- Information Blues Roy Milton 2:44
- Sittin On It All The Time Wynonie Harris 2:40
- I Almost Lost My Mind Ivory Joe Hunter 3:12
- Rag Mop Doc Sausage 2:42
- The Fat Man Fats Domino 2:39
- Double Crossing Blues Johnny Otis 2:49
- Hoot And Holler Saturday Night Eddie Mack 2:54
- Mardi Gras In New Orleans Professor Longhair 2:54
- 3 X 7=21 Jewel King 2:37
- Why Do Things Happen To Me Roy Hawkins 3:00
- Pink Champagne Joe Liggins 3:03
- Strollin With Bones T-Bone Walker 2:30
- Well Oh Well Tiny Bradshaw 2:42
- Still In The Dark Big Joe Turner 2:50
- Stack-A-Lee Archibald 2:14
- Come On Let's Boogie Goree Carter 3:03
- Safronia B Calvin Boze 2:24
- Count Every Star The Ravens 2:56
- Blue Shadows Lowell Fulson 2:48
- Blue Light Boogie,part 1 & 2 Louis Jordan 5:12
- Love Don't Love Nobody Roy Brown 2:45
- Anytime,anyplace,anywhere Joe Morris 3:04
- Shotgun Blues Lightning Hopkins 2:41
- Teardrops From My Eyes Ruth Brown 3:00
- Boogie Rambler Clarence Brown 2:52
- Please Send Me Someone To Love Percy Mayfield 2:56
- Oh, Babe Jimmy Preston 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