EDDIE BO "In The Pocket With Eddie Bo" New Orleans Rock & Roll, R&B; Soul, Funk Goodies 1955-2007

This Vampi Soul collection is arguably the most representative audio portrait of the New Orleans songwriting and performing kingpin, Edwin Bocage. Covering 60 years of music making, its whopping 28 tracks highlight his songs, singles, and productions for other artists. Like all of the best New Orleans music, this baby is sweaty, raw, greasy, and super funky. Some of the classics here include Bo's stellar bit of proto-soul-funk in "I Found a Little Girl" (while it may borrow from Ray Charles' gospel-soul inspiration, it gives back in its prefiguring of the bridge style James Brown used to great success later on), "We Like Mambo" (the Afro-Caribbean style welded hard to NOLA second line), and the great break-driven duet "Lover & Friend" with Inez Cheatham. There are an equal number of highlights in his productions and arrangements including -- but not limited to -- "Horse with a Freeze, Pt. 1" by Roy Ward, the Explosions' "Garden of Our Trees," with its burning bassline and tight horn charts, and Curley Moore & Cool Ones' "Funky Yeah" (which is just damn nasty in the way it uses Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" rhythm). Then there's the elastic wah-wah guitar and keys in "The Rubber Band" by Bo with the Soul Finders and the straight-up employment of a Motown-style string chart on his 2007 single "Chained." Anyway you want to listen to this slab, chronologically, on shuffle, or one track played over and over until you gotta move to the next, is just fine because In the Pocket with Eddie Bo. is the bomb. (Thom Jurek)

trax:
1. Baby - Little Bo 2. We Like Mambo - Eddie Bo 3. I Found A Little Girl - Eddie Bo 4. Something You Got - Barbara George 5. Gotta Have More - Eddie Bo & The Barons 6. Fallin' In Love Again - Eddie Bo 7. S.G.B. - Eddie Bo 8. Souling - Eddie Lang 9. What's Good To You Pt.1 - Oliver Morgan 10. The La La Man Pt.1 - Oliver Morgan 11. Boogaloo Mardi Gras Pt.1 - Bobby Williams 12. Horse With A Freeze Pt.1 - Roy Ward 13. Timber Pt.1 & 2 - Candy Phillips 14. Can I Be Your Main Squeeze - Chuck Garbo & The Soul Finders 15. I'm A Carpenter Pt.1 - David Robinson 16. Garden Of Our Trees - Explosions Feat. Juanita Brooks 17. Reborn - Marilyn Barbarin & The Soul Finders 18. Lover & A Friend - Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatem 19. Live It Up - James K-Nine 20. Can You Handle It - Eddie Bo 21. Hey Mama, Here Come The Preacher - Doug Anderson 22. Check Your Bucket - Eddie Bo 23. Funky Yeah - Curley Moore & the Cool Ones 24. Getting To The Middle Pt.1 - Eddie Bo 25. Shelley's Rubber Band - Curley Moore & the Cool Ones 26. The Rubber Band - Eddie Bo & The Soul Finders 27. When You're Fingers On The Funk - Eddie Bo 28. Chained - Eddie Bo
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"THE EARLS OF DUKE"

In 1958, with Don Robey’s record company stock on the rise, he formulated a touring review from his biggest R&B stars. The review was known as "Blues Consolidated" and the headliners were invariably Bobby "Blue" Bland and Herman "Little Junior" Parker. Bobby "Blue" Bland had started as a valet and PA to Parker and other Memphis Bluesmen in the late 1940s, but rapidly became a star performer, scoring hit after hit well into the 1980s, many of his records being much covered blues classics. Little Junior Parker is another blues and oddly, Rockabilly legend, whose "Mystery Train" did much to make Elvis what he became... working with such figures as Sam Phillips and Ike Turner, Little Junior Parker had a string of increasingly larger hits right through until 1969, when his new label Capitol started cutting him on ill-advised Beatles covers. But the tough 'Drownin' On Dry Land' deservedly gave him his last R&B chart success in early 1971 which sadly was the same year as his death. It would be thirty years later that he would be honoured by finally being inducted into The Blues Hall Of Fame. Both Hall Of Famer's, both amazing performers, both at the bedrock of the music we know and love today... how can you resist! (Cherry Red)

trax:
1. No Blow, No Show - Bobby "Blue" Bland 2. I.O.U. Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland 3. Lovin' Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland 4. Wise Man Blues - Bobbly "Blue" Bland 5. Army Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland 6. Please Baby Blues - Little Junior Parker 7. Dirty Friend Blues - Little Junior Parker 8. Can't Understand - Little Junior Parker 9. Sittin', Drinkin' And Thinkin' - Little Junior Parker 10. Can You Tell Me Baby? - Little Junior Parker 11. Backtracking - Little Junior Parker 12. I Wanna Ramble - Little Junior Parker 13. It's My Life, Baby - Bobby "Blue" Bland 14. Honey Bee - Bobby "Blue" Bland 15. Time Out - Bobby "Blue" Bland 16. Driving Me Mad - Little Junior Parker 17. There Better Be No Feet In Them Shoes - Little Junior Parker 18. I'm Tender - Little Junior Parker 19. Woke Up Screaming - Bobby "Blue" Bland 20. A Million Miles From Nowhere - Bobby "Blue" Bland 21. You've Got Bad Intentions - Bobby "Blue" Bland 22. I Can't Put You Down, Baby - Bobby "Blue" Bland 23. Mother-In-Law Blues - Little Junior Parker 24. I Don't Believe - Bobby "Blue" Bland 25. I Learned My Lesson - Bobby "Blue" Bland 26. Next Time You See Me - Little Junior Parker 27. Pretty Baby - Little Junior Parker 28. That's Alright - Bobby "Blue" Bland / Little Junior Parker
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JAMES BROWN "JAZZ"

One of the many compilations issued in the wake of James Brown's passing in 2007 is this rather strange and necessary one produced by Alan Leeds and Harry Weinger. There's no irony in the title, and it's only a little misleading. Brown loved all kinds of music throughout his lifetime and made no secret of it. This set compiles 12 cuts, all of which Brown originally produced, that accent the jazzier -- and sometimes near all-out jazz (though everything on this baby has more than a little soul grit mixed in) -- side of the Godfather. The coolest thing about this set is that it contains numerous unreleased alternate mixes, extended versions, single edits, and literally unreleased versions and tunes that span from standards and soul-jazz cuts to '70s-era pop tunes. Ranging from 1964's reading of the Adderley Brothers' "Tengo Tango" (never before issued in any form) to a 1970s alternate mix of "For Once in My Life," this is perhaps among the most ambitious of Brown recordings to be released in quite some time. Released gems here include Brown on a killer B-3 take of Jimmy McGriff's "All About My Girl" in 1966 and his version of Joe Zawinul's "Why (Am I Treated So Bad)" from 1967. In between, there are hip mixes of standards like "Cottage for Sale" and "That's My Desire." The sequencing here is not stale either, since it's not chronological. In fact, since it bookends in the year 1970, with the 1960s material sandwiched between, it's rather wonderful aesthetically. Recommended. (Thom Jurek, Allmusic)

trax:
01 That's My Desire [Alternate Mix] 02 After You're Through [Extended Version] 03 Tengo Tango 04 Home At Last 05 All About My Girl 06 There 07 All The Way 08 Why (Am I Treated So Bad) 09 What Do You Like [Stereo Single Edit] 10 Cottage For Sale [Alternate Mix] 11 Go On Now [Alternate Mix] 12 For Once In My Life [Extended Version]
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JUKE BOY BONNER "The Legacy Of The Blues"

Juke Boy Bonner remains one of the great hidden treasures of the blues. He was a one-man band who had serious lyrical concerns in all of his blues, creating stark and moving poetry out of the simplest of forms. Working in a Jimmy Reed style of guitar boogie patterns and blowing an expressive neck-rack harmonica, he never saw much in the way of fame or fortune, but every single session produced music of considerable worth. Add this solo session, produced by Chris Strachwitz for Sonet's Legacy of the Blues series, to the list of essential albums to put into your shopping cart, as it's the blues at its most personal and moving. In tracks like "I'm a Bluesman," "Problems All Around," "Tired of the Greyhound Bus," and "Funny Money," you'll hear a bluesman laying his heart on the line for the music -- something that should happen every time the "record" button goes on, but rarely does. (Cub Koda, Allmusic)

trax:
01 I`m A Bluesman 02 Problems All Around 03 Trying To Get Ahead 04 If You Don`t Want To Get Mistreated 05 Lonesome Ride Back 06 Funny Money 07 I_m Lonely Too 08 Real Good Woman 09 Come To Me 10 Yammin`the Blues 11 Better Place To Go 12 Tired Of The Greyhound Bus
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MIKE SEEGER "Close to Home" - Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection 1952-1967

Collected by Mike Seeger from 1952 to 1967 as he roamed around the Appalachian Mountains, Close to Home is one of the better detailed sets of authentic old-time Southern American music to be found. Though mostly recorded at the musician's home on a single, hand-held microphone, the warmth and charm of the performances captured make up for any supposed lack of recording quality, as Seeger no doubt took great pains to document these archaic stylings before they died with their performers. Of the 38 tracks featured, some legends like Sara and Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family fame, Elizabeth Cotten, and fiddler Eck Robertson appear, though the majority are simply local legends or unknowns. As such, it might come as some surprise to hear the level of accomplishment reached by these common folks, as a few were even said to have been badly out of practice when recorded. A majority of the tracks are lively fiddle or banjo instrumentals, though a few harmonica workouts, gorgeous autoharp and dulcimer tunes, and a cappella tracks appear, as well. This is very honest music, without a hint of pretension, and one can only wonder how many similar talents lived and died without ever having shared their talents outside of their local community. Excellent liner notes composed by Seeger himself give a wonderfully detailed commentary on how he came about to record the featured artists, and also place the performers within their historical context. There might be more complete collections on the market, but for the single-disc price and the amount of quality music here, Close to Home is highly recommended. (ALLMUSIC)

trax:
1. In the Sweet Bye and Bye - Elizabeth Cotton 2. Tie Your Dog, Sally Gal - Will Adam 3. Banjo Instrumental - J. C. "Cleve" Sutphin 4. Lost Train Blues - Vernon L. Sutphin 5. Shortening Bread - Vernon L. Sutphin and J. C. "Cleve" Sutphin 6. The Train that Carried My Girl from Town - Vernon L. Sutphin and J. C. "Cleve" Sutphin 7. Old Gambling Man - J Neece 8. John Henry - J. J. Neece, Vernon L. Sutphin and J. C. "Cleve" Sutphin 9. Shout, Little Lulu - Louise Foreacre 10. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire - Kilby Snow, Mike Seeger 11. Gather in the Golden Grain - Ernest Stoneman and Hattie Stoneman 12. Going to Lay Down My Burdens - Elizabeth White and Gideon Craig 13. John Henry - Leslie Riddle 14. Pretty Fair Damsel - Tom Ashley 15. It's These Hard Times - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis 16. Old-Time Reel - Pearly 'Grandma' Davis 17. Jackson Schottische - L. Hall 18. Lone Prairie - Wade Ward 19. Molly, Put the Kettle On - Wade Ward 20. Last Gold Dollar - Edsel Martin and Bill McElreath 21. John Henry - Bill Davis and Jean Davis 22. Three Nights Drunk - The Blue Ridge Buddies, Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball and Blair Reedy 23. Jimmie Sutton - The Blue Ridge Buddies, Estil C. Ball, Orna Ball and Blair Reedy 24. Going to Lay Down My Old Guitar - Snuffy Jenkins and Ira Dimmery 25. Black Mountain Rag - Arthur Smith, Sam McGee and Kirk McGee 26. A Talk on the World - Clyde Lewis 27. Red Wing - "Lost John" Ray and Walt Koken 28. Leather Breeches - A. C. "Eck" Robertson and The New Lost City Ramblers 29. Blackberry Blossom - Sherman Lawson 30. Alabama Girls - Emmitt Cole 31. Old Joe Clark - George Landers 32. Sugar Baby - Dock Boggs 33. Queen Sally - Archie Sturgill 34. Poor Orphan Child - Kate Peters Sturgill 35. My Virginia Rose - Scott Boatright 36. I'm Leaving You - Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes 37. He Said if You Love Me, Feed My Sheep - Stancer Quartet 38. I Would Not Live Always - Clarence Ferrill
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LOUISIANA RED "Sings Deep Blues" (P-Vine 1997)

