Thursday, 8 December 2016

"Johnny Valentine" 50's & 60's Rock 'n' Roll

Excellent collection of rockin’ and hard to find rock ’n’ roll!trax:
1. Johnny Valentine - Andy Anderson 2. Alley Cat - Walter Brown 3. Boppin' High School Baby - Don Willis 4. Uggaboo - The Four Jokers 5. Come Along Little Girl - Aubrey Cagle 6. Hard Times Ahead - Janis Martin 7. Fine Little Baby - Dick Penner 8. Gee Whiz Liz - Charles Senns
9. Wild Cherry - Leroy Washington 10. Hey Mr. Porter - Ralph Pruitt 11. I'm Gonna Quit You Pretty Baby - Silas Hogan 12. Kool Cat - Bill Sherrell 13. Tennessee Rock'N'Roll - Bobby Helms 14. Young Girl - Ty Stweart & The Jokers 15. Midnight Dreams - Tommy Bell 16. Rabbit Action - Jimmy Haggett 17. Sweet Willie - Barbara Allen 18. I'm Doin' Alright - Shyguy Douglas 19. Where'd You Stay Last Night - Ray Harris 20. Sweet, Sweet Girl - Warren Smith 21. Teenage Ball - Elroy Dietzel
…Thanks to djmcblues2 for the share! / served by Gyro1966...

13 comments:

RYP said...

"Johnny Valentine" 50's & 60's Rock 'n' Roll
…Thanks to djmcblues2 for the share! / served by Gyro1966...
gitit! no pw
http://www90.zippyshare.com/v/ZZ8j1YlT/file.html

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 1 OF 7 @320

PopCycles Vol. 4

Pop Cycles takes the listener on a ride through toy town, pop beat, soft pop and early 70s underground.

Pop Cycles CDR compiled by erstwhile record collector and Shindig magazine reviewer Paul Martin. Volume 4 is now circulating among fellow collectors and lovers of the more off-beat sounds from the world of underground and obscure pop 45s and album tracks.

(For fans of Soft Sounds For Gentle People and the Fading Yellow comps)

The liners are well researched and informative.

1 Wayne Fontana Waiting for a Break in the Clouds
2 Stan Devereaux Know That It's Happenin'
3 The Off-Set A Change Is Gonna Come
4 The Goodtime Singers Come on Train
5 The Hello People (As I Went Down To) Jerusalem
6 The 4 Seasons Electric Stories
7 Abe and Malka Shakin' Up the Nation
8 Dave Christie Penelope Breedlove
9 Peter Courtney Dr. David's Private Papers
10 David and David In the City
11 The Shadows Dear Old Mrs. Bell
12 Disraeli Humidity 105
13 Zakatek I Gotcha Now
14 The Variations Down the Road
15 Wishful Thinking Clear White Light
16 Earth & Fire Maybe Tomorrow, Maybe Tonight
17 The Grammy Fones Now He's Here
18 Barbara & Ernie Play with Fire
19 Foxy Trouble
20 The Hollies Hey Willy
21 Bobby Bland Yolanda
22 Jolliver Arkansaw Lisa My Love
23 The Off-Set Xanthia
24 Ganim's Asia Minors Daddy Lolo (Oriental Rock 'n' Roll)
25 The Racket Squad Suburban Life
26 Abe and Malka Sealed with a Kiss

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/oaMYkshp/file.html

INFO
http://expo67-cavestones.blogspot.com/2007/03/pop-cycles-volume-5-cdr.html

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 2 OF 7 @320

Cissy Houston - Presenting Cissy Houston 1970-1975 (Expanded Edition 2012)

What a joy. I have waited half my life for this album to be released on an affordable CD. Not only is the "Presenting Cissy Houston" here but 11 bonus tracks made up of rare singles b-sides and other treasures I have never heard before.

I thought I would never hear Cissy's take on Tim Hardin's "Hang on to a Dream" ever again.

From the featured album, my vinyl copy wore out back in 73, the near hysterical vocals of Melanie's "Any Guy" still make me smile for its rip-roaring camp and her Bacharachs were never bettered.

