"The Road To Rock & Roll" Vol. 1 - Jitterbug Jive 1934-1952 - disc 2

50 scene-setting singles that surfaced in the UK in the lead-up to the rock & roll revolution!

Compiled by music historian and producer Stuart Coleman, The Road To Rock & Roll series highlights the wealth of trailblazing American recordings that surfaced in the UK between 1934-1955, ahead of the rock & roll explosion. The first volume, Jitterbug Jive, concentrates on the period 1934 to 1952 and features a heady mix of American jazz, rhythm & blues, hillbilly and gospel.
So aptly titled! A mix of slight jazz, much boogie, a bit of country, r&b, all the elements that would combine to give us that beast called rock'n'roll. Her spanning 1934 to 1952, the wonder is that all these tracks obtained a UK release! I know that because compiler/annotator Stu Colman's wonderful notes (which took me best part of an hour to read) gives US and UK release dates, labels and numbers. (The Guardian)

trax disc 2:
1. Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday) - Lefty Frizzell 2. Hot Rod Race - Red Foley 3. Trouble Trouble - Roy Lanham & Doug Dalton 4. Chew Tobacco Rag - Zeb Turner 5. Dog House Boogie - Hawkshaw Hawkins 6. Bouncing Ball Boogie - Sugar Chile Robinson 7. Hoot Owl Boogie - Sheb Wooley 8. Hey, Good Lookin' - Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys 9. Cherokee Boogie (Eh-Oh-Aleena) - Moon Mullican 10. Sixty-Minute Man - Billy Ward & The Dominoes 11. The Grape Vine - Lucky Millinder 12. Magic Carpet - Blind John Davis 13. Tennessee Saturday Night - Ella Mae Morse 14. Rock City Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Dinning Sisters & Cliffie Stone's Music 15. The Senator From Tennessee - Hardrock Gunter 16. Ooh-Dahdily-Dah - Louis Prima & Keely Smith 17. Just Right Bounce - Piano Red 18. Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris 19. Honky Tonk Blues - Hank Williams & The Drifting Cowboys 20. Jambalaya (On The Boogie) - Rex Allen & The Nashville Dixielanders 21. Tennessee Local - Tennessee Ernie Ford & Cliffie Stone's Orchestra 22. Bim Bam Baby - Frank Sinatra 23. Flamingo - Earl Bostic 24. I Know Who Threw The Whiskey (In The Well) - Bull Moose Jackson 25. Rock The Joint - Lola Ameche & Ralph Marterie
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