can't Stop Moving/ THE CUES: Crazy Crazy Party/ RICKY DEE: Gingerbread/ THE DEL VICTORS: Acting Up/ DON & DEWEY: Miss Sue/ AGGIE DUKES: John John/ BOBBY DUNN: Diddle Dee Dee/ ESQUERITA: Believe Me When I Say Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay/ ERNIE FREEMAN: Jamboree/ THURSTON HARRIS: You're Gonna Need Me/ CHUCK HIGGINS: Too Smart/ LITTLE JOE HINTON: The Whip Twist/ KENNY AND MOE: Double Talk Baby/ ROY MONTRELL: Ooh Wow/ THE OLYMPICS: Shimmy Like Kate/ DANNY OWENS: You're a Little Too Late/ PORK CHOPS: Everything's Cool/ RAY AND BOB: Air Travel/ LULA REED: What Makes You So Cold/ TRAVIS RICKS: No Need to Cry/ JOE SHEPARD: What's the Matter Baby/ JOHNNY STEWART: A Whole Lot of Lovin'/ TED TAYLOR: Everywhere I Go/ BABY WASHINGTON: Your Mama Knows What's Right/ LENNY WELCH: Rocket to the Moon |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 169 | More Boss Black Rockers, Vol. 9 - Hey Doll Baby | ● CD $14.98 |
| Another splendid collection of rockin blues and R&B
including the great title song by The Clover plus 27 more like Love
Blood Hound by K.C. Mojo Watson, Misery by The Dynamics, I
Need A Gal by BIg Joe Turner plus tracks by Eddie Daniels, Travis
Ricks, The Duals, The Vibrations, Mel Williams and more. SONNY ANDERSON: Yes I'm Gonna Love You/ THE CLOVERS: Hey Doll Baby/ THE CUES: Why/ EDDIE DANIELS: Playin' Hide Go Seek/ FATS DOMINO: Little Mary/ DON AND DEWEY: Jungle Hop/ THE DUALS: Lovers Satelite/ THE DYNAMICS: Misery/ LITTLE WILLIE EGANS: You Must Be Foolin'/ THE ENSENATORS: I Had A Little Too Much/ ESQUERITA: Laid Off/ DOUG FOWLKES AND THE AIRDALES: Bony Moroney/ GUITAR JNR.: The Hoss/ FREDDIE HALL: Can't This Be Mine/ ODESSA HARRIS: A Rockin' Good Way/ THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES: Much Too Much/ LITTLE JOE & THE THRILLERS: Let's Do The Slop/ JAY NELSON AND HIS JUMPERS: Raise Some San/ THE PORK CHOPS: I Wanna See My Lovin' Baby/ WALT REO & THE BISHOPS: Twist With Maty Lou/ TRAVIS RICKS: No Need To Cry/ HUEY "PIANO" SMITH: Little Chickie Wah Wah/ BILLY TATE: Right From Wrong/ BIG JOE TURNER: I Need A Girl/ THE VIBRATIONS: Love Me Like You Should/ K.C. MOJO WATSON: Love Blood Hound/ MEL WILLIAMS: I Got Eyes/ JACKIE WILSON: Come Back To Me |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Koko-Mojo 170 | More Boss Black Rockers, Vol. 10 | ● CD $14.98 |
| 28 more rocking blues and R&B tracks including
Hickory Dickery Dock by Big Boy Myles, Hey Miss Fancy by The
Premiers, Struttin' And Twistin' by Roosevelt Grier plus sides by
Curtis Knight, King Curtis, The Spinners and more. JOHNNY ACEY: Please Don't Go (Back To Baltimore)/ SONNY ANDERSON: Lonely Lonely Train/ BROOK BENTON: I Wanna Do Everything For You/ WYNONA CARR: Touch And Go/ KING CURTIS: Beach Party/ DEAN & JEAN: Turn It Off/ LEE DORSEY: Rock/ THE DUKES: Come On And Rock/ EDWIN AND ALVIN: Shiverin' And Shakin'/ THE FIVE MASKS: Polly Molly/ PHIL FLOWERS: You Stole My Heart/ ROOSEVELT GRIER: Struttin' And Twistin'/ THE GUYTONES: Baby I Don't Care/ THE JARMELS: She Loves To Dance/ CURTIS KNIGHT: Gotta Have A New Dress/ THE LARKS: Forget It/ LITTLE RICHARD: Ain't Nothin' Happening/ BIG BOB MYLES: Hickory Dickory Dock/ EL PAULING & ROYAL ABBIT: Please, Please, Be Mine/ THE PREMIERS: Hey Miss Fancy/ OTIS RILEY: Little Miss Bibbity Bobbity Boom/ THE SPINNERS: Sud Buster/ JIM SWEENEY: Sick, Sick, Sick/ ROY TANN: I Don't Like It/ ERNIE TUCKER AND HIS OPERATORS: Betty And Bobby/ THE UPSETTERS: Jaywalking/ JIMMY WILLIAMS: C'mon Baby (What's Your Name)/ JIMMY WITHERSPOON: Move Me Baby |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Smithsonian Folkways 40260 | Playing For The Man at The Door | ● CD $74.98 |