This is a rare and deleted album from P-Vine. If anyone has the cover art for this album, please share - I only own the CD with no notes or cover. I can find no info about it on the internet! - Gyro1966

Born in Bessemer, Alabama, United States, Minter lost his parents early in life; His mother died of pneumonia shortly after his birth, and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan when he was five. He was brought up by a series of relatives in various towns and cities. Red recorded for Chess in 1949, before joining the Army. After leaving the Army, he spent two years in the late 1950s playing with John Lee Hooker in Detroit. He recorded for Checker Records in 1952, billed as Rocky Fuller. His first album, Lowdown Back Porch Blues, was recorded in New York with Tommy Tucker and released in 1963, with second album Seventh Son released later the same year. Louisiana Red released the single "I'm Too Poor To Die" for the Glover label in 1964. It peaked at number 117 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 30 on the Cashbox chart. Billboard did not print a standard R&B chart during 1964. He maintained a busy recording and performing schedule through the 1960s and 1970s, having done sessions for Chess, Checker, Atlas, Glover, Roulette, L&R and Tomato amongst others. (Allmusic)

trax
 01 Augusta, Ga. 02 Rollin' & Tumblin' 03 Worried Life Blues 04 Red's Dream 05 Hit By A Fallin' Tree 06 Hide-A-Way 07 Standing' By The Airport 08 Rollin' Stone 09 You Don't Have To Go 10 I Am Louisiana Red 11 Mean Ol' Frisco 12 Story Of Louisiana Red 13 Who' Dat? 14 Freight Train To Ride 15 Wo-Ho-Ho, Baby 16 Early In The Morning 17 Where Is My Friend? 18 Country Playboy 19 You Gonna Need Me 20 I'm Goin' Down South
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"Work Your Soul" Jamaican 60s & Northern 1966-74

Twenty foot stompin' gems! Some superb soulful songs on here, sung in a distinctive, slightly sweeter Jamaican way. Jillem

The influence of the Motown sound didn't only spread throughout the U.S. -- Kingston, Jamaica, epicenter of the reggae world, was no stranger to soul music, either. But while the vast majority of the vintage Jamaican soul that's so far been reissued is inflected with the syncopated island beats that are the hallmark of reggae, the music compiled on the excellent Work Your Soul: Jamaican 60s & Northern 1966-74 is virtually indistinguishable from its urbanized inspirations, emphasizing more traditional, straightforward rhythms and arrangements with only the occasional hint of Caribbean patois in the vocals to belie the performances' geographic origins. Equally remarkable is that the majority of material here are originals, suggesting just how deeply the American soul idiom impacted the reggae community -- the artists weren't just adapting records out of Detroit, Memphis, and Chicago for their own needs, but striving to evoke the stateside sound at the risk of suppressing their native instincts. Highlights include the Marvels' "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show," Jackie Edwards' "I Feel So Bad," Jimmy Cliff's "Let's Dance," Laurel Aitken's "Never You Hurt," and Sugar Simone's "I Want to Know." ~Jason Ankeny (allmusic)

trax:
1. Where Is The Love - Glenn Miller 2. I Feel So Bad - Jackie Edwards 3. Help Yourself - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds 4. Work Your Soul - Tommy McCook & The Supersonics 5. Mini-Skirt & Go Go Boots - Glen & Lloyd 6. Make Me Yours - Phyllis Dillon 7. The Hoop - Errol Dixon 8. I've Got The Blues - Desmond Dekker & The Aces 9. Let's Dance - Jimmy Cliff 10. Girl I've Got A Date (Soul Version) - Alton Ellis & The Flames 11. Here Comes That Feeling (Aka That Lonely Feeling) - The Gayletts 12. Do It Right (Soul Version) - The Three Tops 13. Come On Home - Jackie Edwards 14. Never You Hurt - Laurel Aitken / The Soulmen 15. I Want To Know - Sugar Simone 16. Help Me - Owen Gray 17. This Heart Of Mine - Jimmy James & The Vagabonds 18. Mama Didn't Lie - Derrick Harriott 19. Mellow Moonlight - Roy Docker 20. King Without A Throne - Sugar Simone 21. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - Marvells 22. I Don't Want - Errol Dixon 23. Leave It In The Hands Of Love - Phyllis Dillon 24. Baby Be My Girl - Eddie Thornton Outfit
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LUCKY MILLINDER & HIS ORCHESTRA "Apollo Jump" 1941-1951

Lucky Millinder could not read music, nor could he play any instrument, Millinder was not the only bandleader with little musical knowledge, Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford, and Tiny Bradshaw were all bandleaders who waved a baton in front of a band, jumped around and maybe sang a song. Yet Lucky Millinder was a catalyst who could bring out the very best in many musicians he employed, and with his tremendous eye and ear for talent he hired an impressive range of top-notch instrumentalists and singers during his 20 years as a bandleader. Above all, Lucky Millinder was a fantastic showman, one that Count Basie in his autobiography Good Morning Blues called "‘one of the best front men in the business, right up there, giving Cab Calloway and Willie Bryant some real competition." This 48 track career overview features the cream of Millinder’s repertoire. (Proper)

trax CD 1:
1. Slide Mr Trombone - Trevor Bacon 2. Red, Ride, Red - Lucky Millinder 3. Big Fat Mama - Trevor Bacon 4. Shout, Sister, Shout - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 5. Apollo Jump - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra 6. Hey, Huss! - Trevor Bacon 7. Let Me Off Uptown - Trevor Bacon 8. That's All - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 9. I Want A Tall Skinny Papa - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 10. Are You Ready? - Trevor Bacon 11. Mason Flyer - Trevor Bacon 12. Little John Special - Trevor Bacon 13. Sweet Slumber - Trevor Bacon 14. Shipyard Social Function - Trevor Bacon 15. Savoy - Trevor Bacon 16. Hurry, Hurry - Wynonie Harris 17. I Can't See For Lookin' - Judy Carol 18. Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well? - Wynonie Harris 19. All The Time - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra 20. I Know How To Do It - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra 21. How Big Can You Get, Little Man? - Annisteen Allen 22. More, More, More - Annisteen Allen 23. There's Good Blues Tonight - Annisteen Allen 24. Shorty's Got To Go - Lucky Millinder
trax CD 2:
1. Chittlin' Switch - Bull Moose Jackson 2. Free Thee Well Deacon Jones - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra 3. The Spider And The Fly - Annisteen Allen 4. Let It Roll - Annisteen Allen 5. Begging For Love - Paul Breckenridge 6. Don't Hesitate Too Long - Annisteen Allen 7. Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back? - Henry Glover 8. Mr. Trumpet Man - Annisteen Allen 9. Let It Roll Again - Big John Greer 10. My Little Baby - Big John Greer 11. The Jumpin' Jack - Big John Greer 12. Clap Your Hands - Big John Greer 13. Oh! Babe - Wynonie Harris 14. Please Open You Heart - Lee Richardson 15. Teardrops From My Eyes - Wynonie Harris 16. Silent George - Myra Johnson 17. Chew Tobacco Rag - John Carol 18. Georgia Rose - John Carol 19. I'm Waiting Just For You - Annisteen Allen & John Carol 20. Bongo Boogie - Annisteen Allen 21. The Right Kind Of Lovin' - Annisteen Allen, Melvin Moore & Brother John Sellers 22. No One Else Could Be - Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore 23. It's Been A Long Time - Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore 24. The Grape Wine - Melvin Moore
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An Intro To "NIGHT TRAIN KEYBOARD KINGS"

Tuff City's Night Train International imprint specializes in rare blues, jazz, and R&B material with a particular emphasis on New Orleans musicians, and the label's vigorous release schedule (the 35 tracks here are drawn from 30 different albums) has resulted in a huge catalog of hard to find gems. This two-disc sampler concentrates on keyboard players, with the first disc centering on New Orleans performers while the second features swing, R&B, and jump blues artists from outside the Crescent City. The diversity of styles here is impressive, ranging from boogie-woogie romps to organ-led soul-jazz instrumentals and even some big-band piano pieces. Among the highlights on the New Orleans disc are James Booker's funky "Beale Street Popeye," Wayne & the Velvetones' delightful "Ham Sandwich Twist," a blistering version of "Last Night" by June Gardner (featuring James Booker), and a pair of Eddie Bo keepers, the stomping "Timber" and the fluid, impressive "I Just Wonder." The second disc yields Cousin Joe's "Box Car Shorty / Peter Blue," Lloyd Glenn's accurately languid "Blues Hangover" (which manages somehow to sound both exhausted and energetic at the same time), Jay McShann's bubbling "Hot Biscuits," and Gladys Bently's big, strutting "4th of July Boogie." A wonderfully diverse -- yet still cohesive -- anthology, this one is a winner from first track to last. (STEVE LEGETT, ALLMUSIC)
trax CD 1:
1. Sunny Side Of The Street - James Booker 2. Beale Street Popeye - James Booker 3. Goin' Down Slow - James Booker 4. Junko Partner - Professor Longhair 5. After Hours - Professor Longhair 6. Tut's Tee Na Na - Tuts Washington 7. Ham Sandwich Twist - Wayne & The Velvetones 8. St. Louis Blues - The Clem Tervalon Group featuring Ellis Marsalis 9. Juke Box Boogie Woogie Chic - Snookum Russell 10. Timber - Eddie Bo (as Candy Phillips) 11. Mardi Gras At The Boiler Room - Eddie Bo 12. Southern Style - Eskew Reeder 13. Swivel Your Hips - The Gaturs Feat. Willie Tee 14. Behind The Wheel - Huey 'Piano' Smith 15. I Just Wonder - Eddie Bo 16. Last Night - June Gardner feat. James Booker 17. Gatur Bait - The Gaturs feat. Willie Tee
trax CD 2:
1. Box Car Shorty and Peter Blue - Cousin Joe feat. Sammy Price 2. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Ray Charles 3. Googie's Boogie - Charles Brown 4. Huggin' Bug - Charles Brown 5. Blues Hangover - Lloyd Glenn 6. Old Time Shuffle - Lloyd Glenn 7. Pete's Holiday Boogie - Pete Johnson 8. Hot Biscuits - Jay McShann 9. Savage Boy - Lloyd Glenn 10. Chica Boo - Lloyd Glenn 11. Of All Things - Paula Watson 12. Googie Woogie - Mabel Scott 13. Dripper's Boogie - Joe Liggins 14. Mr. Hootie - Jimmy Witherspoon feat. Jay McShann 15. Blazer's Boogie - Charles Brown 16. Commerical Eyes - Lucky Thompson feat. Dodo Mamarosa 17. 4th Of July Boogie - Gladys Bentley 18. Main Stem - Andre Previn
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"LOS ANGELES RHYTHM & BLUES"

