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Various Artists - Blowin The Fuse-1947 (1947)

Track listing:
  1. Let The Good Times Roll Louis Jordan 2:50
  2. Swanee River Boogie Albert Ammons 2:34
  3. Bobby Sox Blues T-Bone Walker 2:42
  4. Open The Door Richard Jack Mcvea 3:00
  5. Down The Road Apiece Amos Milburn 3:01
  6. I Want To Be Loved Savannah Churchill 2:55
  7. Old Maid Boogie Eddie Vinson 2:48
  8. Shake That Boogie Sonny Boy Williamson 2:49
  9. Blow Top Blues Lionel Hampton 3:22
  10. Time To Change Your Town Wynonie Harris 2:42
  11. Sally Zu-Zaz Big Joe Turner 2:57
  12. That's My Desire Hadda Brooks 2:46
  13. Signifying Monkey Big Three Trio 2:56
  14. That's All Right Arthur Crudup 2:57
  15. New Orlean's Blues Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 3:00
  16. True Blues Roy Milton 2:50
  17. Chicago Boogie Five Blazers 2:55
  18. Don't You Think I Ought To Know Bill Johnson 3:01
  19. Wb Blues Walter Brown 2:31
  20. He's A Real Gone Guy Nellie Lutcher 3:03
  21. Ol' Man River The Ravens 3:02
  22. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate Louis Jordan 2:48
  23. Snatch And Grab It Julia Lee 2:57
  24. Lollypop Mama Clarence Samuels 2:50
  25. Since I Fell For You Annie Laurie 2:57
  26. Big Legs Gene Phillips 3:00
  27. Guitar In My Hand Clarence Brown 2:39

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