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Various - Aladdin’s Rockin’ Cave (CD)
€13,00Quick View30 Rockin’ Rhythm and Blues Platters from Aladdin Records 1947-1960.
ALADDIN RECORDS was one of the earliest indie labels in Los Angeles to specialise in Blues, R&B, R&R, Hillbilly and other non-mainstream musical genres.
Originally formed in 1945 as Philo Records, the 30 tracks on this unique set span 1946-1960, and feature an eclectic range of both well-known and obscure performers.
Many of the more rocking titles herein became popular in Europe during the 1970s Rockabilly Revival.
Featured artists include celebrated names like Velma Nelson, Peppermint Harris, Harold Burrage, Chuck Higgins, Lowell Fulson, Dolores Gibson, Gene & Eunice, Marvin & Johnny and Sugar & Pee Wee (Sugar, being Sugar Pie De Santo), while Patti Anne, The Spence Sisters, Arthur ’Fatso’ Theus, The Jivers, Big T Tyler and Charles Sims occupy the opposite end of the ’fame’ spectrum.
There are plenty of obscure collectors’ rarities herein, making this a potential cult collection.
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Bradshaw Tiny - The Jumpin’ Beat for the Hip Kids – 1949-1955 (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewA veteran of the Swing and Big Band eras of the 1930s, TINY BRADSHAW became one of the most popular R&B and Jump Jive bandleaders of the early 1950s.
He clocked up a string of hit records on the King label, out of Cincinatti, with ’Well Oh Well’, ’I’m Going To Have Myself A Ball’, ’Walkin’ The Chalk Line’, ’Soft’ and ’Heavy Juice’ all making the R&B Top 10, the latter two numbers famously featuring Red Prysock on tenor sax.
Elsewhere, sides like ’Gravy Train’, ’Boodie Green’, ’Breaking Up The House’, ’Walk That Mess’, ’T-99’, and most notably Tiny’s original version of ’The Train Kept A-Rollin” (a number which would eventually become more readily associated with the Johnny Burnette Trio, for their wild Rockabilly version), were huge regional and Juke Box hits.
This compilation also includes copious previously unreleased material.
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Various - Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday Vol. 3 – Shake That Thing (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewUUSI SUOSIKKI SARJA!! IHAN PARASTA!!
Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday 03, Shake That Thing, is a double-hitting music anthology that is jam-packed with R&B intensity combining pounding blues and stirring up-tempo gospel. The people get wild and raucous on Saturday evening listening to Jump Blues. On Sunday they pray, and repent their sins, at church while singing along to inspirational upbeat Gospel songs. The compelling twenty-eight songs anthology from the years 1948 through to 1963 features wild blues titles from; Boo Breeding, Country Woman, Little Richard, She Knows How To Rock, Jerry McCain and His Upstarts, Run, Uncle John! Run, Leroy Foster and Muddy Waters, Locked Out Boogie which set the scene for the sinful evening. The sophisticated R&B rompers include; Memphis Slim, Big City Girl, Charles Epps, Shake That Thing, Billy Boy Arnold, Here’s My Picture, Little Milton, I’m A Lonely Man and many more. The inspiring Gospel stompers include; Mahalia Jackson, Said He Would, Charles White, Didn’t It Rain, The Sensational Nightingales, To The End, The Colemanaires, This May Be The Last Time, and there are more Gospel stompers to enchant you. The album is perfect for dancing! The pulsating sounds are ideal for Dee Jays, small cellar clubs, the home listener, and those who wish to own albums that are not full of overly reissued titles.
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Kirkland Leroy - Thrill-La-Dill (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewLeroy Edward Kirkland aka Claude Cloud was primarily a jazz and rhythm & blues guitarist, who also worked behind the scenes as; a composer, conductor, session leader, and arranger. He is largely unknown to the general public and media-wise he is mainly confined to the annals of musical history, and his importance is not overtly acknowledged. The intention of this tribute to Leroy Edward Kirkland’s songwriting skills is to focus on his up-tempo titles which will entertain you at home, please the couples who enjoy dancing and bring his name into vernacular speech.
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Booker James - Behind The Iron Curtain plus… (5CD deluxe pack) (CD)
€90,00Quick ViewJames Booker – Behind The Iron Curtain plus… 5 CD deluxe pack set with 60 page booklet in 10inch format! Limited Edition.
