"THE BOOGIE BOX" CD 4-6

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 4:

1. Canal Street Boogie Woogie - Deryck Sampson 2. White Sox Boogie - Jimmy Yancey 3. Downtown Cafe Boogie - Eddie Heywood 4. Benson's Boogie - Lionel Hampton 5. Changing Boogie - Beverley White 6. In The Morning Boogie - Cripple Clarence Lofton 7. Hen House Boogie - Deryck Sampson 8. Yancey Special Boogie - Jimmy Yancey 9. Jammin' The Boogie - Albert Ammons 10. Hamp's Boogie Woogie Number One - Lionel Hampton 11. Boogie Woogie Boogie - Erroll Garner 12. Cliff's Boogie Blues - Clifton Jackson 13. Dive Bomber Boogie - Pete Johnson 14. Caldonia Boogie - Louis Jordan 15. T-Bone Boogie - T-Bone Walker 16. Guitar Boogie - Arthur Smith 17. Milton's Boogie - Roy Milton 18. Boogie'n My Woogie - Gladys Bentley 19. Madonna's Boogie - Madonna Martin 20. Jimmy's Boogie Woogie - Jimmy Rushing

trax CD 5:

1. G.R. Boogie - Gene Rodgers 2. Johnny's Boogie - Johnny Moore 3. Boogie Blues - Anita O'Day 4. Sail On Boogie - T-Bone Walker 5. Rhapsody Boogie - Gene Rodgers 6. Two Finger Boogie - Lionel Hampton 7. Blazer's Boogie - Johnny Moore 8. This Tavern Boogie - J.T. Brown 9. Let's Do The Boogie Woogie - Marylin Scott 10. Rock Woogie Big - Jim Wynn 11. Goodie's Boogie - Johnny Moore 12. Everybody's Boogie - Wynonie Harris 13. Bartender Boogie - Jack McVea 14. Chicago Breakdown Boogie - Big Maceo 15. Hillbilly Boogie - The Delmore Brothers 16. Mandolin Boogie - The Armstrong Twins 17. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan 18. Bobbytown Boogie - Lee Brown 19. Three-Way Boogie - Spade Cooley 20. Boogie Woogie Baby - The Delmore Brothers

trax CD 6:

1. House Party Boogie - Jack McVea 2. Dripper's Boogie - Joe Liggins 3. Jump The Boogie - Luke Jones 4. Philadelphia Boogie - Len McCall 5. Blue Light Boogie - Louis Jordan 6. Same Old Boogie - Martha Davis 7. Frantic Boogie - Jack McVea 8. Chip's Boogie Woogie - Woody Herman 9. Hamp's Walking Boogie - Lionel Hampton 10. Drum Boogie - Gene Krupa 11. Dripper's Boogie - Joe Liggins 12. Old Maid Boogie - Eddie Vinson 13. Seventh Street Boogie - Ivory Joe Hunter 14. Shufflin' Boogie - Luke Jones 15. Jam Boogie - Jack McVea 16. Groovin' Boogie - Jack McVea 17. Boogie At The Bandbox - Hadda Brooks 18. Crazy Baby Boogie - Willie Dixon 19. Come On Boogie - Michael Pweny & Dana Gillespie 20. New Broom Boogie - Al Dexter

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