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Various - That’ll Flat Git It! Vol. 43 – Rockabilly & Country Bop From The Vaults Of Allstar Records (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 35 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
The now 43rd installment in the popular rockabilly CD series with detailed label portraits on Bear Family Records® is dedicated to the Texas label Allstar Records.
On Allstar itself and its two subsidiaries, Kool and Nu-Craft, great country and rockabilly recordings by well-known and rather obscure musicians have appeared.A fascinating mix of country songs and hard-hitting rockabilly by musicians like Johnny Bush, Eddie Noack, Rocky Williams and Wiley Barkdull a.o.
In the extensive illustrated booklet, music historian Bill Dahl tells the story of the Houston-based label founded by Dan Mechura in detail, providing brief biographies and discographical details of each artist and recording.
Re-mastered recordings from the best accessible sources.Dan Mechura’s Houston-based Allstar Records had a different business plan from the lion’s share of his country and rockabilly competitors. For a fee, Mechura and his cohorts would accept lyrics from amateur songwriters through the mail and fashion them into completed songs, recording the final product with a surprisingly impressive roster of singers and sidemen.
By no means was everything Allstar and its Kool and Nu-Craft subsidiary labels done that way, but a fair amount was – resulting in some intriguing listening.
Bear Family takes an in-depth look at Allstar’s obscure output on this edition of ‘That’ll Flat Git It!,’ uncovering some splendid obscurities by surprisingly well-known names.
Johnny Bush’s first two singles came out on Allstar in 1958, and there are memorable entries by veteran country vocalists Link Davis, Eddie Noack, Lawton Williams, Earl Aycock, and Smilin’ Jerry Jericho.
Adrian Roland’s Imitation Of Love beat the odds to become a national country hit in 1960, while Johnny Watson (not the famed blues guitarist), Bobby Clanton and The Citations, Jerry Matthews, Tommy Graham, and Mechura himself (as Daniel James with Rock Moon Rock) supply tough rockabilly, Rocky Williams tears through Rock Cinderella, and Wiley Barkdull’s insane guitar instrumental Tiger By The Tail rocks harder than anything coming out of Houston in 1964!
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Reynolds Jody - The Endless Sleep Man 1958-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewJODY REYNOLDS is no doubt destined to be erroneously remembered as a ’One Hit Wonder’ for his very first record, the million-selling ’Endless Sleep’.
Once heard, never forgotten, its spooky, reverb-laden vocals and Al Casey’s rumbling guitar lent dramatic tension to the disc, bestowing instant ’killer’ status on it.
However, his follow up, the similarly-crafted ’Fire Of Love’ (which would later be revived, memorably, by both the MC5 and Gun Club), also dented the US Top 100.
Reynolds went on to record a powerful, wholly underrated body of work, which even includes a couple of Instro 45s, with his backing group The Storms, featuring him on lead guitar.
This compilation is an attempt to anthologise all his releases between 1958-62, across seven different labels.
Included herein are a number of sides which are serious collectors’ rarities, impossible to find elsewhere on CD.
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Presley Elvis - The Complete 1950’s Live Recordings (3CD) (CD)
€22,00Quick ViewUusintapainos.
UK Label ‘Memphis Recording Service’ (MRS) will re-release 3 CD titles on its new alternate label, MRS CAMDEN on 24th November 2023.
ONE NIGHT IN PEARL HARBOR CD
ELVIS ON TELEVISION 1956- 1960 2CD
THE COMPLETE 1950’S LIVE RECORDINGS 3CDThe titles have slight changes in the name and on CD content and come in a Digi-Sleeve pack. Each comes with a small booklet. The releases on this specific new label are scaled-down budget version of the previous, priced for the mainstream market. At the same time however, some of the CD’s include newly sourced audio upgrades.
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Presley Elvis - Elvis On Television 1956-1960 (2CD) (CD)
€20,00Quick ViewUusintapainos.
UK Label ‘Memphis Recording Service’ (MRS) will re-release 3 CD titles on its new alternate label, MRS CAMDEN on 24th November 2023.
ONE NIGHT IN PEARL HARBOR CD
ELVIS ON TELEVISION 1956- 1960 2CD
THE COMPLETE 1950’S LIVE RECORDINGS 3CDThe titles have slight changes in the name and on CD content and come in a Digi-Sleeve pack. Each comes with a small booklet. The releases on this specific new label are scaled-down budget version of the previous, priced for the mainstream market. At the same time however, some of the CD’s include newly sourced audio upgrades.
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Presley Elvis - One Night In Pearl Harbor (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewUusintapainos.
UK Label ‘Memphis Recording Service’ (MRS) will re-release 3 CD titles on its new alternate label, MRS CAMDEN on 24th November 2023.
ONE NIGHT IN PEARL HARBOR CD
ELVIS ON TELEVISION 1956- 1960 2CD
THE COMPLETE 1950’S LIVE RECORDINGS 3CDThe titles have slight changes in the name and on CD content and come in a Digi-Sleeve pack. Each comes with a small booklet. The releases on this specific new label are scaled-down budget version of the previous, priced for the mainstream market. At the same time however, some of the CD’s include newly sourced audio upgrades.
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Various - On The Dancefloor With A Fingersnap – 31 Pops To Make The Party Shake! (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
In the CD series ’On The Dancefloor With …’ featuring the best danceable music, Bear Family Records® here deals with those songs that are accompanied by a percussive finger snap.
Everybody knows Fever, the umpteen times covered cool anthem. We offer Peggy Lee’s great version – and that’s just one example.
Without giving too much away, the album delivers irresistible grooves and songs by Joe Henderson, the Coasters, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill Haley, Dean Reed, Pat Morrissey and even B.B. King, Roger Miller and many others.
Chicago music historian Bill Dahl has written the detailed liner notes in the illustrated booklet to this CD compiled by Nico Feuerbach.Never underestimate the percussive power of the simple fingerpop. Snapping one’s digits while listening to a cool melody can be tremendously satisfying and more than a little therapeutic – and this collection will have you doing precisely that from one end of its expertly curated songstack to the other.
From deep-voiced Joe Henderson’s ’62 smash Snap Your Fingers and The Coasters’ hipster streetlife vignette Three Cool Cats to Tennessee Ernie Ford’s immortal Sixteen Tons and Peggy Lee’s slinky Fever, you’ll find the whole thing hard to resist.
Not every selection is as well-known as those classics – obscurities by Pat Morrissey, Al Brown & His Tunetoppers, Dean Reed, Birdie Green, and Bill Haley and His Comets are but a few of its happy surprises (and you haven’t lived until you’ve heard blues immortal B.B. King take on 16 Tons).
They’re interspersed with more familiar inclusions by Ronnie Love, Connie Francis, Little Willie John, Roger Miller, LaVern Baker, and Chicago rock and roller Steve King (Satan Is Her Name) that’ll have you sharpening up your fingers in delighted anticipation of snapping along.
So get ready to get cool when you drop this disc in your changer – you’ll be fingerpopping like a pro!
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Cochran Wayne - The Bigger The Pompadour … – His Complete Recordings 1959-66 (2-CD) (CD)
€18,00Quick View2-CD (Digisleeve) with 36 page booklet, 42 tracks. Total playing time approx. 130 min.
Wayne Cochran (1939 – 2017) from Georgia, also called ’The White Knight of Soul’, is remembered for his white pompadour hairstyle and the brilliant Last Kiss that he wrote.
Bear Family Records® comprehensively chronicles the most creative period of his career with this double CD, from his beginnings as a young rocker and teen idol to his magnificent recordings as a compelling soul singer.
We present all the recordings from 1959 to 1966 including his rare recordings released on local labels and the recordings for Chess, Mercury and King.
Influenced by and a friend of Otis Redding and James Brown, among others, Wayne Cochran was a convincing performer as one of the best white soul and R&B singers.
Includes the first recorded version ever of These Arms Of Mine written by Otis Redding.
Music historian Bill Dahl wrote the extensive liner notes.
We have remastered the original recordings from the best available sources.Long before he was anointed as ‘The White Knight of Soul,’ Wayne Cochran made a stack of intriguing but rare early ‘60s 45s for various small Georgia concerns and later considerably larger labels spanning the gamut from hauling rockers to dramatic teen tragedy themes.
They’ve occasionally been anthologized over the years, but never as comprehensively as on Bear Family’s ‘The Bigger The Pompadour… – His Complete Recordings From 1959- 1966 (2-CD),’ a 32-track extravaganza tracing Cochran’s recording career from its humble beginnings with The Coo to just before he fully exploded on the national scene with his explosive brand of horn-leavened blue-eyed soul.
