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Wilson Jackie - In New York: He`s So Fine / Lonely Teardrops (Käytetty CD)
€13,00Quick ViewReissue featuring the soul great’s first two LPs together onone CD, respectively originally released on the Brunswick label in 1958 & 1959. A combined total of 24 tracks, including the hits ’Reet Petite’ and ’Lonely Teardrops’. Also features the original cover art of each.
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Moore Rudy Ray - This Ain`t No White Christmas (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewRudy Ray Moore a/k/a Dolemite puts the XXX in Xmas and burns the proverbial yule log with Norton’s deluxe 30th anniversary edition of this legendary artist’s classic 1971 holiday party platter complete with bonus material and unpublished photos! One of the greatest adult comedy albums of all time! Rudy with your @#$% so bright/ Deliver some Christmas Dolemite! Coincides with new film DOLEMITE 2002! Raunchy, racy and ribald– the three R’s! Perfect holiday offering for one and all!
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Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama - The Sermon (CD)
€109,00Quick ViewThe Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama have been one of the surprise successes of the past few years.Their two recent UK tours brought them rave reviews and a whole new audience. The Sermon contains brilliant early material, made between 1953 and ’56, including Precious Lord, Marching Up To Zion, Old Time Religion and 24 other performances that span gospel, pop-styled gospel and even comedy (the title piece is a hilarious parody of a Baptist preacher’s rhetorical manner).
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Original Five Blind Boys Of Alabama - Oh Lord-Stand By Me/Marching Up To Zion (CD)
€109,00Quick ViewNot to be confused with Archie Brownlee’s Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, these Alabaman blind singers met at a school for the blind in the late 1930s. Clarence Fountain, whose range was not very wide, led the group with deep shouts, lofty cries, and rumbling, emotional singing that seems to have the power to move mountains. The group stick to their well-known mother” theme (their first hit was the mind-blowing ”I Can See Everybody’s Mother, But I Can’t See Mine” in 1949) on these two early ’70s LPs, issued here as one CD. No less than three songs mourn the death of a matriarch–the bluesy, brilliant standby ”Alone and Motherless,” the moody, slow-tempo ”When I Lost My Mother,” and the revved tearjerker ”Goodbye Mother.” The group singing is tight, the tempo and material varied, the minimal percussion perfectly complementary, the guitar playing subtle, sparse, beautiful. But the real treat is when the five singers wind each other up, like a spinning top, into ecstatic realms of entwined shouting, singing, and praising that will please any ear. –Mike McGonigal
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Various - Honk! Honk! Honk! (CD)
€109,00Quick Viewby Peter Gibbon
In 1942, Illinois Jacquet put down an amazing solo on the recording by Lionel Hampton’s band of Flying Home. It led other saxophone players into even wilder solo attempts over the years and by the late 40s it had become a craze, especially in Los Angeles. This style of playing, known as ’Honking’, continued to be popular throughout the 50s and Los Angeles independent R&B labels were keen to release honking instrumentals to satisfy the demand. In HONK! HONK! HONK! compiler Jim Dawson serves up 30 of the best examples of the genre, drawn from the Combo and Dootone labels in L.A. Lest you think that this is unremitting tenor wailing, be re-assured that there are a dozen or so vocals included here making the compilation very listenable!
First honker up is Chuck Higgins with half a dozen of his storming sides including of course his most successful outing Pachuko Hop, named after the Mexican Americans who constituted a significant part of the audience for rhythm and blues music in the L.A. area. Next is Joe Houston with his half-dozen honkers, some of them with vocal accompaniment from his band, at times verging on the vocal group style. These tunes are drawn from his time with Dootone Records, including a re-make of his famous All Night Long. For a thorough treatment of Joe’s recordings for Modern Records see Jim Dawson’s recent compilation Joe Houston Blows Crazy (Ace – CDCHD 772).
Jack McVea was a vital part of the 40s and 50s L.A. scene, both as an instrumentalist and as a R&B band leader. Indeed, he was playing baritone behind Illinois Jacquet on the seminal Flying Home recording. In this compilation we can hear him in both modes in a selection of several sides waxed for Jake Porter’s Combo Records. In addition to his sax work, he is paired with his wife Louise Beatty on two tracks. He also provides the band behind two vocal group outings by the Savoys – Yacka Hoom Boom and Chop Chop Boom.
Also featured are Roy Milton, Lorenzo Holden and baritone man Floyd Turnham with his driving instrumental Rocket Ride and also with vocals from Cledus Harrison and Rozelle Gray. The compilation concludes with the highly unusual Ting Ting Boom Scat by the Jonesy Combo and a girl group, the Combonettes, singing in front of Jake Porter’s band on Hi Diddle Diddle. The Combonettes included in their line-up a young Jennel Hawkins who was later to be a member of the Dreamers, a sometime member of the Blossoms and a solo soul artist.