Whoever was responsible for the re-release of this treasure deserves a music appreciation award, and if there is no such thing, I will join a campaign to establish one. So whoever you are, many many thanks for making this old soul dude extremely happy. (The Soul Detective)

This is worth buying for the great version of Be My Baby alone, but there's other great songs here. The original of Midnight Train to Georgia is as well sung as Gladys Knight's more famous version. And I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself is fantastic. (The Soul Review)

1 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
2 Didn't We
3 I'll Be There
4 Any Guy
5 When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
6 Be My Baby
7 This Empty Place
8 Long and Winding Road
9 He - I Believe
10 Darling, Take Me Back
11 Hang On to a Dream
12 I Love You
13 Making Love
14 It's Not That Easy
15 Midnight Train to Georgia
16 Will You Love Me Tomorrow
17 Only Time You Say You Love Me
18 I'm So Glad I Can Love Again
19 Nothing Can Stop Me
20 Don't Wonder Why
21 Down in the Boondocks

http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/LWCM4fGQ/file.html


Scans
http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/Q4CpEZET/file.html

(Thanks to Jillem for Cissy Houston)

INFO
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Presenting-Cissy-Houston-Expanded/dp/B007NKLTO6

http://theseconddisc.com/2012/05/reviews-first-family-of-soul-rare-albums-from-dionne-and-dee-dee-warwick-cissy-houston-reissued-and-expanded/

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 3 OF 7 @320

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Sidewalk (2013)

They’re really just a ridiculously talented lo-fi garage rock outfit in my eyes and I couldn’t mean that as a greater compliment.  From the moment you start the titular title track on their debut album, Sidewalk, you can hear a deep appreciation for late 60’s and early 70’s psychedelia, refined and captured in the same emphatic and impulsive way, while dragging tricks and sounds from the last fifty years along for the ride.  While Frankie And The Witch Fingers seem to incorporate a few more dissonant sounds and breaks, think 13th Floor Elevators or The Velvet Underground, to really spice up the sound and add a level of dissonance to the tightly crafted garage pop melodies, that just seem to melt out of your speakers.  Reverberation and fuzz dosed guitars shimmer and undulate in the songs, while echoed vocals float above the instruments, blending in and out of fits of distortion and rave-ups.  The bass and drums are like calm pounding waves, powerful enough to chip away at a mountain with out raising an un-needed racket while doing so. (Psychedelic Baby)

1 Sidewalk
2 You Got It
3 Bad Vibes
4 Ferris Wheel
5 Doctor
6 Messed Up
7 My Love
8 Cops & Robbers
9 Cocaine Dream
10 Mermaids
11 Thinking About Youhttp://www102.zippyshare.com/v/0kCljaVR/file.html

(thanks to northern_madman and luis)

INFO
http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/09/frankie-and-witch-fingers-interview.html

(If anyone has the Frankie and the Witch Fingers 2015 Self-Titled Album, please share here.)

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 4 OF 7 @320

Harmonica Blues: Great Harmonica Performances Of The 20’s and 30’s (Yazoo L 1053)

It is perhaps a testament to the harmonica's status in music that even its finest practitioners remain relatively obscure. Compiling a disc of harp players, as Yazoo has done here, isn't going to turn up a bunch of familiar names. As an early document of an instrument that remained essential to the blues well after it became an electric medium, however, Harmonica Blues is excellent. The instrument served numerous roles during the 1920s and 1930s (the period covered here), showing up in dance music, solo showcases, and blues; on street corners and in juke joints. An example of the instrument's novelty appeal is as good a place to start as any. Though Freeman Stowers' recorded conventional blues, he also relished in comic fare like "Railroad Blues." Bidding his woman farewell as she steps aboard a train, Stowers builds to a blistering pace in his steam engine imitation. The harmonica's ability to bend notes and produce vibrato made it particularly expressive when applied to blues. It's dynamic range and unique timbre meant that it could cut through an acoustic ensemble in a manner similar to a violin or slide guitar. Harp men step into the spotlight for particularly spectacular solos on the otherwise tepid blues of "I Want You By My Side" and "My Driving Wheel." Both De Ford Bailey and Jaybird Coleman, the two players to gain some degree of notoriety during their prime, are represented by a cut each. Bailey, a popular performer on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry displays his unparalleled technique on "Davidson County Blues," while Coleman proves that he was an exceptional vocalist as well on "Man Trouble Blues." Together, the artists gathered on Harmonica Blues represent the precursors to the great harp players of the electric era like Little Walter, Junior Wells, and Sonny Boy Williamson. (John Bush, Allmusic)

