Description
DESCRIPTION
Mucho excitement! Movie soundtracks, soundies and shorts. 58 rockers and smoochers reaching way back to "Swing It Sister" by The Mills Brothers Swing Band from 1934 up to sax blaster Sam Butera & The Witnesses' "Twist All Night" from 1961. Set includes dance floor punishers by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Carl Perkins, Ritchie Valens, Bob Luman, Bill Haley plus a host of R&B soloists and vocal groups. A first-time assemblage of celluloid hipsters from the Golden Age of rockin' hysteria. Detailed liner notes with synopsis of each film.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Lucille - Little Richard from Mr. Rock and Roll
2 Would I Be Crying - Flamingos from Rock, Rock, Rock
3 Oooh My Head - Ritchie Valens from Go, Johnny, Go!
4 Baby Blue - Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps from Hot Rod Gang
5 Oh Didn't He Ramble - Peggy Lee from Pete Kelly's Blues
6 Shame, Shame, Shame - Smiley Lewis from Baby Doll
7 Willie and the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis from Juke Box Rhythm
8 Diary of a High School Bride - Tony Casanova & Group from Diary of a High School Bride
9 Your Last Chance - Lewis Lymon & the Teenchords from Jamboree
10 Goofin' Around - Bill Haley & His Comets from Don't Knock the Rock
11 Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran from the Girl Can't Help It
12 Lovey Dovey - Clovers from Harlem Variety Revue
13 Hey Juanita - Five Stars from Rock Baby, Rock It
14 Horn Rock (Instr.) - Nino Tempo from Bop Girl Goes Calypso
15 Oo Wee Baby - Harptones from Rockin' the Blues
16 Bop It - Rosco Gordon & the Red Tops from Rock Baby, Rock It
17 Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner from Rhythm & Blues Revue
18 Caldonia - Louis Jordan from Caldonia
19 Who Baby - Tommy Sands from Sing, Boy, Sing
20 Tag That Twistin' Dolly - Sam Butera & the Witnesses from Twist All Night
21 The Secret Path to Love - Roy Hamilton from Let's Rock
22 The Wanderer - Dion & the Del Satins from Twist Around the Clock
23 Rock 'N' Roll Guitar - Part 1 - Blockbusters from Rock All Night
24 Come Go with Me - Del Vikings from the Big Beat
25 This Is the Night - Bob Luman from Carnival Rock
26 Caldonia - Sugar Chile Robinson from No Leave, No Love
27 Swing It, Sister - Mills Brothers from Strictly Dynamite
28 Dark Blue (Instr.) Jimmy Daley Band from Rock, Pretty Baby
29 Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown from Rock 'N' Roll Revue
- Disc 2 -
1 They Raided the Joint - Linda Hopkins from Rockin' the Blues
2 You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry with Otis Spann from Rock, Rock, Rock
3 Mama, Can I Go Out - Jo Ann Campbell from Go, Johnny, Go
4 Glad All Over - Carl Perkins from Jamboree
5 Rip It Up - Bill Haley & His Comets from Don't Knock the Rock
6 You'll Never Know - Platters from the Girl Can't Help It
7 Don't Go - Larry Darnell from Harlem Variety Revue
8 Rockin' Maybelle - Johnny Carroll & the Hot Rocks from Rock Baby, Rock It
9 So Hard to Laugh, So Easy to Cry - Titans from Bop Girl Goes Calypso
10 Fast Movin' Mama - Connie Carroll from Rockin' the Blues
11 I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers from Rock, Rock, Rock
12 You Better Know It - Jackie Wilson from Go, Johnny, Go
13 Love Put Me Out of My Head - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers from Mr. Rock & Roll
14 My First, Last and Only Girl - Wanderers from Rockin' the Blues
15 I Guess I Won't Hang Around - Nora Hayes from Rock All Night
16 At the Hop - Danny & the Juniors from Let's Rock
17 Rock All Night - Blockbusters from Rock All Night
18 Over and Over Again - Moonglows from Rock, Rock, Rock
19 Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis from Jamboree
20 I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino from Shake, Rattle & Rock
21 Don't Be That Way - Reese la Rue from Rockin' the Blues
22 He's So Lazy - Pearl Woods from Rockin' the Blues
23 I Knew from the Start - Moonglows from Rock, Rock, Rock
24 Little Queenie - Chuck Berry from Go, Johnny, Go
25 Down the Road Apiece - Amos Milburn from Harlem Variety Revue
26 Thursday Evening Swing - Basin Street Boys from the Duke Is Tops (A.K.A. the Bronze Venus)
27 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho - Mahalia Jackson from Jazz on a Summer's Day
28 If Only I Had Known - Brook Benton & the 5 Sounds from Mr. Rock & Roll
29 Get Out of the Car - Treniers from Juke Box Rhythm
