East Side Sound: 1959-1968

East Side Sound: 1959-1968 Artist: Various Artists
Label: Bacchus Archives
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 053477000820
EAN: 0053477000820
ASIN: B0000059YH


Release Date: 1996-03-22

East Side Sound: 1959-1968


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Tracks:

  1. So You Want To Rock - Chick Carlton & Majestics
  2. Hercules Unchained - The Strongmen
  3. Rainbow Stomp - The Mixtures
  4. Jawbone - The Mixtures
  5. Olive Oyl - The Mixtures
  6. Surf Bunny - Gene Gray & The Stingrays
  7. Surfer's Mood - Gene Gray & The Stingrays
  8. Tiki - The Mixtures
  9. You'll Be Mine Some Day - Larry Tamblyn & The Standells
  10. Chinese Checkers - The Mixtures
  11. Farmer John - The Premiers
  12. Duffy's Blues - The Premiers
  13. Hopped Up Mustang - Arlen Sanders
  14. Sen-Sa-Shun - The Mixtures
  15. La La La La - The Blendells
  16. Huggie's Bunnies - The Blendells
  17. Big Daddy - The Pagents
  18. Where Lovers Go - The Jaguars
  19. The Return Of Farmer John - The Salas Brothers
  20. I'm In Love With Your Daugher Pt. 1 - Enchantments
  21. Land Of 1000 Dances - Cannibal & The Headhunters
  22. Beaver Shot - The Atlantics
  23. Nau Ninny Nau - Cannibal & The Headhunters
  24. Sloop Dance - The Atlantics
  25. Get On This Plane - The Premiers
  26. Come On And Dream - The Premiers
  27. She Took My Oldsmobile - The Romancers
  28. Love's The Thing - The Romancers
  29. A Pindaric Ode - Sunday Funnies
  30. Sometimes Good Guys - Las Dillys Sisters

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars ROCK AND ROLL'S TIN PAN ALLEY.......2004-12-08

The East Side Los Angelos sound, as depicted here, may have less to do with great rock and roll roots, as it does with marketing strategy. These great crude A.M. radio wannabes were hacked out from small recording studios, indebted to the current trends of the day, to either sink or swim into the Top 100 record lists. Opener "So You Want to Rock" by Chuck Carlson and The Majestics, is virtually "Do You Wanna Dance?" (Dave Clark 5) with different words, and The Atlantic's "Sloop Dance" makes no bones about lifting "Hang On Sloopy". The early stuff has some great uncredited California sounding electric guitar ( the only credits offered here are the artists and the songwriters), and there are some bona fide classics amongst the hacks and novelty acts - (check out "Olive Oil" by The Mixtures in which the entirety of the lyrics is the cartoon heroine seductively saying, "Ohhh, Popeye!", to which a very bad impersonation answers "Olive Oil!", while a rock band from Frankie and Annette's world backs them up. One can only assume the song is entitled "Olive Oil" because they couldn't secure the rights to the name 'Popeye'.). But, is not "Hopped Up Mustang", by Arlen Sanders, the best car song ever recorded, with it's simple tale of a drag race with a Cadillac, fitted with the most perfect engine's roar zooming by? Runner-up may be The Romancer's ode to the depths some women will reach in "She Took My Oldsmobile". The Premier's "Farmer John" is a rauckus party song with an audience whooped up to near hysterics, and their later stuff, "Get On This Plane", and "Come On and Dream", have the making of classic psych-garage, and they sound like they could have been huge, in the right hands. The crown jewel here is, Cannibal and The Headhunter's "Land of 1000 Dances", a big natiional hit, it still sounds voodoo frightening and oh, so crude. There are no master tape transfers here, most (all?) are lost, and these recordings were taken from original vinyl, and you can even here some comforting scratch sounds from the old records. They are all worthy of salvaging and saving, (ok, if you were to throw some of them into the ozone, they just might get thrown back), but they are a lot of fun, indeed historic, and you may not find another chance to hear them.

3 out of 5 stars

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  1. The Best Of Alan Parsons ~ Alan Parsons
  2. The Times ~ Skoidats
  3. Say Something Nasty ~ Nashville Pussy
  4. Sit Down for Staying ~ Charmparticles
  5. Surf City/Folk 'n Roll ~ Jan & Dean
  6. Speaking My Mind: New Rubble V.2 ~ Various Artists
  7. Freedom ~ Paul McCartney
  8. Original British Hit Singles ~ Little Richard
  9. Raw Power ~ Iggy & the Stooges Pop
  10. Hits of 1982 ~ Various Artists

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Tone Dialing ~ Ornette Coleman & Prime Time

Painted Desert ~ Ikue Mori w, Robert Quine & Marc Ribot

When I Leave This World Behind

In the Mood With: Best of Bebop Era 1942 ~ Various Artists

Jazz Profile ~ Art Pepper

Slippers

Pencugah Mevlevi Ayini ~ Mevlana

Los Ojos De La Noche ~ Gustavo Mozzi

Daizenshu ~ Akiko Kikuchi

Homenaje a Charles Trenet ~ Various Artists