Two discs - 73,69 minutes each approximately. The sound on the vast majority of these tracks is very good, surprising knowing the era and the various recording studios used at that time. These tracks are clean yet warm sounding, which only helps music from this era. The booklet gives artist-by-artist info that follows the individual tracks, and helps place this music in it's time. There are black and white photographs of several artists featured in this collection. This music, loosely titled Los Angeles r&b or L.A. blues, is actually music from a number of artists who either moved to or spent some time in L.A., and their collective sounds became known as L.A. r& b. These tracks were all recorded between 1944 and 1954-prime years for this style of music. By and large it's piano-based music,with guitar used as a rhythm instrument. There are exceptions (CHUCK NORRIS AND HIS GUITAR,T-BONE WALKER,JIMMY LIGGINS,PEE WEE CRAYTON,CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN,J.D. EDWARDS), where the guitar is used as a lead instrument, which gives this set needed depth. An interesting sidelight, on Billy Valentine's "Beer Drinking Woman", John Coltrane is heard on tenor sax in a small group setting. The vocals are smooth and fairly sophisticated, which is what listeners wanted during the post-war years in big cities like Los Angeles. Anyone who has heard the great Charles Brown or Amos Milburn will have a good idea of the vocal styles found here. The tracks, for the most part, are up-tempo and swinging, with either a rolling piano or a hot sax solo accompanying the vocals. This is a good look at big city r&b on the west coast during the post-war years. The majority of tracks heard here are well worth a listen, with even the lesser tracks having that certain "something", that can't be heard in today's music. The smooth, jazzy,urbane feel of this music, from so long ago, will capture your ears almost immediately I don't know how long this set will remain in stock, so if this is your thing, pick it up while it's available-you won't be sorry. (AMAZON)

trax disc 1:
1. Midnight On Central Avenue - Cecil Gant 2. Flying Home Pt. 1 & 2 - Illinois Jacquet 3. Drifting Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 4. Blues In Los Angeles - Cecil Gant 5. Voodoo Woman - Jay McShann & His Sextette With Jimmy Witherspoon 6. When I'm In My Tea - Jo Jo Adams With Maxwell Davis And His Band 7. Saturday Fish Fry - Eddie Williams & His Brown Buddies (With Floyd Dixon) 8. Guitar In My Hand - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 9. Strange Woman Blues - Jay McShann & His Sextet With Jimmy Witherspoon 10. Mississippi Blues - Floyd Dixon 11. Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn 12. Courtroom Blues - Johnny Otis 13. Woman Don't Want A Good Man No More - Earl Jackson w/Johnny Otis Band 14. Bowlegged Boogie - Viviane Greene 15. He's The Man (He's Tall & Cool) - Viviane Greene 16. B&O Blues - Charles Brown 17. When A Man Has The Blues - Smiley Turner 18. Rocket Boogie 88 (Pt. 2) - Pete Johnson Orchestra 19. This Joint Too Hip For Me - Betty Hall Jones 20. Everyday I Have The Blues - Lowell Folsom (Featuring Lloyd Glenn At The 88) 21. Lonely Boy Blues - Smiley Turner 22. Beer Drinking Baby - Billy Valentine 23. Wine O Baby Boogie - Big Joe Turner 24. Bad Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn 25. Great Big Mama - Smokey Hogg
trax disc 2:
1. What's Good For One Is Good For All - Chuck Norris & His Guitar 2. Black Night - Charles Brown 3. The Hustle Is On - T-Bone Walker 4. Chica Boo - Lloyd Glenn's Combo 5. Safronia B - Calvin Boze & His All Star 6. Kind A Sick Kind A Worried - Chuck Norris & His Guitar 7. I Got Loaded - Peppermint Harris w/Maxwell Davis & His All Stars 8. When It Rains It Pours - Pee Wee Crayton 9. Kissa Me Baby - Ray Charles 10. Pork Chops & Mustard Greens - Ernie Andrews w/Maxwell Davis Orchestra 11. High School Baby - Frankie Ervin 12. Daybreak - Pee Wee Crayton 13. Let Me Go Home Whiskey - Amos Milburn 14. West Coast Blues - JD Edwards 15. The Candle's Burning Low - Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 16. Lovin' A Married Woman - Earl Brown With The Red Callender Combo 17. Brownskin Butterball - Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 18. Unlucky Man - Mel Walker 19. Good Good Whiskey - Amos Milburn 20. Pachuko Hop - Ike Carpenter Orchestra 21. Feelin' Mighty Lonesome - Mel Walker 22. They Were Doin' The Mambo - Joe Liggins 23. Yeah Yeah Yeah - Joe Liggins 24. I Ain't Drunk - Jimmy Liggins 25. No More Alcohol - Jimmy Liggins
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BOB & GENE "If This World Were Mine…" 1967-1972

In the late ‘60’s when soul music--led by such independent powerhouses as Motown and Stax--ruled the charts and countless smaller record labels vied for precious radio airplay, there was a reason why soul slingers like Dyke and the Blazers, Darrell Banks and Donnie Elbert all left their home town of Buffalo, NY. Buffalo, like Detroit, Newark and many other industrial cities across America, was in volatile flux; its music scene was not immune. Unemployment levels skyrocketed as factory jobs vanished. Then, in the summer of ’67, race riots chased much of what musically lingered, as local artists hit the road in search of safer, greener pastures.
One musician who stood his ground however was William Nunn, a man of many hats: singer, saxophonist, factory worker, union leader and father of two. In the fall of ‘67, he built a music studio in his basement and began inviting neighborhood youth--who might otherwise be tempted by the city’s burgeoning gangs--inside his home to express themselves through music. Mr. Nunn promised investment and belief in their talent if they offered discipline and hard work. To great response, they came, alone and in groups, dreaming of a future as professional recording artists. As a result, Mo Do Records (as in “I’m broke, I need some mo’ dough”) was born.
Surrounded by these domestic tones, William’s fifteen-year old son, Bobby Nunn, himself an aspiring singer, was ripe for dreaming. He got together with his sixteen year-old buddy Eugene Coplin and after school the teen duo—now known as Bob & Gene--lost themselves day after day writing and singing love songs. As Bobby says, “We’d see groups like the Five Stairsteps come to town and how the girls would react when they started singing, boy, and that was it, we knew we had to sing too.” The boys dedicated their friendship to perfecting their vocal harmonies while composing original tunes and with the help of some of Buffalo’s finest jazz and funk musicians, fresh Bob & Gene 45s, beginning with ‘67’s “You Gave Me Love”, soon followed. Regional radio play propelled the boys to local fame and over the following four years they routinely performed while assembling enough material for a full-length album. But by ‘71, Mo Do, like so many local business ventures at the time, simply ran out of dough. The LP never came to be.
Fast forward three decades to 2001. Record collector, DJ and New York soul music historian David Griffiths stumbles across a now rare Bob & Gene 45 whose label hints at an “upcoming album If This World Were Mine”. Curious, Griffiths places one call after another when finally, an elderly William Nunn happens to pick up the phone. An eventual meeting ensues and, stunned, Griffiths finds himself entrusted with boxes of disintegrating Mo Do reel-to-reel tapes. “It was crazy on so many levels,” Griffiths states. “You had these intensely emotional songs, mixed with this lo-fi quality, that in a way represented so much great music from so many cities that were never really heard by anyone.” Deciding these tapes needed to be heard, Griffiths (with the Nunn family’s blessing) brings them to Brooklyn contemporary soul / funk powerhouse Daptone Records. What you now hold in your hands, 36 years after its intended release is the tender, re-mastered result in its entirety: Bob & Gene’s If This World Were Mine…
Laced with achingly lush soul ballads as well as funky, Five Stairsteps-esque dance numbers, If This World demonstrates Bob and Gene’s mature songwriting and vocal prowess. With lyrics surely aimed at a “special someone” as well as their ailing community, the twelve songs here are pleas for love and hope during a time when hatred and despair wrapped Buffalo’s bleak horizon. Still involved in the music business today, Bobby Nunn would eventually leave Buffalo, settle in California and work with folks such as Rick James. Gene Coplin still lives in Buffalo and is a practicing minister. The two remain friends and feel lucky to have had an environment like Mo Do to call home. As Gene says, “It was home for our hearts.” True, Mo Do will go down in the history of soul music as one in a million failed record labels. And though, sadly, the late William Nunn never got to see his labor of love come to its ultimate fruition, If This World Were Mine. . . is indeed testimony that his spirit lives on. (LINER NOTES)

trax:
01 Gotta Find A Way 02 Your Name 03 It Won't Go 04 I Can Be Cool 05 Sailboat 06 Which Love 07 Interlude 08 Don't Leave Me Girl 09 Somebody's Doin It (War) 10 You Don't Need Me 11 You Gave Me Love 12 If This World Were Mine
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THE BEST OF VIK RECORDS, Vol. 2

Hard to find collection of 50's R&B/Doo-Wop/Rock 'n' Roll from this RCA offshoot label.

trax:
1. I Remember - The Five Discs 2. My Heart Beats Faster - The El Vinos 3. Sorrento - Treniers - The Treniers 4. No No Blues - The Coronados 5. Please Send Her Back To Me - Frank Minion 6. Now You Say You Care - Bill Kenny 7. A Million Miles From Nowhere - Brook Benton 8. Ask Me Who Loves You - The Rover Boys 9. Billy Boy - Billy Ford & The Thunderbirds 10. Do Be Do Do Be Do - Bob Crewe & The Rays 11. How Dear Can You Be - The Deep River Boys 12. I Go To You - The Rover Boys 13. You're Not Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll - The Deep River Boys 14. You Must Be True - The El Vinos 15. The World Is A Beautiful Place - The Five Discs 16. My Beautiful Dreamer - The Coronados 17. Make Room For Me - The Rover Boys 18. Let's Get Aquainted - The Coronados 19. I Was a Fool For Leaving - Vicki Nelson 20. Find Someone New - The Four WInds 21. How Can I Be Sure - Billy Ford & The Thunderbirds 22. Devoted - Brook Benton 23. Come On - The Sharps 24. Blind Date - The Rover Boys 25. Whole Wide World - The Deep River Boys 26. Take Back My Ring - The Gallahads 27. You Can't Get Away From Me - Vicki Nelson 28. All My Love Belongs To You - The Deep River Boys 29. Lover Come Back To Me - The Treniers 30. Won't You Give Me a Chance - The Three Chuckles
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BILLY MURE "Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars" Vol. I + Vol. II (1959) + "Fireworks" (1958)

Billy Mure was one of those uncredited session men from the 1950s whose guitar licks have graced many a rock n roll record. Besides his session work he also recorded many solo albums, which are held ín high esteem by those who are familiar with them. Some aficionados of early electric guitar music rate him at least as highly as Les Paul.