From Jelly Roll Morton to Jon Batiste, the city of New Orleans has produced more great piano players than any other place on earth. But James Carroll Booker III may very well have been the greatest of them all. When he died in 1983 at the age of 43 after years of health problems and drug abuse, only four Booker albums had been released, and his fans have been searching for additional recordings that showcase his genius ever since. While virtually unknown in the US, Booker had a strong following in Germany and neighboring countries, where he played more than 100 shows between 1976 and 1978. These were the years of his creative peak, and Booker always maintained that he played better there than he did anytime or anywhere else. But what exactly happened during those tours has long remained a mystery – until now. With its comprehensive new release ’Behind The Iron Curtain plus,’ RICHARD WEIZE ARCHIVES intends to tell, for the very first time, the full story of James Booker’s European adventures.
It includes three complete Booker shows on five CDs: East Berlin (December 1976), Lausanne (January 1977) and Leipzig (October 1977). Interestingly, at that time East Berlin and Leipzig were part of socialist East Germany, a country that no longer exists, and how Booker got there and why he played some of the best shows of his career behind the Iron Curtain, of all places, is a whole story unto itself. James Booker was a virtuoso technician who combined influences as diverse as Ludwig van Beethoven and Ray Charles, Erroll Garner and Fats Domino, Frédéric Chopin and Professor Longhair into a unique style of New Orleans R&B piano that hasn’t been duplicated to this day. Plus he also sang with a bluesy, soulful voice full of anguish and emotion. No other posthumous Booker release has done full justice to his genius and we hope that ’Behind The Iron Curtain plus…’ will lead to a new appraisal of one of American music’s most gifted and overlooked originals. CD 1 61:49 | CD 2 59:07 Haus der jungen Talente East Berlin December 22, 1976 CD 3 72:26 Lausanne Switzerland January 27, 1977 CD 4 70:28 | CD 5 64:20 Moritzbastei Leipzig, East Germany October 29, 1977
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Various - On The Dancefloor With A Twist Again! – 23 More Tunes to Twist It Up (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 23 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
The CD album ’On The Dancefloor With a Twist’ (BCD17666) released in the summer of 2022 on Bear Family Records® was enthusiastically received by fans and dance crazies!
So it’s time for a second jam-packed CD compilation with 23 more examples from the early 1960s, when seemingly the whole world became a dancefloor for hip-swinging people.
Included: the inventors of the twist, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, the Isley Brothers and the Marvelettes, pop greats like Louis Prima, Connie Francis and savvy guitarists like surf legend Dick Dale and bluesmen like Freddy King and Jimmy Spruill and and and …
Extensive liner notes by Chicago music historian Bill Dahl in the comprehensive illustrated booklet and carefully mastered recordings from the best possible sources round out this fourth edition in our ’Dancefloor’ series!Last year’s ‘On The Dancefloor With a Twist’ compilation (BCD17666) was so much fun that it’s time for round two!
It’s another jam-packed tribute to the dance sensation that swept the globe during the early ‘60s, containing 23 more workouts that’ll have you lacing your Twist shoes up tight.
Naturally, the originators of The Twist, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters, are liberally represented with two more stellar examples of their historic invention (Do You Know How To Twist and Mr. Twister). The Isley Brothers’ classic Twist And Shout and The Marvelettes’ Twistin’ Postman are here as well.
But plenty of singers not usually associated with dance also turn up, including Louis Prima and his deadpan distaff partner Keely Smith, Connie Francis, Linda Hopkins, and Billy Riley (as Darron Lee).
Guitar wizards Dick Dale, Wild Jimmy Spruill, and Phil Baugh peel off red-hot licks in service of their Twist instrumentals; even Chicago bluesmen Freddy King and Smokey Smothers jumped into the craze.
Included too is the second half of Paul Livert & The Lions’ epic Chicken Twist, which took up the entirety of Side 2 of their 1962 album.
The compilation closes with Robby Lawrence’s The Twist To End All Twists – but in reality, this Twist party is just getting underway!
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Various - Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ – The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties (4CD Book Set) (CD)
€50,00Quick ViewDESCRIPTION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
TRACKLIST
• Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ is the first box set to document the huge influence of Black music in Britain in the 1960s.
