World's Greatest Rock N Roll D (1999) ( )

Product Summary Label: Ace (uk) UPC: 00029667171922 Release Date: 5/11/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60299566 Item#: ML746C Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Got It - (with Little Richard) ~ Earl Palmer 2. I'm Glad, Glad - (with Lloyd Price) ~ Earl Palmer 3. That Mellow Saxophone, (Everytime I Hear) - (with Roy Montrell) ~ Earl Palmer 4. Shame, Shame, Shame - (with Smiley Lewis) ~ Earl Palmer 5. Rockin' At Cosmo's - (with Lee Allen) ~ Earl Palmer 6. Chicken Shack Boogie - (with Amos Milburn) ~ Earl Palmer 7. Please Believe Me - (with Charles Brown) ~ Earl Palmer 8. Dance With Me Henry - (with Etta James) ~ Earl Palmer 9. Don't Feel Sorry For Me - (with Jimmy Beasley) ~ Earl Palmer 10. Mad About You - (with Richard Berry) ~ Earl Palmer 11. I'm Beggin' With Tears - (with Eddy Lang) ~ Earl Palmer 12. I'm Walkin' - (with Fats Domino) ~ Earl Palmer 13. Rock All Night - (with Shirley & Lee) ~ Earl Palmer 14. Johnny's House Party (Part 1) - (with Earl Palmer's Party Rockers/Jay Hawks) ~ Earl Palmer 15. Johnny's House Party (Part 2) - (with Earl Palmer's Party Rockers/Jay Hawks) ~ Earl Palmer 16. King Kong - (with Big "T" Tyler) ~ Earl Palmer 17. Sadie Green - (with Big "T" Tyler) ~ Earl Palmer 18. Little Bitty Pretty One - (with Thurston Harris) ~ Earl Palmer 19. Drum Village (Part 1) - (with Earl Palmer & His Ten-Piece Rockin' Band) ~ Earl Palmer 20. Drum Village (Part 2) - (with Earl Palmer & His Ten-Piece Rockin' Band) ~ Earl Palmer 21. Koko - (with Joe Don & Dewey) ~ Earl Palmer 22. Jerry Jerry - (with Artie Wilson) ~ Earl Palmer 23. Red Hot Rockin' Blues - (with Jesse James) ~ Earl Palmer 24. Rockin' Robin - (with Bobby Day) ~ Earl Palmer 25. Sweet Pea - (with Bob & Earl) ~ Earl Palmer 26. Rockville U.S.A. - (with The Turks) ~ Earl Palmer 27. La Bamba - (with Ritchie Valens) ~ Earl Palmer 28. It's Love - (with The Addrisi Brothers) ~ Earl Palmer 29. Somethin' Else - (with Eddie Cochran) ~ Earl Palmer 30. In The Mood - (with Ernie Fields & His Orchestra) ~ Earl Palmer   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info THE WORLD'S GREATEST DRUMMER, EVER! is a compilation that contains recordings by various artists with Earl Palmer. Contains 30 tracks. Performers include: Little Richard, Fats Domino, Amos Milburn, Lloyd Price, Etta James, Ritchie Valens, Smiley Lewis, Shirley & Lee, Ernie Fields. This 30-song selection of tracks on which Palmer played in the late 1950s cannot, and does not purport to, tell the whole story of his career. After all, there's only one track apiece from his work with Little Richard and Fats Domino. What this various-artists compilation (only four tracks were actually released under Earl Palmer's name) does, however, is give a pretty good idea of Palmer's early rock & roll contributions via a few well-known hits, a lot of rarities, and a bunch of styles. While Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba," Thurston Harris' "Little Bitty Pretty One," and Eddie Cochran's "Somethin' Else" are here, most of this is pretty obscure R&B, catching that music's transition to rock. In addition to fairly little-heard sides by Lloyd Price, Richard Berry, and Shirley & Lee, there's hard R&B from Smiley Lewis ("Shame, Shame, Shame"), Amos Milburn, and Charles Brown; gravelly jump 'n' jive from Roy Montrell; Etta James' rock & roll remake of "Dance with Me Henry" (not the same as her first and more famous version, "The Wallflower"); instrumental sax rock by Lee Allen; Big T. Tyler's insane "King Kong"; Don & Dewey's great harmony romp "Koko"; the rockin' Top Five hit version of "In the Mood" by Ernie Fields; and minor-league rockabilly by Jesse James. The instrumentals cut under his Palmer's own name are pretty generic stuff ("Johnny's House Party" is a "Honky Tonk" rip), but you'd be checking this out for the cuts graced by Palmer's session drums rather than his own sides anyway. ~ Richie Unterberger   Compilation Appearances Vol. 8-Cocktail Capers Vol. 12-Saxophobia Pickin' On Peter Framton Legendary: Steel Guitar Tribut Steel Guitar Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyr Bluegrass Interpretations Of Stevie R   Technical Info Release Date : 05/11/1999 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 719 Label : Ace Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 65m : 56s Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Mixed SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00029667171922    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray