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Various Artists - Red Hot Rockabilly Part 1 (1960)

Track listing:
  1. Believe What You Say Ricky Nelson 2:03
  2. Red Hot Bob Luman 2:02
  3. So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye Weldon Rogers 2:32
  4. Play My Boogie Bill Mack 2:16
  5. Do Baby Do Johnny & Dorsey Burnette 1:47
  6. Let's Go Billy Eldridge 3:00
  7. Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop Lew Williams 2:07
  8. If You Can't Rock Me The Strikes 2:29
  9. Cradle Baby Eddie Cochran 1:47
  10. Everybody Needs A Little Lovin' Merle Kilgore 2:03
  11. Blue Days, Black Nights Bob Luman 2:15
  12. You Tear Me Up Ricky Nelson 2:20
  13. Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep Buddy Knox 2:22
  14. Please Give Me Something Bill Allen 2:15
  15. Hip Shakin' Baby Roy Brown 1:49
  16. Warm Love Johnny & Dorsey Burnette 1:55
  17. Don't Wait Up Laura Lee Perkins 2:31
  18. Didi Didi Johnny Garner 2:03
  19. Me And The Bear Johnny Burnette 2:25
  20. Bring Along Your Lovin' Bob Luman 1:54
  21. Stood Up Ricky Nelson 1:51
  22. Little Lou Eddie Cochran 1:40
  23. Centipede Lew Williams 2:03
  24. Everybody's Got A Baby But Me Warren Miller 2:02
  25. Boppin' Rosalie Johnny & Dorsey Burnette 2:00
  26. Little Bit Bobby Lanero 2:16
  27. I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin' Laura Lee Perkins 1:49
  28. That's All I Care Johnny & Dorsey Burnette 2:18
  29. Sweetie Pie Eddie Cochran 2:10
  30. We're Goin' Rockin' Tonight Roy Brown 1:51

Notes

Disky exists as a label of budget repackages and reissues. As a result they put out plenty of material that would have been better left to some other label. In the case of their country and rockabilly collections, they do an awesome job for the money. It's true there is little in the way of documentation or liner notes, but along with artist, title, and author necessities, they also offer label and date of release, which is valuable for folks who care about such things. Which brings us to this 30-track smokin' rockabilly compilation that includes not the usual Elvis/Jerry Lee/Carl Perkins/Johnny Cash amalgam of tracks, but Bob Luman's "Red Hot," Ricky Nelson's "Believe What You Say," Laura Lee Perkins' "Don't Wait Up," Lew Williams' "Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop," Johnny & Dorsey Burnette's "Do Baby Do," Billy Eldrige's "Let's Go," and enough others to make your head spin. If these were the only unusual tracks here, that would be worth celebrating in itself, but when the most normal cuts on a compilation like this are Eddie Cochran's "Little Lou," the Burnettes' "Boppin' Rosalie," and Roy Brown's "We're Goin' Rockin' Tonight," then you have something very special in your hands. All the material here dates from between 1956-1960, and in an unusual move, Disky even includes liner notes in this compilation to hip you to the contributions of some of the artists here like Bill Allen, the Strikes, Johnny Garner, and Perkins, among others. This thing burns from top to bottom without a weak track in the litter. Sets like this prove that rock & roll music from its inception was something raw, snotty, sexual, and dangerous, because these tracks remained that way over 40 years after they were issued.