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“The Buddy Holly Story” Compare the U.K. Coral (top) and U.S. Coral Records (bottom) releases.
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(21 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5) Loading ...Who’s that knockin’ at my door?
“Crazy Little Mama” The Eldorados Guest Artist: The Magnificents Vee Jay Records (1957) Listen up:
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The El Dorados did a week at Chicago’s Regal Theater starting February 22, 1957. They shared the boards with Bobby Charles, the Spaniels, Jimmy Reed, Arthur Prysock, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, the Rhythm Kings, Gene & Eunice, Big Joe Turner, Priscilla Bowman, Brook Benton, and the Tab Smith Orchestra.
In March, while the group was in Atlanta, Vee Jay announced that the El Dorados would have the honor of being the subject of the company’s first LP. Issued as VJLP-1001 (“Crazy Little Mama”), it contained ten songs by them: “My Loving Baby,” “Baby I Need You,” “Annie’s Answer,” “I Began To Realize,” “At My Front Door” (“Crazy Little Mama”), “Now That You’ve Gone,” “I’ll Be Forever Loving You,” “Rock ‘N Roll’s For Me,” “There In The Night,” and “A Fallen Tear.” For some reason, while they left off some of the El Dorados releases, they included two tunes by the Magnificents: “Up On The Mountain” and “Caddy Bo.”
Crazy little mamma come knockin’
Comes a-knockin’ at my front door, door, door
Crazy little mamma come knockin’
Knockin’ at my front door
Crazy little mamma come knock, knock, knockin’
Just like she did before
I woke up this morning with a feeling of despair
Looking for my baby and she wasn’t there
Heard someone knockin’ much to my surprise
There stood my babe lookin’ at my eyes
Crazy little mamma comes knock, knock, knockin’
Just like she did before
If you got a little mamma and you wanna keep her neat
Keep your little mama off my street
Same thing will happen like it did before
She’ll come knock, knock, knockin’ at my door
Crazy little mamma come knock, knock, knockin’
Just like she did before
(36 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5) Loading ...Detroit breakdown
MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (“motherfuckers”) 1969 Elektra Records Vocals, Rob Tyner; Guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith (Later Mr. Patti Smith); Michael Fraser on vocals/bass and Grant Palmer on drums.
Radical and revolutionary. in the late sixties MC5 was banging out hard punk jams that meshed out jazz, political anger and garage band rock. MC5 was signed to Elektra in 1969 along with fellow motor city madmen The Stooges.
Stupefaction hips us to this site of MC5 drummer Dennis “Machinegun” Thompson. Check it out.
(40 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5) Loading ...I will follow him
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Lee Allen and his Band Ember Records (1958) New Orleans Rock’n Roll from the man that played sax for Little Richard, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Shirley And Lee and Huey “Piano” Smith. (From lp cover lover Joan’s collection)
(30 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5) Loading ...Greasers and gang bangers
“Boppin’, “Rumble” and “Cadillacs Meet The Orioles” Thanks to Lp cover lover, Joan for sending us these three compilations of fifties rock and roll and doo-op on Jubilee Records. “Whoppers” and “Paragons Meet the Jesters are others in the series (look for future postings here.)
(51 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5) Loading ...Let’s get ready to Rummmble
Link Wray & The Wraymen Epic Records It’s hard to imagine an instrumental being banned as too subversive, but that is what happened to Link Wray’s Rumble in 1958. Its tough, muscular sound captured the tension of a gang fight and many US radio stations refused to play it or even mention its title. This is Link Wray’s original 1960 debut LP. An all instrumental album incluing Link’s smash hit “Raw-Hide”, the often covered “Comanche”, the ballad “Lillian” plus Caroline/Slinky/Right Turn/Rendezvous/Dixie-Doodle/Ramble/Hand Clapper/Radar/Studio Blues. You can get this and more Link Wray from Norton Records.
“He is the king; if it hadn’t been for Link Wray and ‘Rumble,’ I would have never picked up a guitar.” – Pete Townsend
Link Wray – still NOT in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(40 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5) Loading ...Byrds’ eye view
“Mr. Tambourine Man” The Byrds 1965 debut on Columbia Records. #232 on Rolling Stones’ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” Produced by Terry Melcher. Cover Photo by: Barry Feinstein. Here’s an early TV appearance on Hullabaloo.
The only Byrd to play on the band’s first hit was Roger McGuinn, whose chiming twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar became folk rock’s defining sound. Everything else came from L.A. pros, including drummer Hal Blaine and bassist Larry Knechtel from Phil Spector’s Wrecking Crew. But the rest of the Byrds soon caught up, and as the song was breaking, a curious Dylan checked out the band at Ciro’s, an L.A. club, and reportedly didn’t recognize some of his own songs in their electrified versions. – Rolling Stone
(17 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5) Loading ...I sing like a girl
Clarence “Frogman” Henry “You Always Hurt the One You Love” Argo Records (1961) Henry opened for the Beatles on their 1964 tour. His first big hit, and most enduring recording, is the lovable and very weird, “Ain’t Got No Home” (released in 1956), where he “sings like a frog” and “sings like a girl”. This reached a new generation, when Daniel Stern did a great sing-along in the 1982 movie “Diner.” This LP is another example of how record companies in the fifties and early sixties even wouldn’t show the black artists on the cover in the hopes of selling the record to more white listeners.
(38 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5) Loading ...Treat yourself
Chuck Berry “Chuck..Berry Is On Top” Chess Records (1959) A collection of rock and roll’s defining and most influential singles including “Almost Grown”, “Carol”, “Maybellene”, “Sweet Little Rock & Roller”, “Johnny B. Goode”, “Little Queenie”, “Roll Over Beethoven”, and “Around and Around”. It’s good to go back and listen to these songs fresh every once in a while and feel the power of Chuck Berry’s performance, timeless music and rock and roll poetry.
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