"KILLER RHYTHMS & RED HOT BEATS" The Definitive Rare Rock & Roll Instrumentals Collection - disc 2

When Rock 'n' Roll arrived in the 1950s, some of it remained vocal-free and the Rock 'n' Roll Instrumental was born.  This mammoth collection pulls together an astonishing seventy Rock 'n Roll Instrumentals from the years when Rock 'n' Roll ruled, 1956 to 1960. Plenty of obscure names including Phil Harvey, The Gamblers and The Renegades will be of interest to collectors - alongside the more familiar Johnny and The Hurricanes, Sandy Nelson etc. This superb 2 disc set provides a fascinating trawl through the instrumental sounds from the most exciting period in music.Never quite given the credit it deserves within the rock idiom, music without lyrics has always been the staple form in many other genres. So when the ‘new music’ arrived in the mid-1950s it was inevitable that some would remain vocal-free.

This collection pulls together a quite astonishing seventy Rock & Roll Instrumentals from the years during which R’n’R came into its own, 1956 – 1960. 

Including such obscure names as Phil Harvey, The Gamblers and The Renegades - behind which musical mavericks as important as Phil Spector, Bruce Johnson and Kim Fowley hid - alongside the somewhat more familiar Piltdown Men, Johnny and The Hurricanes and Sandy Nelson, this eclectic 2 disc set provides a fascinating trawl through the underbelly of the most exciting musical period to exist thus far.

trax CD 2:

1. Outta Tune - The Big Four 2. Tranquilizer Boogie - Rex Qual 3. Teen Rock - The Teen Rockers 4. Midnight Express - The Dawnbeats 5. Maggie - Andy & The Live Wires 6. Weeping Willow Rock - The Hi-Tombs 7. The Vulture - Ronnie Ray's Playboys 8. Rock It - The Orbit Rockers 9. Tinkle Bones - The Tree Tops 10. The Whip - The Frantics 11. (My Old) Kentucky Home Rock - Hank Hankins 12. Avalanche - Don & The Galaxies 13. Downbeat - The Raiders 14. Madness - The Rhythm Rockers 15. Rock-A-Mo (Part 1) - Billy Adkinson 16. Firewater - The Premiers 17. Deep In The Heart Of Texas Rock - The Dawnbreakers 18. Move (Part 1) - Keetie & The Kats 19. Tom-Tom - Carl Newman 20. Rocking - The Darts 21. Pagan Rock - B.B. Cunningham 22. Windfall - Leon Smith & The Orbit Rockers 23. Alarm Clock Rock - Gene Bianco 24. High Time Rock - The Rocktones 25. Guitar Bass Boogie - Gary Vallet & The Vallets 26. Stockade Rock - Andy Doll 27. Dirty Robber - The Noblemen 28. Moon Dawg - The Gamblers 29. Chop Chop - Sandy Nelson 30. Chariot - Rhet Stoller 31. Bop Sticks - Conny & The Bellhops 32. Spin Out - The Teen's Men 33. Mondo Caravan - The Caravans 34. Brang - Ted Russell & His Rhythm Rockers 35. Night Creature - The Gigolos 

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