The First Days Of Funk (2005)

Label: Electrostatic (Australia)

The First Days Of Funk is a heavy collection that features awesome rare and obscure funk jams from long outta circulation tracks circa 1975-1978. Artists on this release include Olympics, Ernie K Doe, Randolph Brothers, Slinky Street Band, Rodney Trotter's Egypt, Chosen Few, Sons Of Slum, Bobby Husband, Fred Moss, Sam and the Sparks, Pound of Flesh, Masters of Soul, The Dynamic Soul Machine, and more...... 80 tracks in all!!

The first days of Funk vol. 1 disc 1

01. Jim Horne - Hey there Jim
02. Olympics - Papa will
03. Randolph Brothers - What it is (pt 1)
04. Randolph Brothers - What it is (pt 2)
05. Sam and the Sparks - Daybreak
06. Willie Joe - Funny thing
07. The New Editions - Vargo
08. Walter Davis - Baby wachdoin to me
09. Bobby Husband - Man's best friend
10. Johnny Thompson - Main squeeze
11. Billy Sha Rae - Let's do ti again
12. ST4 - Funky
13. Tony Clarke - Ghetto Man
14. Sons of Slum - 16 miles of plastic ghetto
15. Dossie Terry - Soul food
16. Erskine - Let him fix it
17. Rythm Rebellion - Universal rythm
18. Michael Jay Coleman - I'm a lover not a fighter
19. Lee Rogers - Sex appeal
20. Chain Reaction - Nurse your nerves

The first days of Funk vol. 1 disc 2

01. Lorenzo Holden - The Wig
02. James River - Let's live
03. Ofs Limited - Mr Kidneys
04. Big Daddy Rucker - Just do your thing
05. Chosen Few - Cut me in
06. Pound of Flesh - Funky March
07. Master of Soul - Right on
08. Jonah Ellis - I get hot
09. Kings of Soul - Girl what have you done ?
10. McKinley Mitchell - Days got bright
11. Chet Ivey - Party People
12. Hetti Loyd - Grief sorrow pain
13. Mauric and Mac - Use that good thing
14. News - Tend to your business
15. Fred and the Ovations - I'm gonna love you
16. Frankie Seay - All I want is loving you
17. Jackie Thompson - Got to right the wrongs
18. The Dynamic Soul Machine - Moving on
19. Eli the Prophet - Take a little give a lot
20. Fred Moss - Get on Down

The first days of Funk vol. 2 disc 1

01. Burning Cities - Spoons
02. Jerry McCain - Funky Down Easy
03. Pearl Reeves - Cool With A Groove
04. Vernon Garrett - Think People
05. The Projections - Groovin' To The Music
06. Groove Street Band - Shake Your Pants
07. Transitionnal Funk Company - Funafied
08. Gentle Persuasion - Rub Your Stub
09. Harvey Clark - Do Your Own Thing
10. Woody Guenther - Bang, Dang In Time
11. Herb Day - Shakin' In My Boots
12. Cal Jenkins - The Elbow
13. Eddie James - Her Mama Won't Leave Us Alone
14. Soulful Illusion - Soulful Illusion
15. Funkhouse Express - Music Makes You Move
16. Jackson Highway - Snake Eyes
17. Lorenzo Holden - The Wig2
18. Aldora Britton - The Hardway
19. Black Love - Get On Down2
20. Jade - Boodi Shakes Money

The first days of Funk vol. 2 disc 2

01. Gregory Washington - Pamla Lamour
02. North By Northwest - Disco Unusual
03. Priscilla Rollins - Obeah Women
04. Slinky Street Band - Time Study
05. Spontaneous Simplicity - Road Man
06. Onyx - Evasive Action
07. The Presidents - Mighty Do Fly
08. Ernie K Doe - Dancin' Man
09. Johnny Copeland - Provin' Time
10. Burps - Appetite
11. Ironing Board Sam - Space Streaker
12. The Variations - Put The Music On Funk
13. Sign Of The Vibration - Last Of THe Corruptors
14. Conspiracy - Kount Funkular
15. Supreme Creme - Superfunky
16. Dave Crawford - Hey Party
17. AIM - Tunnel Rat
18. Rodney Trotter's Egypt - Space Nigga
19. Jerry Combs - Get Yourself Together
20. Ronnie Fray - Little Jimmy Jones

STAX 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (2007)

50 of the biggest Stax hits in one double CD collection!

-- Disc One --

01. Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes) - Carla Thomas
02. Last Night - The Mar-Keys
03. You Don't Miss Your Water - William Bell
04. Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's
05. Walking The Dog - Rufus Thomas
06. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - Otis Redding
07. Candy - The Astors
08. Respect - Otis Redding
09. You Don't Know Like I Know - Sam & Dave
10. I Want Someone - The Mad Lads
11. Hold On I'm Comin' - Sam & Dave
12. Let Me Be Good To You - Carla Thomas
13. Your Good Thing (Is About To End) - Mable John
14. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
15. B-A-B-Y - Carla Thomas
16. Tramp - Otis & Carla
17. Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays
18. Born Under A Bad Sign - Albert King
19. Soul Man - Sam & Dave
20. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
21. I Got A Sure Thing - Ollie & The Nightingales
22. Soul Limbo - Booker T. & the MG's
23. I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) - Eddie Floyd
24. What A Man - Linda Lyndell
25. Private Number - William Bell & Judy Clay
26. Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor
27. I Forgot To Be Your Lover - William Bell
28. I Like What You're Doing (To Me) - Carla Thomas

-- Disc Two --

01. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & The MG's
02. So I Can Love You - The Emotions
03. Walk On By - Isaac Hayes
04. Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas
05. Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone - Johnnie Taylor
06. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
07. Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye
08. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - The Dramatics
09. Respect Yourself - The Staple Singers
10. Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
11. Son Of Shaft - The Bar-Kays
12. That's What Love Will Make You Do - Little Milton
13. I've Been Lonely For So Long - Frederick Knight
14. Hearsay - Soul Children
15. In The Rain - The Dramatics
16. I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers
17. Starting All Over Again - Mel & Tim
18. Dedicated To The One I Love - The Temprees
19. If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) - The Staple Singers
20. Cheaper To Keep Her - Johnnie Taylor
21. I'll Be The Other Woman - Soul Children
22. Woman To Woman - Shirley Brown

Chess Blues Guitar Two Decades of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969 (1998)

Disc 1

01 - Robert Nighthawk - Anna Lee
02 - Jimmy Rogers - That's All Right
03 - Johnny Shines - So Glad I Found You
04 - Joe Hill Louis - When I Am Gone
05 - John Lee Hooker - Walkin' The Boogie
06 - Blue Smitty - Date Bait
07 - Morris Pejoe - Tired Of Crying Over You
08 - Muddy Waters - Sad, Sad Day
09 - John Brim - It Was A Dream
10 - Danny Overbea - Forty Cups Of Coffee
11 - Eddie Boyd - Just A Fool
12 - Muddy Waters - Loving Man
13 - Howlin Wolf - I've Got A Woman
14 - Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby
15 - J.B. Lenoir - Give Me One More Shot
16 - Lowell Fulson - Rollin' Blues
17 - Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
18 - Earl Hooker - Guitar Rumba
19 - Jody Williams - What Kind Of Gal Is That
20 - Earl Hooker - Frog Hop
21 - Jody Williams - Lucky Lou
22 - Lafayette Thomas - Old Memories
23 - Chuck Berry - Guitar Boogie

Disc 2

01 - Muddy Waters - Walking Thru The PArk
02 - Eddie Burns - Treat Me Like I Treat You
03 - Lafayette Thomas - Claim On You
04 - Jimmy Rogers - Rock This House
05 - Otis Rush - I'm Satisfied
06 - Chuck Berry - I Still Got The Blues
07 - Buddy Guy - Broken Hearted Blues
08 - Elmore James - Talk To Me Baby (I Can't Hold Out)
09 - Bo Diddley - My Baby
10 - Albert King - Won't Be Hanging Around
11 - Bo Diddley - I Can Tell
12 - Howlin' Wolf - Hidden Charms
13 - Buddy Guy - Buddy's Boogie
14 - Little Milton - What kind Of Love Is This
15 - Robert Nighthawk - Someday
16 - Howlin Wolf - Killing Floor
17 - Buddy Guy - Leave My Girl Alone
18 - Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Cross My Heart
19 - Hound Dog Taylor - Watch Out
20 - Lonnie Brooks - One Sunny Day
21 - Little Milton - I Can't Quit You Baby
22 - Johnny Littlejohn - She's Too Much

This 45-song, two-disc collection is subtitled "two decades of killer fretwork," and never was a set so aptly described. Chess Records was the home to seemingly every hot guitar player in the Chicago area, and many of them make their appearance here. Besides the usual label guitar hotshots (Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Lowell Fulson, Earl Hooker, Otis Rush, Robert Nighthawk, Little Milton), space is given to sideman work from legends like Hubert Sumlin and Robert Jr. Lockwood and great one-offs by lesser-known artists like Jody Williams, Danny Overbea, Eddie Burns, Joe Hill Louis, Morris Pejoe, Lafayette Thomas and others. It seems as if everyone recorded for Chess at one time or another, also explaining the inclusion of tracks by John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Lonnie Brooks, Hound Dog Taylor and Elmore James. If electric blues guitar's your thing, then look no further than this fine two-disc compilation...

Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is

01 Gunpowder
02 Sugarfoot
03 I’m Broke
04 Big Booty Woman
05 Boogie
06 Master Sold My Baby
07 Get Yo Shit
08 Humpin’
09 Bobby Booshay
10 Please Pt. Two

Sixties Japanese Garage Psych Sampler (1966-69)

01.Love Is My Life
02.Tunnel To Heaven
03.Long Tall Sally
04.Chu Chu Chu
05.Tell Me More
06.Why Baby Why
07.Burning Burning
08.I'm Just A Mops
09.Anything You Want
10.Please Please Trina
11.Lonely Highway
12.Gloria
13.Everythings Alright
14.Hey Chance

this is a groovy thing i found on the inner nets years ago...i don't know the names of the bands...probably couldn't pronounce them even if i knew 'em, but these tracks are the real deal and at least worth checking out!

Downey Blues- Blues from Wenzel's Music Town

Awesome 60's blue collar blues from Southern California !!...