• With 115 tracks, the deluxe ‘long form’ box set includes sleevenotes including an essay from
Fitzroy Facey (Soul Survivors)
• A four-CD compilation that pays tribute to a lost era.While many of the decade’s most successful UK bands (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones et al) were originally inspired and influenced by Black American soul and R&B, it could be argued that Black artists recording in Britain at the time weren’t given the exposure they deserved.
The first two discs of ‘Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ document the explosion of homegrown Soul and Rhythm and Blues which reflected the growing success of labels such as Motown and Stax/ Atlantic, which spearheaded the plethora of Black music emanating from the States. Artists such as Carl Douglas and Jimmy James were popular live draws, who later enjoyed chart success in the 1970s. Jackie Edwards, Owen Gray and Jimmy Cliff came to the UK from Jamaica after signing with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records while Geno Washington was an American GI who stayed here and continues to perform to this day. Clyde McPhatter was the legendary original singer in The Drifters and The Chants would eventually evolve into The Real Thing.
However, Soul and R&B aren’t the only genres catered for here. While disc 3 is devoted to the homespun Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae from artists who’d often been born in the Caribbean (chief among them Laurel Aitken, the ‘Godfather of Ska’), Disc 4 reflects a wider range of styles including choice selections from many stars of their day (Cleo Laine, a highly respected jazz singer; Shirley Bassey, a successful worldwide phenomenon; Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, a charismatic maverick; Winifred Atwell, a popular boogie woogie pianist; Geoff Love, a renowned orchestra leader). The UK also played host to many visiting American blues and folk men and women (such as Champion Jack Dupree, Otis Spann and Mabel Hillery).
‘Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’ boasts numerous tracks new to CD and includes many 45s which now command three figure sums on the collector’s market. With comprehensive sleevenotes and artist biographies, a plethora of rare images and photos and newly remastered sound, this is a fitting homage to a golden era in Black British music.
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Various - Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday Vol. 2 – Screamin’ And Cryin’ (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewSin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday 02, Screaming And Crying, is a double-hitting music anthology that is jam-packed with R&B intensity combining pounding blues and stirring up-tempo gospel. The people get wild and raucous on Saturday evening listening to Jump Blues. On Sunday they pray, and repent their sins, at church while singing along to inspirational upbeat Gospel songs. The compelling twenty-eight songs anthology from the years 1948 through to 1963 features riveting blues titles from; Eddie Taylor, You’ll Always Have A Home, Cousin Leroy, Will A Matchbox Hold My Clothes, Jay Nelson, Raise Some San, Big Maceo, Chicago Breakdown which set the scene for the sinful evening. The sophisticated R&B rompers include; Willie Mays, If You Love Me, Guitar Slim, Oh Yeah, Johnny Heartsman, ?Johnny’s Thunderbird, Bob Gaddy, Out Of My Name, and many more. The inspiring Gospel stompers include; Space Spiritual Singers, Heaven On My Mind, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and The Dependable Boys, Everybody’s Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There (Gospel Boogie), the Radio Four, How Much I Owe, the Pilgrim Travelers Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, and there are more Gospel stompers to enchant you. The album is perfect for dancing! The pulsating sounds are ideal for Dee Jays, small cellar clubs, the home listener, and those who wish to own albums that are not full of overly reissued titles
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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 7 – Jambalaya (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewFriends, you are holding the fifth opus of ”Rhythm & Western” and we got 5 more boss volumes on ice. I must confess Solomon Burke’s classic ”How Many Times” always sounded like a Country song to me, so I’m glad I could include it here, Damita Jo delivers does a fantastic version of Ray Price’s classic C&W hit ”Crazy Arms” also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, and countless others, another Country hit ”You’re The Reason” (originally recorded by Bobby Edwards) is delivered by Arthur Alexander. The great Fats Domino is next with his famous version of ”Jambalaya” (originally written and recorded by Hank Williams), King Curtis gives a splendid rendition of Hank Snow’s ”I’m Movin’ On” also recorded