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Dear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black Rock and Roll from the "Golden Age" of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only "originated" this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black Rhythm and Blues music was suddenly re-named "Rock and Roll" to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes are pretty well-known but the vast majority are not. I'm pretty sure you have never heard a lot of the tracks included here - even if a lot of them were pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this new collection were actually household names in the "Rock and Roll World" of the 50s and early 60s. I sure hope this new series of 10 complimentary volumes will finally set things straight. Dig it!
1 Solomon Burke– Be Bop Grandma
2 Don & Bob– Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
3 Miss La-Vell*– Teen-Age Love
4 Tommy Louis With Marshall* And The Versatiles (14)– Wail Baby Wail
5 Otis Redding & The Pinetoppers (2)– Fat Gal
6 Little Willie John– Uh Uh Baby (No No Baby)
7 Bill Johnson And The Four Steps Of Rhythm– You Better Dig It
8 Lloyd Price– Such A Mess
9 The Midnighters– Rock Granny Roll
10 Larry Williams (3)– Slow Down
11 Bea Booker– Comfort In My Heart
12 Clear Waters And His Band– Hill Billy Blues
13 The Honeybears*– One Bad Stud
14 Jimmy McCracklin– Georgia Slop
15 Little Victor (2)– Papa Lou And Gran
16 Lonesome Sundown– Gonna Stick To You Baby
17 Ted Taylor– Don't Lie
18 Art Neville– What's Going On
19 Rudy Ray Moore– Step It Up And Go
20 Gene And Eunice– Bom Bom Lulu
21 Joe Tex– Granny Stole The Show
22 Big Al Downing*– Oh! Babe
23 Eugene Church– I Ain't Goin' For That
24 Bo Toliver & His Timers*– Begging
25 Hal Paige– Going Back To My Home Town
26 The El Venos– Geraldine
27 Larry Bright (2)– One Ugly Child
28 The Egyptians– The Party Stomp
