R&B * Doo-Wop
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Various - Thirteen Roses Singing In a Male World! (LP)
€20,00Thirteen Roses singing in a male world. Far from interpreting this sentence in any politic or vindictive way, but don’t dissmiss those ways at all, this LP aims to highlight the power of female singers in Twentieth Century’s recordings industry, just to pay tribute on those women who, in many cases, broken rules and led the way for next generations.
Some of these roses were big and beautiful, and changed their colours whenever they wanted, some others flowered briefly buy left behind amazing frangances that can still be appreciated.
A small garden of just thirteen roses, singing louder and fighting harder to win a chance to be heard.
Hats off to those women, don’t mind if they’re gone, the future belongs to them. -
Various - Get ’Em Off! – Music for Strippers – From Burlesque to Strip Clubs (CD)
€13,0028 tracks of music mostly from the world of jazz and r&b to take your clothes off to.
No set of stripping music would be complete without the most famous song associated with the pastime, ’The Stripper’.
8 of these titles come from a famous 1950s LP called ’How To Strip for Your Husband’ and most of the other tracks and artists come from the world of jazz and r&b.
The music on offer here were the kinds of tracks that the performers themselves, certainly in America would choose for their musical accompaniment.
Fully detailed liner notes.
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Baby Washington - A Handful of Memories 1956-1962 (CD)
€13,00A twenty-eight track compilation of Baby Washington’s work from her first recordings to the eve of ”That’s How Heartaches Are Made”.
The collection contains her recordings for the Baton, J & S, Neptune, ABC Paramount and Sue labels including the tracks on which she was lead singer for girl-group The Hearts.
Included in the tracks are her four R ’n’ B chart entries from between 1959 and 1962.
The CD booklet contains a comprehensive biography, visuals, all writer credits and catalogue numbers.
The perfect way to find out more about one of America’s most under-rated singers.
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Skyliners - Voices in Harmony 1958-1962 (CD)
€13,00The Skyliners were a five-piece vocal harmony group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that broke the mould as far as the doo-wop sound was concerned.
’Since I Don’t Have You’ romped to number 12 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and featured the unique voices of lead singer Jimmy Beaumont and Janet Vogel.
’Since I Don’t Have You’ remains a classic recording and has been featured in films such as American Graffiti, The Age of Adaline, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Lethal Weapon 2, and TV shows such as Happy Days, American Hot Wax and Outcast.
Fans continue to keep the group’s name alive with its own Facebook page…they remain one of the classiest vocal groups ever.
This 26 track collection chronicles The Skyliners singles released on the Calico label, added to which are the songs that appeared on their first LP and subsequent releases on the Colpix, Cameo and Viscount labels.
This release is sure to result in radio play on oldies shows across the UK radio networks.
The collection also includes detailed notes tracing The Skyliners’ career through the group’s best years, 1958 to 1962.
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Various - Killer B’s US R&B Hits (CD)
€13,00There are few record collecting experiences more enjoyable than discovering a great, long lost & forgotten gem, on the B-side of a classic, much-loved Hit.
This compilation features 32 such killer flips, adorning various U.S. R&B hit 45s between 1954-1962.
Many of these artistes, like Ben E. King, The Drifters, James Brown and Jackie Wilson, often enjoyed two-sided hits; yet these were B-sides that somehow got away.
Singers like Dee Clark, Jerry Butler, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Roy Hamilton, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, The Shirelles, The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Lloyd Price, Etta James, Bobby Bland, etc., were frequent R&B chart riders, while others, e.g. The Falcons, The Fiestas, Joe Henderson, were more-or-less One Hit Wonders.
Many of the A-sides of these discs were million sellers, and all were massive U.S. R&B hits (many of which crossed over to the Top 100); yet all of these Killer Bs sound like they could have been hit records, in their own right.
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Baker Mickey - Mickey Baker In Session – Ain’t No Strain 1952-1961 (CD)
€13,00Jasmine’s exceptional ’In Session’ series continues with one of the most versatile and technically proficient guitar players of the 1950s and beyond, Mickey Baker. Mickey was a prolific session player and this excellent compilation follows his session diary from December 1952 to September 1961.
