Rock Baby Rock It: 1955-1960

Rock Baby Rock It: 1955-1960 Artist: Johnny Carroll
Label: Bear Family
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4000127159281
ASIN: B0000282QW


Release Date: 2002-07-18

Rock Baby Rock It: 1955-1960


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Tracks:

  1. Hears Of Stone
  2. Why Cry
  3. Love Is A Merry-Go-Round
  4. Stingy Thing
  5. Crazy Little Mama
  6. Sexy Ways
  7. Cut Out
  8. You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often
  9. You Made Me Love You
  10. Hot Rock
  11. Rock 'N' Roll Ruby
  12. Wild Wild Women
  13. Corrine, Corrina
  14. Crazy, Crazy Lovin'
  15. Tryin' To Get To You
  16. That's The Way I Love
  17. I'll Wait
  18. Rock Baby, Rock It
  19. You Made Me Love You
  20. The Swing
  21. Bandstand Doll
  22. Sugar
  23. Lost Without You
  24. Rag Mop
  25. Little Otis
  26. Trudy
  27. Run Come See
  28. The Sally Ann
  29. Run Come See
  30. Crazy Crazy Lovin'
  31. Wild Wild Women
  32. Rockin' Maybelle
  33. Sugar Baby

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the Rockabilly Greats.......2007-03-26

Here's a fabulous CD for all hardcore Rockabilly fans who want a better sampling of Johnny Carroll tracks than those typically available on miscellaneous artist compilations. Yes, there's "Wild Wild Women" and the title track, plus "Crazy, Crazy Lovin'." All good stuff. But in my view, Carroll's best tracks are the ones you don't see elsewhere. For instance, "Why Cry," "Love is a Merry-Go-Round," and "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often," any of which are better, and less derivative, than JC's better-known cuts. Also, there are a couple extremely interesting tracks here that I'd never encountered before, namely "Bandstand Doll" (which strikes me as a minor-key variant on that already minor-key classic, "Besame Mucho"), and "Rag Mop," an hilarious novelty record which uses some of the same "onomatopoeia" drum effects found in Fats Domino's "Whole Lotta Lovin'" (but uses them more imaginatively). Finally, there are the cover tracks: "Hearts of Stone" is Carroll's version of the song recorded by The Charms in 1954; "Crazy Little Mama," a retitled version of the El Dorados' "At My Front Door"; and "Corrine, Corrina," an old Swing and R&B standard recorded by too many artists to mention. And, yes, there's Carroll's recycling of Elvis's "Trying to Get to You," which virtually echoes Presley's version note-for-note. All these covers are excellent, and except for the last-mentioned, are significantly different from the originals to prove that Carroll was much more than just a rehash artist. THIS guy could rock!

5 out of 5 stars

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