Dickie Goodman 1964 DCP (United Artists release) From the liner notes: “A musical tribute to the current monster craze…replete with the teenage beat and just right for dancing” “So settle down in your electric chair, refresh yourself with a cooling glass of blood and enjoy the Monster Album.”
(17 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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The Angels “My Boyfriend’s Back” Smash Records (1963) Check out the girl’s swinging, hand-clapping appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Sounds live and really goood.
(21 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5) Loading ...
Latin drummer Justi Barretto and his Orchestra “Boogaloo Shingaling” on Starbright.
(17 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5) Loading ...
Bobby Montez “Jungle Fantastique!” on Jubilee (1958) The first and best of just five Latin jazz lps by West Coast vibist Montez. “African Fantasy,” “Jungle Sunset” and “Kon Tiki” are legendary jazz dance tracks.
(16 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5) Loading ...
Bobby Cruz con Ricardo Ray “Sings for Lovers and Swingers” Mirabel Records
(21 votes, average: 3.71 out of 5) Loading ...
Ronnie Hawkins Roulette Records (1959) With the Hawks (aka The Band). Featuring “Forty Days” (a re-working of Chuck Berry’s “30 Days”) and “Mary Lou” among others!
“I’m Going To Tell You A Story About Mary Lou
I Mean The Kind Of A Woman Who Makes A Fool Of You
She Makes A Young Man Groan And An Old Man Pain
The Way She Took My Money Was A Crying Shame
(Mary Lou, Mary Lou) She Took My Diamond Ring
(Mary Lou, Mary Lou) She Took My Watch And Chain
(Mary Lou) She Took The Keys To My Cadillac Car
Jumped In My Kitty And She Drove A-Far”
(19 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5) Loading ...
The GREAT Little Milton! “We’re Gonna Make It” Checker Records (1965)
“We may not have a cent to pay the rent
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
We may have to eat beans every day
But we’re gonna make it, I know we will
And if a job is hard to find
And we have to stand in the welfare line
I’ve got your love and you know you got mine
So we’re gonna make it, I know we will”
(15 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5) Loading ...
“Blues & Ballads” Lonnie Johnson with Elmer Snowden Prestige/Bluesville (1960)
This beautiful album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home studio where so much jazz history was made. It features guitar innovators Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden together for the first time–despite a friendship going back to the 1920s when both appeared on some of the earliest jazz and blues 78s. Johnson, the father of single-note six-string soloing, is in marvelous voice on this selection of blues, ballads, and jazz, crooning the double-entendre “Jelly Roll Baker” and the heartache-laden “Back Water Blues” (a Bessie Smith tune he first cut in 1927) with a marksman’s sense of pitch and chilling nuance. Snowden serves mostly as accompanist. But these men play so closely that they seem to be sharing every breath. –Ted Drozdowski
(24 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5) Loading ...
Lionel Hampton BIG Band. David Stone Martin illustration. Clef Records. Produced by Norman Granz.
(30 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5) Loading ...
The Band’s debut album. “Music From Big Pink. Read Al Koopers review from Rolling Stone in 1968 here. Bob Dylan’s naive art graces the cover and indicates the unpretentious and back-to-roots approach of the music within. A watershed release and a kind of response to the studio wizardry of “Sgt. Pepper” the year before. Big Pink landed at the height of psychedelia and brought an earthiness to the scene; changing the course of music and influencing many including Eric Clapton (who cites it as his reason for leaving Cream).
(20 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5) Loading ...
