"The Road To Rock & Roll" Vol. 3 - No Stopping Us Now 1954-1955 - disc 2

50 scene-setting singles that surfaced in the UK in the lead-up to the Rock 'n' Roll revolution. American Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Hillbilly and Pop released in the UK between 1954 and 1955, ahead of the rock & roll explosion.

Compiled by music historian and producer Stuart Colman, The Road to Rock & Roll series highlights the surprising wealth of trailblazing American recordings that surfaced in the UK between 1934 and 1955 ahead of the rock & roll explosion. The third and final volume in the series, No Stopping Us Now, concentrates on the period 1954 to 1955 and features a potent mix of American country, rhythm & blues and doo wop. By this time, 7-inch singles rotating at 45rpm were commonplace for most British labels, and the advent of the Dansette offered a relatively portable 4-speed alternative to the bulky but superior-sounding radiogram. With the countdown for rock & roll fast approaching, these auditory developments couldn't have been better timed.The Road To Rock & Roll series was commissioned by Fantastic Voyage as a response to Stuart Colman's I Shall Be Released" feature, which appeared in leading rock & roll magazine Now Dig This back in January and February 2013. Following the 2013 release of Vol. 1: Jitterbug Jive (which concentrated on the period 1934 to 1952) and Vol. 2: Dangerous Liaisons (1953 to 1954), comes No Stopping Us Now which spotlights both the rhythm & blues of LaVern Baker, Nappy Brown, The Midnighters, Fats Domino, The Platters, Ruth Brown and Louis Jordan, and the country and hillbilly boogie sounds of Merrill Moore, Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant, Merle Kilgore, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and Jack Cardwell: seemingly unrelated genres, but unified by their determination to rock, and thus forming the foundations of rock & roll.What the critics have said about previous volumes in this terrific series:"a glorious compendium of jazz-minded trailblazers twisting and contorting American music into the form that would become known as rhythm 'n' blues.priming us for the world-conquering sounds to come"4/5 Record Collector"serves to remind us that the road to rock n roll was well and truly open to traffic during 1953. The compilation closes with a trio of under-reissued gems that may well still be as obscure today as they were when first released here in 1954. A fascinating collection that'll have you scratching your head in disbelief one moment, then itching to cut a rug the next" Now Dig This"

trax disc 2:
1. Go Baby Go - The Four Tophatters 2. Tennessee Train - The Four Knights 3. Ain't It A Shame - Fats Domino 4. Doggone It, You Did It - The Five Keys 5. Your Love Has Got Me (Reelin' And A-Rockin') - Billy Valentine 6. Pitter Patter - Nappy Brown 7. Barracuda - Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra 8. Cry, Cry, Cry - Texas Bill Strength 9. We're Gonna Bop - Alvadean Coker 10. Seventeen - Boyd Bennett & His Rockets 11. My Boy - Flat Top - Dorothy Collins 12. Play It Fair - LaVern Baker 13. Uranium - The Commodores 14. As Long As I'm Moving - Ruth Brown 15. Messy Bessy - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 16. Daddy-O - Bonnie Lou 17. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley & His Comets 18. Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue - Merrill Moore 19. Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots - The Cheers 20. That's All I Want From You - The York Brothers 21. Voo-Vee-Ah-Bee - The Platters 22. Annie Had A Baby - The Midnighters 23. Just Don't Care - The Strangers 24. Pepper-Hot Baby - Jaye P Morgan 25. I Want You To Be My Baby - Lillian Briggs
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