| Due, beginning of August. After many years of speculation we finally get to hear some of the field recordings made by legendary and idiosyncratic blues researcher Mack McCormick. From the late 50s through the 1990s McCormick was an avid researcher into Texas blues and also into the life and death of Robert Johnson. He interviewed hundreds of people and recorded dozens of musicians. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, he rarely published anything and was secretive about his findings and only a handful of his recordings were ever released. After his death in 2015 his archive was acquired by The Smithsonian who spent several year sorting and organ zing the vast quantity of material and his documents and photos are now available to researchers and the Smithsonian's record label Smithsonian Folkways will be releasing his recordings starting with this deluxe three CD box set featuring 66 recordings accompanied by a 128-page book, which contains breathtaking photographs by McCormick and his associates, as well as contextual essays by producers Jeff Place and John Troutman on McCormick's life, and by musicians Mark Puryear and Dom Flemons on some of the marginalized communities throughout "Greater Texas" to which McCormick devoted his life's work. It includes two well known artists whose careers McCormick helped with - Lightnin' Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb, along with many lesser known artists - mostly blues but also including gospel, ragtime, zydeco and more from artists such as Robert Shaw, Cedell Davis, "Buster" Pickens, James Tisdom, Otis Cook, Grey Ghost, Jealous James Stanchell and many more including the remarkable George "Bongo Joe" Coleman whose music is unclassifiable. This will probably be THE release of 2023. DUDLEY ALEXANDER AND WASHBOARD BAND: St. James Infirmary/ BILLY BIZOR: Fox Chase/ BLUES WALLACE: It's My Life Baby/ WALTER BRITTEN: Auctioneer/ E.B. BUSBY: Swanee River Boogie/ GEORGE "BONGO JOE" COLEMAN: George Coleman for President, Nobody for Vice President/ Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is/ This Whole World's in a Sad Condition/ OTIS COOK: Crazy About Oklahoma/ CEDELL DAVIS: Darlin' (You Know I Love You)/ It's Alright/ Rollin' and Tumblin'/ PAUL ELLIOTT: Deep Ellum Blues/ ANDREW EVERETT: Hello Central, Gimme 209/ K.C. Ain't Nothing but a Rag/ R.C. FOREST: Black Widow Spider Blues/ Cryin' Won't Make Me Stay/ Tin Can Alley Blues/ DENNIS GAINUS: Old Judge Blues/ You Gonna Look Like a Monkey/ GREY GHOST: Little Red Rooster/ HARDY GRAY: Come and Go with Me to That Land/ Runaway/ GREY GHOST: One Room Country Shack/ JOEL HOPKINS: Good Times Here, Better Times Down the Road/ Matchbox Blues/ LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: Blues Jumped a Rabbit/ Corrine, Corrina/ Ma Pa Cut the Cake/ Mojo Hand/ Mr. Charlie/ Tom Moore's Farm/ World's in a Tangle/ MELVIN "JACK" JACKSON AND LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS: The Slop/ MAGER JOHNSON: Big Road Blues/ LEROY "COUNTRY" JOHNSON WITH EDWIN "BUSTER" PICKENS: Train Roll Up/ GOZY KILPATRICK: Goin' to the River/ MANCE LIPSCOMB: Casey Jones/ God Moves on the Water/ So Different Blues/ Tall Angel at the Bar/ Tom Moore's Farm/ LONG GONE MILES: Rock Me Baby/ Natural Born Lover/ JOE PATTERSON: Quills/ EDWIN "BUSTER" PICKENS: Groceries on My Shelf (Piggly Wiggly)/ Shorty George/ The Ma Grinder/ ROBERT SHAW: Put Me in the Alley/ Someday Baby/ The Clinton/ THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT GOSPEL GROUP: My Work Will Be Done/ JEALOUS JAMES STANCHELL: Anything from a Foot Race to a Resting Place/ Don't Do Me No Small Favors (Help the Bear)/ JAMES TISDOM: I Feel So Good/ Salty Dog Rag/ Steel Guitar Rag/ ALLEN VAN: China Tea/ MURL "DOC" WEBSTER: Medicine Show Pitch/ KID WIGGINS: Lonesome Road/ Sugar Blues/ JIM WILKIE: Bad Lee Brown/ HOP WILSON: 3 O'Clock Blues/ Broke and Hungry/ JIMMY WOMACK: Atomic Energy/ Talking Blues |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Specialty 7069 | Golden Age Gospel Quartets, Vol 1 : 1947-1954 | ● CD |
| 26 tracks, 78 minutes, essential With 25 never-before-issued cuts, mostly alternate takes, gospel fans will know what to expect from these groups that recorded for Art Rupe's Specialty Records. The Swan Silvertones' I'm Coming Home (take 1) contains one of Claude A. Jeter's greatest falsetto leads - if not one of the greatest in all of hard gospel quartet! The two Paramount Singers demos (featuring Vance 'Tiny' Powell) alone are worth the price of admission. Powell's lead on He Means So Much To Me hints (vocally) just a little at his original 1964 classic Wax recording of My Time After Awhile. If you have Specialty CD 7013 (The Soul Stirrers featuring R. H. Harris - "Shine On Me") - this set has a new take of C. A. Tindley's By And By where R.H. Harris ("the father of gospel quartet") & the late Paul Foster out-duet each other. The CD also includes (taken from rare 78 rpm pressings) the very first gospel group recorded by Specialty - The Southern Harmonizers - singing in the popular prewar 'jubilee' style of the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet. The set ends with nearly 12 minutes of live "house-wreaking" a cappella singing by Rev. Presley Thomas' West Coast Jubilees. Their 7-minute version of Prof. Alex Bradford's He'll Be There is not for the faint at heart! (EL) |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | United Audio 63772 | #1 Songs ofThe 1940's | ● CD $10.98 |
| Budget priced four CD set with 66 of the most popular
songs of the 1940s presented in chronological order starting with
I'll Never Smile Again by Tommy Dorsey and ending with Mule Train
by Frankie Laine and, along the way we hear from Glenn Miller & His
Orch., Harry James, Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, The Ink Spots &
Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mercer with The Pied Pipers, Sammy Kaye Orch.
