| Rockin' With The Rhythm & Blues |
| ROCK AND ROLL: This compilation brings together the words and the music. A full five to ten years before it's accepted birthdate, scores of records were being released with rock or rockin' in the title and lyrics which, while sometimes suggesting the phrase's original sexual connotations, were more often than not overtly about dancing and having a good time vertically. Here is the cream of the crop Six page booklet, liner notes by Dave Penny |
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EL TORO R&B 100 - Various Artists - Rockin' With The Rhythm & Blues |
| Tracking Lists: 1. Rock And Roll - La Verne Ray & Arlene Talley (Talley/Ray - Jubilee 1950) 2. Rockin´ and Sockin´- Tiny Grimes & his Rocing Higlanders (Grimes - Gotham 1950) 3. Rock Awhile - Goree Carter & his Hepcats (Carter - Freedom 1949) 4. Rockin' With Big John - Big John Greer & his Rhythm Rockers (Greer - RCA Victor 1949) 5. Rock Mr Blues - Wynonie Harris (Bernard/Mann - King 1950) 6. Rockin' - The Robins (Nunn/Taub - Modern 1951) 7. It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings! - The Treniers (Trenier/Hill/Trenier - OKeh 1951) 8. Rockin' All Day - Jimmy McCracklin & his Blues Blasters (McCracklin/Taub - Modern 1951) 9. Let's Rock Awhile - Amos Milburn & his Chickenshackers (Haywood/Tucker - Aladdin 1950) 10. Rockin' At Home - Floyd Dixon (Dixon - Peacock 1949) 11. Sausage Rock - Doc Sausage & his Mad Lads (Tyson - Regal 1950) 12. Rock That Boogie - Little Jimmy Smith (Gahagan/Bass - Acorn 1949) 13. Rockin' The Blues - Max "Blues" Bailey (Bailey - Bullet 1949) 14. Rockin' With GM - Sonny Parker with Gene Morris & his Hamptones (Parker/Morris - Spire 1950) 15. Rock Me Daddy - Laurie Tate with Joe Morris & his Orchestra (Tate/Morris - Atlantic 1950) 16. Good Rockin' Man - Roy Brown & his Mighty Mighty Men (Brown - DeLuxe 1951) 17. We're Gonna Rock - Gunter Lee Carr (Carr - Decca 1950) 18. Rockin' The House - Memphis Slim & The House Rockers (Chatman - Miracle 1947) 19. Rock This Morning - Jesse Allen & Jimmy Gilchrist (Allen/Stovall - Aladdin 1951) 20. Rock My Soul - Mr Google Eyes with Rene Hall's Orchestra (August/Cook - Domino 1950) 21. Rocking Time - Great Gates & his Hollywood All Stars (White - Rex Hollywood 1950) 22. Rock, H-Bomb, Rock! - H-Bomb Ferguson with Charlie Singleton's Orchestra (Ferguson - Atlas 1951) 23. Rockin' With Coop - Freddie Mitchell & his Orchestra (Mitchell/Heller/Newton - Derby 1950) 24. Rockin' And Jumpin' - Honey Brown with Freddie Mitchell's Orchestra (Johnson/Brown - Derby 1951) 25. Rock The Joint - Jimmy Preston & The Prestonians (Bagby/Crafton/Keene - Gotham 1949) 26. Rock Around The Clock - Wally Mercer & his Orchestra (Mercer - Dot 1951) |
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