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Good Rockin' Tonight / 28 Original Rock 'N' Roll Hits, featuring Bill Haley, Fats Domino , Little Richard, Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker / Prism Leisure ‎Audio CD 2004 / PLATCD1243

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5014293124324
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5014293124324
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Good Rockin' Tonight / 28 Original Rock 'N' Roll Hits, featuring Bill Haley, Fats Domino , Little Richard, Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker / Prism Leisure ‎Audio CD 2004 / PLATCD1243

UPC 5014293124324

 

Product Details: 

Label: Prism Leisure ‎– PLATCD1243
Format: CD, Compilation
Released: 2004
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll
 
 
Editorial Review:
European copyright law, which allows into the public domain recordings that are more than 50 years old, has fathered scores of poorly assembled and packaged collections of music that is still claimed by American companies. But there are instances in which the free-for-all has led to interesting albums that couldn't have been compiled or issued -- especially at an inexpensive price -- in the U.S. due to the many competing record labels involved. A case in point is Prism Leisure's 2004 album Good Rockin' Tonight: 28 Original Rock 'n' Roll Hits, which gathers together recordings made between 1947 and 1953 of what in those days was known as jump blues or rhythm & blues music. Titles like "Hound Dog," "Good Rockin' Tonight," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer," and "Big Ten Inch (Record of the Blues)" have become familiar to rock fans in the hands of Elvis Presley, George Thorogood, and Aerosmith, among others, but these recordings are the early ones performed by black artists like Big Mama Thornton, Wynonie Harris, Amos Milburn, and Bull Moose Jackson. (Particularly interesting is Dave Bartholomew's "My Ding-a-Ling," the unacknowledged precursor to Chuck Berry's 1972 number one hit of the same name.) There are better known names here, too, among them Bill Haley, Lloyd Price, Louis Jordan, Fats Domino, and John Lee Hooker, but many of these artists never went much beyond the chitlin circuit, despite their talents and the success of their recordings; ten of the 28 heard here hit number one or two in the R&B charts. Of course, some of the disadvantages of a public domain collection are found here. With the tracks mastered off records, the sound quality is occasionally uneven (there is a noticeable mixing problem in the middle of Haley's "Crazy Man Crazy," the leadoff track, for example), and the packaging is deceptive: Little Richard's picture and name are shown on the cover, but his music is not heard on the disc!
 
 

Tracklist:

1 Bill Haley And His Comets Crazy Man Crazy  
2 Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog  
3 Billy Ward & The Dominoes Sixty Minute Man  
4 Lloyd Price Lawdy Miss Clawdy  
5 Wynonie Harris All Stars Good Rockin' Tonight  
6 The Du Droppers Bambalam  
7 Big Joe Turner With Johnson & His Band Midnight Rockin'  
8 The Clovers Good Lovin'  
9 Amos Milburn & His Aladdin Chickenshackers   
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer  
10 Little Willie Littlefield Kc Loving  
11 Big Jay McNeely Nervous Man, Nervous  
12 Dave Bartholomew And His Orchestra My Ding-A-Ling  
13 Shirley And Lee I'm Gone  
14    
Bullmoose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats Big Ten Inch  
15 Milt Trenier & His Solid Six Squeeze Me  
16 Mr. Sad Head Butcher Boy  
17 Willis Jackson 'Gator Tail' And His Gators Gator's Groove  
18 Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five Blue Light Boogie  
19 Professor Longhair And His New Orleans Boys Rockin' With Fes  
20 Merrill Moore House Of Blue Lights  
21 Fats Domino Goin' Home  
22 Moon Mullican Grandpa Stole My Baby  
23 The Dominoes Have Mercy Baby  
24 Lowell Fulson Cash Box Boogie  
25 Little Richard Thinkin' 'bout My Brother  
26 Ernie K-Doe No Money  
27 Ed Gates & His Hollywood All Stars Rocking Time  
28 John Lee Hooker No More Doggin'  

 

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