Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:09
Size: 153.7 MB
Styles: Easy Listening, Pop
Year: 2000
Art: Front
[2:26] 1. Nat King Cole Trio - Straighten Up And Fly Right
[2:58] 2. Martha Tilton - (Ah Yes) There's Good Blues Tonight
[2:51] 3. Freddie Slack - The House Of Blue Lights
[2:55] 4. Alvino Rey - Guitar Boogie
[2:42] 5. Geechie Smith & His Orchestra - Let The Good Times Roll
[2:37] 6. T-Bone Walker - Bobby Sox Blues
[2:53] 7. The Pied Pipers - Open The Door, Richard
[2:49] 8. Jo Stafford - A Sunday Kind Of Love
[2:50] 9. Jesse Price - Blue Book Boogie
[2:51] 10. Tex Williams - Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
[2:59] 11. Nellie Lutcher - He's A Real Gone Guy
[2:27] 12. Ella Mae Morse - Down The Road A Piece
[2:42] 13. Crown Prince Waterford - Coal Black Baby
[2:13] 14. Cliffie Stone - He's A Real Gone Oakie
[3:01] 15. Marvin Johnson - Hey Lawdy Mama
[3:26] 16. Benny Goodman - The Huckle-Buck
[2:55] 17. Big Sis Andrews And Her Huckle-Busters - The Huckle-Buck
[2:12] 18. The Selah Singers - I'll Be Satisfied
[2:52] 19. The Selah Singers - He's My Rock, Sword And Shield
[2:56] 20. Lee Young - Seeing Double
[1:53] 21. Dean Martin - I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
[2:34] 22. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Shot-Gun Boogie
[2:34] 23. Jimmie Dolan - Hot Rod Race
[2:04] 24. Les Paul - How High The Moon
[2:18] 25. Merrill Moore - The House Of Blue Lights
Much of the earliest mass-market rock 'n' roll sounded like a mix of country and rhythm and blues. Consequently, most rock journalists/historians assume that rock must have evolved from both of these forms. In fact, Billy Vera, in the liner notes to this CD, asserts that rock 'n' roll "had many sources," and we are offered 25 selections, consisting primarily of hillbilly-boogie sides and the tamest possible rhythm and blues, that allegedly prove as much. They don't even come close. With the exception of one or two tracks, nothing here sounds much like rock 'n' roll or the roots of same. None of the country tracks (all pre-Elvis) sound anything like rockabilly, and none of the r&b sides rock in the manner of Johnny Otis, Paul Williams, Hal Singer, or any number of other black artists of the period covered. Have the compilers deliberately misrepresented the black popular music of this period in an attempt to play it down, historically? Probably. Why, is anybody's guess. At any rate, the listener's willingness to accept this CD as a credible rock-roots document will depend on how easily he or she can accept people like Dean Martin, Tex Williams ("Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!"), ex-Tommy-Dorsey vocalist Jo Stafford, and Mary Ford as rock pioneers. The music itself is great, and the sound restoration is superb. But the folks behind this curiosity seem to have overestimated their audience's credulity. ~ Lee Hartsfeld
Capitol Records From The Vaults: Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