Naturally, Wayne’s immortal pre-J. Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers rendition of Last Kiss is here in several incarnations (he wrote it) along with its little-known sequel Last Kiss II. So is the equally foreboding Edge Of The Sea.
But Cochran’s output also included plenty of swaggering rock and roll; all of those extreme rarities are on board too, even three extremely obscure instrumentals by his combo, The Rocking Capris.
Towards the end of the set, as Wayne and his C.C. Riders blast through Harlem Shuffle, the Mercury version of Get Down With It, and his thundering original Goin’ Back To Miami, the fully developed Cochran emerges, his sky-high white coiffure remaining awe-inspiringly intact as his mighty C.C. Riders horns blast and his melismatic screams pierce the studio air.
Cochran was a thoroughly electrifying live act, but this jam-packed collection demonstrates that his often-overlooked recording legacy was scorching too.
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Various - Beware! Insects and Spiders! 28 Buzzin’ Blasters From The Vaults Of Horror
€10,00Quick View1-CD with 16-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 65 min.
Autumn. Halloween. Horror. Bear Family Records presents a CD compilation all about creepy-crawlies: ’Beware! Insects and Spiders’!
With 28 recordings from 1937 to 1966 around ’the big creepy crawlies’ the horror comes alive!
Spanning genres, we hear famous artists such as Lionel Hampton, Chubby Checker and Brook Benton as well as lesser-known tunes, some on CD for the first time.Some instrumentals, a song by Belgian singer Freddy Sunders and an early recording featuring Jimi Hendrix are among the many highlights.
Stylistically, the spectrum ranges from country, surf rock, exotica and pop to rhythm ’n’ blues, jazz and swing and a main focus on rock ’n’ roll.
The 16-page color booklet includes song annotations by Marc Mittelacher and many often rare photos and memorabilia!
Insects and spiders – a Halloween theme
Imagine ladybugs, butterflies or honeybees and Halloween doesn’t exactly come to mind. But have you ever looked at a praying mantis in close-up?
At the latest then you will learn to be creeped out. Such images were used as models for classic horror movies, oversized insects and spiders became song themes, the fear of spiders, one of the primeval fears of mankind, comes to life here.
Tarantula
This handpicked, richly varied compilation presents a wide spectrum of genres of past times, classics, but also many rarities. About a third of the recordings are pure instrumentals, including – as a special highlight – an early recording by Curtis Knight & The Squires, whose lead guitarist was a young Jimi Hendrix!
Guitar virtuoso Buddy Merrill opens the CD album, and from jazzman Lionel Hampton with his orchestra comes the oldest instrumental recording (1937). Extremely annoying flies are sung about by Hank Williams and Chubby Checker, with Martin Denny’s Tsetse Fly it turns exotic.
The classic and cult film ’Tarantula’ has also left its ’footprint’ in the music world and is represented here by no less than four performers. Also a highlight: the piano version of the instrumental classic Bumble Boogie, played at breathtaking speed by the British Winifred Atwell!
The CD comes with a 16-page color booklet containing producer Marc Mittelacher’s notes on each song as well as a wealth of illustrations!
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Joy Benny - Little Red Book 10″LP (+ Bonus CD) (10``LP)
€25,00Quick ViewUpea 10″ albumi kera CD:n. Ilmestyy joulukuun eka. SAA VARATA!
is a 10 track 10inch record that comes with a 29 track CD and as regular CD (6 panel ecopac as usual) !!!!
Its the first release that will be out on Rockstar to celebrate 50 years of Rockstar Records in 2024. Due to legal issues it wont hit the USA.
Limited to 500 copies and of course no reprints.
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Various - Booze Party – The Rockers – 90 Years Since Prohibition Ended (CD)
€15,00Quick View90 Years Since Prohibition Ended, The Rockers, Booze Party is the response in hindsight to the National Prohibition Act, and the thirty songs challenge the preposterous law in verse.
