- Tweedlee Dee Lavern Baker 3:07
- Reconsider Baby Lowell Fulson 3:12
- Sincerely The Moonglows 3:13
- You Don't Have To Go Jimmy Reed 3:06
- The Wall Flower (Roll With Me Henry) Etta James & The Roots Band 3:00
- Earth Angel The Penguins 2:56
- I Got A Woman Ray Charles 2:56
- Ko Ko Mo Gene & Eunice 2:45
- Pledging My Love Johnny Ace 2:29
- My Babe Little Walter 2:42
- Flip, Flop And Fly Big Joe Turner 2:49
- What'cha Gonna Do Clyde Mcphatter 2:49
- Story Untold The Nutmegs 2:21
- Bo Diddley Bo Diddley 2:46
- Don't Be Angry Nappy Brown 2:25
- Why Don't You Write Me? The Jacks 2:51
- It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day) Earl Gaines 2:40
- Ain't It A Shame Fats Domino 2:29
- Feel So Godo Shirley & Lee 2:52
- Maybellene Chuck Berry 2:22
- I Hear You Knocking Smiley Lewis 2:35
- At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama) The El Dorados 2:39
- Don't Start Me To Talkin' Sonny Boy Williamson [Ii] 2:36
- Only You (And You Alone) The Platters 2:36
- When You Dance The Turbans 2:58
- Tutti Frutti Little Richard 2:26
- Hands Off Jay Mcshann Octet 2:48
- Smokey Joe's Café The Robins 2:46
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