A terrific collection of urban blues from the late 40s/ early 50s featuring those powerful big voiced singers we call "blues shouters." Most of the artists here are very obscure and only made a handful of sides and many tracks here are making their first appearance on CD. The most familiar names here are Piney Brown and "Rubberlegs" Williams who are here with some fine tracks and the rest of the artists are equally good including Ray Snead, The Chocolateers, Al Bias (his song Bad Pecker is obviously about a bird!), Sharkey Hall (the delightfully titled Barrel Of Snakes), Leroy Johnson, King Perry (some always timely medical advice Vaccinate Me Baby), Cliff Bivins, Mr. Blues Carson, Pedro Johnson & His Orch. and others. Accompaniments range from rhythm sections to bands with saxes and other brass instruments. Sound quality from these rare 78s is superb and while there are no notes there is discographical information, though, unfortunately many of the excellent musicians featured are unknown. (FS) (Roots & Rhythm)
trax:
1. Fade Away Baby - Ray Snead 2. Cool Cruel Mama - Al Jackson 3. Bartender Blues - The Chocolateers 4. Have Mercy - Piney Brown 5. Mary Lou - Leonard Bailey & His Orchestra 6. Bad Pecker - Bobby Smith And Orchestra 7. Please Don't Leave Me - Cliff Bivins 8. Naggin' Woman Blues - Papa Treetop 9. A Barrel Of Snakes - Sharkey Hall 10. She Really Treats Me Wrong - Lou Sargent 11. Home Town Woman - Leroy Johnson 12. Beggin' Blues - Charles Brantley & His Band 13. Vaccinate Me, Baby - King Perry & His Orchestra 14. Susie Bee Blues - Rubberlegs Williams 15. Ooh, I Want My Baby - Piney Brown 16. Graveyard Blues - Leonard Bailey & His Orchestra 17. Make Love To - Cliff Bivins 18. Banks Of The River - Richard King & His Orchestra 19. It's A Wig - Lee / Washington 20. Unlucky Blues - Leroy Johnson 21. Eye To Eye - Eddie Carson (As Mr. Blues Carson) 22. P.I. Blues - LaVerne Ray (As Little Man Ray) 23. Each Night About This Time - Charles Brantley & His Band 24. Round The Clock Blues (Pt 1) - Pedro Johnson & His Orchestra 25. Round The Clock Blues (Pt 2) - Pedro Johnson & His Orchestra
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"LOST R&B SHOUTERS!" Vol. 1
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On Request:
Bo Diddley “In The Spotlight” (1960) 320
http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/UsPtInEW/file.html
Cheapo Crypt Sampler #1 (1994) 320
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Cheapo Crypt Sampler #2 (1997) 128
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Any bitrate upgrade on this one would be super-duper.
@ronh1
But how did you know? spooky… :)
The confusion with track lists comes from Del-Fi using the same title and cover art for two totally different albums in 1963: one from The Centurians and one from The Bruce Johnston Surfing Band. The Bruce Johnston album was also released as “The Original Surfer Stomp” by The Surf Stompers (one of Johnston’s many alias bands). That link you posted from All Music is for the Bruce Johnston/Surf Stompers album. The Centurions album by this title is the same as the “Bullwinkle II” reissue that you shared. Moreover, the Centurians album is often listed as “live at UCLA”, but it’s not. The Bruce Johnston album is the live one.
I think this might be what you’re looking for:
The Bruce Johnston Surfing Band “Surfers Pajama Party: Live On The UCLA Campus” (1963) 320
http://www76.zippyshare.com/v/WJvHreRP/file.html
The rest of the band is uncredited, but some of Johnston’s known cohorts at this time included Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Hal Blaine and Leon Russell.
PS: Yes, this is the same Bruce Johnston from The Beach Boys.
Thanks very much for this post !
Thanks Gyro and Larry
Larry, thanks for Crypt samplers, I knew it:-)
@ LoFi Larry, I don't know how you do it but I searched for a week or two and never found a link or download, reading this is what made me try to find it:
This is truly one of the great, unheralded raw rock & roll live albums of all time. The rockin' contents cannot be denied. Working with a pickup band of more enthusiasm than accuracy while pounding the daylights out of a distorted Wurlitzer electric piano (think of Ray Charles' intro on "What'd I Say" off a 45 that's been played about a million times, and you're beginning to get the idea), Beach Boy of the future Bruce Johnston lays it down rough and rockin' for the UCLA college kiddies with a shake-'em-down spirit that's hard to ignore. The set list is a frat-party classic with versions of "What'd I Say," "Kansas City," "Surfer's Stomp," "Ramrod," "Green Onions," and "There's Something on Your Mind" being counted up in the noisy mix. With vocals going on and off mic, an occasional sax section darting in and out, a reverb-soaked lead guitar, and a hyperactive drummer, this is bare-bones Saturday-night rock & roll from the post-twist, pre-Beatles era, a period seldom documented with this much abandon. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide
Thanks Larry for the Bo diddley archive. Greetings Andrés
@ronh1
Yes, it's the same album, but they got it mixed up on the All Music site with the Surf Stompers name on the Bruce Johnson cover. Same album, released under two different names. The Centurians also have an album called "Surfers Pajama Party", it's completely different but shares cover art with BJ. Certainly the result of a big snafu at the Del-Fi home office. Had it in my archives, happy to help.
Thanks for the Shouters Gyro, and thanks LoFi for some more great scuzz !
Anonymous Bosch
Thx LoFi for the live at UCLA. Amazing what is out there!
Tanx again.
Have Cub Koda's record reviews ever been compiled in one place?
I discovered more great music reading his Goldmine reviews than from any other source. (And that ain't no lying sack of Laura Branigan records.)
Cheers!
Thank you Ryp & Gyro for the 'Lost R&B Shouthers'. Great stuff.
@Ronh1
Mucho thanks for the rare and rockin' Bruce Johnston.
Ralph11
bad pecker... good song title.
Thanks LoFi Larry for the requested crypt cheapo samplers
:)
Devo
Thanks Lofi Larry and Thanks Ronh1 for all these albums.
Thanks Gyro for these R&B shouters
Little Jack
@ Little Jack, Of course and Thank You
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