The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act aim was to make the selling of intoxicating liquids illegal, and the prohibition of consuming alcoholic beverages became law on 17th January 1920. The Anti-Saloon League’s Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named after Andrew Volstead, who was the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation. The thirteen years of “dry times“ ended on 5th December1933. It must be said that the soda pop middle-class American years of Rock ‘n‘ Roll was limited in alcohol songs titles, therefore included are some hillbilly rockers to keep the music 100 percent proof! Additionally not all the songs have an alcohol related title and the booze reference is hidden in the lyric. The consequence of the Prohibition ruling was the Mob (gangsters) took control of the outlawed booze industry. This led to murder and mob rule for several years, and the outcome of the law is clearly explained in the opening song the F-B-I Story by Rudy Grayzell. The Three Aces and A Joker hold a Booze Party and in attendance are; The Champs who have a dash of Tequila Twist, Bo Davis rocks and rolls away his problems during Drownin’ All My Sorrows, The Wailers are drinking a Tall Cool One, Jay Chevalier finds Too Many Bubbles in his glass, and all hell breaks loose when Sonny Burgess opens the Thunderbird bottle. Drinking too much booze has given Millie Vernon Bloodshot Eyes, legendary drinker Carl Perkins is in a state of over-consumption known as Dixie Fried, and Billy Lee Riley knows that the alcohol induced high in the barroom means he is Trouble Bound. Across town, Tommy Law is having fun from his Cool Juice, Lee Finn is a little more sophisticated and sings Pour Me A Glass Of Wine, Clyde Stacy Honky is dancing on the Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor, Jimmy Patton hollers Yah I’m Movin which is a 100 percent proof ode to boozing and women, and The Premieres instrumental tune is about this juice known as Firewater. Country folk brewed Moonshine, which Whitey Pullen and Cecil Moore sing about with two different songs of the same title. The brew was also known as hooch and Jack Hold is brewing some in his Moonshine Still, meanwhile the law using the Revenuer Man attempt to close down the stills, and the album uses Bill Goodwin‘s version of the song to tell the tale. A visit to Australia allows Slim Dusty to bring the Rock ‘n‘ Roll hangover to closing time with his ode to drinking The Pub Rock. Our historic series Atomicat Records (ACCD145) 90 Years Since Prohibition Ended, The Rockers, Booze Party will be followed up by Koko Mojo Records (KM-CD-180) 90 Years Since Prohibition Ended, The R&B Rockers, Sloppy Drunk. The sleeve notes from the compilation/ re-issue producer and Dee Jay Mark Armstrong will provide information on the supporting band and were known the session information. The album is topped off with the best possible sound quality possible from our mastering team at our El Paso, Texas, Studio. The concept is lavishly decorated by design artist Alf Button’s Revenge, and the sleeve is made from top-quality eco-friendly cardboard specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. Atomicat Records endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some, perhaps more obscure titles and adds something unexpected to every album. The album is ideal for Dee Jays to fill the dance floor with, and for home listening or while cruising around. You are listening to music from the past and preserving the future! Atomicat Records “often imitated, never duplicated.” All that remains is to say, “Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems.
Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
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Burnette Johnny - And the Rock ’N’ Roll Trio (Expanded Edition) (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewOne of Rock & Roll/Rockabilly’s ’Holy Grail’ releases, the 10′ LP ’JOHNNY BURNETTE’S ROCK ’N ROLL TRIO’ was originally issued in the U.S. on the Coral label, in December 1956.
It was a near-perfect body of work, on which the basic Trio of Johnny & Dorsey Burnette and Paul Burlison, were famously augmented by Nashville ’A’ Team guitarist Grady Martin, who played those memorable licks and solos.
They’d also recorded sufficient material for a second album, ’Tear It Up’, built around its blistering title track, which belatedly appeared in the U.K. (although not the U.S.) in 1969.
Between them, these two LPs presented the entire recorded legacy of The Rock ’n Roll Trio.
This compilation comprises both albums plus further bonus tracks, recorded by Johnny and Dorsey either solo or as a duo, from sessions which stylistically retained the fire and drive of the Rock ’n Roll Trio.
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Various - The Brit-Everlys’ Sound – ’Wish We Could Sing Like Phil & Don!’ (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewWithin just months of THE EVERLY BROTHERS first hits, in 1957, their influence was already being felt.
Duos, trios and groups were queueing up to try and sound like them, while their own releases were frequently covered by U.K. artists, some rather more successfully than others.
This compilation presents three dozen valiant British attempts to capture The Everlys’ zeitgeist, and it’s a surprisingly enjoyable listening experience.
Featured artists range from big names like Billy Fury, The Brook Brothers, The Allisons, etc., to the wholly obscure, e.g. Lee & Jay Elvin, The Bird Twins, The Day Brothers, etc..
There’s a few hits here, including a couple of biggies, but many of these were 45s that fell just below the radar, didn’t quite make it, and are now collectors’ rarities.
Of course, several of these sides are unfeasibly rare, and have never previously appeared on CD.