1. Midnight Bells Are Ringing -T-Bone Walker Jr.
2. Leave My Woman Alone- Ace Holder
3. Chip Chop (My Fair Lady) - Jessie Hill
4. Sorry 'Bout That - Chuck Higgins
5. I've Got News for You - Little Johnny Taylor
6. Woodshed - Jessie Hill
7. Happy Anniversary- Ace Holder
8. Empty Feeling- T-Bone Walker Jr.
9. Understanding - Jessie Hill
10. When You Are Around- Ace Holder
11. Night Scene - Chuck Higgins
12. Down the Street - Jessie Hill
13. Stop Fooling Around - Little Johnny Taylor
14. This Love of Mine- Ace Holder
15. TV Guide - Jessie Hill
16. Sumptin Else- T-Bone Walker Jr.
17. Never Thought - Jessie Hill
18. Doris Tee- Ace Holder

Another Man's Gold - Lost Treasures from the Vaults 1959-69, Vol. 2

Kim Fowley had been bouncing around the edges of the Los Angeles music scene for a few years when he scored a hit single in 1960 with "Alley Oop," an odd little novelty single credited to the Hollywood Argyles, with Fowley talking hipster style about the once popular comic strip caveman over a simple, clanking backing track. "Alley Oop" convinced Fowley that the public had a taste for the eccentric and gimmicky if it was packed right, and ever since, the man has been delivering the eccentric and gimmicky as a songwriter, producer and occasional recording artist on a regular basis. The cultural archivists at Norton Records have paired up with Fowley to collect some of the more interesting items from his career in the music biz, and Another Man's Gold: Lost Treasure from The Vaults 1959-69: Vol. 2 pulls together 16 oddball single sides Fowley produced during his heyday. Another Man's Gold isn't quite as aggressively quirky as its companion volume One Man's Garbage (which includes Althea & the Memories' inarguably amazing "Worst Record Ever Made"), but that's not to say Fowley doesn't dig up some prize winners here, most notably a head-scratching comedy routine by the Players called "Memories of a High School Bride," the "Johnny B. Goode" parody/ripoff "Surfer's Rule" by the Rituals, and a pair of hilariously dated topical items, "Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack" by the Hollywood Argyles and Fowley's own "Big Sur, Bear Mountain, Ciro's, Flip Side Protest Song," a folk-rock experiment that goofs on protest numbers while name dropping Bob Dylan and the Byrds. Of course, one of the reasons Fowley was able to get away with cutting crazy stuff like this for so long is that he would occasionally score a hit, and if there aren't any here, a bunch of the songs on this disc are pretty great, such as the killer instrumentals "Ghost Train" by the Renegades and "Teen Machine" by the Gamblers, as well as a couple solid girl group numbers in "Gone But Not Forgotten" by the Cover Girls and "Eleventh Commandment of Love" by Bonnie & the Treasures. And even when he was aiming for weirdness, Fowley's knack for a hook and a witty lyric meant he was better at it than most of his peers, and though Another Man's Gold isn't as strong as its sibling collection, it confirms that the man's archive doubtless merits greater investigation (and his liner notes suggest this man ought to try writing his autobiography one of these days, which ought to be one crazed read if it ever happens).

01 Geronimo 01:48
02 Big Sur, Bear Mountain, Ciro's, Flip Side, Protest Song 02:26
03 Teen Machine 01:48
04 Vaquero Beat 02:19
05 Memories of a High School Bride 03:53
06 Fallout 01:47
07 Gone But Not Forgotten 01:51
08 Heartbeat 01:43
09 Surfers Rule 02:47
10 Eleventh Commandment of Love 02:37
11 Ghost Train 01:43
12 Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack 02:32
13 Bounty Hunter 02:14
14 Daddy Said 02:20
15 March of the Siamese Children 02:02
16 Gone

Acid and Flowers - 21 Late 1960s Psych Rarities (Timothy's Brain TB-104)

1. Crystal Chandelier - "The Setting of Despair" (2:45)
2. Last Word - "Bidin' My Time" (2:13)
3. Whatever - "The Valley of Death" (2:20)
4. Allies - "I'll Sell My Soul" (2:45)
5. World Column - "Lantern Gospel" (3:27)
6. Hobbits - "Strawberry Children" (3:23)
7. Picture - "Evolution" (4:24)
8. West Coast Branch - "Colors of My Life" (2:30)
9. Morticians - "It's Gonna Take a While" (2:36)
10. First National Band - "When Once It Was Good" (2:42)
11. Savage Genreation - "You're Not Going to Change My World" (3:03)
12. Starfires - "There's Still Time" (1:59)
13. Hindenburg Lyon - "Eden" (2:13)
14. Ford Theater - "Jefferson Airplane" (3:04)
15. Lords - "Death Bells at Dawn" (2:48)
16. United Travel Service - "Wind and Stone" (3:21)
17. Culver Street Playground - "East River Lovers" (2:54)
18. Utopia Carwash - "Loneliness" (3:20)
19. Venus Flytrap - "The Note" (3:14)
20. Rainy Daze - "In My Mind Lives a Forest" (2:49)
21. Zero Tolerance - "Acid and Flowers" (3:24)

A Walk in Alice's Garden - 32 Rare 60's Psych Tunes

01 - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Dr Who
02 - The Explosive - Miss Alice's Garden
03 - Wonderland - Moscow
04 - Svensk - Dream Machine
05 - Kenny Everitt - Nice Time
06 - Warm Sounds - Birds & Bees
07 - Skip Bifferty - Cover Girl
08 - Andy Kim - Rainbow Ride
09 - Rhubard Rhubard - Rainmaker
10 - Elmar Gantry's Velvet Opera - Salisbury Plain
11 - Andy Kim - Ressurection
12 - Svensk - Getting Old
13 - Rhubarb Rhubard - Money Lender
14 - Kenny Everitt - Another Little Train No
15 - Plastic Penny - Genevieve
16 - Wonderland - Poochy
17 - The Explosive - Cities Make The Country Cold
18 - Everybody - Do Like The Children Do
19 - The Capes Of Good Hope - Winter's Children
20 - The Explosive - Step Out Of Line
21 - The Explosive - I Get My Kicks From Living
22 - Hermin's Hermits - Marcel
23 - The Rainy Daze - In My Mind Lives A Forest
24 - Ola - That's Why I Cry
25 - Everybody - The Shape Of Things To Come
26 - New York Public Library - Got To Get Away
27 - The Garden Of Eden - Got To Get Away
28 - Ola - What A Way To Die
29 - The Hobbits - Everything's Turning Out Fine
30 - The Neat Change - I Lied To Aunty May
31 - Consortium - All The Love In The world
32 - Julie Driscoll - Road To Cairo

Kim Fowley - Outrageous (1968)

reissue of 1968 Imperial album from the self-proclaimed "MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP" Kim Fowley, who's produced, recorded with, written songs for or performed with, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, The Who, Soft Machine, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Alice Cooper, The Runaways, and the list goes on and on...

01. Animal Man (2.42)
02. Wildfire (4.08)
03. Hide & Seek (2.09)
04. Chinese Water Torture (0.43)
05. Nightrider (2.22)
06. Bubble Gum (2.27)
07. Inner Space Discovery (4.01)
08. Barefoot Country Boy (2.01)
09. Up (14.28)
a. Up
b. Caught in the Middle
c. Down
10. California Hayride (1.17)

Kim Fowley - One Man's Garbage- Lost Treasures From The Vaults 1959-1969 Volume One

Kim Fowley is a mad genius if the music business has ever produced such a thing; as a songwriter, producer, manager, and idea man, he's enjoyed steady success over the course of a career that's spanned seven decades (!), but there's always been a wild and sleazy undercurrent in his music that befits a man who has frequently gone out of his way to paint himself as a sex-crazed scam artist out for a buck. (Read Fowley's contributions to Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen's oral history of the Los Angeles punk scene, We Got the Neutron Bomb, or his extended interview in issue nineteen of the garage rock journal Ugly Things for evidence.) Fowley has had his hands in more than a few hit records over the years, but he's also cut at least as many discs that are marvels of perverse inspiration the mass audience could not fathom, and the folks at Norton Records (a label built around inspiration at its most perverse) have given Fowley a chance to share some of his more interesting smash flops in a pair of compilations. One Man's Garbage: Lost Treasures from the Vaults 1959-1969, Vol. 1 features 16 tracks Fowley produced (and sometimes sings) that somehow failed to become hits; in the case of grooving instrumentals like "Bodacious" by the U.S. Rockets or "Inferno" by Johnny C & the Blazers, it's hard to say why they didn't click, but once you get into the joyously dumb "Big Fat Alaskan" by Donnie & the Outcasts, or the oddball novelty disc "The Rebel" by the Players, it seems fairly evident that sometimes Fowley was amusing himself and his friends rather than aiming for the charts, and "I Saw Her First" by Bruce & Jerry (featuring future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston) and "Late Late Show" by the Patterns push the clichés of '60s teen pop into directions that are clearly meant to be parody despite their clean-cut surfaces. And when it comes to stuff like "Surf Pigs" by Fowley and Mars Bonfire and Althea

& the Memories' justifiably legendary "Worst Record Ever Made," the man seems to be making some sort of elaborate inside commentary on the ephemeral nature of pop music that's funny and truly bizarre at the same time. On pretty much every song, it's clear Fowley has a way with a tune and a smart lyric (no matter what the thinking is behind it), and this music comes from the era when nearly every studio in Los Angeles was cranking out great-sounding records on a regular basis, so most of this sounds far more professional than one might imagine. One Man's Garbage is a wildly entertaining ride through the roller coaster of Kim Fowley's mind, and his crazed liner notes only add to the fun.

01 I Saw Her first
Performed by: Bruce and Jerry

02 Late Late Show
Performed by: Patterns

03 Bodacious
Performed by: U.S. Rockets

04 This Is Paradise
Performed by: Rituals

05 Big Fat Alaskan
Performed by: Donnie & The Outcasts

06 Charge
Performed by: Renegades

07 The Rebel
Performed by: Players

08 Daybreaker
Performed by: Kim and the Skippers

09 The Yo Yo Song
Performed by: Mo and Jo

10 Inferno
Performed by: Johnny C. & The Blazes

11 Music Is the Magic

12 Moccasin
Performed by: Bluebells

13 Dedication Time 2
Performed by: Althea & the Memories

14 Undergound Lady

15 Surf Pigs
Performed by: Fowley, Mars Bonfire

16 Worst Record Ever Made
Performed by: Althea & the Memories

The Art of Field Recording Volume 2

by request:
NEW LINKS!!!

Louie Louie: The Very Best of The Kingsmen

1. Louie, Louie
2. Money (That's What I Want)
3. Jolly Green Giant
4. Little Latin Lupe Lu
5. Death of an Angel
6. Annie Fannie
7. Climb
8. Killer Joe
9. Little Sally Tease
10. Don't You Just Know It
11. That's Cool, That's Trash
12. Long Green
13. Shout
14. Mashed Potatoes [Live][Instrumental]
15. Little Green Thing [Live][Instrumental]
16. Shake a Tail Feather
17. Mustang Sally
18. I Like It Like That
19. Twist and Shout
20. Do You Love Me
21. New Orleans
22. Fever [Live]
23. Gimme Some Lovin'
24. Tall Cool One [Live][Instrumental]
25. Long Tall Texan [Live]
26. Night Train [Live][Instrumental]

200 Original Mega Jukebox Hits

definitely one of the cheesiest pictures I'll ever post here, but this is pretty much one of the best collections of the oldies that I've ever come across...if ya like the oldies, this is a pretty good comp...check it out!...it's jammed packed with oldie goodness!

