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Various Artists - Blowin The Fuse-1957 (1957)

Track listing:
  1. Blue Monday Fats Domino 2:18
  2. Jim Dandy Lavern Baker 2:14
  3. Love Is Strange Mickey & Sylvia 2:56
  4. I Ain't Got No Home Clarence "Frogman" Henry 2:24
  5. Since I Met You Baby Ivory Joe Hunter 2:46
  6. Little Darlin The Gladiolas 2:24
  7. Next Time You See Me Bill Harvey,little Joe Parker 2:40
  8. Come Go With Me The Del Vikings 2:40
  9. Lucky Lips Ruth Brown 2:10
  10. Just Because Lloyd Price 2:48
  11. Searchin' The Coasters 2:45
  12. Lucille Little Richard 2:27
  13. I'm Walkin' Fats Domino 2:12
  14. Over The Mountain,across The Sea Johnnie & Joe 2:17
  15. C.C. Rider Chuck Willis 2:31
  16. Short Fat Fannie Larry Williams 2:26
  17. School Of Day Chuck Berry 2:44
  18. Glory Of Love The Velvetones 2:54
  19. Louie Louie Richard Berry 2:13
  20. Mr.Lee The Bobettes,reggie Obrecht Orchestra 2:14
  21. Think The '5' Royales 2:37
  22. Let The Four Winds Blow Roy Brown 2:05
  23. Happy,happy Birthday Baby Frank Paul Orchestra,tuneweavers 2:21
  24. I'm A Kingbee Slim Harpo 3:02
  25. Rockin Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu,part 1 Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns 2:17
  26. Little Bitty Pretty One Thurston Harris 2:24
  27. Jailbait Andre Williams 3:25
  28. Flatfoot Sam Paul Gayten 2:12
  29. Farther Up The Road Bobby "Blue" Bland 3:01
  30. Raunchy The Ernie Freeman Combo 2:18
  31. Reet Petite Jackie Wilson 2:44

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