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Various Artists - It's Rock'n Roll (Buffalo Bop)

Track listing:
  1. It's rock'n roll - Jack Winston 2:03
  2. Rock the joint - Rocky Rhule 2:07
  3. Pretty baby - Jimmy Thurma 2:23
  4. Hot hot mama - Jimmy Strayton 2:14
  5. Hepcat - Larry Terry 2:08
  6. Rock that rythm - Ray Whisnant 2:28
  7. Honky tonk on second street - Buck Trail 2:13
  8. Ice cream baby - Frank Triolo 1:58
  9. Beat out my love - Lee Dresser 2:07
  10. Shopping around - Wayne Cobb 2:07
  11. The woman I love - Gene Terry 2:21
  12. Baby doll - Jimmie Dale 2:28
  13. Guitar rock - Bill Flag 1:59
  14. You talk too much - Dwarless Fearsley 1:27
  15. Rock and roll baby - Rocky Rhule 2:01
  16. Let's rock - Johnny Watson 2:02
  17. Grandma rock and roll - Gene Sisco 2:15
  18. Rock & roll boogie - Bobby Poe 1:44
  19. My night off - Glen Pace 1:55
  20. Pretty little woman - Frank Triolo 2:04
  21. Cut that out - Nighthawks 2:00
  22. Bitter feeling - Larry Lee Phillipson 2:17
  23. Little betty mama - Webb Foley 1:39
  24. Rock and roll baby - Andy Sanders 1:49
  25. Shake, baby shake - Jesse Lee Turner 2:10
  26. Rock & roll record girl - Bobby Poe 2:11
  27. Love's no game - Glenn Reffuse 1:56
  28. Rock ya baby - Jim McCrory 1:38
  29. Linda Lee - Carl Morelli 2:13
  30. rock and roll joys - Donnie Bowshier 2:32

Notes


This collection's first song, "It's Rock & Roll" by Jack Winston, is pretty forgettable, but the second, "Rock the Joint" by Rocky Rhule, and its third, "Pretty Baby" by Jimmy Thurma, get things moving in the right direction, and fast. Jimmy Strayton's "Hot Hot Mama" turns up the temperature considerably; Larry Terry's "Hepcat" keeps the heat on, and even though Ray Whisnant's "Rock That Rhythm" moderates the tempo, it doesn't break the mood of teens with over-saturated hormones and lots of energy to expend on cars and girls. Buck Trail's "Honky Tonk on Second Street" is a lost rock & roll classic in the same mold as Merrill Moore's "House of Blue Lights." Don't ask how the Jerry Lee Lewis-influenced Frank Triolo ever got his "Ice Cream Baby" into ASCAP's roster -- it's as loud a piece of rock & roll as anyone was doing. Lee Dresser's "Beat Out My Love" is a raunchy, screaming sax-driven jewel that just misses classic status with a flat second half. Dwarless Fearsley's name had to be a joke, and "You Talk Too Much" is almost a parody of rock & roll conventions of the middle and late 1950s. "Grandma Rock & Roll" by Gene Sisco is pretty forgettable except as a country novelty tune, but Bobby Poe is a wailing, whooping stuttering lunatic on "Rock & Roll Boogie." Frank Triolo outdoes Jerry Lee Lewis at his own game on "Pretty Little Woman." Glenn Reffuse outdoes them all with "Love's No Game," a loud, raunchy paean to teenage lust. Donnie Bowshire's "Rock & Roll Joys" misses the reckless abandon of the music, and is a strange place to end this collection.