28 R&b Classics That Rocked Jukebox (2004) (Import)

Product Summary Label: City Hall Records UPC: 04000127167026 Release Date: 11/9/2004 Buy.com Sku: 64010317 Item#: M2LFHV Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Let The Good Times Roll ~ Louis Jordan ------ 2. Swanee River Boogie ~ Albert Ammons ------ 3. Bobby Sox Blues ~ T ------ 4. Open The Door Richard! ~ Jack McVea ------ 5. Down The Road Apiece ------ 6. I Want To Be Loved (but Only By You) ~ Savannah Churchill ------ 7. Old Maid Boogie ~ Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson ------ 8. Shake That Boogie ~ Sonny Boy Williamson ------ 9. Blow Top Blues ~ Lionel Hampton ------ 10. Time To Change Your Town ~ Wynonie Harris ------ 11. Sally Zu ~ Zaz ------ 12. That's My Desire ~ Hadda Brooks ------ 13. Signifying Monkey ~ The Big Three Trio ------ 14. That's All Right ~ Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup ------ 15. New Orleans Blues ~ Johnny Moore's Three Blazers ------ 16. True Blues ~ Roy Milton ------ 17. Chicago Boogie ~ The Five Blazes ------ 18. Don't You Think I Ought To Know ~ Bill Johnson ------ 19. W.b. Blues ~ Walter Brown ------ 20. He's A Real Gone Guy ~ Nellie Lutcher ------ 21. Ol' Man River ~ The Ravens ------ 22. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate ~ Louis Jordan ------ 23. (opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch & Grab It ~ Julia Lee ------ 24. Lollypop Mama ~ Clarence Samuels ------ 25. Since I Fell For You ~ Annie Laurie ------ 26. Big Legs ~ Gene Phillips ------ 27. Guitar in My Hand ~ Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ------ 28. Hasting Street Bounce ~ Paul Williams Sextet ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Blowing the Fuse is a killer series of compilation CDs issued by Germany's premier archivist label, Bear Family. Subtitled "R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox," each volume is compiled by year. 1947 was a boom year for jukeboxes across the United States. This volume, like most of the others, contains 28 affirmed classics of the early postwar years. Louis Jordan was at the height of his powers in '47 and his "Let the Good Times Roll" opens the set and is followed by Albert Ammons' "Swamp River Boogie," a burning boogie-woogie piano jumper. Sequencing is key in a collection like this, and the folks at Bear Family understand this implicitly. Here, Jack McVea's "Open the Door Richard" is just ahead of Amos Milburn's "Down the Road Apiece," which is followed by Savannah Churchill's "I Want to Be Loved Only by You." Elsewhere the Ravens, the Five Blazes, Julia Lee and Walter Brown make appearances, as do Joe Turner, Hadda Brooks and Roy Milton. In some, the more well-known tunes of the era are given great balance by some nearly forgotten gems. The package is beautiful with Colin Escott's liner notes detailing every cut, accompanied by photographs and a lovely digipack. Sound quality is as good as it can be for archival material making this, and would prove a fine introduction to postwar R&B for the novice, and a killer chronological listen for the connoisseur. ~ Thom Jurek   Technical Info Release Date : 10/18/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 16702 Label : Bear Family (Germany) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 40001271670266