by a buttload of other artists. To my knowledge, Little Richard never recorded a ”bonafide” country song, but some of his Gospel stuff sounds just like it. Just listen to ”Do Lord, Remember Me” if you have any doubt. Sonny Boy Williamson II (a.k.a. Rice Miller) and Peppermint Harris, with ”Wake Up Baby” and ”I Got Loaded” are offering two delightful bronze hillbilly tunes, and ””Solid As A Rock” is probably the closest thing to country music ever recorded by Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. More fave black C&W of mine by The Twilighters (Hootenanny Stomp), The Sharps (Look At Me), Ruth Brown (Jack O’Diamonds), Magic Sam (Square Dance Rock Part 1), Ted Taylor (Keep Walking On), Pee Wee Crayton (Little Bitty Things) , Bobby Day (Undecided), Fats Domino (Bo Weavil). Smokey Hogg (Late Prowling Girl), Ketty Lester (Love Letters), Ben E. King (My Heart Cries For You), and Rochell & The Candles (When My Baby Is Gone) are all top-notch tracks. Country Music fans probably heard ”Hearts Of Stone” by Red Foley and the song has been recorded by tons of other artists. I picked the cool version recorded by Otis Williams and The Charms over the one by The Jewels for this volume -but they are both great. Johnny Nash is next with another Western classic ”Cigareetes, Whusky & Wild Wild” originally recorded by The Sons Of The Pioneers. R&B diva Dinah Washington had a top 3 R&B hit in 1954 with the Hank Snow’s number ”I Don’t Hurt Anymore” but I heard versions of this song by Eddie Fisher, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Narvel Felts, Bill Haley, and Janis Martin. Another western tune penned and first recorded by Hank Williams: ”Cold Cold Heart” is sung by Nat King Cole and two gospel songs that sound just like C&W by Sister Rosetta (On My Way) and Professor Johnson and his Gospel Singers (Where Shall I Be) are really worth more than a spin. The closing number is an older classic blues recording from the 1930s the great Casey Bill Weldon which sounds just like Western Swing. Enjoy!
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Various - Lincoln Chase – Fancy Dance – The Koko Mojo Records Songwriter Series (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe Koko Mojo Records Songwriter Series continues with an exploration of the skills of Lincoln Chase during Fancy Dance (KM-CD-173). The album focuses on and includes alongside the man himself singing, white and black artists, who also sang his compositions, of which numerous versions became hits. The songs are sourced from the years 1953 to 1963 with twenty titles coming from the 1950s, and the album is programmed year by year. Due to Chase’s mixed Cuban and West Indian parentage, some of his sounds have an exotic sound and tempo, and his legacy is weird, wacky, and intriguing. The Koko Mojo ethos of digging deeper means you can add lesser-known recordings to your collection. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany (KM-CD-173)Koko Mojo Records, The Songwriter Series, Lincoln Chase, Fancy Dance.
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From a mixed race parentage of Cuba and West Indian, a child named Lincoln Chase was born on 29 June 1926 in New York City. As he grow up his musical skill became apparent; he became a pianist and composer, trained in music at the American Academy of Music in New York City, and then began his own recording and songwriting career. The vibrant and largely neglected music from his pen is sourced from the years 1953 to 1963 with twenty titles coming from the 1950s. The album purposefully omits, the novelty and love ballads, plus the titles Chase wrote for Shirley Ellis to focus on the rockin’ side of his penmanship. The album contains a wide variety of music and sound that will appeal to collectors, and be of interest to those who wish to hear something which is not overly reissued. The album’s intention is to offer a tribute to an artist who wrote and sang and crafted numerous hit records. Chase remains relatively unknown to many even though he wrote songs that were very different from that of other songsmiths, and numerous versions of his songs are in circulation. With this album, Koko Mojo Records’ aim is to inform people about his music and his importance to the music world. Due to Chase’s mixed Cuban and West Indian parentage, some of his sounds have an exotic sound and tempo, and his mainstream compositions are well-known, unlike the man himself. Chase is featured within the album performing solo, and with The Sandmen, who had in their membership Benjamin Peay, aka Brook Benton, and The Spencer-Hagen Orchestra providing a full arrangement. The Vulture Song which opens the album could have people thinking he was Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and this is one of the two “very odd-ball” titles on the album, that is wacky and compelling to hear. Of the less-known artists who did not have a large legacy or moved into other music genres