CD1
1. FATS DOMINO - Blueberry Hill
2. GENE VINCENT - Be Bop A Lula
3. DION & THE BELMONTS - Lovers Who Wander
4. FABIAN - Turn Me Loose
5. JOHNNY CASH - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
6. THE CHORDETTES - Mister Sandman
7. BOBBY LEWIS - Tossin' And Turnin'
8. THE RIVINGTONS - Papa Oum Mow Wow
9. HUEY PIANO SMITH - Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu
10. LOUIS PRIMA - Buona Sera
11. THE BEACH BOYS - I Get Around
12. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Wake Up Little Suzie
13. SANDY NELSON - Teenbeat
14. FRANKIE AVALON - Why
15. THE KINGSMEN - Louie Louie
16. THE ROCKYFELLERS - Killer Joe
17. GENE PITNEY - Only Love Can Break A Heart
18. JOHNNY TILLOTSON - Poetry In Motion
19. JERRY LEE LEWIS - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
20. ERNIE MARESCA - Shout Shout (Knock Yourself Out)

CD2
1. EDDIE HODGES - I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door
2. THE AD LIBS - The Boy From New York City
3. JAY & THE AMERICANS - Cara Mia
4. DAVE 'BABY' CORTEZ - The Happy Organ
5. BOBBY DAY - Little Bitty Pretty One
6. JIMMIE RODGERS - Honeycomb
7. ANDY WILLIAMS - Butterfly
8. GENE PITNEY - Backstage (I'm Lonely)
9. DEL SHANNON - Runaway
10. FREDDY CANNON - Palisades Park
11. ARTHUR LYMAN GROUP - Yellow Bird
12. FATS DOMINO - Red Sails In The Sunset
13. ARCHIE BLEYER - Hernando's Hideaway
14. SHANGRI-LA'S - I Can Never Go Home Anymore
15. BUDDY KNOX - Party Doll
16. LINK WRAY - Rumble
17. JERRY LEE LEWIS - Breathless
18. DION & THE BELMONTS - A Teenager In Love
19. JAN & DEAN - The Little Old Lady From Pasadena
20. RITCHIE VALENS - Come On, Let's Go

CD3
1. JACKIE WILSON - Reet Petite
2. JOE TEX - Hold On To What You Got
3. GARY U.S. BONDS - School Is Out
4. BILL JUSTIS - Raunchy
5. JERRY LEE LEWIS - High School Confidential
6. BETTY EVERETT - It's In His Kiss
7. PATSY CLINE - Walkin' After Midnight
8. JOHNNY TILLOTSON - It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'
9. THE PENGUINS - Earth Angel
10. FRANKIE AVALON - De De Dinah
11. THE VIRTUES - Guitar Boogie Shuffle
12. DION - Runaround Sue
13. BOBBY DAY - Over And Over
14. LOUIS PRIMA & KEELY SMITH - That Old Black Magic
15. RAY STEVENS - Jeremiah Peabodys Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills
16. CARL MANN - Pretend
17. THE SHIRELLES - Will You Love Me Tomorrow
18. MARV JOHNSON - You Got What It Takes
19. SKIP & FLIP - It Was
20. BOBBY VEE - Take Good Care Of My Baby

CD4
1. FRANKIE FORD - Sea Cruise
2. THOMAS WAYNE - Tragedy
3. THE PARIS SISTERS - I Love You How You Love Me
4. BOBBY FULLER FOUR - I Fought The Law
5. THE ELDORADOS - At My Front Door
6. MARCIE BLANC - Bobby's Girl
7. FATS DOMINO - Ain't That A Shame
8. FREDDY CANNON - Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
9. GENE PITNEY - A Town Without Pity
10. JOHNNY BURNETTE - You're Sixteen
11. GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - Count Me In
12. THE CRESTS - Sixteen Candles
13. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - All I Have To Do Is Dream
14. GARY U.S. BONDS - Quarter To Three
15. JERRY LEE LEWIS - What'd I Say
16. THE SHIRELLES - Mama Said
17. THE TURTLES - Happy Together
18. JOHNNY CRAWFORD - Cindy's Birthday
19. DION & THE BELMONTS - I Wonder Why
20. RICKY VALANCE - Tell Laura I Love Her

CD5
1. JOHNNY & THE HURRICANES - Red River Rock
2. GARY LEWIS & THE PLAYBOYS - This Diamond Ring
3. THE BEACH BOYS - Help Me Rhonda
4. BEE BUMBLE & THE STINGERS - Nut Rocker
5. LES PAUL & MARY FORD - Hummingbird
6. GENE PITNEY - It Hurts To Be In Love
7. FATS DOMINO - Lazy Lady
8. AARON NEVILLE - Tell It Like It Is
9. PRESTON EPPS - Bongo Rock
10. RICHIE VALENS - Donna
11. VIKKI CARR - It Must Be Him
12. CHRIS MONTEZ - Let's Dance
13. DEL SHANNON - Hats Off To Larry
14. THE CHAMPS - Tequila
15. SONNY JAMES - Young Love
16. ACE CANNON - Tuff (Cattywampus)
17. TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD - Sixteen Tons
18. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Bye Bye Love
19. THE ISLEY BROTHERS - Twist And Shout
20. DION & THE BELMONTS - Where Or When

CD6
1. THE CHIFFONS - One Fine Day
2. CURTIS LEE - Pretty Little Angel Eyes
3. LOUIS PRIMA - Oh Marie
4. WANDA JACKSON - Let's Have A Party
5. FREDDY CANNON - Tallahassee Lassie
6. THE FOUR KNIGHTS - I Get So Lonely (Oh Baby Mine)
7. JACKIE WILSON - Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher)
8. THE CLOVERS - Love Potion No.9
9. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Let It Be Me
10. THE LETTERMEN - When I Fall In Love
11. HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH - Don't You Just Know It
12. THE CHAMPS - El Rancho Rock
13. DEL SHANNON - Keep Searching (We'll Follow The Sun)
14. JOE JONES - You Talk Too Much
15. JULIE LONDON - Cry Me A River
16. JERRY LEE LEWIS - Great Balls Of Fire
17. GENE PITNEY - If I Didn't Have A Dime
18. GARY U.S. BONDS - New Orleans
19. FATS DOMINO - Sally Was A Good Old Girl
20. JOHNNY TILLOTSON - Talk Back Tremblin' Lips

CD7
1. CARL PERKINS - Blue Suede Shoes
2. FATS DOMINO - Forever, Forever
3. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Claudette
4. JERRY LEE LEWIS - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
5. JOHNNY OTIS - Willie And The Hand Jive
6. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Bird Dog
7. DEL SHANNON - Little Town Flirt
8. TOMMY SANDS - Teenage Crush
9. GENE PITNEY - Mecca
10. JOHNNY TILLOTSON - Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On
11. THE CHORDETTES - Lollipop
12. FERLIN HUSKY - Gone
13. THE SHIRELLES - Soldier Boy
14. THE CHAPMS - Too Much Tequila
15. JACKIE WILSON - Lonely Teardrops
16. FRANKIE AVALON - Ginger Bread
17. SANDY NELSON - Let There Be Drums
18. THE DIXIE CUPS - Iko Iko
19. THE TURTLES - Elenore
20. THE CHIFFONS - Sweet Talking Guy

CD8
1. SHANGRI-LAS - Leader Of The Pack
2. EDDIE COCHRAN - C'mon Everybody
3. GENE PITNEY - I'm Gonna Be Strong
4. PEGGY LEE - Fever
5. THE CHORDETTES - Born To Be With You
6. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Devoted To You
7. SKIP & FLIP - Cherry Pie
8. THE KINGSTON TRIO - Tom Dooley
9. TIMI YURO - Hurt
10. LITTLE CAESAR & THE ROMANS - Those Oldies But Goodies
11. JOEY DEE - Peppermint Twist Pt.1
12. BILLY LEE RILEY - Red Hot
13. FRANKIE AVALON - Venus
14. RITCHIE VALENS - La Bamba
15. LENNY WELCH - You Don't Know Me
16. TOMMY HUNT - Human
17. THE JIVE FIVE - My True Story
18. KING CURTIS - Take The Last Train Home
19. BOBBY DAY - Rockin' Robin
20. RAY STEVENS - Bridget The Midget

CD9
1. THE ARCHIES - Sugar Sugar
2. DALE & GRACE - I'm Leaving It (All Up To You)
3. CARL MANN - Mona Lisa
4. TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
5. THE DIXIE CUPS - Chapel Of Love
6. FABIAN - Tiger
7. THE NEWBEATS - Bread & Butter
8. TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS - Hanky Panky
9. LINDA SCOTT - I've Told Every Little Star
10. JERRY LEE LEWIS - My Girl Josphine
11. JOHNNY CASH - I Walk The Line
12. FRANKIE AVALON - Bobby Sox To Stockings
13. JERRY BUTLER - For Your Precious Love
14. FATS DOMINO - There Goes My Heart Again
15. GENE PITNEY - Princess In Rags
16. BOBBY FULLER FOUR - Love's Made A Fool Of You
17. THE CRESTS - Trouble In Paradise
18. FABIAN - Hound Dog Man
19. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Problems
20. ANDY WILLIAMS - Canadian Sunset

CD10
1. DION - The Wanderer
2. JOHNNY TILLOTSON - Without You
3. THE ESQUIRES - Get On Up
4. B.J.THOMAS - Hooked On A Feeling
5. EDDIE COCHRAN - Summertime Blues
6. JOHNNY CASH - Guess Things Happen That Way
7. THE CHORDETTES - Eddie My Love
8. CHARLIE RICH - Lonely Weekends
9. THE CHIFFONS - He's So Fine
10. THE KINGSMEN - Money
11. THE EVERLY BROTHERS - Till I Kissed You
12. JODY REYNOLDS - Endless Sleep
13. THE DREAMLOVERS - When We Get Married
14. SUE THOMPSON - Norman
15. THE VOGUES - Five O'Clock World
16. GENE PITNEY - 24 Hours From Tulsa
17. FRANKIE LYMON & THE TEENAGERS - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
18. CARL PERKINS - Boppin' The Blues
19. THE SHIRELLES - Dedicated To The One I Love
20. FRANKIE AVALON - Just Ask Your Heart.

200 Original Mega Jukebox Hits - Bonus Disk
01 Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari.mp3
02 Beach Boys - Surfin'.mp3
03 Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign.mp3
04 Bruce Channel - Hey Baby.mp3
05 Jan & Dean - Baby Talk.mp3
06 Jewel Akens - The Birds And The Bees.mp3
07 Kathy Young - A Thousand Stars.mp3
08 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya.mp3
09 Nina Simone,Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee - Mr Bojangles.mp3
10 Paul & Paula - Hey Paula.mp3
11 The Dells - Oh, What A Night.mp3
12 The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird.mp3

The Triumphs of R'n'B (20 Volumes)

The Triumphs of R'n'B (20 Volumes)

Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 01 Let The Good Time Roll - Louis Jordan

01 Louis Jordan - Caldonia Boogie.mp3
02 Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch' Boogie.mp3
03 Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens.mp3
04 Louis Jordan - Let The Good Times Roll.mp3
05 Louis Jordan - Reet Petite And Gone.mp3
06 Louis Jordan - Buzz Me.mp3
07 Louis Jordan - Boogie Woogie Blue Plate.mp3
08 Louis Jordan - Look Out.mp3
09 Louis Jordan - You're Much Too Fat (And That's That).mp3
10 Louis Jordan - Pettin' And Pokin'.mp3
11 Louis Jordan - Safe, Sane and Single.mp3
12 Louis Jordan - Push-Ka-Pee She Pie (The Saga Of Saga Boy).mp3
13 Louis Jordan - Coleslaw.mp3
14 Louis Jordan - Beans And Corn Bread.mp3
15 Louis Jordan - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie.mp3
16 Louis Jordan - Saxa-Woogie.mp3
17 Louis Jordan - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town.mp3
18 Louis Jordan - Five Guys Named Moe.mp3
19 Louis Jordan - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby.mp3
20 Louis Jordan - I Like 'Em Fat Like That.mp3
21 Louis Jordan - Baby, It's Cold Outside.mp3
22 Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own.mp3
23 Louis Jordan - I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal, You).mp3
24 Louis Jordan - Lemonade.mp3
25 Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R&B - Vol 2- Ray Charles - The Genius

