Jungle Hop
 are you kidding me?: anybody who would give this CD less than 5 stars obviously is either braindead or ready to be embalmed. These two guys from Pasadena, California, are what early rock n' roll is all about. I have NEVER played this CD for anyone who [... more]
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Dragnet for Jesus
From Amazon.com: Cleveland's Wynona Carr was a sadly underrated master of metaphor in gospel songwriting. Her best-known release during her 1949-54 heyday was "The Ball Game," an extended metaphor with Satan as the pitcher, Solomon as the [... more]
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1966-1967 Get Down W/It Okeh
At long last! Previously unreleased '60s Richard!!: Legacy has offered up a Grammy-worthy (mostly) reissue compilation, and they did it well: they provided noteworthy, lesser-known progressive tracks from a real rock and roll originator and insured [... more]
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The Great 1955 Shrine Concert
From Amazon.com: On Friday, July 22, 1955, the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles presented the "First Annual Mid-Summer Festival of Gospel Music" with Sam Cooke, Dorothy Love Coates, James Cleveland, Albertina Walker, Joe May, the Soul Stirrers, [... more]
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Bayou Blues
From Amazon.com: Here is where the Chenier legend began. This disc contains the 12 Bumps Blackwell-produced tracks Clifton cut in 1955 in Los Angeles for Specialty Records. On tracks like "The Cat's Dreamin'" or his first hit single, "Ay ' [... more]
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Dedicated To You
From Amazon.com: Best known as the leader of Los Angeles's premier Western-swing revivalist group the Fly Rite Boys, Big Sandy takes a solo turn on Dedicated to You. Focusing on doo-wop and R & B--specifically sounds cut in the late '50s and early '60 [... more]
CDN$9.99
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The Essential
Un Essentiel amazon.fr: Peu soucieux du protocole, Little Richard se sera très tôt coiffé de la couronne de roi du rock'n'roll. Quand on sait que le titre revenait à Elvis, on mesure la gravité du crime. Lèse- [... more]
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My Rock/Love Lifted Me
The pinnacle of gospel quartet music: This album is the high point of the long and distinguished career of the Swan Silvertones. It is also perhaps the best single album of gospel quartet music. Group leader Claude Jeter was the master of falsetto. In [... more]
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God Is Real
Rarely Reissued Richard: Little Richard recorded gospel for Little Star ('59), Mercury ('61-'62), Atlantic ('63), World ('79) and Warner Brothers ('85-'86), and only the first session has made it to CD, at least domestically to my knowledge. It's too bad [... more]
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Jump Jack Jump!
Could Have Been THE Female R & R Star Had Fate Not Stepped In: Unless you are a big fan of the 1950s gospel sound chances are you will never have heard of Wynona Carr. But under different circumstances you certainly would know about her today - right [... more]
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Roy Milton & His Solid Senders
From Amazon.com: That Roy Milton gets nary a mention in documentaries or surveys of American music reflects how far we have to go in recognizing the true pioneers of this music. Louis Jordan may have created the small swing combo, but Roy Milton boiled [... more]
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