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Cookie And The Cupcakes - Kings Of The Swamp Pop (CD)
€17,00Quick View”I suspect that during the golden age of swamp pop, which is often said to be from 1958 to 1963, few people in this country had heard of Cookie and the Cupcakes. I confess ignorance until the 70s when I bought their reissue LPs on the Jin label. Today, any aficionado will immediately quote Mathilda as the Cupcakes’ outstanding offering. In his book ”South To Louisiana”, John Broven describes it thus: If swamp-pop has a signature tune, an anthem, it has to be the quintessential ”Mathilda”. Recorded for George Khoury’s Lyric label and leased to Judd (owned by Judd Phillips of Memphis), the single climbed to #47 in the Billboard chart in early 1959. Mathilda would surely have gone higher with a bigger company behind it. Cookie’s crying vocal was stunning. Billboard was right when it noted that ”the cat has a sound and he belts it as tho’ from the swamps” The Cupcakes’ instrumental backing – baying saxes, tripleting piano, and swirling guitar over a wallowing beat – was just as majestic, while the song itself was memorably melodic. Even today, everybody accepts that if a local band plays Mathilda and nobody dances, the musicians may just as well pack up and go home. Johnnie Allan speaks of Cookie’s great influence on other performers and of how Mathilda was played on all the radio stations, Cajun, country and western, rock’n’roll and R&B. Written around 1956, but not recorded until 1958 after being turned down by Eddie Shuler and Don Robey among others, it’s this hit version that closes the CD and should not be confused with the 1962 remake which is also included. Starting as the Boogie Ramblers and with Huey ’Cookie’ Thierry only recently joined, the Cupcakes signed for Eddie Shuler’s Goldband label in July 1952 but for some reason the single Cindy Lou /Such As Love, with original member Shelton Dunaway on vocals, was not released until 1955. That historic offering is presented here. Cookie became joint leader with Shelton, sharing vocals and both playing tenor sax. Other members were Sidney ’Hot Rod’ Reynaud, tenor sax; Marshall LeDee, guitar; Ernest Jacobs, piano; Joe ’Blue’ Landry, bass guitar; and Ivory Jackson, drums. Around 1963 Little Alfred (Babino) joined the band after his success with Walking Down The Aisle which was recorded with the Berry Cups who were modelled on the Cupcakes. A slew of emotional swamp-pop classics appeared between 1959 and 1964, including Until Then, I’ve Been So Lonely, Even Though, the lively I Cried and the wonderful Belinda. Cover versions also appeared, adapted to the inimitable Cupcakes’ style but usually faithful to the original, such as the traditional Betty & Dupree; Got You On My Mind, the Big John Greer R.&B hit from 1952; Ivory Joe Hunter’s I Almost Lost My Mind; Jiving Gene’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do; Shirley and Lee’s Feel So Good; Pat Philips’ Sea Of Love; Joe Turner’s Honey Hush; Chuck Willis’ Charged With Cheating; and the Platters’ The Great Pretender featuring Carol Fran. All tracks have been remastered to achieve the best possible sound and this is apparent in comparison with the 1990 Japanese P-Vine CD, the only other release in that format that I am aware of which makes available some of the 30 tracks included here. Shane K Bernard’s booklet notes also tell the story of Cookie’s disappearance from South Louisiana in the mid-60s (he moved to Los Angeles); of the rumours of his disabilities or even death; and of his rediscovery by Cupcakes’ pianist Ernest Jacobs in 1992. Disabled he was, but able to walk with the aid of a stick which is how he performed magnificently at the 1995 Blues Estafette in Utrecht, backed by the revived nine-piece Cupcakes who included Shelton Dunaway, Ernest Jacobs, ’Hot Rod’ Reynaud, Little Alfred and Marshall LeDee. It was a memorable gig and this is a memorable CD.”
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Marchan Bobby - Clown Jewels (CD)
€10,00Quick ViewThe Ace Masters 1956-1975.The first-ever compilation of the bluesy R&B vocalist’s workfor the Ace label, 1955-1974. Includes many alternate takes & previously unissued masters. Contains ’Well I’ll Be John Brown’ (Alternate Take), ’Rockin’ Behind The Iron Curtain’, ’What Can I Do’ (1974 Remake), ’Chickee Wah Wah’ and ’Don’t Take Your Love From Me’. 1998 Westside label. The full titleis ’The Ace (Ms.) Masters 1956-75’.
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Willard Jess - Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor (CD)
€18,00Quick ViewTiukkaa hillbilly/rockabillyä! Mukana taustalla mm. Cochran Bros, Speedy West ja Jimmy Bryant. One of the most obscure major label artists of the early 1950s, Jess Willard – named after the famed World War I era boxer, Jess Willard, the Potawatamie Giant – he has nevertheless achieved some cult status in recent, both for his engaging combination of twangy, hard-hillbilly singing and hot, swinging accompaniments, and for his association with the so called ’Cochran Brothers’, Eddie and Hank, with whom he toured and recorded early in both of those important artist’s careers. An associate, too, of famed early Capitol star Jack Guthrie, it was his Guthrie connections that probably attracted Capitol records to Willard. He recorded for the label form 1950-52, laying down 26 fine tracks, all of which are included here, as is his 1955 single for Ekko that features Eddie and Hank Cochran in the accompanying band. In addition to Willard’s insouciant, engaging vocals, such legendary musicians as Speedy West, Jimmy Bryant, Noel Boggs, Bill Woods and Tex Atchison are featured. Songs include the original version of Johnny Horton’s classic Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor, as well as Truck Driver’s Boogie, Java Junction, Oil The Hinges On Your Door, Honky Tonkin’ All The Time and two unissued sides, Boogie Woogie Preachin’ Man and Honky Tonk Boogie.