01 Ray Charles - Mess Around.mp3
02 Ray Charles - Feelin' Sad.mp3
03 Ray Charles - Ray Charles - I Wonder Who.mp3
04 Ray Charles - Ray Blues.mp3
05 Ray Charles - It Should Have Been Me.mp3
06 Ray Charles - Don't You Know.mp3
07 Ray Charles - Losing Hand.mp3
08 Ray Charles - Sinner's Prayer.mp3
09 Ray Charles - Funny (But I Still Love You).mp3
10 Ray Charles - Someday.mp3
11 Ray Charles - The Sun's Gonna Shine.mp3
12 Ray Charles - The Midnight Hour.mp3
13 Ray Charles - Nobody Cares.mp3
14 Ray Charles - Hey Now.mp3
15 Ray Charles - Kissa Me Baby.mp3
16 Ray Charles - Roll With Me Baby.mp3
17 Ray Charles - Jumpin' In The Morning.mp3
18 Ray Charles - Late In The Evening Blues.mp3
19 Ray Charles - The Snow Is Falling.mp3
20 Ray Charles - Misery In My Heart.mp3
21 Ray Charles - Baby Let Me Hear You Call My Name.mp3
22 Ray Charles - Mr Charles Blues.mp3
23 Ray Charles - Baby Won't You Please Come Home.mp3
24 Ray Charles - Th'Ego Song.mp3
25 Ray Charles - I'll Do Anything But Work.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 3 Johnny Otis - Rhythm & Blues Revue

01 Johnny Otis - All Night Long.mp3
02 Johnny Otis - Honky Tonk Boogie.mp3
03 Johnny Otis - Mambo Boogie.mp3
04 Johnny Otis - New Orleans Shuffle.mp3
05 Johnny Otis - Midnight In The Barrelhouse.mp3
06 Johnny Otis - Hang Over Blues.mp3
07 Johnny Otis - Blues Nocturne.mp3
08 Linda Hopkins - Living And Loving You.mp3
09 Devonia Williams - I'm Not Falling In Love With You.mp3
10 The Barreleers - Hold Me Close.mp3
11 The Robins - Turkey Hop.mp3
12 Mel Walker - Cry Baby.mp3
13 Redd Lyte - Ain't Nothing Shaking.mp3
14 George Washington - It Ain't The Beauty.mp3
15 Little Richard - Directly From My Heart To You.mp3
16 Mel Walker - Hearthache, Here I Come.mp3
17 Mel Walker- New Love.mp3
18 Little Esther & Mel Walker - Mistrusting Blues.mp3
19 Jimmy Rushing - My Baby's Business.mp3
20 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - Hot Jaws.mp3
21 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - Jeff-Hi Stomp.mp3
22 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - Good Boogie Googie.mp3
23 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra- Barrelhouse Stomp.mp3
24 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - Ultra-Violet.mp3
25 Johnny Otis & His Orchestra - Harlem Nocturne.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 4 Roots Of Rock & Roll:
Fats Domino - Little Richard - Arthur Big Boy Crudup

01 Fats Domino - The Fat Man.mp3
02 Fats Domino - Trust In Me.mp3
03 Fats Domino - No No Baby.mp3
04 Fats Domino - Hey, La-Bas Boogie.mp3
05 Fats Domino - Hey, Fat Man.mp3
06 Fats Domino - Reeling And Rocking.mp3
07 Fats Domino - Poor Poor Me.mp3
08 Fats Domino - Going To The River.mp3
09 Fats Domino - Mardi Gras In New Orleans.mp3
10 Little Richard - Little Richard Boogie.mp3
11 Little Richard - Ain't Nothin' Happenin'.mp3
12 Little Richard - I Love My Baby.mp3
13 Little Richard - Get Rich Quick.mp3
14 Little Richard - Taxi Blues.mp3
15 Little Richard - I Bought It All On Myself.mp3
16 Little Richard - Always (With The Tempo Toppers).mp3
17 Little Richard - Thinking About My Mother.mp3
18 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - That's All Right.mp3
19 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - My Baby Left Me.mp3
20 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Shout, Sister, Shout.mp3
21 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - I'm Gonna Dig Myself A Hole.mp3
22 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - I Want My Loving.mp3
23 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - So Glad You're Mine.mp3
24 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Mean Old Frisco Blues.mp3
25 Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Rock Me, Mama.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol. 5 Roots Of Rock & Roll - 2

01 Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight.mp3
02 Roy Brown - Rockin' At Midnight.mp3
03 Roy Brown - Hurry, Hurry Babe.mp3
04 Roy Brown - Butcher Pete.mp3
05 Roy Brown - Letter From Me.mp3
06 Roy Brown - Rock A Bye Baby.mp3
07 Roy Brown - Everything's Alright.mp3
08 Roy Brown - Roy Brown Boogie.mp3
09 Wynonie Harris - Rock Mr Blues.mp3
10 Wynonie Harris - Down Boy Down.mp3
11 Wynonie Harris - Lovin' Machine.mp3
12 Wynonie Harris - Baby, Shame On You.mp3
13 Wynonie Harris - Bite Again, Bite Again.mp3
14 Wynonie Harris - Put It Back.mp3
15 Wynonie Harris - Keep On Churnin'.mp3
16 Wynonie Harris - Mr Blues Is Coming To Town.mp3
17 Wynonie Harris - Wynonie's Boogie.mp3
18 Big Joe Turner - Corrine, Corrina.mp3
19 Big Joe Turner - Rebecca.mp3
20 Big Joe Turner - I Got A Girl For Everyday In The Week.mp3
21 Big Joe Turner - Jumping At The Jubilee.mp3
22 Big Joe Turner - Bump Miss Suzie.mp3
23 Big Joe Turner - Sweet Sixteen.mp3
24 Big Joe Turner - Sun Risin' Blues.mp3
25 Big Joe Turner - Blues In The Night.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 6 Big Mama Thornton

01 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog.mp3
02 Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama.mp3
03 Big Mama Thornton - I Aint No Fool Either.mp3
04 Big Mama Thornton - Rock A Bay Baby.mp3
05 Big Mama Thornton - Let Your Tears Fall Babe.mp3
06 Big Mama Thornton - Mischievous Boogie.mp3
07 Big Mama Thornton - Walking Blues.mp3
08 Big Mama Thornton - Nightmare.mp3
09 Little Esther Phillips - I'm A Bad Bad Girl.mp3
10 Little Esther Phillips - Cherry Wine.mp3
11 Little Esther Phillips - Looking For A Man.mp3
12 Little Esther Phillips - The Deacon Moves In.mp3
13 Little Esther Phillips - Ring A Ding Dong.mp3
14 Little Esther Phillips - Better Beware.mp3
15 Little Esther Phillips - Hollering And Dreaming.mp3
16 Little Esther Phillips - The Storm.mp3
17 Little Esther Phillips - Aged And Mellow.mp3
18 Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes.mp3
19 Ruth Brown - Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean.mp3
20 Ruth Brown - Wild Wild Young Man.mp3
21 Ruth Brown - I Know.mp3
22 Ruth Brown - Shine On.mp3
23 Ruth Brown - 5 10 15 Hours.mp3
24 Ruth Brown - Daddy Daddy.mp3
25 Ruth Brown - So Long.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 07 Chanteuses # 2

01.- LaVern Baker - Soul And Fire.
02.- LaVern Baker - How Can You Leave A Man Like This.
03.- Varetta Dillard - Double Crossing Baby.
04.- Varetta Dillard - Getting Ready For My Daddy.
05.- Annisteen Allen - Baby I'm Doing It.
06.- Annisteen Allen - Bongo Boogie.
07.- Big Maybelle & Rose Marie McCoy - Gabbin' Blues.
08.- Big Maybelle - Country Man.
09.- Ella Johnson - Ain't Cha Got Me (Where You Want Me).
10.- Ella Johnson - No More Love.
11.- Helen Humes - Ee Baba Leba.
12.- Helen Humes - Voo-It.
13.- Nellie Lutcher - He's A Real Gone Guy.
14.- Nellie Lutcher - He Sends Me.
15.- Marion Abernathy - My Man Boogie.
16.- Faye Adams - Shake And Hand.
17.- Little Miss Cornshucks - Try A Little Tenderness.
18.- Eunice Davis - Work Daddy, Work.
19.- Julia Lee - Gonna Gimme What' Cha Got.
20.- Alma The Lollipop Mama Mondy - A Job For A Jockey.
21.- Chubby Newsome - New Orleans Man.
22.- Jewel King - 3x7=21.
23.- Annie Laurie - It's Been A Long Time.
24.- Erline Rock & Roll Harris - Jump and Shout.
25.- Dinah Washington- Cool Kind Papa Fast Moving Mama.
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 08 Chanteurs # 1

01.- Percy Mayfield - Please Send Me Someone To Love.
02.- Percy Mayfield- Lost Love.
03.- Percy Mayfield - Advice (For Men Only).
04.- Percy Mayfield - Cry Baby.
05.- Percy Mayfield - I Dare You Baby.
06.- Percy Mayfield - The Hunt Is On.
07.- Percy Mayfield - Louisiana.
08.- Percy Mayfield - The Bachelor Blues.
09.- Jimmy McCracklin - Jimmy's Blues.
10.- Jimmy McCracklin - Special For You.
11.- Jimmy McCracklin- She's Gone.
12.- Jimmy McCracklin - My Days Are Limited.
13.- Jimmy McCracklin - She Felt Too Good.
14.- Jimmy McCracklin - The Cheater.
15.- Jimmy McCracklin - Share And Share Alike.
16.- Jimmy McCracklin - Pleasin' Papa.
17.- Jimmy Witherspoon - Two Little Girl.
18.- Jimmy Witherspoon - Corn Whiskey.
19.- Jimmy Witherspoon - It.
20.- Jimmy Witherspoon - Lucille.
21.- Jimmy Witherspoon - Foolish Prayer.
22.- Jimmy Witherspoon - The Last Mile.
23.- Jimmy Witherspoon - Destruction Blues.
24.- Jimmy Witherspoon- Wee Baby Blues.
25.- Jimmy Witherspoon- Ain't Nobody's Business.

