Larry Bright - Mojo Workout

Uptempo R&B guitar rocker from 1960.

Julian Ferebree Bright
Born 17 August 1934, Norfolk, Viginia
Died 17 December 2003, Placer, California

Larry Bright - Mojo Workout

Rhoda Scott - I-Yi-Yi-Yi Pt.1 & Pt. 2

Great ripping R&B rockers that move and kick much ass. Great lo-fi live sound. Groovy.

Rhoda Scott - I-Yi-Yi-Yi Pt. 1

Rhoda Scott I-Yi-Yi-Yi Pt. 2

Ruth Brown And Her Rhythmakers - As Long As I'm Moving

Ruth Brown - As Long As I'm Moving

Abie "Available" Baker - The Web

Abie "Available" Baker - The Web

The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies - Salty Sam

The Marvelos - She Told Me Lies

The Marvelos - Salty Sam

Jimmy Sweeney - What'cha Gonna Do About Me

Rollin' & Rockin' R&B number from Jimmy Sweeney (AKA Jimmy Bell) on the Buckley Records label from 1962.

Jimmy Sweeney - What'cha Gonna Do About Me

D.D. (Foots) Ford - D.D.'s Bounce Part One & Part Two

Cool rockin' R&B instrumental from 1961 on the Glow-Hill Records label. Don't know shit about old D.D. (Foots) Ford but a quick search of the nets sees this 45 getting lots of action. I got nothing else..... Oh yeah, I've combined the sides for your listening pleasure, because, well, we all need all the bounce we can get.

D.D. (Foots) Ford - D.D.'s Bounce Part One & Part Two

Marvin & Johnny - Ding Dong Baby

She's a fatty, she's a'round. Weighs 500 pounds. She's my lover, lover, lover, lover every ounch and every pound.....

1955 must have been a more forgiving time.... Killer R&B rocker from Marvin & Johnny and the great specailty label from 1955.

Somebody needs to compile all the songs about ugly & fat girls...

I need more coffee.....

Marvin & Johnny - Ding Dong Baby

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

She got hair on her face, built like a Missouri mule.... And i love her yes i do....

The Gems - Monkey Faced Baby

The Hearts - Oo-Wee

Just picked this up @ the flea market. Great rockin' doo-wop/R&B by the hearts from 1955, who happen to be one of the very 1st "girl groups". I lifted the below from the web. Click the read more Here: link to read the whole deal on The Hearts.

The Hearts was a group formed in New York City in the early fifties.They were one of the very first "girl groups" that had success in the R & B field. Zell Sanders was a budding recording industry entrepreneur bucking the system as a female in a male dominated world. The Hearts consisted of Hazel Crutchfield, Forestine Barnes, Louise Harris, Joyce West, and pianist and male member Rex Garvin. Finding a label to record the group was not easy but soon Sanders had made contact with a small local label named Baton Records and its neophyte president Sol Rabinowitz. He liked what he heard and in the first few days of 1955 "Lonely Nights" and "Oo-Wee" was released on Baton # 208...

Read More HERE:

The Hearts - Oo-Wee

Billy Farrell - Slippin' And Slidin'

Hit the flea market late today and managed to score this little rocker from 1956 for a buck... just thought i'd share. Cheers!

Billy Farrell - Slippin' And Slidin'

Sticks McGee - Doin All This Time / Mel Walker - Call Operator 210 / Blenders - Please Take Me Back / Wynonie Harris - Rose Get Your Clothes

Great 4 song EP of rare early R&B tunes. I'm pretty sure these tunes were only originally available of 78's and then this EP was bootlegged sometime in the 50's or early 60's to share the wealth. Maybe if he is still around THE HOUND can shed some light on this subject?

What little i know about each performer is this: Sticks McGee or Stick McGhee was younger brother of Brownie McGhee. Mel Walker was born Melvin Lightsey in 1929. Walker was jailed on narcotics charges in the early 1950s and is reported to have died young. The Blenders I think were a west coast group that somehow had ties to groups like the Jacks and Cadets...? Or Am i Just making this up? & the most famous of the 4 Wynonie Harris, Born 24 August 1915, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Died: 14 June 1969, Los Angeles, USA.

American rhythm & blues vocalist with a hot-n'-raunchy rock and roll style and dance skills. Harris really began his career touring with Lucky Millinder's band, eventually cutting his first recording with them in May 1944. After quitting the band he signed up to Leo & Edward Mesner's "Philo" label in the spring of 1945, with Johnny Otis leading his line-up.

