"THE BOOGIE BOX" CD 10-12

Massive 300 song, 15 CD set which includes R&B, blues, jazz, country, and rock 'n' roll. (This collection is now out of print)Definition: Originating in the lumber camps of East Texas, the relatively slow, heavily syncopated style of blues piano known as "boogie-woogie" was to have a tremendous influence on the development of American popular music. It was wildly popular among urban blues musicians after its introduction to vinyl on Pinetop Smith's 1928 disc "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"; it became a bonafide crossover craze in the early Forties, influencing several swing bands immeasurably; R&B-inclined jazz heads took a shine to it in the postwar years.

By the early Fifties, the form had mutated into three other genres it's commonly mistaken for: slowed-down and swung with a heavy backbeat, it became one of the principal components of rock and roll (see Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll"), while those who ramped up the beat and simplified it found themselves playing what would come to be known as "jump blues" (see Little Richard's "Rip It Up"), and early guitar heroes who transferred the eight-bar walking rhythm of the pianist's left hand to their fretboard -- instead of to the acoustic slap bass, where other bands placed it -- played the blues that came to be known simply as "boogie" (begun by John Lee Hooker on songs like "Boom Boom" and made most famous by white blues bands like ZZ Top on "Hush").

You can also hear the boogie woogie influence on rockabilly Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," and Chuck Berry cites it as a direct influence for his gently swinging straight rock and roll, most notably in more moderate numbers like "Almost Grown" and "Little Queenie." And you can find several rewrites of early boogie standards like Ray Charles' "Mess Around," a take on Cow Cow Davenport's "Cow Cow Boogie." The real stuff, however, always features that walking piano bass, moving through the blues scale in a one-four-five progression.

trax CD 10:

1. Skid Row Boogie - Big Joe Turner 2. Shuffling Boogie - King Porter 3. Alimony Boogie - Johnny Otis 4. Eiffel Boogie - Sam Price 5. Jam That Boogie - Lowell Fulson 6. Rocket Boogie "88" (Part Two) - Big Joe Turner 7. Rattlesnakin' Boogie - Madonna Martin 8. Country Boy Boogie - Billy Lamont 9. Goodman Boogie - Roy Brown 10. Madhouse Boogie - The Daylighters 11. Half Tight Boogie - Big Joe Turner 12. Hey La Bas Boogie - Fats Domino 13. Rub A Little Boogie - Champion Jack Dupree 14. Smokey Mountain Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford 15. Jug Band Boogie - Louis Innes 16. Pan American Boogie - Wayne Raney 17. Marijuana Boogie - Guerrero, Lalo 18. Bingo Boogie - Tommy Mooney 19. Professor Longhair's Boogie (1949) - Professor Longhair 20. Square Dance Boogie - Amos Milburn

trax CD 11:

1. Road House Boogie - Big Jay McNeely 2. Wine - O - Baby Boogie - Big Joe Turner 3. K & H Boogie - Big Jay McNeely 4. Tatum Pole Boogie - Art Tatum 5. Beulah's Sister's Boogie - Lionel Hampton 6. Hamp's Boogie Woogie No. 2 - Lionel Hampton 7. Guitar Boogie - Harry Crafton 8. Portia's Boogie - Johnny Griffin 9. Shuffle Boogie - Floyd Dixon 10. Christmas Date Boogie - Big Joe Turner 11. Leona's Boogie - King Perry 12. Scamon Boogie - Tommy Dean 13. Bess Boogie - Bobby Smith 14. Milt's Boogie - Milt Buckner 15. Billy's Boogie Blues - Billy Wright 16. Boogie Rambler - Clarence Brown 17. Rock It Boogie - Lil Armstrong 18. Piano Player's Boogie - Dorothy Donegan 19. When I Grow Too Old To Boogie - Camille Howard 20. Creole Gal Boogie - Paul Gayten

trax CD 12:

1. Cuttin' Out Boogie - Paul Gayten 2. Block Buster Boogie - Cecil Payne 3. Ooo Wee Boogie - Louis Jordan 4. Fish Market Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 5. St. Louis Boogie - J.T. Brown 6. Air Mail Boogie - Van Walls 7. Shot-Gun Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford 8. Boogie Joys - Ralph Sutton 9. Summertime Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 10. Rock-A-Bye Boogie - Ray McKinley 11. Housewarmin' Boogie - Stick McGhee & His Buddies 12. Brown's Boogie - J.T. Brown 13. Till Tom Boogie - Freddie Mitchell 14. Idaho Boogie - Van Walls 15. Beer Bottle Boogie - Marilyn Scott 16. Dash Hound Boogie - Bobby Smith 17. Married Woman's Boogie - Billy Wright 18. Baseball Boogie - Mabel Scott 19. Rock-Daddy-Rock Boogie - Bertha Henderson 20. Music Makers Boogie - Freddie Mitchell

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