Born in the Big Apple in 1915, Mure played violin by age five. In his early teens he switched to guitar and by age 13 he was composing. Between 1937 and 1943 he was part of Val Ernie's prominent society orchestra. Enlisted from 1943-1945, he learned arranging while playing with an Air Force band. Upon returning to New York City in 1947, he joined the staff orchestra at radio station WNEW, where he stayed for ten years. He picked up occasional studio work on the side, playing on a couple of singles by the Three Suns (a trio that included Al Nevins and scored a # 1 hit in 1947 with "Peg'O My Heart"). Starting 1957, his work as a session guitarist began to increase. Especially the Atlantic and Jubilee labels often made use of his services, resulting in sessions with artists like LaVern Baker, Ivory Joe Hunter, Joe Turner, Bobby Darin ("Splish Splash"), Ben E. King, Bobby Freeman ("Do You Wanna Dance"), Don Rondo, Della Reese, the Sparkletones, Ersel Hickey and many others. On these sessions he often also served as arranger and / or conductor.
Mure was also a prolific songwriter, with 243 entries in the BMI database. He produced and wrote "Got A Match" for the Daddy-O's (# 39 in 1958) on the Cabot label (a cover version by Frank Gallop on ABC made # 57), but more interesting is his composition "Gazachstahagen", a good R&R instrumental, which the Wildcats took to # 57 on the Billboard charts in early 1959 (United Artists 154 / London HLT 8787). It's not clear if Billy himself played on the record ; according to Joel Whitburn, the Wildcats were a trio (discovered by Mure) : Dennis Gorgas (guitar), Frank Rainey (organ) and Pat Piccininno (drums). But there is also a Wildcats LP, "Bandstand Record Hop" (United Artists UAL 3031), which is credited to "The Wildcats featuring Billy Mure". Another chart success was "String Of Trumpets" by the Trumpeteers (Splash 800, # 64 in 1959, issued in the UK on Felsted AF 120), a big-band styled group directed by Billy Mure. Also released in the UK was "Jambalaya"/"Kaw-Liga" on Top Rank JAR 344 (1960). Two fine guitar instrumentals.
Already in 1957, Mure had started making albums featuring his "Super- sonic" guitar. His first LP was recorded for RCA Victor and was called "Supersonic Guitars in Hi-Fi" (RCA LPM 1536, released in mono only). For this album Mure utilized four guitars with amplified rhythm, two drums and one bass. The playing was wild and frantic and would fit right into the new sounds of rock n roll. His next LP was "Fireworks" (RCA LPM 1694), this time recorded in "living stereo". It included four of Billy's own songs, "Firecrackers", "Dancing Guitars", "Guitar Theme" and "Crackerjack". He added a third drummer and eight vocalists for these sessions, giving him a unique sound. Billy followed this with a third album for RCA entitled "Supersonics In Flight" (LPM 1869, 1958). His first MGM LP, "Supersonic Guitars" (MGM E 3780, 1960) is in the same vein. It is primarily on these four LP's that Mure's reputation as an exceptional guitarist is based. He followed Les Paul's pioneering work in multitracking, recording separate guitar tracks, often speeding them up for spectacular effects. Unlike Les Paul, he didn't enjoy consistent label sponsorship, so his albums sold poorly and are now hard to find.
In 1963 he left RCA, where he had been on the A&R staff, and formed his own independent production company, BM Productions. He worked with a variety of pop and rock and roll acts, most of them minor, but achieved at least one Top 3 hit with Marcie Blane's "Bobby's Girl" (1962). His later albums, on MGM, Kapp, Everest and the budget label Strand (for which he made several LP's of Hawaiian music), are less interesting. Now in his nineties, Mure is still in good health and continues to perform occasionally. (Black Cat Rockabilly)

trax "Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars" Vol. I:
01 hindustan 02 lover's guitar 03 limehouse blues 04 marie 05 pagan love song 06 tiger guitars 07 guitars in space 08 granada 09 pennies from heaven 10 el cumbanchero 11 high tide boogie 12 linger awhile
trax "Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars" Vol. II:
01 canadian sunset 02 the moon of manakoora 03 april showers 04 latin holiday 05 baia 06 dizzy fingers 07 shenandoah march 08 brazil 09 keep it movin' 10 enchanted eyes 11 the jitterbug waltz 12 whispering
trax "Fireworks":
01 firecracker 02 i wonder i wonder 03 peanut vendor 04 peg o' my heart 05 by the beautiful sea 06 jealous 07 dancing guitars 08 crackerjack 09 for me and my gal 10 guitar theme 11 they can't take that away from me 12 april in portugal
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THE BEST OF VIK RECORDS, Vol. 1

Hard to find collection of 50's R&B / Doo-Wop / Rock 'n' Roll from this RCA offshoot label.

trax:
1. Lulu - The Sh-Booms 2. Come On Be Nice - Brook Benton 3. Charm Bracelet - Bob Crewe & The Rays 4. Best Wishes - The Gallahads 5. I Came Back To Say I'm Sorry - The Comondaros 6. I Miss You So - Reed Harper & The Notes 7. Don't Be Mad At My Heart - The Sh-Booms 8. Sha Bee Dah Ah Ding Dong - The Four Vanns 9. Puppy Love - Jerry Samuels 10. Love You Till The Day I Die - The Heartbreakers 11. Just One More Smile - Vicki Nelson 12. How Much Land Does A Man Need - Frank Minton 13. Without A Cause - The Heartbreakers 14. The Chosen Few - Jerry Samuels 15. Sweet Sweetheart - The Sharps 16. Steady Man - The Gallahads 17. My Love - The Heartbreakers 18. So Young And So Pretty - The Four Vanns 19. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - The Sh-Booms 20. Next Stop Paradise - Teddy Randazzo 21. One Love Alone - The Gallahads 22. One Two I Love You - The Heartbreakers 23. Like A Baby - Vicki Nelson 24. I Want To Do Everything For You - Brook Benton
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1954" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1954!

trax cd 1:
1. Something's Wrong - Fats Domino 2. TV Mama (Joe Turner) - Big Joe Turner 3. My Baby's 3-D (The Dominoes w/Billy Ward) - The Dominoes 4. Blue Monday (Smiley Lewis) - Smiley Lewis 5. I'm Just Your Fool (Buddy Johnson) - Buddy Johnson 6. The Things That I Used To - Guitar Slim 7. Pony Tail - T-Bone Walker 8. One Whole Year Baby - Earl Curry 9. Such A Night - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters 10. Down The Road - Smiley Lewis 11. Love Contest - Ruth Brown 12. Bottle It Up And Go - Big John Greer 13. Beggin' My Baby - Little Milton 14. Good, Good Whiskey - Amos Milburn 15. Watch Dog - Lula Reed 16. You're Still My Baby - Chuck Willis 17. I Want To Fool Around With You - Charles Brown 18. Little Mama - The Clovers 19. Juicy Fruit - Tiny Grimes 20. Call Before You Go - Memphis Slim 21. Jock-A-Mo - James "Sugar Boy" Crawford 22. It Should've Been Me - Ray Charles 23. Wine, Wine, Wine - Jimmy Binkley 24. Lovey Dovey - The Clovers 25. Love Me Girl - The Flairs
trax cd 2:
1. Rice, Red Beans And Turnip Greens - Little Richard & The Tempo Toppers 2. Tipitina - Professor Longhair 3. Work With Me Annie - The Royals 4. You Done Me Wrong - Fats Domino 5. Make My Dreams Come True - Elmore James 6. Blues Blasters Boogie - Jimmy McCracklin 7. Space Guitar - Young John Watson 8. Bootleggin' Baby - Roy Brown 9. Rock A Beatin' Boogie - The Treniers 10. I Need Love So Bad - Percy Mayfield 11. Why Don't You Do Right? - Mike Gordon 12. Rub A Little Boogie - Champion Jack Dupree 13. The Story Of My Life - Guitar Slim 14. Eisenhower Blues - J.B. Lenoir 15. Shake, Rattle And Roll - Big Joe Turner 16. Would You Baby - Willie Mabon 17. You Got To Give - Mike Gordon 18. Jump Red Jump - Red Prysock 19. Cry Some More - The 5 Royales 20. Take Out Your False Teeth Baby - Margie Day 21. Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) - The Chords 22. That Man - Nappy Brown 23. I Smell A Rat - Big Mama Thornton 24. The Woodchuck - Billy Emerson 25. Overflow - Tiny Bradshaw
trax cd 3:
1. I Feel So Bad - Chuck Willis 2. Milk And Water - Amos Milburn 3. Trying To Get To You - The Eagles 4. Big Long Slidin' Thing - Dinah Washington 5. Sexy Ways - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 6. Honey Love - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters 7. Riot In Cell Block No.9 - The Robins 8. Do Unto Others - Pee Wee Crayton 9. Everything I Do Is Wrong - B.B. King 10. A Mother's Love - Earl King 11. I've Got My Eyes On You - The Clovers 12. I Can Make It With You (Big Daddy) - Jimmy Witherspoon 13. Okie Dokie Stomp - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 14. Bye! Bye! Baby - B.B. King 15. Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash - The Clovers 16. You Better Heed My Warning - Larry Dale 17. Don't You Know - Ray Charles 18. Baby You Thrill Me - Amos Milburn 19. Later For You Baby - Guitar Sam 20. It Hurts Me To My Heart - Faye Adams 21. Annie Had A Baby - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 22. Keep-A-'Talkin - Wynonie Harris 23. Oh What A Dream - Ruth Brown 24. Shim Sham Shimmy - Champion Jack Dupree 25. A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac And Some Money) - Buddy Johnson & Ricky Harper
trax cd 4:
1. Jump Children - Dave Bartholomew 2. Oh! What A Babe! - Otis Blackwell 3. Oop Shoop - Shirley Gunter 4. Send Me Some Money - Varetta Dillard 5. Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown 6. Well, All Right - Big Joe Turner 7. Jam Up - Tommy Ridgley 8. Never Let Me Go - Johnny Ace 9. Hearts Of Stone - The Charms 10. Hard Times - Johnny Fuller 11. Love Is Just A Gamble - T-Bone Walker 12. You Upset Me Baby - B.B. King 13. Black Diamond - Roy Brown 14. All Night Long - Joe Houston 15. Buick '59 - The Medallions 16. Sincerely - The Moonglows 17. Hoy Hoy - Little Johnnie Jones 18. Reconsider Baby - Lowell Fulson 19. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) - The Penguins 20. Poison Ivy - Willie Mabon 21. Tweedlee Dee - LaVern Baker 22. Midnight Hour - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 23. You Know Yeah - Pee Wee Crayton 24. Baby Let's Play House - Arthur Gunter 25. It's A Shame - Willie Egans
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Miss Monster Club "Eating Brains Made Me Smart" 2005

The Monstrous girlie-garage combo from Turku, Finland, with capital M. This amazingly scary band is still kickin' today with minor line-up changes. These girls made impossible true. Scary surf-like tunes with modern garage touch make Hanna Hopea's songwriting skills unique and one of the kind, and still highly comparable in every possible scale in the world. Somehow finnish garage scene is so dead that no-one recognizes this band, like it should. Likewise, noone made really made a real number out of their idols, Thee Ultra Bimboos. Listen to this, and you'll know how hard it is to make great shit, when there's no-one to back you up. - http://www.missmonsterclub.com

trax:
01 Intro (Ready To Kill) 02 Lost Control 03 Car Crash 04 Agent's Song 05 Disappear

"THE R&B; YEARS 1953" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1953!