Hear the classic hits he played on by Ruth Brown, Amos Milburn, Big Joe Turner, Nappy Brown, Little Willie John to name a few.
This is the third release on the Jasmine label for Mickey Baker after ’Mickey & Sylvia – Love is Strange’ (JASMCD3093) and ’Mickey Baker – Return of the Wildest Guitar’ (JASCD979).
Fully detailed liner notes.
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Prima Louis - The Very Best of Louis Prima – Jump, Jive & Wail 1952-1959 (CD)
€13,00Bandleader/singer/trumpeter LOUIS PRIMA, who’d enjoyed huge successes in the 1930s and ’40s, mounted a major comeback in the 1950s, after teaming up with Keely Smith and Sam Butera & The Witnesses.
This compilation, which is one of a closely-linked trilogy, presents the Very Best of Prima’s solo recordings for Columbia, Jubilee and Capitol between 1952-59, with the emphasis very much on his 1956-59 Capitol output.
It features pre-Capitol collectors’ items like ’The Bigger The Figure’, ’Luigi’ and ’Man, Dig That Crazy Chick’, although twenty-one of the twenty-five sides are from his Capitol output.
These include singles like ’Buona Sera’ (a UK hit), ’5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days’ and ’Banana Split For My Baby’, alongside tracks from the hit albums ’The Wildest’, ’The Call Of The Wildest’, ’The Wildest Show At Tahoe’, ’Las Vegas Prima Style’, ’Hey Boy! Hey Girl!’ and ’Strictly Prima’.
The punters who buy this one, will soon realise that they have to buy the other two releases in this series!
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Various - Mojo Man Special Volume 2 – Voodoo Doll -Dancefloor Killers! (CD)
€15,00You heard about the Koko-Mojo series (30 volumes), the Southern Bred series (20 volumes) and Boss Black Rockers (10 volumes). The Mojo Man compiled a brandnew series with dancefloor killers only! 24 dark black Blues and Rhythm and Blues songs, handpicked by the man himself! Remastered and packed in our beautyful eco friendly 6 panel deluxe packaging.
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Various - Rock And Roll Vixens 3 (CD)
€15,00Koko-Mojo Records presents you 25 Rockin’ Movers & Shakers recorded from the early 1950s to mid 1960’s. Lets us do some Voodoo and introduce you to the Black Girl magic of this golden area of Blues, Rhythm n Blues, vocal harmony and early Soul. So many talented afro-american girl singers who have really been movers and shakers, not only musical wise.
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Mitchell Willie - The Memphis Rhythm ’N’ Blues Sound Of Willie Mitchell 1958-1961 (CD)
€15,00These 29 tracks (recorded 1958-61 and featuring the Four Kings with Don Bryant) take US back to the early studio days of pioneering soul producer Willie Mitchell, who’d later make legends out of Al Green and Hi Records. You’ll encounter alternate takes and a cappella versions as you hear the Crawl; Walking Alone; I Want You for Myself; Tell It to Me Baby; I Like It; Rag Mop, and more!
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Larks - The Larks Collection 1950-55 (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Hailing from North Carolina, the Larks were a classic African-American doowop group of the early 1950s, with their roots firmly in gospel, but moving to secular music to form The Larks, although their early recorded work ranged across both gospel and secular genres as they recorded under different names when they made their studio debut. Although they were not among the most prolific doowop hitmakers, their style and technique made them one of the most admired and imitated of the early doowop ensembles. This 48-track 2-CD set comprises the A & B sides of just about all their releases on the Apollo and in a second incarnation of the group under lead singer Eugene Mumford on the Apollo subsidiary label Lloyds, plus some titles from those labels which were not released at the time, along with recordings on Jubilee as The Selah Singers, on Regent as The 4 Barons, and on Apollo as The Southern Harmonaires. It features their Top 10 R&B hits Eyesight To The Blind and Little Side Car. It’s a substantial overview of their career – they broke up before their final release – and it’s a thorough and excellent showcase for their highly-regarded skills as vocal harmonisers.