you will hear; the powerful vocal cords of Beulah Swan, Don’t Steal My Heart, The Playboys stroll tempo, Rock, Moan And Cry, and Mel Jackson’s madcap flip-side, She Took The Whole Shebang which sounds like a real-life situation turned into a song. There are two R&B jump tunes from the Du-Droppers, and sophisticated melodies from; Ruth Brown, The Orioles, Roy Hamilton, and future soul music star the eleven-year-old George Benson sings with conviction She Makes Me Mad. Along the album’s journey, you will learn about his legacy, which includes, the song Such A Night which has numerous cover versions including; The Drifters, Johnny Ray, Elvis Presley, Dinah Washington, and Mac Allen Smith whose interpretation is on the album. The same applies to That’s All I Need, which LaVern Baker, The Mills Brothers, and Rusty Draper recorded and Chase is included singing his own song. Chase also wrote Jim Dandy and Jim Dandy Got Married for Lavern Baker, both songs are on the album although Ann-Margret sings Jim Dandy. There are more white rockers tuning their vocal cords to his penmanship and along the musical journey you will hear; Nick Greene singing The Blues Down Home, and this song makes its CD debut, Be My Kitten Little Chicken, by Teddy Randazzo is jiving rock ‘n’ roll, and there are two moody mid-tempo rockers, Come A Little Closer Baby by Joey Castle, and country artist Red Foley Blues sounding very different to his other recording on Blues In My Red Wagon Blues. There are several white ladies with contrasting styles namely; Bunny Paul with the jive tempo, Leave My Heart Alone, Carol Hughes with the fast rocker Fancy Dance, Maureen Cannon’s plea of MamTma Come Save Your Child, and the “odd-ball” the ultra-strange One Billion Seven Million, Thirty-Three from The Tranquils. The sleeve notes from the reissue producer and Dee Jay Mark Armstrong will give a brief history about the naughty boy of music, and where available session information is included. The album is topped off with the best possible sound quality possible from our mastering team at our El Paso, Texas, Studio. The album sleeves are made from top-quality eco-friendly cardboard and lavishly decorated by design artist and working musician Urban Zotel. Koko Mojo Records endeavor 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. Mojo 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 -
Various - Boogie A Rama Volume 1 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe album is perfect for your local dance-hall or cellar bar with the tempo to get the ladies onto the dance-floor and dance all night long.
On the thirty-song Stroll-a-Rama Volume Two there is a mixture of several strolling tempos, Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop, Rockabilly, and White Rock ‘N’ Roll, which is chosen for different locations, large festivals, your local dance-hall or a small and dark cellar bar. Included Rhythm & Blues artists are; The Dories, The Nutmegs, Wilbert Harrison and Willie Cobbs and Rockabilly and Hillbilly performers comprise of; Bob Vidone and The Rhythm Rockers, The Playboys, The Sting-Rays, Zeb Turner and Bailey’s Nervous Kats, Wanda Jackson and the little known Judy Harriet. Chuck Berry, Jack Scott, Dick Dale, and a post-Holly, Crickets line up bring Star quality into the album. For additional variety of sound walking into the show are with interesting cover versions are; Vince Taylor, French rocker Jacky Moulière, and we go ”down-under” to introduce you to the talent of The Keil Isles. To end the album Rhythm Bomb Records, provide two recordings from their roster, German outfit, The Round-Up Boys and Italians, Vince and The Sun Boppers who walk the album to a close. Atomicat endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some, perhaps more obscure titles and add something unexpected to every album. Most certainly one person’s stroll can be another’s jive, and different clubs and countries do not dance at the same tempo, and we do not aim to preach only to give you danceable music. This album is compiled by well-known Dee Jay and face on the music scene Mark Armstrong, who has been Dee Jaying since his early teen years. Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, songs, mastered for the best possible sound available. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially constructed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly.
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Various - Happy Birthday Baby! – 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party (CD)
€18,00Quick View1-CD digipak with 36 page booklet, 32 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
The first CD compilation with tunes from the fifties and early sixties around the theme ’Birthday’.
A great birthday gift, because …. everybody has birthday, and that every year anew!
The CD album on Bear Family Records® comes with a ’birthday sticker’ on which you can inscribe the name of the birthday child.