trax cd 1:
1. Rock, Rock, Rock - Amos Milburn 2. K.C. Loving - Little Willie Littlefield 3. Pachuko Hop - Chuck Higgins 4. Gabbin' Blues - Big Maybelle 5. Soft - Tiny Bradshaw 6. The River's Invitation - Percy Mayfield 7. Nobody Loves Me - Fats Domino 8. Baby Don't Do It - The 5 Royales 9. Dream Girl - Jesse & Marvin 10. Ain't It A Shame - Lloyd Price 11. Hurry Hurry Baby - Roy Brown 12. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown 13. Let Me Go Home Whiskey - Amos Milburn 14. Baby I'm Doin' It - Annisteen Allen 15. Train, Train, Train - Danny Overbea 16. Crawlin' - The Clovers 17. Woke Up This Morning - B.B. King 18. Whoopin' & Hollerin' - Earl Forest 19. Pedal Pushin' Papa - The Dominoes 20. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton 21. Person To Person - Eddie Vinson 22. Grandpa Stole My Baby - Roy Brown 23. Gee - The Crows 24. Wasn't That Good - Wynonie Harris 25. Big Mamou - Smiley Lewis
trax cd 2:
1. I Wanna Know - The Du Droppers 2. Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas 3. Going To The River - Fats Domino 4. I'm Mad - Willie Mabon 5. Lost Mind - Percy Mayfield 6. Help Me Somebody - The 5 Royales 7. Hittin' On Me - Buddy & Ella Johnson 8. Cornbread & Cabbages - Joe Houston 9. Whiskey, Women & Loaded Dice - Stick McGhee 10. Rockin' Is Our Business - The Treniers 11. Married Men Like Sport - Jimmy Nelson 12. She Felt Too Good - Jimmy McCracklin 13. Way Back Home - Big Maybelle 14. I'm Glad - Mitzi Mars 15. Shake Baby Shake - Champion Jack Dupree 16. Ain't That Good News - Little Richard 17. Please Love Me - B.B. King 18. Party Girl - T-Bone Walker 19. Dirty By The Dozen - Little Johnny Jones 20. Wild Wild Young Men - Ruth Brown 21. After Hour Joint - Jimmy Coe 22. I Found Out - The Du Droppers 23. Your Mouth's Got A Hole In It - Piano Red 24. Early In The Morning - Roy Milton 25. The Clock - Johnny Ace
trax cd 3:
1. Mess Around - Ray Charles 2. Rack 'em Back (Bobby Mitchell) - Bobby Mitchell 3. Mercy Mr.Percy - Varetta Dillard 4. After Awhile - Billy Wright 5. Forty Cups Of Coffee - Danny Overbea 6. Cow Cow Blues - Paul Gayten 7. Please Don't Leave Me - Fats Domino 8. Don't Decieve Me (Please Don't Go) - Chuck Willis 9. Good Lovin' - The Clovers 10. But Officer! - Sonny Knight 11. Get It - The Royals w\Hank Ballard 12. Heavy Juice - Tiny Bradshaw 13. Rot Gut - Wynonie Harris 14. Too Much Lovin' - The 5 Royales 15. Just Walkin' In The Rain - The Prisonaires 16. The Honey Jump Part 1 - Oscar McLollie 17. The Honey Jump Part 2 - Oscar McLollie 18. Shake A Hand - Faye Adams 19. Dragnet Blues - Frankie Ervin w\Johnny Moore's Blazers 20. Soul On Fire - LaVern Baker 21. Baby It's You - The Spaniels 22. You Can't Keep A Good Man Down - The Dominoes 23. Cherry Wine - Little Esther 24. Honey Hush - Big Joe Turner 25. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn 26. Heartbreaker - Ray Charles
trax cd 4:
1. The Big Dipper - Joe Liggins 2. Please Hurry Home - B.B. King 3. You're A Fool - Willie Mabon 4. The Tears Keep Tumbling Down - Ruth Brown 5. Drunk - Jimmy Liggins 6. Every Night In The Week - Christine Kittrell 7. Rose Mary - Fats Domino 8. Daddy Rollin' Stone - Otis Blackwell 9. TV Is The Thing This Year - Dinah Washington 10. No Blow, No Show - Bobby "Blue" Bland 11. Snatchin' It Back - Margie Day 12. Money Honey - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters 13. I Want You To Be My Baby - Louis Jordan 14. The Come Back - Memphis Slim 15. Take Me Back - Linda Hayes 16. I Had A Notion - Joe Morris & Al Savage 17. Banana Split - Kid King 18. My Country Man - Big Maybelle 19. Hole In The Wall - Floyd Dixon 20. Move Me, Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon 21. Perfect Woman - The Four Blazes 22. Baby Doll - Marvin & Johnny 23. Route 90 - Clarence Garlow 24. Gate Walks The Board - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 25. I'll Be True - Faye Adams
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1952" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1952!

trax CD 1:
1. Lovin' Machine - Wynonie Harris 2. Good Rockin' Man - Roy Brown 3. Cry Baby - Percy Mayfield 4. It Ain't The Meat - The Swallows 5. Slowly Goin' Crazy - H-Bomb Ferguson 6. Sunset To Dawn - Johnny Otis & Mel Walker 7. Ride Daddy Ride - Fats Noel 8. Booted - Rosco Gordon 9. Baby Please Don't Go - The Orioles 10. Cold, Cold Feeling - T-Bone Walker 11. Worry, Worry, Worry - Joe Houston 12. Ring-A-Ding-Doo - Little Esther & Mel Walker 13. Hi-Ho Baby - Edna McRaney & Jackie Brenston 14. The Right Kind Of Lovin' - Lucky Millinder 15. Blow, Blow, Blow - Big Jay McNeely 16. Wine-O-Wine - Willis Jackson 17. Lert Your Tears Fall Baby - Big Mama Thornton 18. Night Train - Jimmy Forrest 19. Hard Times - Charles Brown 20. Trouble In Mind - Amos Millburn 21. Your Daddy's Doggin' Around - Todd Rhodes & Connee Allen 22. Got You On My Mind - John Greer 23. Nosey Joe - Bull Moose Jackson 24. That's What's Knocking Me Out - Jimmy Liggins 25. Kissa Me Baby - Ray Charles
trax CD 2:
1. Walk Right In - Jesse Powell Orchestra Feat. Fluffy Hunter 2. Thinking And Drinking - Amos Milburn 3. Yancy Special - Lloyd Glenn 4. Hop, Skip And Jump - Lynn Hope 5. Heavenly Father - Edna McGriff & Buddy Lucas 6. The Big Question - Percy Mayfield 7. New Blowtop Blues - Dinah Washington 8. No More Doggin' - Rosco Gordon 9. Louisiana Hop - Pete "Guitar" Lewis 10. Sweet Sixteen - Big Joe Turner 11. 5-10-15 Hours - Ruth Brown 12. One Mint Julep - The Clovers 13. Goin' Home - Fats Domino 14. That's What You Do To Me (Dominoes) - The Dominoes 15. I've Got The Last Laugh Now - Roy Brown 16. Guitar Shuffle - Lowell Fulson 17. I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use - Lester Williams 18. Keep On Churnin' - Wynonie Harris 19. Loud Mouth Lucy - Chuck Willis 20. Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price 21. Rocket 69 - Todd Rhodes 22. Drop Top - Billy Love 23. Have Mercy Baby - The Dominoes 24. So Tired - Roy Milton 25. The Train Kept A Rollin' - Tiny Bradshaw
trax CD 3:
1. Everybody Loves A Fat Man - Pig Meat Peterson 2. Jordan For President - Louis Jordan 3. Aged & Mellow - Little Esther 4. Looped - Melvin Smith 5. Got So Much Trouble - Titus Turner 6. I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tonks - Marie Adams 7. Junco Partner - Louis Jordan 8. Easy, Easy Baby - Varetta Dillard 9. I'll Drown In My Tears - Sonny Thompson & Lula Reed 10. The Four Blazes - The Four Blazes 11. Ting-A-Ling - The Clovers 12. Call Operator 210 - Floyd Dixon 13. Don't You Cry - Big Joe Turner 14. My Song - Johnny Ace 15. Let's Call It A Day - Sonny Thompson & Lula Reed 16. Sittin' Here Drinkin' - Christine Kittrell 17. Lonely Monday - Tommy Dean 18. Mumbles Blues - Bobby Lewis 19. Daddy Daddy - Ruth Brown 20. You Know I Know - The 5 Royales 21. The Bells Are Ringing - Smiley Lewis 22. You Know I Love You - B.B. King 23. Night And Day - Roy Milton 24. Rock Me All Night Long - The Ravens 25. Street Walking Woman - T-Bone Walker
trax CD 4:
1. Them There Eyes - Varetta Dillard 2. Greyhound - Amos Milburn 3. See See Rider - The Orioles 4. My Days Are Limited - Jimmy McCracklin 5. Come Back Baby - Floyd Dixon 6. Can't Do Sixty No More - The Du Droppers 7. Goodbye Baby - Little Caesar & The Romans 8. Oooh-Oooh-Oooh - Lloyd Price 9. My Story - Chuck Willis 10. Every Day I Have The Blues - Joe Williams 11. We're Gonna Rock This Joint - The Jackson Brothers 12. Back Biter - T.J. Fowler 13. Hey, Miss Fannie - The Clovers 14. I'd Be Satisfied - The Dominoes 15. Poor Poor Me - Fats Domino 16. Rockin' Chair Boogie - Ivory Joe Hunter 17. I Don't Know - Willie Mabon 18. The Midnight Hour - Ray Charles 19. Boogie Woogie Woman - B.B. King 20. How Long - Fats Domino 21. Strange Kind Of Feeling - Tiny Kennedy 22. Brand New Baby - Lester Williams 23. I'm Gone - Shirley & Lee 24. Great Big Eyes - Archibald 25. Feelin' Sad - Guitar Slim
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The Early Stars of "The Grand Ole Opry"

12 notable Grand Ole Opry performers. - Jillem

Created in 1925 by station manager George Dewey Hay, the Grand Ole Opry began as a weekly radio program that featured traditional "country" music, including folk songs and classic mountain tunes. In 1939, the show moved to NBC radio where it reached tens of thousands of listeners across the country. During the 1950s, the Opry was one of the nation's favorite radio programs, and with every song played on the Opry stage broadcast to America, Nashville solidified its spot as the country music capital of the world.

trax:
1. Lynchburg - Uncle Jimmy Thompson 2. Pan American Blues - De Ford Bailey 3. Ice Water Blues - De Ford Bailey 4. I'll Keep My Skillet Good & Greasy - Uncle Dave Macon 5. Uncle Dave's Beloved Solo - Uncle Dave Macon 6. Goin' Up Town - Dr. Humphrey Bate And His Possum Tamers 7. Billy In The Low Ground - Dr. Humphrey Bate And His Possum Tamers 8. C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken - McGee Brothers 9. The Tramp - McGee Brothers 10. Stone Rag - Paul Warmack And His Gully Jumpers 11. Tennessee Waltz - Paul Warmack And His Gully Jumpers 12. Chittlin Cookin' Time In Cheatham County (& His Dixieliners) - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners 13. Red Apple Rag (& His Dixieliners) - Fiddlin' Arthur Smith & His Dixieliners 14. Hale's Rag - Theron Hale And Daughter 15. Listen To The Mockingbird - Theron Hale And Daughter 16. Southern Moon - The Delmore Brothers 17. Weary Lonesome Blues - The Delmore Brothers 18. Wreck On The Highway - Roy Acuff 19. Fireball Mail - Roy Acuff 20. Muleskinner Blues - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 21. Orange Blossom Blues - Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys 22. Prohibition Blues - Clayton McMichen 23. Bile 'Em Cabbages Down - Clayton McMichen
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"Surfin the Spillway" 1996

This is easily the best compilation of new artists in a long while. Michigan bands all, there are almost no weak spots here, and some tracks are just plain killer. An absolute must have, no ifs, ands or buts! Magnificent. Did I say I like it? More like love it!!! - Phil Dirt