1 Freeman Stowers Railroad Blues
2 State Street Boys Crazy About You
3 Carver Boys Wang Wang Harmonica Blues
4 Lee Brown My Driving Wheel
5 Ashley & Foster Bay Rum Blues
6 Robert Hill I'm Going To Write And Tell My Mother
7 Chuck Darling Blowin' The Blues
8 Chuck Darling Harmonica Rag
9 Jaybird Coleman Man Trouble Blues
10 Jazz Gillum I Want You By My Side
11 Alfred Lewis Friday Moan Blues
12 Chicken Wilson & Skeeter Hinton House Snake Blues
13 Leecan & Cooksey Need More Blues
14 Deford Bailey Davidson County Blues

http://www102.zippyshare.com/v/v69LNOrJ/file.html

INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/harmonica-blues-yazoo-mw0000267815

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 5 OF 7 @320

Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga! Seminar; Aesthetic Expressions Of Psychedelic Funk Music In India 1970-1983

By the end of the 2000s, compilations of non-Western psychedelic music were becoming a dime-a-dozen propositions, while Bollywood compilations were getting even cheaper yet. Psych-Funk Sa-Re-Ga! Seminar outdoes the low expectations of both, stretching the boundaries of Bollywood exploitation music, and also featuring a set of '60s/'70s Indian pop at its finest, courtesy of producers extraordinary R.D. Burman and the brothers team known as Kalyanji Anandji (with multiple tracks each). Unlike most discs of this sort, the compilers at World Psychedelic Funk Classics are experts, well used to digging deep into the dustbins of history throughout Southeast Asia. Aptly, this collection is structured more like a film soundtrack than a run of singles, beginning with two scene-setting instrumentals (including a surfsploitation gem by a group called X'Lents) before splashing in with five tracks from the producers above in all their frenetic, chaotic multi-layered glory. True playback singers aren't common here (just Asha Bhosle on several tracks), but that serves the disc well; digging as deep as this, and providing a seminar on Bollywood soundtracks and the psychedelic scene around India during the '70s makes for a much more distinctive compilation. Highlights will vary from listener to listener based on whether your tastes lie in traditional Bollywood, psych-funk curios, or '60s exploitation (here courtesy of some remarkably garagey instrumentals), but shining above the pack are discoveries like Burman's "Freak Out Music" (which is exactly that), and Bappi Lahari's "Everybody Dance with Me" (reminiscent of "In A-Gadda-Da-Vida" gone Indian). (John Bush, Allmusic)

1. The Black Beats: The Mod Trade
  2. X'Lents: Psychedelia
  3. Kalyanji Anandji: Somebody to Love
  4. Kalyanji Anandji: Bairaag Dance
  5. R.D. Burman: Music From Hare Rama Hare Krishna
  6. R.D. Burman:Lekar Ham Diwana Dil
  7. R.D. Burman: Freak Out Music
  8. Bappi Lahari: Everybody Dance With Me
  9. Kalyanji Anandji: Dharmatma Theme
  10. Asha Bhosle With R.D. Burman: Dum Maro Dum Live - Edit
  11. Usha Khanna: Incidental Music
  12. Klaus Doldinger: Sitar Beat
  13. Sapan Jagmohan: Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai
  14. Keith Kanga: Butterfly
  15. Atomic Forest: Mary Long
  16. Usha Khanna: Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahin
  17. Hemant Bhosle: Phir Teri Yaad
  18. R.D. Burman : Aaj Mera Dil
  19. Kalyanji Anandji: Hum Tumhe Chate Hain - Edit
  20. Ilaiyaraaja: Thanimayil

http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/6jWLH89Q/file.html

INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/psych-funk-sa-re-ga!-seminar-aesthetic-expressions-of-psychedelic-funk-music-in-india-1970-1983-mw0002082661

https://www.amazon.com/Psych-Funk-Sa-Re-Ga-Seminar-Expressions-Psychedelic/dp/B004BH510W

