The annual committee of the German record review awards has awarded the CD series. Nowadays, when journalists talk about '50 years of pop music' they are ignoring the fact that popular music existed prior to 1955. Pop music did not appear from nowhere but has a rich 'pre' history. Keywords like Big Band Sound, Gospel, Jump Blues, Vocal Groups and Boogie Woogie characterize this period. The first eleven compact discs in the 'Blowing The Fuse'-series are a compilation splendid in sound and detail, dealing with important years in the progress of pop music in the range of black r&b, imaginatively compiled by the Canadian collector and DJ Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, and knowledgeably annotated by Hank Williams-biographer Colin Escott. Berlin, November 19, 2005
THE NEW GOLD STANDARD IN R&B REISSUES IS NOW COMPLETE! Critics raved. Finally a series that really made sense of the wealth of music from R&B’s early years! Now that series is complete. Here are the years 1956-1960, and here's why 'Blowing The Fuse' will be the standard for R&B reissues now and forever!
YEARS! YEARS! YEARS! Many companies have issued compilations of out-of-copyright recordings (ie. records more than 50 years old). That's why you'll find that their series stop at 1955. Bear Family's 'Blowing The Fuse' starts at the dawn of the Post-War R&B era in 1945, and now goes through until 1960! And, unlike the out-of-copyright labels who won't get to 1960 until 2011, we're there now because Bear Family pays the companies that own the music
PACKAGING! PACKAGING! PACKAGING! Other labels lift photos from old books and magazines, and commission quickie liner notes that tell you little or nothing, and often get it wrong. Bear Family's 'Blowing The Fuse' has detailed song-by-song notes, stories behind the songs, and incredible never-before-seen photos in huge booklets ... booklets so big they won't even fit inside the standard plastic case. Instead, they go in specially designed DigiPacs.
COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! COMPILATIONS! Most out-of-copyright labels do their compilations from chart books compiled by Joel Whitburn. Compiling from Whitburn is the easy way out. We hired
Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, a guy with one of North America’s biggest R&B collections and the dee-jay experience to know how to program music. He went through his incredible collection and then he went through 'Billboard' year-by-year, and picked out more than just the hits. We selected the absolute best music, some of it never reissued on CD until now, as well as the biggest hits, and we have no more than two songs by any artist on any CD. These are true, properly thought-out compilations in the spirit of Guy Stevens, Paul Oliver, Mike Leadbitter, and the others who compiled groundbreaking blues/R&B LPs back in the 1960s and 1970s.
SOUND! SOUND! SOUND! We used the absolute best sources from the original labels, then carefully remastered for the absolute best-ever sound.
Beware! These will cost a little more than some of the out-of-copyright reissues, but they'll be worth it.
If you're sick of R&B reissues that look and sound like a 'Proper' mess, then go for the best. And you won't have to wait until 2011 to get the complete story of R&B's golden years!
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1. Speedoo - The Cadillacs With The Jesse Powell Orchestra 2. Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley 3. The Great Pretender - The Platters 4. I Want To Do More - Ruth Brown 5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 6. Jivin' Around, Part 1 - Ernie Freeman Combo 7. Eddie My Love - The Teen Queens 8. Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin' Wolf 9. Try Rock And Roll - Bobby Mitchell 10. Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles 11. We Go Together - The Moonglows 12. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 13. Please, Please, Please - James Brown 14. I'm In Love Again - Fats Domino 15. Boogie Woogie Country Girl - Big Joe Turner 16. Treasure Of Love - Clyde McPhatter Willie John 19. Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry 20. It's Too Late - Chuck Willis 21. Let The Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee 22. Rip It Up - Little Richard 23. In The Still Of The Night - The Five Satins 24. Honky Tonk, Part 1 - Bill Doggett 25. Honky Tonk, Part 2 - Bill Doggett 26. Stranded In The Jungle - The Cadets 27. A Thousand Miles Away - The Heartbeats 28. You've Got Me Dizzy - Jimmy Reed 29. (Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone - Roy Montrell 30. Pack Fair And Square - Big Walter
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...Allan’s distinctive, ‘heavy fuzz’ sound was already prominent on ‘Apache ’65’, a feature that remained constant despite a fluctuating Arrows line-up. This exciting single was a regional hit, prompting a hurriedly recorded album of the same name. The set was produced by Mike Curb, who was well known for supplying soundtrack music for the numerous movies emerging from the AIP film studio. Allan contributed to several subsequent Curb-instigated albums, usually as a member of the many pseudo-groups Curb organized around Hollywood-based session musicians. However, the guitarist received full credit for ‘Blue’s Theme’ culled from the 1966 film The Wild Angels. Allan and the Arrows were rewarded with their sole US Top 40 entry when this track was issued as a single. The Cycle-delic Sounds Of Davie Allan And The Arrows captured the group at a creative peak, blending hard riffs and tight melodies with a dash of acid rock. By the end of the 60s Allan’s sound had become passé, but he remains one of the decade’s finest exponents of the guitar instrumental. - Artist Biography by AllMusic
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