Michigan surf music compilation with contributions by The Prodigals, The Silencers, The Volcanos, Professor Schmiddy, The Campus Kings, Mondo Mod, and The Lustre Kings. Ann Arbor's The Prodigals bring you four brand new tracks of solid surf typified by absolutely burning guitar work and eclectic arrangements à la Australia's famed Atlantics. Only their live show can match it. Way boss.
Young upstarts The Silencers clock in with their hot 45 release which has been reissued here for your listening pleasure. The "Satan on acid" intro is a nice touch from this metro area wünderkind. Detroit's The Volcanos represent the old guard of the Michigan surf set. Here they dish out two swingin' samples of the sound that has enabled them to rise above fad and fashion, keeping instrumental music alive and well in the Motor City.
Professor Schmiddy has come to us in a number of guises (a.k.a. Kevin Strange, The Lonely Surfer, etc.) but, as always, he delivers the big surfin' sounds pure and simple. "Hotfoot" makes its debut here while "Outbound" comes to you courtesy of his HHR 45, no longer in print but preserved on SPILLWAY in its full glory.
Hot, new rabble rousers the Campus Kings make their mark with these three brand spankin' new instrumental gems. Their style runs the gamut from pounding "Las Vegas Grind" to shades of the wild west. Keep your ears peeled for that wailin' sax!
The instro-a-go-go sounds of Mondo Mod have been wowing locals for over a year now. Here they turn in two Farfisa-driven winners plus a rousing version of the Marketts' "Penguin" - a tip of the hat to the inspired genius that inspires their own.
Last on the list but first in the hearts of many are the late-lamented Lustre Kings. Sheer surfin' fire here on their first (and last) HHR 45 (a split single with Professor Schmiddy and the Elements). Testament to their brief but memorable career... and quite likely the only time you'll ever hear a reverb tank fighting for its life. - Album Notes

trax:
01. Prodigals - Tsunami 02. Prodigals - Firewalker 03. Prodigals - Ride The Savage Dolphin 04. Prodigals - X-Ray Man 05. The Silencers - Matt Helm 06. Volcanos - Twilight at Rincon 07. Volcanos - Side Swipe 08. Professor Schmiddy - Outbound 09. Professor Schmiddy - Hotfoot 10. The Campus Kings - Singapore Swing 11. The Campus Kings - 207 12. The Campus Kings - Cheyenne 13. Mondo Mod - Spy Theme 14. Mondo Mod - Penguin 15. Mondo Mod - Wangler 16. The Lustre Kings - Forbidden Planet 17. The Lustre Kings - Bottlerocket

"THE R&B; YEARS 1951" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1951!

trax CD 1:
1. Little Joe's Boogie - Joe Liggins 2. Strange Things Happening - Percy Mayfield 3. Telephone Blues - Floyd Dixon & Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 4. Little Red Rooster - Margie Day & The Griffin Brothers 5. Do Something For Me - The Dominos 6. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Ray Charles 7. Black Night - Charles Brown 8. Rock Little Daddy - Eunice Davis & The Freddie Mitchell Orchestra 9. Riverside Jump - Tiny Grimes 10. No More Love - Buddy & Ella Johnson 11. Elephant Rock - Charles Singleton 12. Frankie Lee - Joe Liggins 13. Lost Loce - Percy Mayfield 14. Mambo Boogie - Johnny Otis Orchestra 15. The Deacon Moves In - Little Esther & The Dominos 16. Rock Little Baby - Cecil Gant 17. Don't You Want A Man Like Me - B.B. King 18. Take Me Back To My Boots & Saddle - The Ray-O-Vacs 19. The Shotgun Boogie - Cootie Williams 20. Tired Of Crying - Fats Domino 21. I'll Wait For You - Ruth Brown 22. Teardrops From My Eyes - Louis Jordan 23. Looking For A Woman - Jimmy McCracklin 24. I Gotta Gal Who Lives Upon A Hill - Jimmy Witherspoon 25. Justice Blues - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
trax CD 2:
1. Keep Your Hand On Your Heart - Billy Wright 2. All That Wine Is Gone - Big Jay McNeely 3. Let's Rock A While - Amos Milburn 4. Gee Baby - Johnny Otis & Mel Walker 5. Chica Boo - Lloyd Glenn 6. Tears, Tears, Tears - Amos Milburn 7. Tend To Your Business - James Wayne 8. Tremblin' - Wynonie Harris 9. Chew Tobacco Rag - Lucky Millinder Orchestra 10. Sadie Green - Margie Day w& The Griffin Brothers 11. Don't Lie To Me - Fats Domino 12. Wrong Woman Blues - Roy Brown 13. Weak Minded Blues - Louis Jordan 14. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats 15. Slippin' & Slidin' - Calvin Boze 16. Two Dry Bones On A Pantry Shelf - Tiny Bradshaw 17. Featherbed Mama - Eddie Vinson 18. My Baby Was Right - Smiley Lewis 19. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - Stick McGhee 20. Sixty Minute Man - The Dominoes 21. The Wrong Yo-Yo - Piano Red 22. It's Later Than You Think - Roy Milton 23. Poppa Stoppa - Pee Wee Crayton 24. Don't You Know I Love You - The Clovers 25. I'm Waiting Just For You - Annisteen Allen w/Lucky Millinder Orchestra
trax CD 3:
1. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water - Grant Jones 2. What A Fool I Was - Percy Mayfield 3. Chains Of Love - Big Joe Turner 4. I Know - Ruth Brown 5. Castle Rock - Johnny Hodges 6. Stacked Deck - Billy Wright 7. Tra La La - The Griffin Brothers & Tommy Brown 8. Eyesight To The Blind - The Larks 9. "T" 99 Blues - Jimmie Nelson 10. The Thrill Is Gone - Roy Hawkins 11. Will You Be Mine - The Swallows 12. I Have News For You - Roy Milton 13. I'm Crying - Memphis Slim & Terry Timmons 14. Boogie Woogie Choo Choo (Mabel Scott) - Mabel Scott 15. The Glory Of Love - The Five Keys 16. Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris 17. Juiced - Billy Love 18. Blow, Joe, Blow - Joe Houston 19. Big Town - Roy Brown 20. I've Been Lost - Little Willie Littlefield & Little Lora Wiggins 21. All Night Long - Johnny Otis & Mel Walker 22. Go! Go! Go! - The Treniers 23. T-Town Twist - Roy Milton 24. Smooth Sailing - Ella Fitzgerald 25. Saddled The Cow & Milked The Horse - Rosco Gordon
trax CD 4:
1. I Got Loaded - Peppermint Harris 2. Money Blues - Camille Howard 3. Walking The Chalk Line - Tiny Bradshaw 4. Man, Have I Got Troubles - Wynonie Harris 5. Fool, Fool, Fool - The Clovers 6. Shouldn't I Know - The Cardinals 7. Little Side Car - The Larks 8. Hey Little Girl - John Godfey 9. Seven Long Days - Charles Brown 10. I Tried - Chuck Willis 11. Prayin' For Your Return - Percy Mayfield 12. Cold, Cold Heart - Dinah Washington 13. Flamingo - Earl Bostic & His Orchestra 14. Welcome Blues - T-Bone Walker 15. Because Of You - Tab Smith 16. Best Wishes - Roy Milton 17. Bar Room Blues - Roy Brown 18. Let's Jump Tonight - Chuck Willis 19. Shine On - Ruth Brown 20. Weepin' & Cryin' - The Griffin Brothers & Tommy Brown 21. Chill Is On - Big Joe Turner 22. When It Rains, It Pours - Pee Wee Crayton 23. Hey, Good Lookin' - Piano Red 24. Rockin' Chair - Fats Domino 25. Three O'Clock Blues - B.B. King
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1950" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1950!

trax CD 1:
1. School Days - Louis Jordan 2. Sittin' On It All The Time - Wynonie Harris 3. Little School Girl - Smokey Hogg 4. R. B. Boogie - R.B. Thibadeaux 5. I Almost Lost My Mind - Ivory Joe Hunter 6. If It's So Baby - The Robins 7. Rag Mop - Lionel Hampton 8. Double Crossing Blues - Little Esther & The Robins 9. New Style Baby - Walter Brown 10. Country Boy - Dave Bartholomew 11. Mardis Gras In New Orleans - Roy Byrd 12. Gonna Hoot & Holler Saturday Night - Eddie Mack 13. For You My Love - Nat King Cole & Nellie Lutcher 14. The Fat Man - Fats Domino 15. I Don't Have To Ride No More - The Ravens 16. Information Blues - Roy Milton 17. Why Do Things Happen To Me - Roy Hawkins 18. Bon Ton Roula - Clarence Garlow 19. I'm Just A Fool In Love - Amos Milburn 20. I'm Tired Of Crying Over You - Buddy & Ella Johnson 21. 3 x 7 = 21 - Jewel King 22. Ham Hocks - Cecil Payne 23. I'm So Happy, I Could Jump & Shout - Lester Williams 24. Wham-A-Lam - Joe Thomas 25. Slippin' And Slidin' - Gene Phillips
trax CD 2:
1. Waiting & Drinking - Calvin Boze 2. Jay's Frantic - Big Jay McNeely 3. Rockin' Chair Mama - Little Willie Littlefield 4. Waxie Maxie Boogie - Frank "Floorshow" Culley 5. Rocking Jenny Jones (Big John Greer) - Big John Greer 6. Lights Out - Tommy Douglas 7. Mistrustin' Blues - Little Esther & Mel Walker 8. My Baby's Gone - Charles Brown 9. Little Bee - Fats Domino 10. Tee-Nah-Nah - Smiley Lewis 11. Ain't Gonna Do It - Dave Bartholomew 12. Glamour Girl - T-Bone Walker 13. Walking Blues - Amos Milburn 14. Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins 15. Come On, Let's Boogie - Goree Carter 16. Well Oh Well - Tiny Bradshaw 17. Every Day I Have The Blues - Lowell Fulsom 18. Dowling Street Hop - Lester Williams 19. Growing Old - Smiley Lewis 20. Cupid's Boogie - Little Esther & Mel Walker 21. Stack-A-Lee Part 1 - Archibald 22. Stack-A-Lee Part 2 - Archibald 23. Safronia - Calvin Boze 24. Rye Boogie - Paul Williams 25. You Better Find A Job - Chubby Newsome 26. Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown
trax CD 3:
1. Fish Market Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 2. Junior Jives - Roy Milton 3. Happy Pay Day - Little Willie Littlefield 4. Repentance Blues - Charles Brown 5. Late In The Evening Blues - Ray Charles 6. I Ain't Gonna Let You In - Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie 7. My Man Stands Out - Julie Lee 8. Good Morning Judge - Wynonie Harris 9. I Love My Baby - Larry Darnell 10. Let It Roll Again - Lucky Millinder & John Greer 11. Blue Light Boogie - Louis Jordan 12. Blue Shadows - Fulsom, Lowell 13. Playboy Blues - Roy Milton 14. Everything's Gonna Be Alright - King Perry 15. Bald Head - Roy Byrd 16. Man's Brand Boogie - Billy Wright 17. Louella Brown - Pee Wee Crayton 18. After Hours - Bobby Smith 19. My Temper Is Rising - Roy Hawkins 20. Boogie Rambler - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 21. Failing By Degrees - Jimmy Witherspoon 22. Time To Blow - Crown Prince Waterford 23. Love Don't Love Nobody - Roy Brown 24. Sax Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn 25. Saturday Night Boogie Woogie - Jimmy Liggins
trax CD 4:
1. Hi Yo Silver - Roy Brown 2. Rock Mr Blues - Wynonie Harris 3. Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere (Joe Morris & Laurie Tate) - Laurie Tate & Joe Morris 4. Queen Bee Blues - Eddie Vinson 5. I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball - Tiny Bradshaw 6. Slim's Blues - Memphis Slim 6. Slim's Blues - Memphis Slim 7. Besame Mucho - The Ray-O-Vacs 8. Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown 9. Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield 10. Million Dollar Secret (Helen Humes) - Helen Humes 11. Mr Blues Is Coming To Town - Wynonie Harris 12. Cadillac Blues - Roy Brown 13. Getting Old - Jimmy Lewis 14. Girl Fifteen - Floyd Dixon 15. Bad Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn 16. Oh Babe! - Jimmy Preston 17. Old Time Shuffle Blues - Lloyd Glenn 18. Rock Around The Clock - Hal Singer 19. She Walks Right In - Gatemouth Brown 20. You Don't Love Me - T-Bone Walker 21. Breaking Up The House - Tiny Bradshaw 22. Feeling Happy - Big Joe Turner 23. Beer Bottle Boogie - Marylyn Scott 24. Rockin' Blues - Mel Walker 25. Rockin' With Red - Piano Red
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1949" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1949!

