Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954

Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hip-O Records
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD

UPC: 602498620069
EAN: 0602498620069
ASIN: B0001XAQVY

Release Date: 2004-04-13

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Popular Music 1952: I-M
Popular Music 1950: O-S
Essential Popular Music Box Sets
Wild & wacky Rockabilly roots'n'branches
Music for rockabilly and 50's retro lifestyles

Tracks:

Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel hampton & His Orchestra
R.M. Blues - Roy Milton & His Solid
Freight Train Boogie - The Delmore Brothers
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
That's All Right - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
Move It On Over - Hank Williams
Merle's Boogie Woogie - Merle Travis
We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - Wild Bill Moore
Bobby Sox Blues - T-Bone Walker
Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
Cornbread - Hal Singer
Ol' Man River - The Ravens
Up Above My Head, I Hear Music In The Air - Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight
Texas Hop - Pee Wee Crayton & His Guitar
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee & His Buddies
The Huckle-Buck - Paul Williams
Saturday Night Fish Fry, Parts 1&2 - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Boogie At Midnight - Roy Brown
Rock The Joint - Jimmy Preston & His Prestonians

Tracks:

Cupid's Boogie - Little Esther
Bald Head - Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers
Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield
I'm Moving On - Hank Snow
I Almost Lost My Mind - Ivory Joe Hunter
Shotgun Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown
I'm Going To Have Myself A Ball - Tiny Bradshaw
Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
How Many More Years - Howlin' Wolf
I Got Loaded - Peppermint Harris
Sixty Minute Man - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
Glory Of Love - The Five Keys
Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins
Eyesight To The Blind - The Larks
Night Train - Jimmy Forrest
Cry - Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
Booted - Rosco Gordon
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
One Mint Julep - The Clovers
I Don't Know - Willie Mabon
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton

Tracks:

Money Honey - The Drifters
Little Richard's Boogie - Little Richard
Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Amos Milburn
Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames
Shakes A Hand - Faye Adams
Crying In The Chapel - The Orioles
Please Don't Leave Me - Fats Domino
Crazy, Man, Crazy - Bill Haley & His Comets
K.C. Loving - Little Willie Littlefield
The Clock - Johnny Ace
Baby Don't Do It - The Five Royales
Honey Hush - Big Joe Turner
I Feel So Bad - Chuck Willis
Things I Used To Do - Guitar Slim
You Upset Me Baby - B.B. King
Riot In Cell Block #9 - The Robins
Sh-Boom - The Chords
Work With Me Annie - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie man - Muddy Waters

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Customer Reviews:

Rock and Roll History.......2007-02-06

A real history lesson in the roots of Rock-A-Billy and Rock n Roll. If you enjoy music you'll enjoy this cd...Some great songs, by great artisit. It rocks, it rolls and it will have all the cats jumpin'

A welcome addition to anyones music collection. Very well done, with great song selection.

The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON 89.3
Dallas, Texas

Astonishing Good Taste!.......2006-08-18

For those of you who are interested in the roots of much of the music that's everywhere, this is a perfect starting place. Here are three discs to show you where almost all great pop music, Post World War II, came from. It couldn't have been picked much better. There are vocal groups, jump blues bands, and thank God, some country songs. They seem to have done a great job with licensing and all that too. I had quite a few of these records and got this as a recent birthday gift, but there was still plenty to thrill me.

One warning: You'll want to follow up by buying almost everything you can by these great artists. It's a happy disease.

"Roots of Rock&Roll.......2006-02-21

I've been collecting rock and roll for a long time, and there are some gems on this cd that I've never heard. This is a very concise,thoughtout, and meaningful collection. Oh to have been "back in the day" when these were filling the air-waves. This is a great cd. You will not go wrong.!