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Pride Dickie - The Sheik Of Shake (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewOver the decades, more nonsense has been written about DICKIE PRIDE than almost any of Britain’s early Rock & Rollers.
A much maligned and misunderstood character, due to the circumstances surrounding his tragically early death he has often been written off as a R&R failure.
But by the common consensus of every one of his contemporaries, he was a seriously underrated singer and musician, by far the most talented member of manager Larry Parnes’ ’Stable Of Stars’.
And had his inner demons and narcotic intake not undermined his fragile mental health, he may have lived long enough to make a comeback in a later musical era.
His recorded legacy is brief, and admittedly patchy, although he charted with ’Primrose Lane’ in 1959.
This compilation reissues everything that he recorded for U.K. Columbia between 1959-61, plus a couple of live, early ’59 appearances from Oh Boy!
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Various - Rockin Rollin USA Volume 7 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe twenty-eight songs on the Pan American Recordings, Rockin’ Rollin’ USA 07 adventure are an insight into home-produced and buy-in records that were available in Canada. Throughout Mark and Henrique’s epic expedition you will hear a plethora of rockin’ music, and the motor is running as the excursion is underway with music from the years 1956 through to 1963 to bring pleasure to your ears. The regional labels in Woman Fever include; Aragon, Banff, Chateau, Delta, Rock-A-Tune, and Zirkon. The Pan American Recordings label endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its “killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
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Duvall Huelyn - You Knock Me Out (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewHuelyn Duvall Garner, Parker County, Texas is a rural parish and there Huelyn Wayne Duvall entered the world on 18 August 1939. Duvall’s early life was devoted to sports, however, relocation to another rural Texas parish Huckabay, prevented his continuation of a sportsman’s life. He then turned his attention towards the music. In high school in 1956, Duval and his guitarist friend Lonnie Thompson along with Lonnie’s twin brother Johnnie (rhythm guitar, vocals), and Ralph Clark (bass), formed Huelyn Duvall and The Troublesome Three. Stephenville, Texas-bred Danny Wolfe who was a singer, songwriter, and producer entered the picture and became their manager and he set up a recording contract.
The group disbanded at this point as it was clear that the deal was only for Duvall.The featured early years Huelyn Duvall sessions were held in Nashville, Hollywood, and Texas between 1957 and 1960, and in 1961 he married and the music business became a memory. The album after the classic songs which were released from 1957 to 1960 focuses on some of the fiery records he waxed with young contemporary rockabilly musicians. Returning to Music In 1985 after a lengthy hiatus Huelyn Duvall was lured over to Europe to perform, and the album features recording he made with two young rockabilly bands. In 2002, Duvall returned to the studio and began to record again he laid down reworking of his classic titles, unissued demos, and new songs.
Featured on this album are carefully selected tunes from his 2003 session recorded in Sweden with Wildfire Willie and The Ramblers, there are six unissued songs from a session held in Berlin in 2003 with The Lighting Recordings Boys and The Mellow Men, and in 2017 in Berlin, he recorded with Long John and The Ballroom Kings a swing-reworking of Pucker Paint .
The album closes with a vintage life performance from Huelyn Duvall and The Troublesome Three. The old saying in the music circles is “The original was better” most of these are originals by an original performer! Where available the session musicians and recording dates are indicated, and the album provides a story. The series is compiled by Dee Jay Mark Armstrong and topped off with the best possible sound quality from our mastering team at our El Paso, Texas, Studio.
The top-quality eco-friendly cardboard sleeve is specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album is lavishly decorated by design artist and working musician Urban Zotel. The thirty dance-floor-fillers are perfect for; Dee Jays, home listening, or cruising around. You are listening to music from the past and preserving the future! Atomicat Records “Often imitated, never duplicated.”All that remains is to say, “Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems.
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Richard Cliff - Dynamite – The Brits Are Rocking Vol.10 (CD)
€18,00Quick View1 CD with 36 page booklet, 34 tracks. Total playing time approx. 78 min.
Long overdue: a CD compilation featuring Cliff Richard’s early rockers in ’The Brits Are Rocking’ series on Bear Family Records®.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows were the most successful rock ’n’ roll combo in Britain until … Beatlemania swept the country.
This album presents 34 of his most rocking songs from 1958 to 1962, including Move It!, High Class Baby, Dynamite, Choppin’ ’n’ Changin’, and Livin’ Lovin’ Doll, as well as numerous cover versions of popular U.S. rock ’n’ roll hits.
