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Various Artists - Blowin The Fuse-1960 (1960)

Track listing:
  1. Fannie Mae Buster Brown 2:58
  2. Handy Man Jimmy Jones 2:02
  3. Money Barrett Strong 2:35
  4. I'll Take Care Of You Bobby "Blue" Bland 2:18
  5. How About That Dee Clark 2:41
  6. Just A Little Bit Rosco Gordon 2:08
  7. Baby Dinah Washington 2:45
  8. Doggin' Around Jackie Wilson 2:47
  9. Baby,what You Want Me To Do Jimmy Reed 2:28
  10. Let The Little Girl Dance Billy Bland 2:21
  11. Don't Mess With My Man Irma Thomas 2:19
  12. I Love The Way You Love Marv Johnson 2:38
  13. All I Could Do Was Cry Etta James 2:56
  14. The Madison Time, Part 1 Ray Bryant Combo 3:08
  15. Think James Brown 2:48
  16. There Is Something On Your Mind Bobby Marchan 2:50
  17. Ooh Pah Pah Doo,part 1 Jessie Hill 2:19
  18. Heartbreak Jon Thomas And Orchestra 2:53
  19. Walking To New Orleans Fats Domino 2:01
  20. Spoonful Howlin Wolf 2:44
  21. Tonight's The Night The Shirelles 1:58
  22. A Million To One Jimmy Charles And The Revelettes 2:32
  23. I Want To Know Sugar Pie De Santo 3:03
  24. Let's Go,let's Go,let's Go Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 2:27
  25. He Will Break Your Heart Jerry Butler 2:48
  26. Kiddio Brook Benton 2:39
  27. A Fool In Love Ike And Tina Turner 2:53
  28. Stay Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs 1:36
  29. Save The Last Dance For Me The Drifters 2:29
  30. You Talk Too Much Joe Jones 2:36
  31. New Orleans Gary U.S. Bonds 2:48

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