Discover Your Roots, Don't Dye Them!!!.......2006-02-04

Most of us cats n kitties out there know that rock n roll was created from white country music and black rhythm and blues. That may be the long and short of it, honeys, but the truth is that this great big 3-CD box set also contains numbers that might be considered jazz ("Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"), gospel ("Up Above My Head, I Hear Music In The Air"), musical theatre ("Ol' Man River"), comedy ("Riot In Cell Block #9"), and, of course, blues ("How Many More Years", "Hootchie Cootchie Man"). As a matter of fact, both country and r and b came from the blues, but that is a story best told another day. Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954 contains all the above unforgettable performances plus too many more to mention, and the hip compilers at Hip-O records did a masterful job of assembling this assortment, guaranteed to reward listeners with hours of listening pleasure. A great collection, to be sure. However, in the interest of better informing the potential buyer, I feel I must add a couple of cautions. One: Although there are relatively few country selections (maybe half a dozen or so), I realize that country music is a polarizing genre, which means that some listeners really LOVE it and some really HATE it. These particular tracks, from Hank Williams "Move It On Over" (later covered by George Thorogood), to Hank Snows "I'm Movin' On" (later recorded live by The Rolling Stones---look it up!) are pretty soulful, but if you are put off by "steel guitars and a twang" at all, then you may not like them. Two: When you come right down to it, some of these choices don't stand the test of time. Example: Johnny Ray may be seen as an influence on both The Four Seasons and Dion and the Belmonts, but I confess I'm rather bewildered why his rather ordinary pop song "Cry" spent so many weeks atop the charts. And while Faye Adams recording of "Shakes A Hand" created tremors throughout the South when whites and blacks dared to risk arrest by reaching across segregated dance floors to shake hands every time this song was played, the truth is it's not that great a number. And while we're on the subject: "Shotgun Boogie" may showcase Tennessee Ernie Ford's cornpone persona to perfection, but "Sixteen Tons" would have been a much better choice; the latter number is one of the finest fusions of country, pop, gospel, and r and b ever recorded, and it's omission from this collection is a glaring one. Finally, the collection bogs down at times with too many slow numbers. For my money, the compilers could have doubled the number of jump blues songs and made a better collection. Still, don't let these rather minor troubles worry you. Rather, get this collection and marvel at how anyone could be a "Sixty Minute Man", find out where Elvis got his "Hound Dog" from, and, most of all, delight in the unstoppable energy of trains in such unforgettable classics as "Freight Train Boogie" and "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie"!! OUTASITE!!! So get Roots of Rock N Roll today and party down while deciding whether or not to dye your own roots!! Crazy, Man, Crazy!!!!

Great collection offers the real history!.......2004-04-29

Typically, we're asked to believe that rock and roll started with Elvis. Or that rock and roll was, more than anything else, an evolutionary variation on country music. Or that rock and roll represented (and continues to represent) a white-black fusion.

Certainly, this collection lays waste to the first two notions. In his informative liner notes, Pete Grendysa tells us that rock and roll existed long before the main (i.e. middle-class white) record-buying public knew about it. And the country examples are relatively few. I'd have been happy if they were none, but I can live with the well-chosen examples here.

In particular, Hank William's "Move It On Over," while not exactly rock and roll (a two-beat pulse doesn't qualify as such, to my ears), does feature a verse identical to the first four bars of "Rock Around the Clock." And, like Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On" (Disc 2, track 4), it is a hillbilly boogie in standard twelve-bar blues form. It's not far from the mark.

And The Delmore Brother's "Freight Train Boogie," from 1946, turns into pure Carl Perkins near the end, easily out-rocking anything Elvis recorded at Sun. Having heard other Delmore Brothers sides that aren't anything like rock and roll, I was surprised and delighted by this number.

But the black recordings are the real, and whole, point of this collection. Such sides have far too often been disgracefully dismissed by too many rock historians as primitive, artistically-incomplete efforts by African-American musicians struggling toward something higher--"something higher" meaning, of course, Elvis. But listen for yourself. Most of these African-American numbers rock with the force of a thousand Elvises. And these are not performances striving to become whole; they are more than whole. The musicianship, for the most part, is assured and aggressive and infinitely more competent than some of what was to come after rock and roll had conquered the pop charts.

Many thanks to the genius who thought to include Lionel Hampton's 1946 if-it-ain't-rock-and-roll-what-the-heck-is-it masterpiece "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" (with its wonderful, be-boppy jazz piano chords in eight-note triplets at the start). Many more thanks for Jimmy Preston's 1949 recorded-in-an-insane-asylum "Rock the Joint" (however did Bill Haley manage to tame this tune down so drastically?). More thanks, even, for Hal Singer's proto-surf "Cornbread" (1948), Percy Mayfield's masterful "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (1950), and Ruth Brown's superbly soulful "Teardrops from My Eyes" (1950, again--a great year for Soul).

The best compilation of its kind. If you want to know the real Story of Rock and Roll, you've got to hear the records. And they're here.

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