with Bill Williams, Freddie Martin Orch. with Stuart Wade & Ensemble,
Peggy Lee, Spike Jones & HIs City Slickers and many more. THE ANDREWS SISTERS: Rum & Coca Cola/ LES BROWN & DORIS DAY: My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time/ Sentimental Journey/ FRANKIE CARLE (FEATURING MARJORIE HUGHES): Oh! What It Seemed To Be/ Rumors Are Flying/ PERRY COMO: Chi-Baba Chi-Baba/ Prisoner Of Love/ Surrender/ Till The End Of Time/ BING CROSBY: I Love You/ I'll Be Seeing You/ It's Been A Long Long Time/ Only Forever/ Sunday Monday Or Always/ White Christmas/ Don't Fence Me In/ Swinging On A Star/ VIC DAMONE: You're Breaking My Heart/ AL DEXTER: Pistol Packin Mama/ TOMMY DORSEY: I'll Never Smile Again/ JIMMY DORSEY (FEATURING BOB EBERLY & HELEN O'C: Amapola/ JIMMY DORSEY (FEATURING BOB EBERLY & KITTY KAL: Besame Mucho/ JIMMY DORSEY (FEATURING BOB EBERLY & HELEN O'C: Green Eyes/ JIMMY DORSEY (FEATURING BOB EBERLY): Maria Elena/ JIMMY DORSEY (FEATURING BOB EBERLY & HELEN O'C: Tangerine/ BENNY GOODMAN (FEATURING HELEN FORREST): Taking A Chance On Love/ DICK HAYMES: You'll Never Know/ WOODY HERMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA: Blues In The Night/ PEE WEE HUNT: Twelfth Street Rag/ THE INK SPOTS: The Gypsy/ To Each His Own/ I'm Makin' Believe/ HARRY JAMES: Sleepy Lagoon/ I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)/ I Had The Craziest Dream/ I've Heard That Song Before/ SPIKE JONES & HIS CITY SLICKERS: All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth/ SAMMY KAYE (FEATURING BILLY WILLIAMS): The Old Lamplighter/ SAMMY KAYE WITH THE KAYE CHOIR: Daddy/ KAY KYSER: Woody Wood-Pecker/ Jingle Jangle Jingle/ FRANKIE LAINE WITH JUDD CONLON'S RHYTHMAIRES: That Lucky Old Sun/ FRANKIE LAINE WITH THE MULESKINNERS: Mule Train/ PEGGY LEE: Manana/ FREDDY MARTIN: Piano Concerto In B Flat/ Managua Nicaragua/ JOHNNY MERCER WITH THE PIED PIPERS: On The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe/ Personality/ GLENN MILLER: A String Of Pearls/ Chattanooga Choo Choo/ Elmer's Tune/ I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo/ Moonlight Cocktail/ Song of the Volga Boatman/ That Old Black Magic/ THE MILLS BROTHERS: Paper Doll/ You Always Hurt The One You Love/ VAUGHAN MONROE: Ballerina/ Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow/ Riders In The Sky/ RUSS MORGAN & HIS ORCHESTRA WITH THE SKYLARKS: Cruising Down The River/ ARTIE SHAW: Frenesi/ DINAH SHORE: Buttons & Bows/ I'll Walk Alone/ TED WEEMS WITH ELMO TANNER: Heartaches/ MARGARET WHITING: A Tree In the Meadow/ TEX WILLIAMS & HIS WESTERN CARAVAN: Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Westside 809 | John Vincent Presents The VIN Story, 1958-1962 | ● CD |
| Great collection of blues, R&B, rockabilly and rockin'
country recorded by Johnny Vincent for his Vin subsidiary of Ace.
Includes Huey & Jerry, Jesse Allen, Handsome Earl (aka Earl King),
Albert Scott, Frankie Lee Sims, Jimmie Lee, Morgus & The Ghouls, The
Dick Poulton Trio, Calvin Spears, Jimmy Clanton and others. Includes six
unissued alternate takes or unreleased tracks. JESSE ALLEN: Baby Say You Will/ ELTON ANDERSON: Roll On Train/ Shed So Many Tears/ JOHNNY ANGEL: Teenage Wedding/ JIMMY CLANTON: Heartbreak Hotel/ What Am I Living For?/ THE ENDS: Row, Row My Boat/ HANDSOME EARL (EARL KING): Everybody Got To Cry/ HUEY & JERRY: Little Chickee Wah Wah/ STELLA JOHNSON: The Things I Used To Do/ Well I Done Got Over/ HARRY LEE: Everytime I See You/ You Don't Know/ JIMMIE LEE: I Ain't Worried About Tomorrow/ Look What Love Will Do/ MORGUS & THE GHOULS: Morgus The Magnificent/ THE PHAETONS: I Love My Baby/ DICK POULTON TRIO: Capital City Bounce/ Susie/ RAY & LAMAR: The Party Went Wild/ DANNY RAY (UNEDITED VERSION): Love Me/ ALBERT SCOTT: Hey, Hey, Baby Come Home/ FRANKIE LEE SIMS: She Like To Boogie Real Low/ HUEY "PIANO" SMITH: I Didn't Do It/ CALVIN SPEARS: Baby Come On Home/ RAY WASHINGTON: I Know/ BOBBY WEBB: Angel Face/ I Ain't Worried No More/ DICKY WILLIAMS: Tee Na Na/ BOBBY WOODS: Love Is My Business |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Wolf 120.922 | Louisiana Swamp Blues, Vol. 1 - Live At Tabby's Blues B | ● CD $12.98 |
