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Various Artists - Moondog Boogie (needledrop)

Track listing:
  1. Moon Dog Boogie Freddie Mitchell 2:41
  2. Them There Eyes Varetta Dillard 2:12
  3. This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' Ruth Brown 1:42
  4. Paquino Walk Red Prysock 2:32
  5. Party Time The Ray-O-Vacs 2:39
  6. Hot Tamales Noble Watts 2:22
  7. Peanut Vendor Alvin 'Red' Tyler 2:02
  8. Slow, Smooth And Easy Anita Tucker 2:09
  9. Rock And Roll Wedding The Midnighters 2:31
  10. Shufflin' Home Sil Austin 2:00
  11. Night Crawlin' Big John Greer 2:32
  12. Grey Hound Amos Milburn 3:02
  13. The Moondog The Treniers 2:17
  14. Thunderbird Maxwell Davis & His Rock'n'Roll Orchestra 1:47
  15. Preachin' Freddie Mitchell 2:36
  16. Old Time Rock'n'Roll Art Neville 2:18
  17. Big Heavy Cozy Eggleston 2:42
  18. Wine-O The Ray-O-Vacs 2:27
  19. I'll Never Let You Go Big John Greer 2:04
  20. Jim Dandy Ruth Brown 2:11
  21. Ridin' The Riff Big Bob Dougherty 2:45
  22. You Ain't Ready The Flamingos 2:27
  23. Back Up Eddie Chamblee 2:24
  24. My Country Man Big Maybelle 2:29
  25. Mr Freddie's Boogie Freddie Mitchell 2:35
  26. Pog Wog Red Prysock 2:35
  27. Cool Diggin' Maxwell Davis & His Orchestra 2:41
  28. Blues For The Red Boy Todd Rhodes 2:41
  29. Alan Freed Outro Alan Freed 0:09
  30. Goodnight My Love Jesse Belvin 3:03

Notes

It looks like I’ve caught the compilation bug. A few weeks ago I posted a collection called “Doo Dob Sha Bam” which I’d put together for the esteemed Rocker Stomp blog (see sidebar for link). As I said in that post, Rocker Stomp is the outstanding blog for all things rockin’ on the Spanish scene, so it was a pleasure and a bit of a challenge to compile another selection of stompin’ rhythm ‘n’ blues which would appear on both Bebopwino and Rocker Stomp.

This time round there’s an Alan Freed theme behind the collection. The opening title track by Freddie Mitchell was later adapted as “Rock ‘n’ Roll Boogie” when Freddie joined the Alan Freed Rock’n’Roll Band. It was used in the film “Rock, Rock, Rock!” as you can see from the cover pic which is a screen capture from the film and shows Freddie honking away happily while Freed claps in encouragement. Further Freed connections in the collection are “The Moondog”, a 1952 tribute by The Treniers, the instrumentals “Big Heavy” and “Blues For The Red Boy” which Freed used as themes on his radio shows, and a spoken Freed intro to Jesse Belvin’s “Goodnight My Love”, a tune which Freed often used as a show closer.

Mind you, I’m not sure if Freed would have included “Wine-O” or “Slow, Smooth and Easy” in his playlists, but what the heck, both tunes are on my current playlist. Anyway there’s plenty of hot sax work, bloozy chantoozies and riotous rockin’ goin’ on here. I’m sure the Moondog would have approved of such shenanigans.

Every track is ripped from vinyl. Even when I had a CD version of the track already available in my media player library I went to my vinyl vault to rip a fresh version. Thanks to Joan K for the label shots which are included in the download.

Ripped from vinyl at 320 kbps.