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 09 Chanteurs #2

01.- Otis Blackwell - Daddy Rolling Stone.
02.- Otis Blackwell - Tears, Tears, Tears.
03.- Doc Pomus - Kiss My Wrist.
04.- Doc Pomus - Give It Up.
05.- Johnny Guitar Watson - Motor Head Baby
06.- Johnny Guitar Watson - Highway 60.
07.- Peppermint Harris - Raining In My Heart.
08.- Peppermint Harris - Got A Big Fine Baby.
09.- Billy Wright - Hey! Little Girl.
10.- Billy Wright - You Satisfy.
11.- Andrew Tibbs - Bilbo Is Dead.
12.- Jesse Belvin - Dream Girl.
13.- Jesse Belvin - Baby, Don't Go.
14.- Chuck Willis - I Feel So Bad.
15.- Crown Prince Waterford - Coal Black Baby.
16.- Richard Berry - I'm Still In Love With You.
17.- Lester Williams - Brand New Baby.
18.- Sonny Parker - She Sets My Soul On Fire.
19.- Jackie Wilson & The Dominoes - You Can't Keep A Good Man Down.
20.- Clyde McPhatter & The Dominoes - The Bells.
21.- Earl Forest - I Can't Forgive You.
22.- Earl Forest - I Wronged A Woman.
23.- Johnny Ace - My Song
24.- Johnny Ace - Midnight Hours Journey.
25.- Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Jesus Gave Me Water
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 10 Orchestres

01 Earl Bostic - Cherokee.mp3
02 Earl Bostic - Flamingo.mp3
03 Earl Bostic - Bostic's Jump.mp3
04 Earl Bostic - Earl's Rum Boogie.mp3
05 Earl Bostic - Hot Sauce Boss.mp3
06 Earl Bostic - Apollo Theater Blues.mp3
07 Earl Bostic - Bostic's Boogie Blues.mp3
08 Earl Bostic - Earl Blows A Fuse.mp3
09 Earl Bostic - Earl's Blues.mp3
10 Tiny Bradshaw - Well, Oh Well.mp3
11 Tiny Bradshaw - I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball.mp3
12 Tiny Bradshaw - Breaking The House.mp3
13 Tiny Bradshaw - Walk That Mess.mp3
14 Tiny Bradshaw - Bradshaw Boogie.mp3
15 Tiny Bradshaw - The Blues Came Pouring Down.mp3
16 Tiny Bradshaw - The Train Kept A Rolling.mp3
17 Tiny Bradshaw - Gravy Train.mp3
18 Lucky Millinder - Ram Bunk Shush.mp3
19 Lucky Millinder - Old Spice.mp3
20 Lucky Millinder - Heavy Sugar.mp3
21 Erskine Hawkins - Caldonia.mp3
22 Erskine Hawkins - Hey ! Doc.mp3
23 Erskine Hawkins - Holidays For Swing.mp3
24 Buddy Johnson - Be Careful.mp3
25 Buddy Johnson - Dr Jive Jives.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 10 Orchestres

01 Earl Bostic - Cherokee.mp3
02 Earl Bostic - Flamingo.mp3
03 Earl Bostic - Bostic's Jump.mp3
04 Earl Bostic - Earl's Rum Boogie.mp3
05 Earl Bostic - Hot Sauce Boss.mp3
06 Earl Bostic - Apollo Theater Blues.mp3
07 Earl Bostic - Bostic's Boogie Blues.mp3
08 Earl Bostic - Earl Blows A Fuse.mp3
09 Earl Bostic - Earl's Blues.mp3
10 Tiny Bradshaw - Well, Oh Well.mp3
11 Tiny Bradshaw - I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball.mp3
12 Tiny Bradshaw - Breaking The House.mp3
13 Tiny Bradshaw - Walk That Mess.mp3
14 Tiny Bradshaw - Bradshaw Boogie.mp3
15 Tiny Bradshaw - The Blues Came Pouring Down.mp3
16 Tiny Bradshaw - The Train Kept A Rolling.mp3
17 Tiny Bradshaw - Gravy Train.mp3
18 Lucky Millinder - Ram Bunk Shush.mp3
19 Lucky Millinder - Old Spice.mp3
20 Lucky Millinder - Heavy Sugar.mp3
21 Erskine Hawkins - Caldonia.mp3
22 Erskine Hawkins - Hey ! Doc.mp3
23 Erskine Hawkins - Holidays For Swing.mp3
24 Buddy Johnson - Be Careful.mp3
25 Buddy Johnson - Dr Jive Jives.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 11 Saxophonistes -1

01 Hal Singer - Corn Bread.mp3
02 Hal Singer - Rent Party.mp3
03 Hal Singer - Singer Song.mp3
04 Hal Singer - Rice And Red Beans.mp3
05 Hal Singer - Swing Shift.mp3
06 Hal Singer - Indian Love Call.mp3
07 Hal Singer - The Frog Hop.mp3
08 Hal Singer - One For Willie.mp3
09 Hal Singer - Neck Bones.mp3
10 Big Jay McNeely - Jay Walk.mp3
11 Big Jay McNeely - Blow, Blow.mp3
12 Big Jay McNeely - Jet Fury.mp3
13 Big Jay McNeely - Deacon Express.mp3
14 Big Jay McNeely - The Goof.mp3
15 Big Jay McNeely - Just Crazy.mp3
16 Big Jay McNeely - Big Jay Shuffle.mp3
17 Big Jay McNeely - Deacon Rides Again.mp3
18 Eddie Cleanhead Winson - Mr Cleanhead Steps Out.mp3
19 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Cleanhead blues.mp3
20 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Just A Dream.mp3
21 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Have You Ever Missed Your Baby.mp3
22 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Bonus Pay.mp3
23 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Some Women Do.mp3
24 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -Alimony Blues.mp3
25 Eddie Cleanhead Winson -When I Get Drunk.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Saxophonistes -2 Vol 12

01 Paul Williams - The Hucklebuck.mp3
02 Doc Sausage - Sausage Rock.mp3
03 Red Prysock - Hot In Harlem.mp3
04 Maxwell Davis - Jumpin With Lloyd.mp3
05 Freddie Mitchell - Rocking With Coop.mp3
06 Jim Wynn - Rock Boogie.mp3
07 Jack McVea - Jack Frost.mp3
08 Lynn Hope - More Bounce To The Ounce.mp3
09 Plas Johnson Brothers Combo - Mellow Women Blues.mp3
10 Red Prysock - Wriggles.mp3
11 J.T. Brown - Sax On Boogie.mp3
12 Paul Williams - Back Bender.mp3
13 Lee Allen (with Hosie Dwine Craven) - Mercury Boogie.mp3
14 King Curtis (with Doc Pomus) - Work Little Carry Work.mp3
15 Tom Archia Hal Singer Wynonie Harris - Blow Your Brains Out.mp3
16 Big Joe Greer - Rocking With Big John.mp3
17 Buddy Tate - Blowing Awhile.mp3
18 Big Joe Dougherty - Big Bob's Boogie.mp3
19 James Von Streeter - Chitlins.mp3
20 Bull Moose Jackson - Honeydripper.mp3
21 Willis Jackson - Gator Groove.mp3
22 Joe Houston - Jay's Boogie.mp3
23 Frank Culley - Floorshow.mp3
24 Jimmy Forrest - Night Train.mp3
25 Johnny London - Driving Slow.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 13 Rhythm & Blues Cocktail

01 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Sundown Boogie.mp3
02 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Rock The Joint.mp3
03 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Rockin' Chair On The Moon.mp3
04 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Real Rock Drive.mp3
05 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Rocket 88.mp3
06 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Crazy Man, Crazy.mp3
07 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - What' Cha Gonna Do.mp3
08 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Fractured.mp3
09 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Live It Up.mp3
10 Bill Haley And The Saddlemen - Pat A Cake.mp3
11 Roy Milton - Rhythm Cocktail.mp3
12 Roy Milton - Information Blues - Roy Milton.mp3
13 Dud & Paul Bascomb - Let's Jump.mp3
14 Dud & Paul Bascomb - Not Bad, Bascomb.mp3
15 Calvin Boze - Hey! Lawdy Miss Claudie.mp3
16 Joe Morris- Wow.mp3
17 Bill Dogget- Big Dog.mp3
18 Bill Dogget- You Ain't No Good.mp3
19 Sonny Parker & Milton Buckner - Worried Life Blues.mp3
20 Slim Gaillard - Flat Foot Floogie.mp3
21 Jimmy 'Baby' Face Lewis - Mailman Blues.mp3
22 Ernie Butch Lockett- Butch Blues.mp3
23 Willie Dixon - Don't Let That Music Die.mp3
24 Connie Jordan - I'm Gonna Rock Till My Rocker Breaks Down.mp3
25 Doles Dickens - We're Gonna Rock This Morning.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Vol 14 Memphis Blues Brothers

01 Little Junior Parker - Mystery Train.mp3
02 Little Junior Parker - Feeling Good.mp3
03 Little Junior Parker - Love Me, Baby.mp3
04 Little Junior Parker - Fussing And Flighting.mp3
05 Little Junior Parker - Feeling Bad.mp3
06 Little Junior Parker - Bad Woman, Bad Whiskey.mp3
07 Little Junior Parker - You're My Angel.mp3
08 Little Junior Parker - Love Me Baby.mp3
09 Bobby Blue Band - Drifting From Town To Town.mp3
10 Bobby Blue Band - No Blow, No Show.mp3
11 Bobby Blue Band - Wise Man's Blues.mp3
12 Bobby Blue Band - Loving Blues.mp3
13 Bobby Blue Band - Army Blues.mp3
14 Bobby Blue Band - Crying All Night Long.mp3
15 Bobby Blue Band - Dry Up, Baby.mp3
16 Bobby Blue Band - Good lovin'.mp3
17 Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat.mp3
18 Rufus Thomas - Tiger Man.mp3
19 Rufus Thomas - Walkin' In The Rain.mp3
20 Rufus Thomas - Save The Money.mp3
21 Rufus Thomas - No More Dogging Around.mp3
22 Jackie Brenston Ike Turner - Rocket 88.mp3
23 Jackie Brenston Ike Turner - My Real Gone Rocket.mp3
24 Ike Turner - You're Drivin' Me Insane.mp3
25 Ike Turner - Trouble And Heartaches.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - New Orleans Vol 15

01 Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans.mp3
02 Professor Longhair - She Ain't Got No Hair.mp3
03 Professor Longhair - Longhair Blues Rhumba.mp3
04 Professor Longhair - She Walks Right In.mp3
05 Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy.mp3
06 Lloyd Price - What's The Matter Now.mp3
07 Dave Bartholomew - Country Girl.mp3
08 Dave Bartholomew - The Golden Rule.mp3
09 Dave Bartholomew - I'll Never Be The Same.mp3
10 Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank The Beer While I Was In The Rear.mp3
11 Dave Bartholomew - Mr. Foo.mp3
12 Dave Bartholomew - Girl Town Blues.mp3
13 Tommy Ridgley - Tra La La.mp3
14 Tommy Ridgley - Shrewsbury Blues.mp3
15 Paul Gayten - You Shouldn't Know.mp3
16 Paul Gayten - Backtrackin' (Dr. Daddy).mp3
17 Cousin Joe - Boogie Woogie Hannah.mp3
18 Blind Billy Tate - Crying In The Morning.mp3
19 James Sugar Boy Crawford - Overboard.mp3
20 James Sugar Boy Crawford - Beggin' At Your Mercy.mp3
21 Earl King - Have You Gone Crazy.mp3
22 Smiley Lewis - Slide Me Done.mp3
23 Smiley Lewis - Tee-Nah-Nah.mp3
24 Guitar Slim - Well, I Done Got Over It.mp3
25 Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Pianistes #1 Vol 16

01 Amos Milburn - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer.mp3
02 Amos Milburn - Good, Good Whiskey.mp3
03 Amos Milburn - Thinking And Drinking.mp3
04 Amos Milburn - Birmingham Bounce.mp3
05 Amos Milburn - Amos Blues.mp3
06 Amos Milburn - After Midnite.mp3
07 Amos Milburn - In The Middle Of The Night.mp3
08 Amos Milburn - Tears, Tears, Tears.mp3
09 Amos Milburn - Let Me Go Home, Whisky.mp3
10 Charles Brown - Driftin' Blues.mp3
11 Charles Brown - Groovy.mp3
12 Charles Brown - Peek-A-Boo.mp3
13 Charles Brown - Googie's Boogie.mp3
14 Charles Brown - Trouble Blues.mp3
15 Charles Brown - My Babe's Gone.mp3
16 Charles Brown - Gee.mp3
17 Charles Brown - Black Night.mp3
18 Joe Liggins - Pink Champagne.mp3
19 Joe Liggins - The Honey Dripper.mp3
20 Joe Liggins - Rag Mop.mp3
21 Joe Liggins - Little Joe's Boogie.mp3
22 Joe Liggins - Tanya.mp3
23 Joe Liggins - How Come.mp3
24 Joe Liggins - Spooks Holiday.mp3
25 Joe Liggins - Dripper's Blues.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Pianistes #2 Vol 17