He recorded on further labels, gaining popular success on the King label in the late '40s. By the mid '60s he was recording on Chess and performing with artists such as T-Bone Walker and Big Mama Thornton.

Harris died of throat-cancer, aged 53. His work has subsequently been honored by inductions into several 'Halls of Fame', including the Blues Hall of Fame, Memphis, Tennessee.


Sticks McGee - Doin All This Time

Mel Walker - Call Operator 210

Blenders - Please Take Me Back

Wynonie Harris - Rose Get Your Clothes

Dandevilles - Nasty Breaks

Nasty Breaks.... Something most of us know all too well. Great uptempo R&B / Doo Wop classic in The Coasters style. 1959.

Dandevilles - Nasty Breaks

The Ray-O-Vacs - Party Time

Ripping early R&B Rocker. Man it's hard to beleive this is from 1955/56 because it rips so hard. Great guitar and just an killer uptempo groove. When these guys say "It's Party Time!" They mean it! I would have loved to party with these dudes... Plus they named themselves after an old battery company. Killer. Looks like they were from New York.

a bit more info HERE: Also a good blog peice on them HERE: @ Be Bop Wino:

The Ray-O-Vacs - Party Time

Kenneth Deal - Go Go Jumbo

Soulful R&B jam from Kenneth Deal on the Peacock records label. I think this is from 1958? Great voice, some weird flute? and whats that banging on metal? Don't forget the sax...

Kenneth Deal - Go Go Jumbo

The Upsetters - Rolling On

A little rolling rocker from the The Upsetters, who were at one time the backing band for Little Richard. This cut is from 1960 on the Gee label. I've read that Jimi Hendrix was a one time member of this group as well? Any info on that would be great.

The Upsetters - Rolling On

Gus Jenkins And Orchestra - Slow Down

Big Rockin' R&B stomper w/ great guitar by Mr. Gus Jenkins And Orchestra doing Slow Down from 1958.

Awesome.

b. 24 March 1931, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, d. December 1985, Los Angeles, USA. Like many of his generation, Jenkins drew his influences from 40s blues and spent much of his mature career adapting to the demands of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B. As his earliest recordings for Chess and Specialty show, Jenkins, like Jimmy McCracklin, modelled himself on St. Louis pianist Walter Davis. Both largely unissued sessions took place in 1953 and featured ‘Cold Love’ and ‘Mean And Evil’, which along with ‘Eight Ball’ and ‘I Ate The Wrong Part’, were based on Davis originals. Thereafter, Jenkins recorded extensively for Combo and Flash, before he started his own Pioneer label in 1959. Most of these recordings were piano or organ instrumentals with his or Mamie Perry’s vocals. He continued this policy through the early 60s with a series of singles on General Artists. Late in the decade, he converted to Islam and assumed the name Jaarone Pharoah.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gus-jenkins-mn0001688015

Gus Jenkins And Orchestra - Slow Down

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through) - John Fuzz

First post in a few weeks due to life being crazy and Hurricane Sandy.... Any way just gonna jump right into the music w/ this little funky R&B 45. This here sounds a bit like a little more funky version of "The Coasters" I could not find much about this 45 except from what i lifted below from the great "FUNKY VIRGINA" blog.

Enjoy.

"John Fuzz" is rockin' R'n'B that could be straight outta the early 60's. Opening with the theme from "Dragnet", "John Fuzz" lays out the misadventures of a sad sack cop who gets hit in the head with a mustard jar while trying to break up a domestic dispute, slips on a banana peel while walking his beat, and ends up in the hospital with a busted jaw after trying to recover a stolen car. Then in the final verse there's a slight change of heart as the cop's tormentors sort of take pity on the poor underpaid officer, a nice enough guy who never complains, even when he saved that kid stuck in a pipe. "He's alright!", they declare. Gee, thanks!

"John Fuzz" is more in line with the "novelty" tag applied to many of Guida's records. Apparently, Frank must have believed in this odd ball ditty on some level, because he waited another two years to re-release it (not an uncharacteristic move) as the debut of his New Faces '69 label. This time around "Fuzz" was preposterously credited to The Virginia's Employment Commission with the parenthetical tag "Hire Through". Is there any way the actual state agency known as the Virginia Employment Commission signed off on this? Seems unfathomable, but Mr. Guida could be very persuasive, and it was the late 60's.

The Virginia's Employment Commission (Hire Through)- John Fuzz

The Cadillacs - Broken Heart - My Girl Friend

Going in the way back time machine here w/ some R&B/Doo Wop from 1957 from The Cadillacs. I post another 45 by them HERE: a while back. To some people this style of music is a dead art form but i personally really dig it. And yes, i still still listen to Celtic Frost, Hellhammer & Discharge....