| Not a new release but not listed before. In the 80's
Tabby Thomas,a Swamp Blues Legend, operated a blues club called Tabbys
Blues Box in Baton Rouge, La. He offered Wolf Records recordings he had
made with swamp blues musicians who played there. You can hear on this
CD Tabby himself and his sons Tammy and Chris, also harpplayer Oscar
Harp Davis, Silas Hogan, Arthur Guitar Kelly, Henry Gray and Clarence
Edwards. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | World Music Network 1361 | The Rough Guide To Acoustic India | ● CD $15.98 |
| From the five-hundred-year old musical history of the
Sufi Fakirs of Bengal to the virtuoso musicianship of Calcutta's guitar
master Debashsish Bhattacharya and Carnatic violinist Jyotsna Srikanth,
this Rough Guide explores India's ancient musical traditions and
acoustic roots. 8 tracks in all. |
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| MERCY DEE WALTON | Jasmine 3197 | One Room Country Shacke & Other Struggling Blues | ● CD |
| 28 tracks, very highly recommended Mercy Dee Walton was one the truly great post war down home bluesmen. A superb singer and piano player and truly creative lyricist. What makes his songs so engaging are the wonderful original lyrics full of careful observations and brilliant witticisms - much of it based on his own experiences. Originally from Texas he moved to California in the late 30s and for much of his life supplemented his income from music by working as a farm laborer. Two of his songs (included here) Lonesome Cabin Blues and One Room Country Shack were not only big R&B hits but have become blues standards, recorded by many blues artists. The recordings here were made between 1949 and 1955 - Mercy recorded for three of the most important West Coast blues labels - Imperial, Modern and Specialty as well as some smaller labels. Although the mood of his songs was mostly slow and introspective, he also could up the tempo as on the witty Baba-Du-Lay Fever (G.I. Fever and his response to Chuck Berry on Come Back Maybelline. On most tracks he is accompanied by tasteful small groups and his Trailing My Baby features some lovely steel guitar work from L.C. Robinson. By 1955 the demand for down home blues diminished and Mercy went back to working in the fields. He was found by Chris Strachwitz in 1961 who recorded him for Bluesville and his own Arhoolie label. His musical talent was fully intact but any chance of becoming part of the blues revival were thwarted by his death from cerebral haemmorage in 1962 at the age of 47. This CD has superb sound, informative notes and full discographical data. I just wish they had made it a double CD which could have included all his early recordings. (FS) |
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| DINAH WASHINGTON | Fantastic Voyage 210 | Original Queen Of Soul - Three Decades Of Artistry | ● CD |
| Three CDs, 80 tracks, highly recommended Dinah Washington was a magnificent and incredibly versatile singer who was equally conformable singing blues, R&B, jazz, pop and even country. This superb collection compiled by R&B and soul expert Clive Richardson, traces Dinah's career from her first commercial recording - the wonderful Evil Gal Blues recorded in December 1943 accompanied by Arenett cobb, Lionel Hampton, Milt Buckner and others on through to her July, 1962 recording of It's A Mean Old World with the majority of the sides recorded for Mercury which was home to Dinah's music from 1946 to 1961 and where she had a slew of hits including West Side Baby/ You Satisfy/ It Isn't Fair/ I Don't Hurt Anymore/ What A Difference A Day Made/ and September In The Rain which are included here along with other hits and many equally fine non hits. It includes many of her great blues recordings like Blues For A Day/ Salty Papa Blues/ Good Daddy Blues/ Trouble In Mind/ New Blowtop Blues/ Backwater Blues and, of course, Big Long Sliding Thing (about a trombone, of course). It includes her wonderful jazz inspired versions of two Hank Williams songs Cold, Cold Heart. It also includes her two #1 hits with Brook Benton - Baby (You've Got What It