01 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Baptize Me With Wine.mp3
02 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Please Try To Understand.mp3
03 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Not Anymore.mp3
04 Rosco Gordon - Tomorrow May Be Too Late.mp3
05 Rosco Gordon - Booted.mp3
06 Willie Love - Take It Easy.mp3
07 Cecil Gant - Rock Little Baby.mp3
08 Cecil Gant - Time Will Tell.mp3
09 Nat King Cole - Route 66.mp3
10 Floyd Dixon - Ooh! Eee! Ooh! Eee!.mp3
11 Floyd Dixon - Instrumental Shuffle.mp3
12 Lloyd Glenn - Joymakers Boogie.mp3
13 Lloyd Glenn - Midnight Boogie.mp3
14 Sugar Chile Robinson - Number Boogie.mp3
15 Sugar Chile Robinson - Vooey Vooey Vay.mp3
16 Ivory Joe Hunter - I Almost Lost My Mind.mp3
17 Ivory Joe Hunter - SP Blues.mp3
18 Tommy Dean - Cool One Groove Two.mp3
19 Tommy Dean - Hour Past Midnight.mp3
20 Sammy Price - I Know How To Do It.mp3
21 Archibald - Stack A'lee.mp3
22 Little Willie Littlefield - Sitting On The Curbstone.mp3
23 Little Willie Littlefield - KC Loving.mp3
24 Roy Hawkins - Wine Drinking Woman.mp3
25 Roy Hawkins - The Thrill Is Gone.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Guitar Killers Vol 18

01 Mickey Baker - River Boat.mp3
02 Mickey Baker - Guitar Mambo.mp3
03 Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Atomic Energy.mp3
04 Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Guitar In My Hand.mp3
05 Memphis Slim & Matt Guitar Murphy - Living The Life I Love.mp3
06 Goree Carter - I've Got The News For You.mp3
07 Jimmy Liggins - Going Down With The Sun.mp3
08 Tiny Webb - Billboard Special.mp3
09 Saunders King - Summertime Boogie.mp3
10 Oscar & Johnny Moore - Shuffle Shuck.mp3
11 Tiny Grimes - Boogie Woogie Barbecue.mp3
12 Pete Lewis & Gene Philips - Boogie Guitar (Three Guitar).mp3
13 Pete Lewis - Louisiana Hop.mp3
14 Chuck Norris - Blue Strings.mp3
15 Ulysses James & Roy Hawkins - West Express.mp3
16 Teddy Bunn - Jackson's Nook.mp3
17 Johnny Rogers - Junior Jumps.mp3
18 Elmore James - Hawaiian Boogie.mp3
19 Robert Kelton & Jimmy Mc Cracklin - Blues Blasters Shuffle.mp3
20 Lafayette Thomas - Sam's Drag.mp3
21 Earl Hooker - Sweet Angel.mp3
22 Pee Wee Crayton - Rockin' The Blues.mp3
23 Pee Wee Crayton- Huckle Boogie.mp3
24 Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours.mp3
25 Floyd Smith - Floyd's Guitar Blues.mp3
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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - DooWop Vol 19

01 The Drifters - Money Honey.mp3
02 The Orioles - Crying In The Chapel.mp3
03 The Orioles - Hold Me Squeeze Me.mp3
04 The Larks - When I Leave The Prison Walls.mp3
05 The Swallows - It Aint The Meat.mp3
06 The Clovers - One Mint Julep.mp3
07 The Ravens - Someday.mp3
08 The Cardinals - Wheel Of Fortune.mp3
09 The Flamingos - Thats My Desire.mp3
10 The Robins - I'm Living OK.mp3
11 The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man.mp3
12 The Treniers - Poon Tang.mp3
13 The Treniers - Hey Sister Lucy.mp3
14 The Four Blazes - Mary Jo.mp3
15 The Four Blazes - Please Send Her Back To Me.mp3
16 The Four Vagabonds - Come In On A Wing And A Prayer.mp3
17 The Four Tunes - Marie.mp3
18 The Five Keys - Huckelbuck With Jimmy.mp3
19 The 5 Royales - Baby Don't Do It.mp3
20 The 5 Royales - Laundromat Blues.mp3
21 The Mills Brothers - Across The Alley From Alamo.mp3
22 The Ink Spots - Java Jive.mp3
23 The Moonglows - Baby Please.mp3
24 The Diamonds - A Beggar For Your Kisses.mp3
25 The Spaniels - Baby It's You.mp3

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Les Triomphes du R'n'B - Blues Vol 20

01 Sonny Boy Williamson II - Mighty Long Time.mp3
02 Junior Wells - Junior's Wail.mp3
03 Big Walter Horton & Jimmy De Berry - Easy.mp3
04 Snooky Pryor - Boogy Fool.mp3
05 Doctor Ross - Come Back Baby.mp3
06 James Cotton - My Babe.mp3
07 Elmore James - Baby,What's Wrong.mp3
08 Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years.mp3
09 Albert King - Merry Way.mp3
10 J.B. Lenoir - Mojo Boogie.mp3
11 Jimmy Reed - High And Lonesome.mp3
12 Big Bill Broonzy - Big Bill's Boogie.mp3
13 Brownie McGhee - Robbie Doby Boogie.mp3
14 Mercy Dee - One Room Country Shack.mp3
15 Sunnyland Slim - She Ain't Nowhere.mp3
16 Willie Mabon - I'm Mad.mp3
17 Boyd Eddie - Five Long Years.mp3
18 Memphis Slim - The Come Back.mp3
19 Memphis Minnie - World In A Trouble.mp3
20 Grace Brim - Man Around My Door.mp3
21 Lowell Fulson - Don't Be So Evil.mp3
22 Little Milton - Somebody Told Me.mp3
23 T-Bone Walker - No Worry Blues.mp3
24 B.B. King - 3 O'clock Blues.mp3
25 Floyd Jones - On The Road Again.mp3

20 cd's in 16 parts...this is a freakin' hell of a freakin' comp, but man...there's a lotta cool tunes to be had here....dig in while ya can, cuz it only lasts for so long...
ya know...?

The Platters - The Singles

DISC 1
1 Only You (And You Alone)
2 Great Pretender
3 I'm Just A Dancing Partner
4 (You've Got) The Magic Touch
5 My Prayer
6 Heaven On Earth
7 You'll Never Never Know
8 It Isn't Right
9 On My Word Of Honor
10 One In A Million
11 I'm Sorry
12 He's Mine
13 My Dream
14 Only Because
15 Helpless
16 Twilight Time
17 You're Making A Mistake
18 I Wish
19 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
20 Enchanted
21 Remember When
22 Where
23 Wish It Were Me
24 Harbor Lights
25 Sleepy Lagoon
26 Ebb Tibe
27 Red Sails In The Sunset
28 To Each His Own
29 If I Didn't Care
30 Trees
31 I'll Never Smile Again
32 It's Magic
33 Once In A While
34 Strangers
35 Viva Ju Juy
36 Java Jive
37 Sincerely
38 Love Me Tender
39 I Love You 1000 Times
40 I'll Be Home
41 With This Ring
42 Washed Ashore
43 On Top Of My Mind
44 Sweet Sweet Lovin
45 Love Must Go On
46 So Many Tears
47 Hard To Get A Thing Called Love
48 Fear Of Losing You
49 Be My Love

DISC 2
1 Ebb Tide
2 Red Sails In The Sunset
3 To Each His Own
4 If I Didn't Care
5 Trees
6 I'll Never Smile Again
7 It's Magic
8 Once In A While
9 Strangers
10 Viva Ju Juy
11 Java Jive
12 Sincerely
13 Love Me Tender
14 I Love You 1000 Times
15 I'll Be Home
16 With This Ring
17 Washed Ashore
18 On Top Of My Mind
19 Sweet Sweet Lovin'
20 Love Must Go On
21 So Many Tears
22 Hard To Get A Thing Called Love
23 Fear Of Losing You


certainly one of the coolest rock n roll groups ever...

Chicano Power! - Latino Rock in the USA 1968-1976

Latin rock & the Chicano Power Movement. Santana, Azteca, Malo, & more. The story of Latin rock in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York & Miami.

1. Been Had - Sapo
2. Too Late - Black Sugar
3. Mira Pa' Ca - Chango
4. Cayuco - Harvey Averne Barrio Band
5. Sun God - Tierra
6. Vida Nocturna - Benitez
7. Street Man -Malo
8. Ron con Con -Baeza/DeLuna
9. Fools Are You - Mother Night
10. Soul Sacrifice -Santana
11. Viajecito- Black Sugar
13. Pana - Malo
14. Chauca - Antiques
15. Mariposa, Pt. 1 - Benitez
16. Azteca Theme - Azteca
17. Sapo's Montuρo - Sapo

(R.I.P. BOBBY ESPINOZA - Died 2-27-2010 (Latino Rock;Jazz;Blues) He was 60 years old - Keyboardist - Was a member of El Chicano (They did,"Viva Tirado" and "Tell Her She's Lovely").)

Ritchie Valens - Ritchie Valens Story (1993)

Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela; May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.

A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the CHICANO ROCK movement, Valens' recording career lasted only eight months. During this time, however, he scored several hits, most notably "La Bamba", which was originally a Mexican folk song that Valens transformed with a rock rhythm and beat that became a hit in 1958, making Valens a pioneer of the Spanish-speaking rock and roll movement.

On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as The Day the Music Died, Valens was killed in a small-plane crash in Iowa, a tragedy that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson....

Although The Ritchie Valens Story contains four of Valens' hits ("La Bamba," "Donna," "Come On, Let's Go," "That's My Little Suzie") some famous tracks, like "Ooh! My Head," are not here. The bulk of the disc consists of seven demos that were previously unavailable in America and a 21-minute narration by Valens' producer Bob Keane, who also compiled the album. Hardcore fans will need this for the demos...