As for The Cadillacs, here is the wiki info:

The Cadillacs were an American rock and roll and doo-wop group from Harlem, New York; active from 1953 to 1962. The group was noted for their 1955 hit "Speedoo", which was instrumental in attracting White audiences to Black rock and roll performers.

The group came together as The Carnations in 1953, with members Earl Carroll (lead vocalist), Bobby Phillips, Lavern Drake (bass vocalist), and Gus Willingham. As the group moved into the recording studios, James "Poppa" Clark was added as a fifth member, and the name "The Cadillacs" was given to them. The group's first recording came in July 1954, with Josie Records #765, featuring Gloria and Wonder Why.
In 1955, Willingham and Clark left the group and were replaced by Earl Wade and Charles Brooks. At this time, the group first began to experiment with choreography, suggested by manager Esther Navarro. Later that year came the group's biggest hit, "Speedoo", Carroll's nickname. Lavern Drake left the group in 1956 and was replaced by J. R. Bailey.
In 1957, differences in opinion caused the group to split. One group was initially known as The Four Cadillacs, with current bass J. R. Bailey, former bass Lavern Drake, and new members Roland Martinez and Bobby Spencer. The previous year, Bobby Spencer had written the "My Boy Lollipop" pop song shuffle for Barbie Gaye, which was played by Alan Freed and secured Barbie Gaye a spot in his 1956 Christmas Show opening for Little Richard. In 1964, an Ernest Ranglin produced ska version of the she song became a multi-million seller for Jamaican teenager Millie Small and made producer Chris Blackwell rich, leading to further development of his Island Records label.
The other four current members - Carroll, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips - continued recording separately, later as Earl Carroll and the Cadillacs. Bailey's group also included former group saxophonist Jesse "Tex" Powell, and recorded in early 1958 as Jesse Powell and the Caddys. Both groups recorded simultaneously on Josie Records. Later in 1958, the groups combined back into one. Carroll's backup vocalists, Wade, Brooks, and Phillips, all decided to retire and Carroll joined Bailey, Drake, Martinez and Spencer. Carroll's lead spot had been given to Spencer and Bailey, and he left shortly thereafter, creating a new group, Speedo and the Pearls, which recorded briefly in 1959. In 1959, the Cadillacs are also featured in the movie Go Johnny, Go
The group split and re-formed in 1960, with Carroll, Martinez, Kirk Davis, and bass Ronnie Bright. Later the group was Carroll, Martinez, the returning Bobby Spencer, Milton Love, and Reggie Barnes. Martinez, Love and Barnes were all members of The Solitares at one time.
In 1961, the group began to resemble The Coasters in their music. The lineup shifted again, now with Carroll, Martinez, Curtis Williams, Ray Brewster, and Irving Lee Gail. Carroll was out by 1963 to enter the group they'd been emulating, The Coasters, with Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, and former Cadillac Ronnie Bright. 1963 also ended the group's run on Josie Records.
Brewster and Martinez brought in former members Bobby Spencer and J. R. Bailey and continued to record through 1963. The group split, with Bailey joining the Jive Five. Brewster brought in former Cadillac/Solitare Milton Love with Solitares Bobby Baylor and Fred Barksdale. This group recorded briefly in 1964. Spencer became lead vocalist, with Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion) as backing vocalist, for Crazy Elephant, a bubblegum music group, in 1969.
The Cadillacs were back in 1970 with J. R. Bailey, Bobby Spencer, original member Bobby Phillips (who had retired from Speedo's group during the split), and new member Leroy Binns, of The Charts. Steven Brown later replaced Phillips. Teddy Pendergrass came on as the groups drummer. The group split into the mid 1970s and some members joined Herold Melvin and the Bluenotes, including Teddy Pendergrass as drummer. In 1979 Earl Carroll, Earl Wade, Bobby Phillips, and Johnny Brown came together for a Subaru commercial.

The Cadillacs - Broken Heart

The Cadillacs - My Girl Friend

The Rogues - Chilly Willy

Unknown Soul/R&B group acetate by The Rogues - Chilly Willy (Vocal by Norm) written by (Mike Stevens) 45 RPM Abtone Recording Studio 1733 Broadway N.Y., N.Y. 10019 LT 1-0960-1

I got this one with a bunch of other acetates i picked up a while back and can't find much about "The Rogues". Any help would be appreciated.... Sounds a bit like a more modern Coasters....

The Rogues - Chilly Willy