Besides classics by the Tune Weavers, Neal Sedaka or Paul Anka, ‘Happy Birthday, Baby! – 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party’ delivers some rarities like Tino’s Got The Birthday Blues Again, Barry Mann’s Happy Birthday Broken Heart and the German version Happy Birthday Josefin (Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen) by the Key Brothers.
Seven songs on CD for the first time!
Detailed liner notes by Bill Dahl.Everyone knows the simple words and melody to Happy Birthday. But there are a great many other musical methods of conveying sincere natal day wishes. A bounty of them comprise Bear Family Records®‘ ‘Happy Birthday, Baby! – 32 (Un-) Happy Tunes For Your Birthday Party,‘ guaranteed to make any celebration more fun.
Neil Sedaka’s Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen is a must, as are Johnny Crawford’s Cindy’s Birthday and The Tuneweavers‘ Happy, Happy Birthday Baby—but no more so than the late Jerry Lee Lewis‘ gloriously salacious Birthday Cake (Keep Your Hands Off Of It) or Lesley Gore’s heartbroken It’s My Party.
R&B greats Louis Jordan, Sil Austin, and Claudine Clark chime in with rollicking greetings, as do rockabilly warriors Steve Carl, Wanda Jackson, and Glenn Barber.
There’s a teen element here too, courtesy of Paul Anka, Kathy Young & The Innocents, and The Pixies Three; pop wailer Johnnie Ray checks in with When’s Your Birthday, Baby.
The next time your birthday rolls around, just pop this collection into your CD machine and push ‘play’—it’s an instant party!
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Various - Rhythm & Western Vol. 6 – I´m Moving On (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewFriends, you are holding the fifth opus of ”Rhythm & Western” and we got 5 more boss volumes on ice. I must confess Solomon Burke’s classic ”How Many Times” always sounded like a Country song to me, so I’m glad I could include it here, Damita Jo delivers does a fantastic version of Ray Price’s classic C&W hit ”Crazy Arms” also recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, and countless others, another Country hit ”You’re The Reason” (originally recorded by Bobby Edwards) is delivered by Arthur Alexander. The great Fats Domino is next with his famous version of ”Jambalaya” (originally written and recorded by Hank Williams), King Curtis gives a splendid rendition of Hank Snow’s ”I’m Movin’ On” also recorded by a buttload of other artists. To my knowledge, Little Richard never recorded a ”bonafide” country song, but some of his Gospel stuff sounds just like it. Just listen to ”Do Lord, Remember Me” if you have any doubt. Sonny Boy Williamson II (a.k.a. Rice Miller) and Peppermint Harris, with ”Wake Up Baby” and ”I Got Loaded” are offering two delightful bronze hillbilly tunes, and ””Solid As A Rock” is probably the closest thing to country music ever recorded by Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald. More fave black C&W of mine by The Twilighters (Hootenanny Stomp), The Sharps (Look At Me), Ruth Brown (Jack O’Diamonds), Magic Sam (Square Dance Rock Part 1), Ted Taylor (Keep Walking On), Pee Wee Crayton (Little Bitty Things) , Bobby Day (Undecided), Fats Domino (Bo Weavil). Smokey Hogg (Late Prowling Girl), Ketty Lester (Love Letters), Ben E. King (My Heart Cries For You), and Rochell & The Candles (When My Baby Is Gone) are all top-notch tracks. Country Music fans probably heard ”Hearts Of Stone” by Red Foley and the song has been recorded by tons of other artists. I picked the cool version recorded by Otis Williams and The Charms over the one by The Jewels for this volume -but they are both great. Johnny Nash is next with another Western classic ”Cigareetes, Whusky & Wild Wild” originally recorded by The Sons Of The Pioneers. R&B diva Dinah Washington had a top 3 R&B hit in 1954 with the Hank Snow’s number ”I Don’t Hurt Anymore” but I heard versions of this song by Eddie Fisher, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Narvel Felts, Bill Haley, and Janis Martin. Another western tune penned and first recorded by Hank Williams: ”Cold Cold Heart” is sung by Nat King Cole and two gospel songs that sound just like C&W by Sister Rosetta (On My Way) and Professor Johnson and his Gospel Singers (Where Shall I Be) are really worth more than a spin. The closing number is an older classic blues recording from the 1930s the great Casey Bill Weldon which sounds just like Western Swing. Enjoy!
