On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:56:23 +0000, Dean wrote:
The latest ROOTS ROCK RADIO is archived until October 13th at the link
below. Here's the playlist:
1. HAND CLAPPIN’, Red Prysock
My favorite Prysock instrumental used several times as the opening theme
on Alan Freed's Saturday night Radio Luxembourg show
Here's how it sits in my all time fave instrumentals list
1. Green Onions Booker T. & The MG’s - 1962
2. Honky Tonk-Part 2 Bill Doggett - 1956
3. Raunchy Bill Justis - 1957
4. Hideaway Freddy King - 1961
5. Last Night Mar-Keys - 1961
6. Hand Clappin' Red Prysock - 1955
7. Juke Little Walter - 1952
8. Night Train Jimmy Forest – 1952
9. Peter Gunn Duane Eddy - 1959
10 Jam Up Tommy Ridgley - 1954
2. AT THE HOP, Danny & The Juniors
Originally recorded as "Do The Bop" by Johnny Madara & The Juvenaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKpKkyUu13g
5. THAT IS ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, The Coasters
MUCH the better side of the hit "Along Came Jones" single
7. I NEED A MAN, Barbara Pittman
Best ever female performance on the Sun label
8. RUBBER BISCUIT, The Chips
Used to great effect in one of my Scorcese faves "Mean Streets"
10. THE HAPPY ORGAN, Dave “Baby” Cortez
Sadly a huge instrumental hit everywhere except in my house.
I never warmed to it tho I really liked his later "Rinky Dink"
12. BLUEBERRY HILL, Fats Domino
Famous for the factory "glitch" on the UK London label single pressing
where everything slows down to near zero for that one split second
15. KANSAS CITY, Wilbert Harrison
I recall on my one and only visit to Kansas City in the 70's discovering
that there is no real "Twelfth street and Vine" - just a sign
commemorating where said corner once was
21. AGAIN, The Four Epics
An old standard (originally by our own Dame Vera Lynn) that has been a
fave with me ever since the Doris Day version and done best by a vocal
group IMO in the wonderful 1957 Universals version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yzT6mL1kAk
Sorry but I don't care for the Four Epics reading
25. WHO’S SORRY NOW, Connie Francis
Famously hurriedly cut in a spare few minutes at the end of what was
planned as the last MGM session for the then-hitless Concetta before the
label dropped her.
And then........
28. DOWN ON THE FARM, Big Al Downing
One of my best ever finds--for pennies---on a Sunday morning London
market stall was a 45rpm mint White Rock label copy of this pounder
31. BLACK CADILLAC, Joyce Green
Here's how Joycie sits in my 1959 Top Femmes list
1. Don't Mess With My Man Irma Thomas
2. Dedicated To The One I Love Shirelles
3. Broken Hearted Melody Sarah Vaughan
4. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes Dinah Washington
5. Let's Jump The Broomstick Brenda Lee
6. Black Cadillac Joyce Green
7. Sweet Nothins Brenda Lee
8. The Big Hurt Toni Fisher
9. Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me Billie Holiday
10. Unforgettable Dinah Washington
34. PINK PEDAL PUSHERS, Carl Perkins
One side of his debut Columbia single in 1958 but Carl famously cut a
couple of demos of the song for Sam Phillips at Sun a year earlier
38. BOPPIN’ HIGH SCHOOL BABY, Don Willis
This was the #1 want on the lists of countless rockabilly fans over here
before it was heavily booted in the early 70's. Amazingly it was white rockabilly on the Satellite label in Memphis (that eventually became the
very black Stax label)
39. CASTIN’ MY SPELL, The Johnny Otis Show
Here's the original version from 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwOfRQed9aQ
46. SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME, The Drifters
The Drifters first big hit on this side of the Atlantic spending no less
than SEVEN weeks at #2 in late 1960---kept off the #1 spot for the first
six weeks by Elvis and "It's Now Or Never" and then by Johnny Tillotson
and "Poetry In Motion"
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