- Speedoo The Cadillacs 2:19
- Pretty Thing Bo Diddley 2:51
- The Great Pretender The Platters 2:40
- I Want To Do More Ruth Brown 2:53
- Why Do Fools Fall In Love The Teenagers 2:22
- Jivin' Around The Ernie Freeman Combo 2:36
- Eddie My Love The Teen Queens 3:14
- Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin Wolf 3:06
- Try Rock And Roll Bobby Mitchell 2:11
- Drown In My Own Tears Ray Charles 3:22
- We Go Together The Moonglows 2:44
- Long Tall Sally Little Richard 2:11
- Please,please,please James Brown 2:47
- I'm In Love Again Fats Domino 1:55
- Boogie Woogie Country Girl Big Joe Turner 2:57
- Treasure Of Love Clyde Mcphatter 2:11
- Little Girl Of Mine The Cleftones With Jimmy Wright 3:11
- Fever Little Willie John 2:43
- Roll Over Beethoven Chuck Berry 2:26
- It's Too Late Chuck Willis 2:37
- Let The Good Times Roll Shirley And Lee 2:25
- Rip It Up Little Richard 2:25
- In The Still Of The Nite The Five Satins 3:03
- Honky Tonk,part 1 Bill Doggett 3:06
- Honky Tonk,part 2 Bill Doggett 2:38
- Stranded In The Jungle The Cadets 3:08
- A Thousand Miles Away The Heartbeats 2:27
- You've Got Me Dizzy Jimmy Reed 2:54
- That Mellow Saxophone Roy Montrell 2:20
Notes
The Blowing the Fuse series from Germany's Bear Family imprint is one of the more welcome and seriously assembled collections ever to be issued on CD. With each volume dedicated to a year, they go deep into the ghost stories of R&B to find the tunes that connected, not necessarily with sales (though many of these tunes also accomplished that), but in a primary spot nonetheless: the long-gone centerpiece of American popular music in the '40s, '50s, and '60s: the jukebox. Each week, men with loads of 45 rpm slabs of vinyl would extract the dead dogs and fill the box with new tracks that could be played for pennies on the dollar to anyone entering a soda shop, a bar or a nightspot where alcohol was served and imbibed cheaply; a dimestore's lunch counter, or breakfast and lunch haunts all over the nation