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Various Artists - Blowin The Fuse-1958 (1958)

Track listing:
  1. Buzz,buzz,buzz The Hollywood Flames 2:19
  2. You Can Make It If You Try Gene Allison 2:10
  3. Walkin' With Mr.Lee Lee Allen 2:28
  4. Don't Let Go Roy Hamilton 2:34
  5. Maybe The Chantels 2:52
  6. I'll Come Running Back To You Sam Cooke 2:15
  7. Good Golly Miss Molly Little Richard 2:13
  8. Get A Job The Silhouettes 2:48
  9. Talk To Me,talk To Me Little Willie John 2:44
  10. The Walk Jimmy Mccracklin 2:44
  11. Don't You Just Know It Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns 2:35
  12. Book Of Love The Monotones 2:22
  13. What Am I Living For Chuck Willis 2:28
  14. Do You Wanna Dance Bobby Freeman 2:36
  15. Johnny .B. Goode Chuck Berry 2:42
  16. One Summer Night The Danleers 2:14
  17. Willie And The Hand Jive The Johnny Otis Show 2:36
  18. Slow Down Larry Williams 2:46
  19. Yakety Yak The Coasters 1:55
  20. For Your Precious Love Jerry Butler & The Impressions 2:47
  21. Rockin' Robin Bobby Darin 2:37
  22. Itchy Twitchy Feeling Bobby Hendrix 2:31
  23. You Cheated The Shields 2:27
  24. Western Movies The Olympics 2:24
  25. This Little Girls Gone Rockin Ruth Brown 1:48
  26. Tears On My Pillow The Imperials 2:19
  27. Nobody But You Dee Clark 2:26
  28. Lonely Teardrops Jackie Wilson 2:44
  29. Ten Commandments Of Love Harvey & The Moonglows 4:00
  30. A Lover's Question Clyde Mcphatter 2:34
  31. Whole Lotta Loving Fats Domino 1:38

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