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Various - Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday Vol. 1 – I’m Gonna Rock (CD)
€15,00Quick View“Koko Mojo Records’ new series Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday initiates with three albums (KM-CD-135-136-137). The concept looks at the weekend for the Negro people after the toil of working has ended. On Saturday evening they are sinners; drinking, partying and dancing to Jump Blues music. On Sunday they need redemption from their sins and attend a church where they listen to rousing upbeat Gospel songs. Each album contains twenty-eight up-tempo recordings and maintains Koko Mojo’s principle of ”killer and no filler” ideology!”
Sin On Saturday, Pray On Sunday 01, I’m Gonna Rock, is a double-hitting music anthology that is jam-packed with R&B intensity combining pounding blues and stirring up-tempo gospel. The people get wild and raucous on Saturday evening listening to Jump Blues. On Sunday they pray, and repent their sins, at church while singing along to inspirational upbeat Gospel songs. The compelling twenty-eight songs anthology from the years 1938 through to 1963 features wild blues titles from; Sonny and Jaycee, Mister Froggie, the Voodoo Men with a vocal from Jo Buford, Mo Jo Workin’, Hound Dog Taylor, Take Five, and Buster Brown, Raise A Ruckus Tonight which set the scene for the sinful evening. The sophisticated R&B rompers include; B. B. King, I’ve Got Papers On You Baby, Memphis Minnie and Her Combo, Kissing In the Dark, J. B. Lenore and His Combo, Play A Little While, Lester Robertson, Everybody Wants To Know, and many more. The inspiring Gospel stompers include; The Sensational Nightingales with shared lead vocals from, Julius Chicks and Ernest James, Will He Welcome Me There, the Pilgrim Traveller with lead vocals from Louis Allen Rawls aka Lou Rawls, Daniel Saw The Stone, The Bells Of Joy, How Sweet It Is, the Golden Gate Quartet, Didn’t It Rain, and there are more Gospel stompers to enchant you. The album is perfect for dancing! The pulsating sounds are ideal for Dee Jays, small cellar clubs, the home listener, and those who wish to own albums that are not full of overly reissued titles.
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Various - Rockin Soul Party Vol. 5 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewVolume Five of Koko Mojo’s Let’s Throw A Rockin’ Soul Party contains thirty pleasurable soulful rockers from the years 1959 to 1963.” Koko Mojo Records’ album Let’s Throw A Rockin’ Soul Party 05 showcases thirty Doo-Wop, Soul, Pop, Tamla, and Rhythm & Blues titles with cross-over appeal. The plethora of recordings is sourced from the years 1959 to 1963.
There are several big-name performers from the soulful side of rockin’ music and the album showcases twenty-nine different artists including; Roy Hamilton whose beautiful voice brings to life the melodic and catchy If Only I Had Known, The Rivingtons version of Unchain My Heart is uplifting, and The Robins will enthral you with the tale of Live Wire Suzie. The Marvelettes are hoping for love during Please Mr Postman, Memphian Jeb Stuart is Coming Down With The Blues, the delightful Dee Clark is a male song thrush serenading a lady with the cry of Because I Love You, Sammy Turner performs with The Twisters the spirited Sweet Annie Laurie, and solo he sings the catchy love song Always. Eugene Church has lost his love but has not given up hope during Pretty Baby Won’t You Come On Home, and the same sentiment applies to The Isley Brothers whose plea is You Better Come Home, and Marv Johnson has a love wish and consults the Magic Mirror. The not so well known artist who despite failing to gain a chart hit recorded fantastic songs include; Myrna March, Our Love, It Grows, The Lions, No One (No One But You), Taffie Lee, Stay Away From My Baby, Freddy Jaye, Thinking Of You, The Pleasures, Music City, and The Metallics who close the album with Need Your Love. If you don’t know the names we invite you to become acquainted with the singers on this album, you won’t be disappointed! The album is compiled by Austin, Texas-based Mr Rock and Soul and 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 Furbman / Retrograph, and the sleeve is made from top-quality eco-friendly cardboard specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. Koko Mojo 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! Koko Mojo Records “often imitated, never duplicated” All that remains is to say, “Crank up the volume and dig these musical gems. Mr Rock and Soul, Austin, Texas
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Various - Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues – 40th Anniversary Special (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewStag-O-Lee is proud to continue the DJ-Set Series with compilation by cult DJ and master of few compilations Gay Mayall.