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 6 0F 7 @320

Doug Seegers - Walking On The Edge Of The World (2016)

Doug Seegers has a back story you couldn’t make up. A New Yorker who drifted to Nashville when hard times hit he was homeless for a while, recorded some songs one of which went viral in Sweden. This led to a recording contract and an opportunity to have Emmylou Harris appear on his debut album which has been universally praised. His appearance tonight was his UK debut and one that exploded any notions one might have had that he’d provide the soulful country groove that permeates the album, Going Down To The River. Tall, rangy, cowboy shirt and hat on, Seegers turned in a fierce honky tonk shock peppered with some Western swing backed by drummer Simon Wilhelmsson, bassist Scott Esbeck and flamboyant fiddler Barbara Lamb. Back in his homeless busking days Seegers was sometimes known as Duke the Drifter and tonight it wasn’t a huge leap to imagine him as a present day version of Luke The Drifter, a nom de plume of Hank Williams back in the days. Stretching it a bit perhaps but Seegers sang and rocked as if his life depended on it throwing in Luke like thanks to the Lord for his current good luck. (Paul Kerr, Blabber ’n’ Smoke)

1 Walking On The Edge Of The World
2 From Here To The Blues
3 Zombies
4 Will You Take The Hand Of Jesus
5 She's My Baby
6 How Long Must I Roll
7 Before The Crash
8 Give It Away
9 Far Side Banks Of Jordan (Feat. Emmylou Harris)
10 If I Were You (Feat. Buddy Miller)
11 Mr. Weavil
12 Don't Laugh At Me

http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/1iS429RC/file.html

INFO
http://dougseegersmusic.com/2016/03/new-album-coming-up-walking-on-the-edge-of-the-world/

Don’t miss the first album:

Doug Seegers - Going Down to the River (2014)

http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/36179222/file.html

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 7 OF 7 @320

Neil Young - Peace Trail (2016)

The ten sparse protest songs on Neil Young's strange and scrappy new album address the dissemination of fake news, the mistreatment of America’s indigenous people, and the water crisis in Flint. 

1 Peace Trail
2 Can't Stop Workin'
3 Indian Givers
4 Show Me
5 Texas Rangers
6 Terrorist Suicide Hang Gliders
7 John Oaks
8 My Pledge
9 Glass Accident
10 My New Robot

http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/6xH41TCA/file.html

INFO
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22654-peace-trail/

Gyro1966 said...

BONUS 3 OF 7 @320

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Sidewalk (2013)

They’re really just a ridiculously talented lo-fi garage rock outfit in my eyes and I couldn’t mean that as a greater compliment. From the moment you start the titular title track on their debut album, Sidewalk, you can hear a deep appreciation for late 60’s and early 70’s psychedelia, refined and captured in the same emphatic and impulsive way, while dragging tricks and sounds from the last fifty years along for the ride. While Frankie And The Witch Fingers seem to incorporate a few more dissonant sounds and breaks, think 13th Floor Elevators or The Velvet Underground, to really spice up the sound and add a level of dissonance to the tightly crafted garage pop melodies, that just seem to melt out of your speakers. Reverberation and fuzz dosed guitars shimmer and undulate in the songs, while echoed vocals float above the instruments, blending in and out of fits of distortion and rave-ups. The bass and drums are like calm pounding waves, powerful enough to chip away at a mountain with out raising an un-needed racket while doing so. (Psychedelic Baby)

1 Sidewalk
2 You Got It
3 Bad Vibes
4 Ferris Wheel
5 Doctor
6 Messed Up
7 My Love
8 Cops & Robbers
9 Cocaine Dream
10 Mermaids
11 Thinking About You

http://www102.zippyshare.com/v/0kCljaVR/file.html

(thanks to northern_madman and luis)

INFO
http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/09/frankie-and-witch-fingers-interview.html

(If anyone has the Frankie and the Witch Fingers 2015 Self-Titled Album, please share here.)

iggy said...

Thanks to the great G-Man for an intro to Doug Seegers. Looking forward to the listen...

!ggy

BillyMac said...

Thanks Gyro and Jillem for the Cissy Houston music.

Edward said...

Gyro1966: Thanks for the Neil Young.

ELtel said...

Thanks for Cissy houston.
cheers,ELtel