trax CD 1:
1. Homecoming Blues - Jimmy Liggins 2. Walkin' Around - Paul Williams 3. Mourning Blues - Piney Brown 4. Hot Biscuits - Jay McShann 5. Beggin' Woman - Cousin Joe 6. Rainy Weather Blues - Roy Brown 7. I Feel Like Crying - Andrew Tibbs 8. The Deacon's Hop - Big Jay McNeely 9. I Don't Dig It - Big Joe Turner 10. Weasel Walk - Joe Morris 11. I Don't Care Who Knows - Buddy & Ella Johnson 12. The Hucklebuck - Paul Williams 13. I Feel That Old Age Coming On - Wynonie Harris 14. Fat Meat 'n' Greens - Edgar Hayes 15. Ain't Nobody's Business Part 1 - Jimmy Witherspoon 16. Ain't Nobody's Business Part 2 - Jimmy Witherspoon 17. Bongo Blues - Dee Williams 18. I Didn't Like It The First Time - Julia Lee 19. King Porter Special - King Porter 20. Blip Boogie - Earl Bostic 21. Rockin' At Midnight - Roy Brown 22. Empty Bedroom Blues - Saunders King 23. Just Give Me A Man - Mabel Scott 24. T-Bone Shuffle - T-Bone Walker 25. 47th Street Jive - June Richmond,& Andy Kirk Orchestra 26. Beef Stew - Hal Singer
trax CD 2:
1. I Feel So Good - Chicago Davis 2. Blue Dreams - Sonny Thompson 3. State Street Boogie - Don Johnson 4. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee 5. D'Natural Blues - Lucky Millinder 6. I'm A Good Man But A Poor Man - Cecil Gant 7. The Hucklebuck - Roy Milton 8. Hucklebuck Daddy - Jimmy Preston 9. Hold Me Baby - Amos Milburn 10. Tell Me So - The Orioles 11. Trouble Blues - Charles Brown 12. Midnight In The Barrel House - Pete Lewis & The Johnny Otis Orchestra 13. Sarah! Sarah! - King Perry 14. Pot Likker - Todd Rhodes 15. B&O Bluees - Big Joe Turner 16. Red Hot Blues - T.J. Fowler 17. Saturday Night - Kansas City Jimmy 18. Cole Slaw - Frank "Floorshow" Culley 19. Red Hot - The Five Scamps 20. Rock And Roll - Wild Bill Moore 21. Take Me Back, Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon 22. Sunday Mornin' Blues - Edgar Hayes 23. Junior Jumps - Roy Milton 24. Delinquency Blues - Max Bailey 25. Call's Jump - Bob Call
trax CD 3:
1. Hot Dog - Chris Powell 2. In The Middle Of The Night - Amos Milburn 3. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan 4. Ricky's Blues - The Ravens 5. Every Man To His Own Profession - Louis Jordan 6. That'll Get It - Floyd Dixon 7. Baby Get Lost - Dinah Washington 8. Beans And Corn Bread - Louis Jordan 9. Long John Blues - Dinah Washington 10. It's Midnight (No Place To Go) - Little Willie Littlefield 11. Mr. Fool - Dave Bartholomew 12. Cross Bones - Russel Jacquet 13. Hypin' Woman Blues - T-Bone Walker 14. Hoy Hoy - Goree Carter 15. All She Wants To Do Is Rock - Wynonie Harris 16. Doby's Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 17. Mardi Gras - Joe Lutcher 18. Roomin' House Boogie - Amos Milburn 19. Please Don't Go - Roy Brown 20. Late After Hours - Great Gates 21. Broken Hearted - Eddie Williams & Floyd Dixon 22. Happy Home Blues - Buddy Banks & Baby Davis 23. Empty Arms Blues - Amos Milburn 24. Lying Woman Blues - Walter Brown 25. Rock The Joint - Jimmy Preston
trax CD 4:
1. Page Boy Shuffle - Joe Thomas 2. Mistreatin' Baby - Roy Hawkins 3. In The Evening - Jimmy Witherspoon 4. Numbers Boogie - Sugar Chile Robinson 5. Walkin' Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers & Billy Valentine 6. Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan 7. Blue For My Baby - Billy Wright 8. Landlord Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter 9. Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me? - Bull Moose Jackson 10. Rockin' Blues - Ruth Brown 11. Ja-Hoosey Baby - Marion Abernathy 12. Memphis Hop (Marion Abernathy) - Bumps Myers 13. For You My Love - Larry Darnell 14. My Time Is Expensive - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 15. Nobody Loves Me - Memphis Slim 16. Boogie At Midnight - Roy Brown 17. Somebody Done Stole My Cherry - Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson 18. Mountain Oysters - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 19. Drinkin' Beer - J.B. Summers 20. How Long Blues - Ray Charles 21. Homesick Blues - Charles Brown 22. Kind Loving Daddy - Eddie Mack 23. Thursday Night Blues - Johnny Otis 24. Bounce Pee Wee - Pee Wee Crayton 25. Big Fine Gal - Jimmy Witherspoon
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Evan Johns & The H-Bombs "Please Mr. Santa Claus" 1991

The seasonal and primarily instrumental Please Mr. Santa Claus is a holiday postcard that features a polka, the fiddle-fueled "Little Cajun Drummer Boy," a raging "Telstar" and plenty of free-style pickin' throughout. - trouserpress

Put this nine-song mini-album CD in the Christmas stocking of any rock & roll fan. The "crash and burn" guitar style of Johns recalls Santo And Johnny ("Snowed In") and Jimmy Bryant ("Santa's Little Helper"), while his snarly vocals on the title track bring new meaning to "cool yule." Spiced with original instrumentals and a cover of "Telstar," this is a must for Evan Johns fans and those who want a little bite in their yuletide listening. - by Dennis MacDonald

Credits:
Bass – Dan McCann, John Combs / Drums, Percussion – Jim Starboard / Fiddle – Champ Hood / Guitar – Mark Korpi / Guitar, Steel Guitar, Organ [Vox], Vocals – Evan Johns

trax:
01 Please Mr. Santa Claus 02 Merry Christmas Polka 03 Stuffin' In The Stocking 04 Snowed In 05 Telstar 06 Little Cajun Drummer Boy 07 Mule Size Yuletide 08 Cocktails At The Cabin 09 Santa's Little Helper
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1948" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1948!

trax cd 1:
1. Write Me A Letter - The Ravens 2. Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker 3. Oil Man Blues - Eddie Vinson 4. Red Top - Lionel Hampton 5. Barnyard Boogie - Louis Jordan 6. King Size Papa - Julia Lee 7. Thirty-Five Thirty - Paul Williams 8. Long Skirt Baby Blues - T-Bone Walker 9. Let's Throw A Boogie Woogie - Lowell Fulson 10. Mighty, Mighty Man - Roy Brown 11. Inflation Blues - Jack McVea & Raban Tarrant 12. Hey Now - Gene Phillips 13. I Came Home Unexpectedly - Jess Stone 14. Flower Garden Blues - The Arnett Cobb Orchestra with Milt Larkins 15. Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson 16. Boogie Woogie Barbecue - Tiny Grimes 17. Grandma And Grandpa - Baby Face Lewis 18. Fine Brown Frame - Nellie Lutcher 19. Frettin' For Some Pettin' - Jesse Price 20. Midnight Jump - Memphis Slim 21. Alimony Blues - Eddie Vinson 22. Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket - Roy Milton 23. Ebony Rhapsody - Rosetta Howard 24. Sneaky Pete - Bull - Moose Jackson 25. Baby Please Don't Go - Sherman Williams
trax cd 2:
1. Whose Hat Is That? - Roy Brown 2. Jumpin' On Sugar Hill - Helen Humes 3. You Sure Look Good To Me - Big Three Trio 4. Jackson's Boogie - Little Willie Jackson 5. I Want A Bowlegged Woman - Bull Moose Jackson 6. Reet, Petite And Gone - Louis Jordan 7. Honey, Honey, Honey - Martha Davis 8. T-Bone Jumps Again - T-Bone Walker 9. Hit The Block - Joe Lutcher 10. Ain't She Mean? - The Treniers 11. Hey Little Girl - Paul Gayten 12. Hey, Mr. Gatemouth - Gatemouth Moore 13. Rampart Street Jump - Lloyd Glenn 14. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris 15. Come And Get It, Honey - Nellie Lutcher 16. Pool Playing Blues - Amos Milburn 17. You Talk A Little Trash - The Cootie Williams Orchestra 18. Long Gone, Part 1 - Sonny Thompson 19. Long Gone, Part 2 - Sonny Thompson 20. Don't Get Salty, Sugar - Charles Brown 21. Cadillac Boogie - Jimmy Liggins 22. Whistle Stop Blues - Big Joe Turner 23. Rock That Voot - Nelson Alexander 24. Money's Getting Cheaper - Jimmy Witherspoon 25. Boogie Honky Tonk - Roosevelt Sykes 26. Three Different Women - Buster Bennett
trax cd 3:
1. Tuxedo Boogie - Albert Ammons 2. Lowe Groovin' - Joe Morris 3. Pretty Mama Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter 4. Too Tight Mama - Mabel Smith 5. Geneva Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon 6. You Don't Love Me - Camille Howard 7. Fare Thee Well, Deacon Jones, Fare Thee Well - Bull Moose Jackson 8. West Side Baby - Dinah Washington 9. Send For Me If You Need Me - The Ravens 10. All For The Love Of Lil - Louis Jordan 11. Variety Bounce - Hadda Brooks 12. Cornshuck's Blues - Little Miss Cornshucks 13. Lollipop Mama - Wynonie Harris 14. Gone Again - Lionel Hampton & Wini Brown 15. Fat Meat - Jim Wynn 16. We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - Bill Moore 17. Elevator Boogie - Mabel Scott 18. Drippers Boogie - Joe Liggins 19. Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Louis Jordan 20. Are You Getting Married, Brother? - Chicago All Stars 21. Creeping (Late Freight) - Sonny Thompson 22. Give It Up Daddy Blues - Albennie Jones 23. Corn Bread - Hal Singer 24. Don't Burn The Candle At Both Ends - Louis Jordan 25. Hogan's Alley - Cecil Gant
trax cd 4:
1. Flying Home - Gene Phillips 2. I'm Crazy 'Bout That Boogie - Clyde Bernhardt 3. Am I Asking Too Much? - Dinah Washington 4. Sportee's Jump - Todd Rhodes 5. Everything I Do Is Wrong - Roy Milton 6. Waxey Maxie - Paul Williams 7. Hop, Skip And Jump - Roy Milton 8. Another Day, Another Dollar - Cecil Gant 9. Spook's Holiday - Joe Liggins 10. Downfall Blues - Tom Archia 11. M.R. Boogie - Jay McShann & Maxine Reed 12. More Than You Know - Charles Brown, Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 13. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton 14. You Better Change Your Ways - Buddy Johnson & Arthur Prysock 15. Little John Blues - Marion Abernathy 16. P.I. Blues Crown - Prince Waterford 17. Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn 18. Leapin' On Lenox - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 19. What's Your Name? - Joe Swift 20. Disc Jockey's Nightmare - Earl Bostic 21. A Little Bird Told Me - Blue Lu Barker 22. Bewildered - Amos Milburn 23. Texas Hop - Pee Wee Crayton 24. Parrot Bar Boogie - Tina Dixon 25. Pettin' And Pokin' - Louis Jordan
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"THE R&B; YEARS 1947" - 100 Hot Rhythm & Blues Tunes

Fantastic 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1947!