Linernotes:
As a tasty contribution to your CD collection, this double album explores four avenues that reflect aspects of Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues club.Founded July 3rd 1980, now celebrating 40 years of fun and dancing at London’s Number One Blues dance. Originally at Gossips in the basement of 69 Dean Street, with it’s entrance on Meard St., the cobbled alley that links it with Wardour Street in the heart of Soho, traditionally the hub of clubland and red light district in London’s West End. After djing & presenting bands there for over 14 years I moved the regular Thursday club night round the corner to St. Moritz,159 Wardour Street. Another great Soho basement dive with a huge history. The choice of music in this particular selection contains two fundamental styles of Rhythm and Blues oriented boogie music that influenced the world. The post war era of black dance music was driven by R&B that was the inspiration for the Rock`n´Roll of the 1950’s. Here you have a hard core Slice of
Black Rock & Roll, a side of rockin’ early 50’s R&B, it’s precursor on one platter. On the next disc you’ll hear a bunch of moving, exciting and at times frenzied 50’s Gospel. The idiom where
most R&B and black Rock`n´Roll and Soul stars learned their art and cut their teeth.
I was asked for this project to choose a bunch of Jamaican tunes to illustrate the role Jamaica’s music has played in influencing the style and direction of Gaz’s Rockin’ Blues.
These tracks are drawn from the very earliest days, at the inception of Ska in the late 50’s when Ja artists, having fell in love with US R&B, created their own take on it. I hope you enjoy this album for many years to come. Treasure it as I and all at Gaz’s Rockin Blues have treasured these tracks.40 years and still going strong!
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Various - Southern Bred Vol. 27 Tennessee & Arkansas R&B Rockers – Toodle Loo Tennessee (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewVisitation seven takes the final look at the states of Tennessee and Arkansas then departs with a chorus of “Toodle Loo Tennessee.” The anthology ends as it began packed full of hot recordings from artists who changed the music world. The album includes dance-floor fillers from known and obscure artists, who were pivotal in the development of popular music. The series showcases up-tempo rockers and sources some of the best post-war African-American performances set into vinyl. The album features; Blues Rockers, riveting piano and guitar R&B, Rock ’n’ Roll, and Doo-Wop music all of which have irresistible rhythms. Koko Mojo doesn’t make an album of average music our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every albumits’s ”killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers.
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Various - Stroll-A-Rama Volume 3 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe 30-song Stroll-A-Rama Volume – Atomicat (ACCD070) album is stuffed full of rockin’ and rhythmic walking tempo sounds, and the strolling chicks will dig any Dee Jay playing these titles. Every song is carefully selected and the album is programmed to sound like an evening at your local rockin’ record hop. Staying true to the Atomicat Records philosophy several of the featured artists are mostly unknown, but not lacking in star quality, and the acclaimed series is acquiring 5-star reviews. The albums are perfect for collectors who wish to own a more diverse range of songs, and those who enjoy dancing. With every Atomicat records’ album you will discover something different.
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Various - Jungle-A-Rama Volume 1 (CD)
€15,00Quick View“The special editions added to the Atomicat Records –Jive, Bop, Stroll- A-Rama series continues with Jungle-A-Rama Atomicat (ACCD116) an album which is stuffed full of rockin’ dance titles enhanced with rockin’ jungle sounds. During the jungle safari, you will encounter the mythical Tarzan and Jane who will take you on a vine-swinging adventure from the years 1953 through to 1963. Jungle -A- Rama has all the music you need to do the jungle bop!”
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Various - Jive-A-Rama Volume 3 (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe 30-songs featured on the Jive-A-Rama Volume Three – Atomicat (ACCD068) album are full of jiving intensity and command dance-floor action. Every song is carefully selected and the album is programmed to sound like an evening at your local sock hop. Staying true to the Atomicat Records philosophy several of the featured artists are mostly unknown, but not lacking in star quality, and the acclaimed series is acquiring 5-star reviews. The albums are furthermore perfect for music fans who wish to own a more diverse range of songs, and those who enjoy dancing. With every Atomicat records’ album you will discover something different.