Takes) and A Rockin' Good Way and much more. Through the mid 50s most of her recordings were with jazz groups like Lionel Hampton's Orch., Lucky Thompson's All Stars, Cootie Williams Orch., The Jimmy Cobb Orch. and othrs. By the mid 50s many of her recordings started featured string arrangemnts but she also made sides with smaller groups like the Eddie Chamblee Orch. including six superb tracks from the album "Dinah Sings Bessie Smith." In general, the compiler, has tried to focus mostly on performances without strings which is fine with me though perhaps not a totally representative cross section of her recordings. Still, Dinah was so prolific that it's not surprising that any compiler's preferences would be bound to show and, from my point of view, makes this a stronger collection than it might otherwise be. Sound quality is superb and the 20 page illustrated booklet includes an informative essay by DINAH WASHINGTON: A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) [with Brook Benton)]/ After You'Ve Gone/ All Or Nothing/ Am I Really Sorry/ And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine/ Baby (You've Got What It Takes) [with Brook Benton]/ Baby Get Lost/ Backwater Blues/ Big Deal/ Big Long Slidin' Thing/ Blues For A Day/ Careless Love/ Chewin' Woman Blues/ Cold, Cold Heart/ Coquette/ Daybreak/ Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me/ Double Dealing Daddy/ Dream/ Everybody Loves My Baby/ Evil Gal Blues/ Feel Like I Wanna Cry/ Fine Fat Daddy/ Forgotten/ Good Daddy Blues/ Good Morning, Heartache/ Goodbye/ Half As Much/ Harbor Lights/ I Could Have Told You/ I Cried For You/ I Don't Hurt Anymore/ I Only Know/ I Want To Cry/ I'Ll Close My Eyes (Emarcy Recording)/ I'll Close My Eyes [roulette Recording]/ I'll Never Be Free/ I'll Never Kiss You Goodbye/ I'll Wait/ If You Don't Believe I'M Leaving (Count The Days I'M Gone)/ It Isn't Fair/ It's A Mean Old Man's World/ It's Too Soon To Know/ Mad About The Boy/ Make Me A Present Of You/ Me And My Gin/ Mean And Evil Blues/ Mellow Mama Blues/ Million Dollar Smile/ More Than You Know/ My Ideal/ My Song/ New Blowtop Blues/ No Love, No Nothin'/ Pillow Blues/ Record Ban Blues/ Red Sails In The Sunset/ Resolution Blues/ Salty Papa Blues/ Say It Isn't So/ September In The Rain/ Shoo Baby/ Softly (Baby)/ Tears To Burn/ Tell Love Hello/ That's My Desire/ They Didn't Believe Me/ Trombone Butter/ Trouble In Mind/ Unforgettable/ Walkin' And Talkin' (And Crying My Blues Away)/ West Side Baby/ What A Diff'rence A Day Makes/ When A Woman Loves A Man/ Wise Woman Blues/ You Don't Know What Love Is/ You Let My Love Get Cold/ You Satisfy/ You're Crying |
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| ETHEL WATERS | Acrobat 9132 | Stormy Weather - All The Hits & More, 1921-1947 | ● CD $19.98 |
| Ethel Waters was a singer and actress from Pennsylvania,
whose music ranged across jazz, blues, stage musicals, movies and pure
pop in a career that spanned more than three decades. During the 1920s
and '30s she recorded what were among the original versions of some of
the most memorable standards of the era. Having performed as a child in
vaudeville, she started her recording career at the dawn of the jazz age
around the time she became a huge attraction on Broadway. This 70-track
3-CD collection includes recordings from across her active career as a
hit-focused recording artist before she turned her attention to TV. It
comprises selected releases during this era on the Black Swan, Columbia,
Brunswick, Decca, Bluebird and RCA labels, and features all her
twenty-six career hits, including the No. 1s >Stormy Weather and
Am I Blue, and other notable classics. It includes performances
with Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Clarence
Williams, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Tommy Dorsey,
Jimmy Dorsey, Ben Selvin, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Bunny Berigan, Benny
Carter and many others. She was one of the great song stylists of her
era, and a unique personality, and this collection is a showcase for her
distinctive talents. |
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