trax cd 1:
1. Down The Road Apiece - Amos Milburn 2. Texas & Pacific - Louis Jordan 3. Miss Brown Blues - Big Joe Turner 4. Old Maid Boogie - Eddie Vinson 5. Blow Top Blues - Dinah Washington w/Lionel Hampton 6. Swanee River Boogie - Albert Ammons 7. Kidney Stew Blues - Eddie Vinson 8. Banks' Boogie - Buddy Banks 9. Open The Door Richard! - Jack McVea 10. Tiny's Boogie Woogie - Tiny Grimes 11. Good Morning Blues - Jimmy Rushing 12. Shame On You - Redd Foxx 13. Hip Chick Blues - Bill Crosby 14. Rockin' Boogie - Joe Lutcher 15. Young And Wild - Wynonie Harris 16. Camille's Boogie - Roy Milton & Camille Howard 17. Buzzard Pie - Rudy Greene 18. Blues For Sale - Joe Lutcher 19. Red Light - Roy Milton 20. Kilroy Was Here - King Perry 21. 18th And Vine Street Boogie - Duke Henderson 22. You Can't Take It With You - Jesse Price 23. Mr. Blues Jumped A Rabbit - Wynonie Harris 24. Your Hands Ain't Clean - Paul Gayten 25. Bobby Sox Blues - Roosevelt Sykes
trax cd 2:
1. Boozie Boogie - Cecil Gant 2. That's My Desire - Hadda Brooks 3. Love Doctor Blues - Gatemouth Moore 4. Take The Hands Off The Clock - Tiny Bradshaw 5. Signifying Woman - Buster Bennett 6. Undercover Blues - Crown Prince Waterford 7. Hey Sweet Potato - Buddy Johnson 8. High Cost Low Pay Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter 9. Big Fat Mama - Gene Phillips 10. Blow Illinois Blow - Illinois Jacquet 11. Blues With A Feeling - Rabon Tarrant 12. Rockin' The House - Memphis Slim 13. Hawk's Boogie - Erskine Hawkins 14. New Orleans Blues - Charles Brown & Johnny Moore's Blazers 15. Hard Pain Blues - T-Bone Walker 16. Chicago Boogie - Five Blazers 17. Jack You're Dead - Louis Jordan 18. I Ain't Mad At You - Taps Miller & Count Basie's Orchestra 19. Bonus Pay - Eddie Vinson 20. Good Boogie Googie - George Washington & Johnny Otis Orchestra 21. Money Tree Blues - Big Three Trio 22. Look What Baby's Got For You - Baby Dee & Bill Campbell 23. Ol' Man River - The Ravens 24. Jimmy's Jump - Memphis Jimmy 25. Gonna Open Up A Business - Walter Brown
trax cd 3:
1. Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes 2. I Know What You're Puttin' Down - Louis Jordan 3. She's My Baby - Luke Jones 4. Money Hustlin' Woman - Amos Milburn 5. Baby, Don't You Want To Go - Sherman Williams 6. The Boogie Woogie Girl - Christine Chatman 7. Memphis Train - Dick Davis 8. Box Car Shorty And Peter Blue - Cousin Joe 9. True Blues - Roy Milton 10. Boogie Woogie Blues Plate - Louis Jordan 11. Hurry On Down - Nellie Lutcher 12. Jelly Jelly - Lowell Fulson 13. Papa Tree Top Blues - Albennie Jones 14. Blow Mr. Jackson - Joe Liggins 15. Tornado - Dick Lewis 16. And I Wants To Thank Ya' - Geechie Smith 17. He's A Real Gone Guy - Nellie Lutcher 18. Green Light - Chicago All Stars 19. Let It Roll - Annisteen Allen & Lucky Millinder 20. Big Fine Baby - Jimmy Grissom & The Blenders 21. Look Out - Louis Jordan 22. Thrill Me - Camille Howard 23. Bar Fly Blues - Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShan 24. Ain't Got Nothing For Me - Marion Abernathy 25. Life Is Like That - Memphis Slim
trax cd 4:
1. She's Got Great Big Eyes - Dave Bartholomew 2. Jumpin' At The Club Blue Flame - Jimmie Gordon 3. An Ace In The Hole - Jesse Stone 4. Is It's Any News To You - Clyde Bernhardt 5. Two Timin' Baby - Jack McVea 6. Opportunity Knocks - Julie Lee 7. Early In The Morning - Louis Jordan 8. Drinkin' Blues - Jo Jo Adams & Tom Archia 9. Changeable Woman Blues - Charles Brown & Johnny Moore's Blazers 10. I Want A Good Man Bad - Lil Green 11. Hey Sister Lucy! - The Treniers 12. I Know Your Wig Is Gone - T-Bone Walker 13. Hey Pretty Mama - Jump Jackson & Benny Kelly 14. Bell Boy Boogie - Todd Rhodes 15. Walking In A Daze - Hot Lips Page 16. Gatemouth Boogie - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 17. Special Lesson No.1 - Roy Brown 18. Rock Bottom - Gene Phillips 19. Boogie Woogie Blues - Clarence Samuels 20. Fishin' Pole - Tom Archia 21. Floyd's Guitar Blues - Floyd Smith 22. Hastings Street Bounce - Paul Williams 23. Good Rockin' Tonight - Roy Brown 24. Bumps' Boogie - King Porter 25. Merry Christmas Baby - Charles Brown & Johnny Moore's Blazers
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JAMES BROWN "The Payback" (1973)

A masterpiece of funky soul – and one of the greatest albums of the early 70s! It all comes together on this one – funk, soul, politics, and production – and the record is still one of the clearest examples of James Brown's genius that you'll ever find! Recorded during the same sessions as the JBs album Damn Right I Am Somebody – Payback has the group backing James with amazing intensity, playing on and on for very long stretches, improvising jams that perfectly match the vocals, which are often as improvised as the music. The most famous example of this style at work is "The Payback", which begins with a simple head arrangement, then has James riffing off on politics and power, letting the band come in at just the right moment, dropping solos that are still some of the best ever recorded on a funk album. The rest of the album's equally great, and even though most tracks run close to 10 minutes, and the album's a 2LP set, most of the material stays fresher than any 3 minute funk record we've ever heard. Some tracks are separated by these cool voices that rise up as seques – and titles include "Stone To The Bone", "Mind Power", "Take Some Leave Some", and "Shoot Your Shot". © 1996-2012, Dusty Groove, Inc.

trax:
01 The Payback 02 Doing The Best I Can 03 Take Some... Leave Some 04 Shoot Your Shot 05 Forever Suffering 06 Time Is Running Out Fast 07 Stone To The Bone 08 Mind Power
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"ABCO RECORDS, CHICAGO presents..."

COBRA LABEL URBAN BLUES!!!!

trax:
1. Screaming And Crying - Morris Pejoe 2. May-Be Blues - Morris Pejoe 3. Smokestack Lightnin' - Herby Joe 4. Dreamed - Herby Joe 5. Just Whaling - Louis Myers & The Aces 6. Blusey - Louis Myers & The Aces 7. Meet Me The Half Way - Arbee Stidham 8. I'll Always Remember You - Arbee Stidham 9. When I Find My Baby - Arbee Stidham 10. Please Let It Be Me - Arbee Stidham 11. Can't This Be Mine - Freddy Hall & The Aces 12. Playin' Hard To Get - Freddy Hall & The Aces 13. Jivin' At Random - Zona Sago's 14. Short Order - Zona Sago's 15. I Love You The Most - The Rip Chords 16. Let's Do The Razzle Dazzle - The Rip Chords
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"The R&B; Years 1956" - Vol. 2

Great 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1956! This collection is now out of print.

trax CD 1:
1. Ready Teddy - Little Richard 2. Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley 3. Bad Luck - B.B. King 4. You've Got Bad Intensions - Bobby "Blue" Bland 5. Honky Tonk Part 1 - Bill Doggett 6. The Chicken - Rosco Gordon 7. Worried About You Baby - Roy Gaines 8. Don't Go No Father - Muddy Waters 9. No Good Lover - Mickey & Sylvia 10. Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry 11. Tough Lover - Etta James 12. You're The One - Jimmy McCracklin 13. In The Still Of The Night - The Five Satins 14. Mother - In - Law Blues - Little Junior Parker 15. She Moves Me - Johnny Guitar Wilson 16. Chicken Shack - Amos Milbourne 17. Little Liza Jane - Huey "Piano" Smith 18. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino 19. Dimples - John Lee Hooker 20. Don't Happen No More - Young Jessie 21. Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles 22. Since I Meet You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter 23. Cops And Robbers - Boogaloo 24. Ain't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry 25. Blow Wind Blow - Junior Gordon
trax CD 2:
1. Goodnight My Love - Jesse Belvin 2. I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins 3. I Can't Quit You Baby - Otis Rush 4. Jin Dandy - LaVern Baker 5. Chicken - Wah - Web - Bobby Marchan 6. Should I Ever Love Again - Wynona Carr 7. See Saw - The Moonglows 8. You Got Me Dizzy - Jimmy Reed 9. Rib Joint - Sam Price 10. Shame Shame Shame - Smiley Lewis 11. Oh What A Nite - The Dells 12. Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia 13. Confidental - Sonny Knight 14. The Telephone Is Ringing - Pee Wee Crayton 15. Ride Superman Ride - Stomp Gordon 16. Someone To Love - Snooky Pryor 17. Who - Little Walker 18. Walkin' By Myself - Jimmy Rogers 19. You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry 20. 29 Ways - Willie Dixon 21. Blue Monday - Fats Domino 22. My Last Meal - Hurricane Harry 23. Lost Child - Eddie Hope 24. Bacon Fat - Andre Williams 25. Destanation Love - Wynonie Harris
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"The R&B; Years 1956" - Vol. 1

Great 4 CD, 100 song collection of essential R&B from 1956! This collection is now out of print.

trax CD 1:
1. Jivin' Around - Ernie Freeman 2. Seven Days - Clyde McPhatter 3. Devil Of Angel - The Clovers 4. Crying Won't Help You - B.B. King 5. Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby - Jimmy Reed 6. No Nights By Myself - Sonny Boy Williamson 7. No Money Down - Chuck Berry 8. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon 9. One Night - Smiley Lewis 10. Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles 11. Eddie My Love - The Teen Queens 12. Grandma's House - Chris Kenner 13. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf 14. Walkin' Slippin' And Slidin' - Big Mike Gordon 15. You Can't Beat The Horses - Ervin Groves 16. One More Mile - Joe Buckner & Tommy Dean 17. Directly From My Heart - Little Richard 18. I Ain't Got You - Billy Boy Arnold 19. Please, Please, Please - James Brown 20. Mumbles Blues - Bobby Lewis 21. Slippin' And Slidin' - Little Richard 22. I'm In Love Again - Fats Domino 23. Down In Mexico - The Coasters 24. Corrine Corrina - Big Joe Turner 25. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
trax CD 2:
1. Easy Easy - Ann Cole 2. Cindy Lou - The Boogie Ramblers 3. My Pigeon's Gone - Charles Calhoun 4. Pleadin' For Love - Larry Birdsong 5. Did You Ever Love A Woman - B.B. King 6. 40 Days - Muddy Waters 7. I Can't Understand It - Willie Egans 8. Champagne Mind - Effie Smith 9. Ruby Baby - The Drifters 10. You Better Believe It - Paul Gayten 11. I'm Tore Up - Billy Gayles 12. Fever - Little Willie John 13. Big Town Playboy - Eddie Taylor 14. Sweet Baby Of Mine - Ruth Brown 15. Treasure Of Love - Clyde McPhatter 16. Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles 17. Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry 18. It's To Late - Chuck Willis 19. Stranded In The Jungle - The Jayhawks 20. Candy - Big Maybelle 21. Knock On Wood - Willie Mabon 22. Chicken Hop - Billy Bland 23. Rip It Up - Little Richard 24. Let The Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee 25. Time Will - Bobby Charles
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