Rating: 5/5
Review:
A brilliant set
This is a brilliant collection of Rockabilly and some obscure but wonderful stuff which might be included in the notion of Rockabilly but is hard to classify. It's a pleasure from start to finish – full of gems, and often full of surprises. I was just a little young to be listening to this as it came out, but grew up with it in the background. Some is familiar to me and some isn't, and the craziness of things like Black Cadillac or the astonishingly explicit sexuality of Little Girl (did they really allow those vocals to go out in the 50s?) were unexpected and very enjoyable.
The collection is crammed with gems of all kinds. How a Rockabilly collection can omit Nothin' Shakin' by Eddie Fontaine (or 'Til I Waltz Again With You by Bill Reader, for that matter) is beyond me – but any compilation will have inclusions and omissions that I disagree with, and this is a fabulous set.
The sound is good, the music is fantastic. Enough said. Warmly recommended.
Track list:
Disc: 1
1. Rockin' Bones - Ronnie Dawson
2. Let's Go Baby - Billy Eldridge
3. Baby Let's Play House - Elvis Presley
4. Little Girl - John & Jackie
5. Cat Man - Gene Vincent
6. Lobo Jones - Jackie Gotroe
7. Juvenile Delinquent - Ronnie Allen
8. Froggy Went A Courting - Danny Dell
9. Rattlesnake Daddy - Joe D. Johnson
10. Down On The Farm - Al Downing
11. Rockin' In The Graveyard - Jackie Morningstar
12. Dancing Doll - Art Adams
13. Long Blond Hair, Red Rose Lips - Johnny Powers
14. Action Packed - Johnny Dollar
15. Boppin' High School Baby - Don Willis
16. Believe What You Say - Ricky Nelson
17. Sunglasses After Dark - Dwight Pullen
18. Rumble - Link Wray
19. Down The Line - Buddy Holly
20. Pink Cadillac - Larry Dowd
21. Black Cadillac - Joyce Green
22. Who's Been Here - Commonwealth Jones
23. I Need A Man - Barbara Pittman
24. Please Give Me Something - Bill Allen
25. Sinners - Freddie And The Hitch-Hikers
Disc: 2
1. Rock Around With Ollie Vee - Buddy Holly
2. Lou Lou - Darrell Rhodes
3. Rock Crazy Baby - Art Adams
4. Love Bug Crawl - Jimmy Edwards
5. Fool I Am - Pat Ferguson
6. Red Hot - Bob Luman
7. Love Me - The Phantom
8. She's My Witch - Kip Tyler
9. Lordy Hoody - Tommy Blake
10. Bloodshot - The String Kings
11. Trouble - Jackie DeShannon
12. Hot Shot - Ronnie Pearson
13. Long Gone Daddy - Pat Cupp
14. Curfew - Steve Carl
15. Put Your Cat Clothes On - Carl Perkins
16. Pink And Black - Sonny Fisher
17. Domino - Roy Orbison
18. Jungle Rock - Hank Mizell
19. Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith
20. Chicken Walk - Hasil Adkins
21. Chicken Rock - Fat Daddy Holmes
22. Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Moe - Bob And Lucille
23. Shirley Lee - Bobby Lee Trammell
24. Woman Love - Gene Vincent
25. One Night Of Sin - Elvis Presley
Disc: 3
1. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
2. Duck Tail - Joe Clay
3. Stack-A-Records - Tom Tall
4. Daddy-O-Rock - Jeff Daniels
5. Move - Boyd Bennett
6. Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor
7. Rumble Rock - Kip Tyler
8. Hep Cat - Larry Terry
9. Cast Iron Arm - Peanuts Wilson
10. Switch Blade Sam - Jeff Daniels
11. Ballin' Keen - Boby & Terry Caraway
12. Sweet Rockin' Baby - Sonny West
13. Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
14. Rock Billy Boogie - Johnny Burnette
15. Crazy Baby - The Rockin' R's
16. Susie-Q - Dale Hawkins
17. Worried 'Bout You Baby - Maylon Humphries
18. I Love My Baby - The Phaetons
19. Come On Little Mama - Ray Harris
20. Whistle Bait - Lorrie And Larry Collins
21. Spin The Bottle - Benny Joy
22. Bertha Lou - Dorsey Burnette
23. Real Gone Daddy - Jim Flaherty's Caravan
24. My Pink Cadillac - Hal Willis
25. Draggin' - Curtis Gordon
Disc: 4
1. Action Packed - Ronnie Dee
2. Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd
3. Who Do You Love - Ronnie Hawkins
4. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
5. The Way I Walk - Jack Scott
6. Wild Wild Women - Johnny Carol
7. Oooh-Eeee - Ric Cartey
8. Get Hot Or Go Home - John Kerby
9. Swamp Gal - Tommy Bell
10. Miss Pearl - Jimmy Wages
11. Mercy - Lorrie And Larry Collins
12. Rock Boppin' Baby - Edwin Bruce
13. Rockin' Daddy - Eddie Bond
14. Rock It - Thumper Jones (George Jones)
15. Rhythm And Booze - Corky Jones (Buck Owens)
16. Flyin' Saucers Rock 'N' Roll - Billy Lee Riley
17. Shake Um Up Rock - Benny Cliff Trio
18. Red Hot Rockin' Blues - Jesse James
19. Bang Bang - Janis Martin
20. One Hand Loose - Charlie Feathers
21. Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
22. Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson
23. I Got A Rocket In My Pocket - Jimmy Lloyd
24. Oh Love - Don Wade
25. School Of Rock 'N Roll - Gene Summers
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