01. Narration of Ritchie Valens' Story - As Told By Bob Keane, Producer And Manager Of Ritchie Valens.
02. Boney Maronie
03. Come On, Let's Go (Demo)
04. Come On, Let's Go
05. That's My Little Suzie (Demo)
06. Rock Little Darlin' (Demo)
07. Bluebirds Over The Mountain (Demo)
08. La Bamba (Gold Star Recording Session)
09. Let's Rock & Roll (Demo)
10. Donna (Demo)
11. Summertime Blues (Live)
12. In A Turkish Town (Demo)
13. Paddiwack Wong
14. Big Baby Blues (B-Side)
15. Malaguena (Demo)
16. Stay Beside Me
17. Ritchie Doing Commercial For Winter Dance Party, Followed By Radio Announcer From Des Moines, Iowa, February 4, 1959, The Day After The Fatal Plane Crash
18. La Bamba (B-Side of "Donna")

The Sonics - Busy Body!!! Live in Tacoma 1964

Given the many stories of their crazed on-stage prowess and the frantic drive of their classic studio sides, fans of real-deal garage rock have often wished that someone had the presence of mind to make a decent-sounding live recording of Tacoma, WA, madmen the Sonics in their glory days. And, as it happened, someone did -- a radio station in Tacoma, KTNT-AM, used to have a regular Friday night feature called Teen Time, in which they broadcast a live spot from one of the area's teen clubs. A guy in Seattle named Doug Patterson owned an Ampex reel-to-reel tape machine and frequently taped the Teen Time shows to collect songs for his own teenage band to cover, and two surviving tapes featuring the Sonics in action have been collected on Busy Body!!! Live in Tacoma 1964. Since these two shows (lasting less than 33 minutes combined, including patter from the announcer) predated the release of their debut single, "The Witch," and the epochal album Here Are the Sonics, the emphasis is on covers and instrumentals, and while the audio is quite good for AM radio broadcasts more then four decades old, the mix is a bit sloppy and Gerry Roslie's vocals are barely audible, with Rob Lind's sax and Larry Parypa's sax way up front. Still, if this isn't the ideal document of the Sonics on-stage, it's a whole lot of fun; these tapes show they were admirably tight and full of fire when playing for their fans, and having a wild good time cranking out "Ooh Poo Pah Doo," "Goin' Back to Granny's," "Night Train," and "Have Love, Will Travel" with all kinds of attitude. And while they didn't deign to play "Psycho" while Patterson was rolling his tapes, there's a wicked early version of "The Witch" that points to things to come. Busy Body!!! captures the Sonics in a transitional phase, when they were still minding the template of Northwest heroes the Wailers but developing an overdriven personality of their own, and it's loud-and-proud teenage fun. - amg

THE MONKS - Mega - Post!!

The Monks

The Monks are a garage rock band, formed by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid to late 1960s. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made. The Monks stood out from the music of the time, and have developed a cult following amongst many musicians and music fans.

Personnel:

* Gary Burger: Lead guitar, lead vocalist
* Larry Clark: Organ, vocalist
* Dave Day: Banjo (initially rhythm guitar), vocalist
* Eddie Shaw: Bass guitar, vocalist
* Roger Johnston: drums, vocalist

The formation of The Monks:

All the members were American GIs stationed in Germany in the mid-sixties. They began playing together in 1964, calling themselves the 5 Torquays. The Torquays differed little from countless other bands of the time: They covered Chuck Berry songs and played music inspired by the British beat groups. But the band experimented together musically—Gary Burger said:

"It probably took us a year to get the sound right. We experimented all the time. A lot of the experiments were total failures and some of the songs we worked on were terrible. But the ones we kept felt like they had something special to them. And they became more defined over time."

Upon their discharge from the army the band developed a distinctive musical style, and took up a distinctive name and image to go with it. The transition from their earlier, more conventional and less provocative aesthetic to the abrasive and cutting-edge sound of their Black Monk Time period was partly induced by the influence of "a pair of loopy existentialist visionaries" called Walther Niemann and Karl-H.-Remy. Remy, a university student of design in Ulm, and Niemann, a student of Folkwang Arts Academy in Essen, "designed" the Monks as "anti-Beatles": short hair with tonsures, black clothes, ropes around the neck, image of being hard and dangerous. Remy and Niemann were an instance of the post-War West German avant-garde intelligentsia impacting Anglo-Saxon pop in a manner perhaps comparable to—but more intense than—that of the Hamburg art scene on the early Beatles.

The Monks stage garb

At the beginning of 1965, Dave Day and Roger Johnston, on a whim, got their heads shaved into monks' tonsures. The rest of the band followed their lead, and to complete the image, the band took to wearing a uniform - all black, sometimes in cassocks, with nooses worn as neckties. Eddie Shaw later claimed in his band autobiography Black Monk Time that the nooses were symbolic of the metaphorical nooses that all humanity wear. His explanation exhibited a literal translation of gallows humor. The same attitude seems to be exhibited by the blunt lyrics of the band. The brazen attitude toward sensitive subjects was reportedly not well met. They received confused audience reactions at concerts, and one attendee attempted to strangle Gary Burger at a show in Hamburg, for perceived blasphemy.

The group's sound:

The band abandoned common elements of much sixties rock n roll:

* They have very little emphasis on melody, their songs are rhythmic, rather than melodic. The rhythms are heavy and repetitive, with the drums supplying a sound often described as 'tribal'. Compare Drone music for the Western and Eastern roots of this music style. Prior to The Monks, Little Richard had written Long Tall Sally in 1956 around one single note, very similar to drone music. The Monks' focusing on rhythm rather than melody also was reminiscent of 1950s R'n'B, compare especially Bo Diddley beat, and the rhythm-based styles of musicians such as Ray Charles, The Champs (see CHICANO ROCK), Sam Cooke, and The Shadows. The mastering The Monks received, resulting in a very archaic, raw and aggressive sound, was very similar to that of contemporary, more successful German band The Rattles who were signed to the same German Polydor label as were The Monks.
* Song structures are minimal and repetitive, and do not tend to follow the standard verse-chorus-bridge patterns of a pop song.
* The band's lyrics are dadaist and playful, yet paranoid. They combine nursery rhyme style lyrics ("higgle-dy piggle-dy") with war commentary ("Why do you kill all those kids over there in Vietnam? Mad Vietcong! My brother died in Vietnam"; "People kill, people will for you/ People run, ain't it fun for you/ People go, to their deaths for you"), surreal interjections ("James Bond, who was he?") and paranoia about girls and love ("I hate you with a passion baby! And you know why I hate you? It's because you make me hate you baby!").
* The vocal delivery is strangled, wailing and frantic, contrasted to deep chanting backing vocals which recall Gregorian chant, although both lead and background vocals of The Monks are reminiscent of the Shout-and-fall modal frame typical for 1950s R'n'B recordings such as by Ray Charles, Little Richard, and others.
* Gary Burger utilises a great deal of guitar feedback and dissonance. According to Eddie Shaw's Black Monk Time, the group invented the use of audio feedback for musical purposes. It's been claimed by Burger that Jimi Hendrix caught their act in London and paid special attention to his use of feedback and the newly developed Gibson Fuzzbox along with the Wah-Wah Pedal. Perhaps the most notable aspect is that Burger eschews playing chords and scales in favour of free form bursts of improvised noise. The Monks published their album, and a little bit later The Velvet Underground and other noise rock groups would soon adopt a similar style of playing.
* Dave Day replaced his guitar with a six-string, gut-strung banjo upon which he played guitar chords. This instrument sounds much more metallic, scratchy and wiry than a standard electric guitar.

Many of these musical elements are also found in sixties New York acts like The Fugs and The Godz in particular, but also The Velvet Underground. When the Monks developed their sound, the only one of these bands who had put out any records was the Fugs; it is unclear if the Monks had actually heard the Fugs or developed their sound independently.

Because of these features, the Monks are often referenced as forerunners of the later punk movement.Their use of improvisation, noise and motorik rhythms (as well as their geographical location) has also led to them being cited as the godfathers of krautrock.

After the Monks:

* As of August 2006, lead singer Gary Burger serves as mayor of Turtle River, Minnesota.

* In 2006 play loud! productions completed the documentary film Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback in conjunction with the release of the album silver monk time - a tribute to the monks.

* Eddie Shaw went on to play in a progressive rock band called Copperhead in the 1970s and went on to become an accomplished fiction writer, who also wrote their autobiography Black Monk Time. Shaw's fictional work is based on his experiences growing up in Nevada and is published under his full name, Thomas Edward Shaw.

Influence:

Artists to have acknowledged the Monks as an influence include The White Stripes, Henry Rollins, the Beastie Boys and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, as well as The Fall. The latter covered both "I Hate You" and "Oh, How to Do Now" on their 1990 album Extricate (under the titles "Black Monk Theme Part I" and "Black Monk Theme Part II", respectively), as well as the song "Shut Up!" on their 1994 album Middle Class Revolt. The Fall have also covered "Higgledy-Piggledy" for the Monks tribute CD Silver Monk Time. The White Stripes named The Monks as one of their key influences, noting that "their melodies were pop destructive".


I Love These Fuckin' Guys! They're Fuckin' AWESOME!!

MONKS MEGA-POST:

BLACK MONK TIME

FIVE UPSTART AMERICANS (demos)

SILVER MONK TIME (tribute album)

+ BONUS STUFF...

Art of Field Recording: Volume II : 50 Years of Traditional American Music

"Art Rosenbaum is a folk revivalist of the old school. He believes that traditional ballads, blues, spirituals, and fiddle tunes are among the glories of American culture. Last fall, Dust-to-Digital released Art of Field Recording: Volume I, a four-CD retrospective of Rosenbaum’s work. It contained everything from ring shouts and murder ballads to a song about twenty frogs going to school. It was full of throaty voices and clanging banjos and the incidental music of daily life—babies crying, bar glasses clinking, cicadas on a summer night." — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker

Art of Field Recording Volume II is a four disc set with a 96 page book that contains essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo. Art took a similar approach to Harry Smith in assembling the music: the discs are divided into Accompanied Songs and Ballads, Unaccompanied Songs and Ballads, Sacred, and a Survey disc that has a little bit of everything.

Track Listing:

CD1: Survey

01. Fidel Martin - La Grondeuse (The Scolding Woman)
02. Eddie Bowles - Blues
03. Frosty Lamb and Buzz Fountain - 12th Street Rag
04. Dwight "Red" Lamb - Danish Galop
05. Tony Bryant - Broke Down Engine
06. The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire - J'ai Pass̩ Devant Ta Porte
07. The Balfa Brothers and Nathan Abshire - Colinda
08. Jake Staggers - Garfield
09. Bobby McMillon - The Devil Song [Child 275]
10. John W. Summers - Unnamed Tune
11. Kirk Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum - Going Across the Prairie
12. Uncle John Patterson - Muddy Roads of Georgia
13. Cecil Barfield - Georgia Blues
14. Mary Lomax - Billy Staffer (The State of Arkansas) [Laws H1]
15. Eller Brothers - Cindy In The Summer Time
16. Ross Brown and Howard Cunningham - General Lee's Surrender
17. Neal Pattman - Shortnin' Bread
18. Juanita and Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - Free Little Bird
19. Juanita and Oscar "Shorty" Shehan - The Soldier And The Lady [Laws P 14]
20. Shirley Griffith - Big Road Blues
21. Pete Steele - Harlan County Farewell Tune (Rambling Hobo)
22. Earl Murphy and Andy Carlson - Marmaduke's Hornpipe
23. Bert Hare - Jonah
24. Smoky McGinness and Bob Black - Turkey In The Straw
25. Clester Hounchell - Paddy On The Turnpike
26. Anna Sandage Underhill - Play Party Songs: In this Ring/I'd Rather Be A Farmer's Boy
27. The Chancey Brothers - Mulberry Gap/Cumberland Gap
28. Louie and Henry Riendeau - Fred Rogers' Reel
29. Scrapper Blackwell - Goin' Where The Monon Crosses the Yellow Dog

