- I W0Nder Private Cecil Gant 2:45
- Somebody's Gotta Go Cootie Williams 2:58
- Sk Blues Big Joe Turner 3:04
- Tippin In Erskine Hawkins 3:24
- Strange Things Happening Every Day Sister Rosetta Tharpe 2:49
- Rock Me Mama Arthur Crudup 3:00
- V Day Stomp The Four Clefs 3:09
- Who Threw The Whisken In The Well Lucky Millinder 2:59
- Caldonia Louis Jordan 2:44
- Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night Five Red Caps 2:51
- That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch Buddy Johnson 3:10
- I Will Be Home Again Golden Gate Quartet 3:20
- The Honeydripper Joe Liggins 3:08
- Jimmy's Blues Count Basie 2:56
- Swingin The Boogie Hadda Brooks 3:19
- Sail On Boogie T-Bone Walker 2:43
- Things Have Changed Big Maceo 3:00
- Left A Good Deal In Mobile Herb Jeffries 3:06
- I Ain't Mad At You Pretty Baby Gatemouth Moore 2:56
- Blues At Sunrise Ivory Joe Hunter 3:18
- Baby Look At You Wynonie Harris 3:08
- Be-Baba-Leba Helen Humes 2:45
- Harlem Nocturne Johnny Otis 3:11
- Garfield Avenue Blues Jay Mcshann 3:06
- If It's Good Julia Lee 2:57
- Beulah's Boogie Lionel Hampton 3:07
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