- The Chill Is On Big Joe Turner 2:48
- It Ain't Meat The Swallows 2:36
- 3 O' Clock Blues B.B. King 3:04
- Got You On My Mind John Greer 2:42
- Booted Roscoe Gordon 3:08
- Weepin And Cryin' The Griffin Brothers Orchestra 3:24
- Dust My Broom Elmore James 2:48
- Lovin Machine Wynonie Harris 2:30
- Hard Times Charles Brown 3:06
- Wheel Of Fortune Dinah Washington 2:17
- Baby,please Don't Go The Orioles 2:25
- The Train Kept A-Rollin Tiny Bradshaw 2:48
- Goin' Home Fats Domino 2:13
- One Mint Julep The Clovers 2:29
- I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use Lester Williams 2:15
- Night Train Jimmy Forrest 3:02
- I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tonks Marie Adams 2:44
- Have Mercy Baby The Dominoes 2:25
- So Tired Roy Milton 3:14
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy Lloyd Price 2:34
- 5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown 3:15
- Mary Jo The Four Blazes 2:37
- My Song Johnny Ace 3:03
- The Bells Are Ringing Smiley Lewis 2:28
- Easy,easy Baby Varetta Dillard 2:40
- Juke Little Walter 2:47
- Goodbye Baby Little Caesar 2:31
- I Don't Know Willie Mabon 3:10
- Rock Me All Night Long The Ravens 2:44
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