CD2: Religious

01. Brown's Chapel Choir - Welcome Home
02. Myers Family and Friends - The River Of Jordan
03. Fleeta and Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell: with Lucy and Brady "Doc" Barnes - Brother, You Ought t've Been There
04. Georgia Sacred Harp Convention - New Prospect
05. Bert Hare - No Man Can Love Me Like Jesus
06. Ebenezer East Church - He's Calling Me
07. Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller - Out Of My Bondage
08. Tickanetley Primitive Baptist Church - Mother, Tell Me Of The Angels
09. Otha Cooper - No Room At The Hotel
10. The Traveling Inner Lights - Let's Have A Family Prayer
11. Over in the Glory Land Golden River Grass
12. Rev. Willie Mae Eberhart, Sister Fleeta Mitchell and Eddie Ruth Pringle - A Charge to Keep I Have
13. Jake Staggers and Family - How Long the Train Been Gone?
14. Pilgrim's Rest Primitive Baptist Church - Lord, Remember Me
15. McIntosh County Shouters - Eve And Adam (Pickin' Up Leaves)
16. Otha Cooper and Imogene Riggens - There's A Man Going Around Taking Names
17. Lucy and Brady "Doc" Barnes - Savior, Don't You Pass Me By
18. Laethe Eller and Berthie Rogers - Oh That Terrible Day
19. Cora Thompson - I Know I Got Religion
20. Silver Light Gospel Singers - Dry Bones
21. House of God, Sarasota, Florida - Walk With Me

CD3: Accompanied Songs and Ballads

01. The Chancey Brothers - I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
02. The Eller Family - Going To Georgia
03. George Gibson - Southern Texas
04. Lucy and Brady "Doc" Barnes - Raise A Ruckus Tonight
05. Myers Family and Friends - The Rambling Boy [Laws L12]
06. Shorty Ralph Reynolds - Want To Go To Cuba, Can't Go Now
07. Ola Belle Reed - The Boat's Up The River
08. Pat Hudson - Hog Drivers
09. W. Guy Bruce - As I Walked Out One Morning In Spring
10. Gordon Tanner and Smoky Joe Miller - Devilish Mary
11. Buell Kazee - Barbara Allen [Child 84]
12. Jack Bean - Steamboat Bill
13. Lawrence Eller and Ross Brown - John Henry [Laws I1]
14. Mose Parker - John Henry [Laws I1]
15. Willard Benson - John Hardy [Laws I2]
16. Myers Family and Friends - Old Joe Clark
17. Dr. C. B. Skelton - The Miller's Will [Laws Q21]
18. Lawrence Eller - On Top Of Old Smoky
19. Pete Steele - Last Payday At Coal Creek
20. Helen McDuffie and Leasie Whitmire - The Wreck On The CC&O Road [Laws G3]
21. Buzz Fountain - Quit That Ticklin' Me
22. Mabel Cawthorn - Going To The Country (Some Kind of Blues)
23. Myers Family and Friends - Talking Blues
24. The Eller Brothers and Ross Brown - Don't Go Riding Down That Old Texas Trail
25. Jack Bean - Ring Ching Ching

CD4: Unaccompanied Songs and Ballads

01. Mary Lomax - Fair And Tender Maidens
02. Virgil Sandage - The Bird's Song
03. Anna Sandage Underhill - The Elfin Knight [Child 2]
04. Stan Gilliam - Gypsy Davy [Child 200]
05. Mary Lomax - Black Jack Davy [Child 200]
06. Ray Rhodes - Black Jack Davy [Child 200]
07. Oscar "Doc" Parks - The Battle Of Stone River
08. The Phillips Wonders - Froggy Went A-Courting
09. Mary Heekin - The Factory Girl
10. Jim Cook - I'm A Noble Soldier
11. Anna Sandage Underhill - The Young Man's Lament
12. Vern Smelser - The Butcher's Boy [Laws P24]
13. Ollie Gilbert - Lady Lye [Child 79]
14. Stan Gilliam - Lullabies
15. Ollie Gilbert - Utah Carl [Laws B4]
16. Mary Ruth Moore - Billy Button
17. Oneitha Ellison and Group - Ring Plays
18. Mr. and Mrs. Lazore - Mohawk Love Song
19. Alice Gerrard - Shenandoah
20. Greg and Lala Brown - Two Little Boys
21. Mary Lomax - Down In The Arkansas
22. Bonnie Loggins - I'll Drink And Be Jolly
23. Brady "Doc" Barnes - We'll March Around The Wall
24. Vern Smelser - John Came Home [Child 274]
25. Margaret Kimmett - The Farm Out West
26. Ray Rhodes - Frankie And Johnny [Laws I3]
27. Della Mae Reedy - The Farmer's Son Mistress
28. Maude Thacker - The Famous Wedding [Laws P31]
29. Stan Gilliam - Sail Away, Lady/Greenback
30. Sudie Parks - The Lame Soldier
31. Oscar "Doc" Parks - Pearl Bryan [Laws F2]
32. Bonnie Loggins - Sing, Sing, What'll I Sing?

Art of Field Recording: Volume I : 50 Years of Traditional American Music

Art of Field Recording: Volume I : 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum

Art of Field Recording: Volume IThe sampler CD for this set was released in 2006 with the thought that the final result would be a five' disc set, but after spending a long time with Art pondering the vast quantity of material he has amassed over the years, we decided to extend the release into multiple box sets. Volume I was released in November 2007, and Volume II is planned for 2008. If all goes well, there will be a third and final installment in 2009.

Art of Field Recording Volume I is a four disc set with a 96 page book that contains essays and annotations by Art and over 100 illustrations and photographs by Art and his wife Margo. Art took a similar approach to Harry Smith in assembling the music: the discs are divided into Blues, Instrumental and Dance, Sacred, and a Survey disc that has a little bit of everything.

Disc 1 - Survey
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Reverend Willie Mae Eberhart & Sister Fleeta Mitchell
Fred Adams - Ray Rhodes
Billy in the Low Ground - Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller
Frankie and Johnnie / Twenty Froggies Go to School - Margaret Kimmett
Cup of Faith / Beaudoin Quadrille - Fidel Martin
The Drowsy Sleeper - Mary Lomax
Little Red Rooster - The Myers Sisters
Tony Gave a Picnic - Ralph Sheckel
Mama Whoopin' the Blues - Neal Patman
Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Grady Terrell
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Golden River Grass
Hambone - The Phillips Wonders
Darby's Ram - Bobby McMillon
Darlin' Corey - Shorty Ralph Reynolds
Carabina Treinta-Treinta (30-30 Rifle) - Epifanio Sanchez and Group
I'm Dying, Mother - Bert Hare
Eternal Day - Sacred Harp Singing Group
Tom Watson Tune - Mabel Cawthorn
A Melancholy Sound - Arthur Vandeveer
What You Gonna Name that Pretty Baby? - Laethe Eller
Who Killed Poor Robin? - Ollie Gilbert
Free Go Lily - Brady Doc and Lucy Barnes
Brickyard Joe - John W. Summers
Lord Randolph - Mary Heekin
Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Gal - Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller
Irish Washerwoman - Old Threshers' Fife and Drum Band
Lord Daniel - Mary Lomax
Song of Fifty Cents - Jack Bean
One Saturday Night When I Come Home - Dr. David Rosenbaum

Disc 2 - Religious
Don't You Let Nobody Turn You 'Round - Silver Light Gospel Singers
Medley - Rev. Howard Finster
Assurance - Sacred Harp Singing Group
In the Silence of the Midnight - Bonnie Loggins & Mary Lomax
Let Me Fly - Lucy Barnes & Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell
Over Yonder Where Jesus Is - Leona Ruth
Guide Me, Thou Great Jehovah - Rev. Willie Gresham and Group
Teach Me, Master - Brady Doc and Lucy Barnes and the Gilmore Family
Lonesome Valley - Lawrence Eller, Vaughn Eller and Ross Brown
Walk with Me - Brady Doc Barnes and Lucy Barnes
Jubilee - Lawrence McKiver and the McIntosh County Shouters
Wade the Water to My Knees - Lucille Holloway and Basers
The Lord Is Risen - Deacon Tommy Tookes and Congregation
Sit Down, Servant - Ida Craig
I Am on the Battlefield for My Lord - Lucy Barnes & Rev. Nathaniel Mitchell
Idumea - Richard & Elula Moss
An Address to All - Tickanetley Primitive Baptist Church
Walking Along the Heavenly Road / I Am a Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow - The Phillips Wonders
Lenox - Tickanetley Primitive Baptist Church
Scarlet Purple Robe - Georgia Jean Eversole
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies - Newman Young & Smokey Joe Miller
Blow, Gabriel - Nathan Palmer
Do, Lord, Remember Me - Gospel Supremes
My Number Will Be Changed - Macedonia Baptist Church & Naomi Bradford
Hush and Listen - Rev. Willie Gresham and Macedonia Baptist Church

Disc 3 - Blues
Georgia Bottleneck Blues - Cecil Barfield
Carroll County Blues - Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller
Brooks' Blues - Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell
Key to the Highway - Bill Giles & Neal Patman
Red River Blues - J.T. Adams
Nobody's Business - George Childers
Bowles' Blues - Eddie Bowles
Got the Blues So Bad - Cliff Sheats
Guitar Pete's Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin
Peach Orchard Mama - James Yank Rachel & Shirley Griffith
Big Leg Women - Guitar Pete Franklin & James Easley
Leaving Here, Don't Know Where I'm Going - Art Rosenbaum & Joe K. Rakestraw
The Mogul - Neal Patman
Deep Ellum Blues - Buford Boyd & Willard Benson
River Line Blues - Shirley Griffith
Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Jake Staggers
I Cried All Night Long - Harvie Sims
Maggie Campbell Blues - Shirley Griffith
How Long Blues - Guitar Pete Franklin
A Blues - Scrapper Blackwell

Disc 4 - Instrumental and Dance
Lost Indian - Dallas Henderson
Flat Foot Charlie - Ben Entrekin & James Patterson
Down the Road - Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller
Sally, Won't You Have Me, Do Gal Do - Clester Hounchell
Fox Chase - Coy Martin
Fox Chase - Neal Patman
Medley - Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller
Mandolin Stomp - James Yank Rachel and Shirley Griffith
Omie Wise - Albert Hash
Train 45 - Albert Hash & Art Rosenbaum
Turkey in the Straw - George Childers
Arkansas Traveler - Larry Riendeau & Louis Riendeau
Fynne's Polka - Dwight "Red" Lamb
Pigtown Fling - Newt Tolman
Stony Point - Art Rosenbaum & John W. Summers
Cowboy Waltz - Bill Ashley & Earl Murphy
Walk, Little Julie - Clester Hounchell
Five to My Five - Rev. Howard Finster
Quit Kicking My Dog Around - Delbert Spray and Art Rosenbaum
Yankee Doodle - Old Threshers' Fife and Drum Band
Jig Medley - John W. Summers
Big Foot Feller - Buell Kazee
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Buford Boyd
Shout, Lulu - Uncle John Patterson
Shout, Lulu - Jake Staggers
Shout, Lulu - W. Guy Bruce
Sally Ann - W. Guy Bruce and Guy Bruce Jr.
Arkansas Traveler - Gordon Tanner, Phil Tanner, Art Rosenbaum and Larry Nash
Beaumont Rag - Frosty Lamb and Buzz Fountain
Whistler's Waltz - Kirk Brandenberger and Art Rosenbaum
Shady Grove - W. Guy Bruce
Coal Creek March - Ross Brown
Coal Creek March - Pete Steele
Jenny Nettles - Harry "Pappy" Wells
Fourteen Days in Georgia - Lyman Enloe and Bob Black
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain - Maude Thacker
Audio Samples Billy in the Low Ground - Gordon Tanner & Smokey Joe Miller
Mama Whoopin' the Blues - Neal Patman
Don't You Let Nobody Turn You 'Round - Silver Light Gospel Singers
Medley - Rev. Howard Finster
Georgia Bottleneck Blues - Cecil Barfield
Brooks' Blues - Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell
Lost Indian - Dallas Henderson
Down the Road - Lawrence Eller & Vaughn Eller