Tuesday February 20 2024

Black History Month Special, The Original Versions Of Rock & Roll Classics;



VERA WARD HALL ~ "TROUBLE SO HARD";


BIG JOE TURNER ~ "SHAKE RATTLE & ROLL";


THE CHORDS ~ "SH-BOOM";


THE CADETS ~ "STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE";


(artist/song/album/label);

1. James "Boodle It" Wiggins ~ Keep A Knocking ~ Paramount Records Box Set ~ JSP

2. Wynonie Harris ~ Good Rockin Tonight ~ Box Set ~ Proper

3. Smiley Lewis ~ I Hear You Knocking ~ The Best Of ~ King

4. Big Joe Turner ~ Shake Rattle & Roll ~ Box Set ~ JSP

6. John Brim ~ Ice Cream Man ~ Chess Blues Box Set ~ Chess

7. Arthur Big Boy Crudup ~ That's All Right Mama ~ Mean Ole Frisco ~ Charly

8. Leadbelly ~ House Of The Rising Sun ~ The Best Of ~ Fuel 2000

9. Muddy Waters ~ You Need Loving ~ Box Set ~ Chess

10. Richard Berry ~ Louie Louie ~ Yama Yama ~ Ace

11. Willie Bobo ~ Evil Ways ~ Bobo Motion ~ Verve

12. Little Willie John ~ Fever ~ Fever ~ Rhino

13. Tiny Bradshaw ~ Train Kept Rollin ~ Walk That Mess ~ West Side

13. The Cadets ~ Stranded In The Jungle ~ Rockin & Reeling ~ Crown

14. Shorty Long ~ Devil With The Blue Dress ~ Songs The Cramps Taught Us (comp) ~ Crypt

15. Big Mama Thornton ~ Hound Dog ~ Duke/Peacock Records Greatest Hits (comp) ~ RCA

16. Willie Mitchell ~ That Driving Beat ~ That Driving Beat ~ ACE

17. The Chords ~ Sh'Boom ~ Doo Wop Box Set ~ Rhino

18. Bobby Freeman ~ Do You Wanna Dance ~ Do You Wanna Dance ~ Jubilee

19. The Paragons ~ Tide Is High ~ Trojan Records Box Set ~ Trojan

20. The Valentinos ~ The Last Time ~ The SAR Records Box Set ~ ABKCO


BIG MAMA THORNTON ~ "HOUND DOG" & "DOWN HOME SHAKEDOWN";


ARTHUR BIG BOY CRUDUP ~ "SO GLAD YOU'RE MINE";


LEADBELLY ~ "IN THE PINES", "PICK A BALE OF COTTON", "GREY GOOSE" & "TAKE THIS HAMMER";


WILLIE BOBO ~ "2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY";


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