Extensive, enjoyable liner notes by expert on British beat and rock ’n’ roll, Ashley Wood, in the illustrated booklet with discographical details and many photos.
Carefully remastered recordings from the best possible sources by one of the greats of pop history!Before the Fab Four released their recipe for mania in 1963, Britain’s top selling beat group was unquestionably Cliff Richard and The Shadows. Starting out as The Drifters, the group pushed Cliff into the spotlight and opened their recording account with Move It!- one of the best and most important British pop records of the 20th century.
By the time the group released their follow-up single High Class Baby, Cliff had been voted the best newcomer in a readers pop poll and the New Musical Express was soon railing against ”The most crude exhibitionism ever seen on British TV” and asking ”Is Cliff too sexy?”.
Before the following year was out, Cliff had toned down his 45 releases with Living Doll and Travellin’ Light but he still found time along the way to detonate a few explosive tracks and it is those up-tempo numbers such as Dynamite and Choppin’ ’n’ Changin’ that feature on the latest CD in Bear Family’s ‘The Brits Are Rocking’ series.
There are no Summer Holidays, no Bachelor Boys, no Mistletoe and Wine and definitely no Living Dolls. Well, there is a Livin’ Lovin’ Doll but don’t panic, she’s mean and nasty and bopping at the hop. Let’s face it, Cliff, Hank, Bruce, Jet and Tony should have been in the ‘Rock ’n’ Roll Hall Of Fame’ decades ago. Here’s the proof….
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Various - Hallowscream 3 – Planetary Run (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe album is blasted into orbit with the assistance of Eddie Cletro and His Round Up Boys, who sing about the Flyin’ Saucer Boogie with the delightful lyric ”It’s just imagination, but I saw them just the same.” The album stays in orbit with; Billy Hogan and The Twilighters, Shake It Over Sputnik, Bill Riley, Rockin’ On The Moon, Georgia Jim, Flyin’ Saucer Baby, Buck Trail, Knocked Out Joint On Mars, and The Busters pay tribute to the people or is it monsters piloting the spaceships? with their nifty title Astronauts. Outer space is the great unknown, and musically this is explored with the following songs; Jan Amber sings about The Little Martian, The Jokers enlighten the world about the enchantress known as The Daughter Of The Moon, Bonnie Lou‘s message is in the song not the title, and she is having a date with her baby on Mars during Friction Heat, and Riki and The Rikatones use T.N.T to get them into orbit. The outer space Planetary Run is explained by Joe Montgomery and along the flight, you will encounter, E. ”Tiny” Watkins and his Rockin’ Satellite, Jerry Engler and The Four Ekkos have a brush with Sputnik “the“(Satellite Girl), Lil Randolph (Madame Queen) finds Satellite Love, and the sleeve notes will inform you about her appearance in an all time Hollywood classic movie. Joe Tate and The Hi Five prefer to dance the Satellite Rock, and Ron Halls with Donna Reid and The Pic-Tones are also having fun with a Satellite. People from outer space are sung about by; Bill Carlisle, Tiny Space Man, The Chaperones, The Man From The Moon, The Vigilantes, Man In Space and we feature the Australian version of Rocket And Roll (Space Boy) which is sung by Helen Warren. The legendary Rayburn Anthony laid down numerous songs for Rhythm Bomb Records and two unissued titles are made available for the first time on this album; Rocketship To Mars, and Mr Moon, both of which are recorded in an authentic style with assistance from the Lightning Recordings Boys. However not every space journey goes to plan and long before David Bowie sang about an astronaut stuck in space, Jeff Hughes was singing Our Space Man Did Come Back. The Planetary Run disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. The album‘s stunning design is from artist Henrique San, the sleeve notes from compiled by Dee Jay Mark Armstrong, and the songs are mastered for the best possible sound by our mastering team at our El Paso, Texas, Studio. Atomicat Records endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some, perhaps more obscure titles and adds something unexpected to every album. The album is ideal for Dee Jays to fill the dance floor with, and for home listening or while cruising around and scaring the neighborhood. You are listening to music from the past and preserving the future! Atomicat Records ”Often imitated, never duplicated.” All that remains is to say, ”Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems.
” Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
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Various - Rockin Rollin USA Volume 6 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewMark and Henrique’s record-buying adventure is a state-by-state journey and the Pan American Recordings, Rockin’ Rollin’ USA album will showcase music available on regional and major labels. Every state had a local hero, some of whom left their birth area, and the album will introduce some of these along the journey. Pan American Recordings endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its “killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
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Various - Rockin Rollin USA Volume 5 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe twenty-eight songs on the Pan American Recordings, Rockin’ Rollin’ USA 05 adventure are an insight into home-produced and buy-in records that were available in Canada. Throughout Mark and Henrique’s epic expedition you will hear a plethora of rockin’ music, and the motor is running as the excursion is underway with music from the years 1956 through to 1962 to bring pleasure to your ears. The regional labels in Juke Box include; Delta, Gaiety, Reo, Sotan, and Sparton. The Pan American Recordings label endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its “killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
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Various - Eddie Cochran – In Session (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewThe tragic loss of EDDIE COCHRAN in April 1960, at the age of only twenty-one (even younger than Buddy Holly), robbed Rock & Roll of one of its most precocious talents.
Despite his youth he’d already cut a couple of R&R’s iconic, touchstone records, was the first Rock & Roller to experiment extensively with overdubbing and other studio techniques, and had already played on countless sessions for other artists.
This unique compilation presents three dozen examples of Eddie’s extra-curricular activities, with artists like Gene Vincent, Mamie Van Doren, Baker Knight, Johnny Burnette, Wynn Stewart, Skeets McDonald, Al Casey, etc.
In most cases he plays guitar, although he also features as a vocalist and arranger.
Several of these sides are serious collectors’ items, known to R&R aficionados and Cochran fans alike, whereas others are way off the regular radar and fall squarely into ’rare as unicorns’ manure’ territory.
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Storm Warren - Prisoner’s Song (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewVihdoinkin cd kokoelma v. 1958-1962.
Singing drummer WARREN STORM was Swamp-Pop royalty, reaching his commercial apogee with his very first 45rpm, a revival of Vernon Dalhart’s ’Prisoner’s Song’, in 1958.
He subsequently embarked upon a remarkable career, experiencing a major resurgence in popularity around the turn of the century, when he was in his sixties,
He continued to tour and record with the all-star South Louisiana band Lil’ Band Of Gold until his death, in 2021, at the age of eighty-four.
Storm has been poorly served over the years in terms of CD compilations of his classic recordings, and this is an attempt to put that right.
This set anthologises his first dozen 45s, produced by Jay Miller and issued between 1958-62, and by way of bonus tracks includes a further eight live sides, recorded with Herb Landry & The Serenaders, in 1957.
Much of this material has never previously appeared on CD.
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Sheridan Tony - The Teacher, Hamburg 1961-1962 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewTONY SHERIDAN, an outstanding guitarist, a superb singer, and an imposing, charismatic live performer, was among the first British musicians to play the clubs in Hamburg, Germany, at the turn of the 60s.
A huge influence on the younger British beat groups who followed him, he quickly became known as ’The Teacher’.
The Beatles famously backed Sheridan on sessions for Polydor Records in 1961, on a body of work which would sell in its millions following the outbreak of Beatlemania.
This compilation anthologises all Sheridan’s recordings during 1961 and 62, and of course includes the tracks on which he was backed by The Beatles (at the time, these sides were issued as ’Tony Sheridan & The Beat Brothers’).
Included as bonus tracks are four earlier, pre-Hamburg recordings which feature him as a session guitarist, plus a couple of live tracks from an April 1959 edition of Oh Boy!
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Loudermilk John D. - The Bully of the Beach (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewJOHN D LOUDERMILK was perhaps the songwriter for whom the word ’idiosyncratic’ was created.
His catalogue of songs defies classification, ranging from the unlikely to the downright bizarre, touching all points in between.
Although he often came across as an unwilling performer, being happier when other people sang his songs, he was a fine singer, a skilful guitarist, and he registered hit records of his own.
This is the companion to an earlier Jasmine release, Sittin’ In The Balcony, The Songs Of John D. Loudermilk (JASCD 699).
Tracks 1-22 are Loudermilk’s own recordings, omitted from that earlier set, including his U.S. hits ’Road Hog’, ’Thou Shalt Not Steal’, ’Callin’ Dr. Casey’ and ’Bad News’.
Tracks 23-32 present ten of his songs interpreted by artists like George Hamilton IV, Brian Hyland, Kris Jensen, Jack Scott, Sue Thompson, Bob Luman, etc., and features an eclectic range of hits, flips, and rarities.
