Bobby Sheen - Anthology 1958-1975 At last a Bobby Sheen anthology! Comprising recordings that stretch from Sheen’s debut lead vocal via his Phil Spector period to his final single, this sweeping collection covers a variety of styles that range from doo wop and the Wall of Sound to Northern and Southern soul. The earliest tracks here were cut by Bobby as the lead vocalist of the Robins, the group he joined as a 16 year-old in 1958. The influence of Clyde McPhatter is very evident on these sides, especially ‘Live Wire Suzy’ (a Belgian popcorn favourite) and the group’s lively take on ‘The White Cliffs Of Dover’. By 1962 Sheen was working with Spector, initially on a one-off 45 for Liberty Records. Sharing lead vocal duties with Darlene Love, he reached the Top 10 later that year with ‘Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah’, released as by Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans on the producer’s Philles logo. He also contributed a soaring version of ‘The Bells Of St Mary’ to Spector’s classic “A Christmas Gift For You” LP. The McPhatter influence is still evident on ‘I Want You For My Sweetheart’ and ‘My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You’, released as a one-off single on the Dimension label in 1965. A contract with Capitol resulted in a handful of singles including the Northern Soul favourite ‘Dr Love’ (released in the UK in the now very collectable Capitol Discotheque ’66 series). This compilation also boasts two previously unissued Capitol sides: ‘Baby I’ll Come Right Away’ (the wonderful Ashford/Simpson song well-know to soul fans via Mary Love’s reading) and the slow blues ‘Don’t Pass Me By’. As the 60s came to a close, Bobby switched from his high tenor to a more contemporary lower register, cutting great tracks for Warner Bros in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with producers Clayton Ivey and Terry Woodford. His superb recordings of Philip Mitchell’s ‘Something New To Do’ (another Northern anthem) and ‘I May Not Be What You Want’ are among his best work. He sounds totally different again on ‘Don’t Make Me Do Wrong’. The Ivey/Woodford team also produced Bobby swansong single, issued on the Chelsea label in 1975. The performances collected here are proof that Bobby was a singer who deserved a much higher profile than he achieved. Despite his great looks, obvious talent and strong music business connections, he never registered a hit record in his own name. This CD redresses the balance and proves that all Bobby lacked was good luck. Years spent as a member of the Coasters kept him in work until his untimely death from pneumonia in November 2000. His son Charles has become the custodian of his father’s legacy and contributed the wonderful photographs that illustrate the CD’s accompanying booklet, which features an essay by Dennis Garvey built around exclusive interviews with many of Bobby’s friends and colleagues. By Simon White (Ace Records)	Ace Records 2010	CD	17.00 €
Brook Benton - A Rockin' Good Way Vol. 1 - The Singer	El Toro Records 2012	CD	17.00 €
Brook Benton - A Rockin' Good Way Vol. 2 -The Songwriter	El Toro Records 2012	CD	17.00 €
Brook Benton - Silky Soul Balladeer 10 tracks	Allegro Corporation 2006	CD	10.00 €
Brother Bones & his Shadows - Globetrottin' With Bones 17 biisiä	Acrobat Music 2005	CD	13.00 €
Bubber Johnson - Come Home 8 biisin MCD	King Records 1994	CD	10.00 €
Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - Walk 'Em : The Decca Sessions	Ace Records 1996	CD	18.00 €
Buddy Johnson feat Ella Johnson - Jukebox Hits 1940-51 21 biisiä	Acrobat 2003	CD	12.00 €
Bullmoose Jackson - Bad Man Jackson 26 tracks. digisleeve	Proper 2004	CD	10.00 €
Bullmoose Jackson - Chronological 1950-53 22 biisiä	Classics 2005	CD	15.00 €
Cadets/The Jacks - Stranded In The Jungle One group - two names and a hell of a first compilation from the premier west coast doo wop group, who cut for Modern & RPM in the late 50s.	Ace Records 1994	CD	17.00 €
Cadillacs - Rock Starting out as a street-corner harmony group on 131st Street in New York, the Cadillacs quickly discovered the teenage market and created wild, up-tempo jump tunes. Named for the car that everyone wanted, they made the music everyone wanted. This compilation includes one of the all-time greatest vocal group hits, 'Speedoo'. Still one of the songs that defines the Fifties! The Cadillacs made many records over ten years. Now all the finest recordings are gathered in one place in 'original master' sound quality. Fabulous rare photos from the golden era and a full length biography. This is the definitive Cadillacs package with everything that fans need to hear' and nothing they don't. 'Speedoo', 'Shock-A-Doo', and 'Zoom Boom Zing'. No gimmicks, no tricks. Just the best of the best ' the group that showed us how to rock. Now in crystal-clear sound from the original masters.	Bear Family 2008	CD	18.00 €
Cadillacs - Zoom - The Josie Singles A's & B's 1954-1959 2CD Jasmine is proud to present the fantastic rockin' Doo Wop and ballads from one of the greatest groups of the era, The Cadillacs! This is the first time that their A & B sides of all the groups singles have been collected together and features such classic cuts as 'Speedo' and 'Gloria'. Fans of Doo Wop and especially The Coasters will enjoy this selection of witty songs from this fantastic vocal group.	Jasmine Records 2010	CD	13.00 €
Calvin Boze - Complete Recordings 1945-1952 28 biisiä	Blue Moon 1997	CD	15.00 €
Cats & The Fiddle - Start Jive Talkin' - Complete Recordings Vol. 3. 1947-1950 20 biisiä vuosilta 1947-1950	Deejay 2000	CD	15.00 €
Cecil Gant - Cecil Gant 21 biisiä	Flyright Records 1997	CD	18.00 €
Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazer's - Drifting And Dreaming	Ace Records 1996	CD	18.00 €
Checkers - Checkmate - The Complete King Recordings 1952-55 26 tracks	Ace Records 2005	CD	18.00 €
Chordettes - Fabulous Chordettes 12 tracks	Ace Records 1991	CD	12.00 €
Christine Kittrell - Call Her Name - Complete Recordings 19551-1965 A forgotten R&B legend reborn on Bear Family! This comprehensive CD collection contains: All 15 songs originally issued on the Tennessee and Republic labels, including one with Little Richard backing her! Plus five unissued alternative takes of Republic titles.All eight songs issued by Champion, Vee-Jay, and Federal, and one unissued Vee-Jay song. One song issued pseudonymously on Hit Records and Spar Records. All sourced from master tapes wherever possible. Rare photographs and memorabilia. And a 40-page booklet by Martin Hawkins based on original interviews with Christine Kittrell, her producers, and backing musicians.Christine Kittrell made some of the best R&B of the 1950s and '60s without ever becoming a household name. She was the leading nightclub vocalist on the rocking Nashville scene in the late 1940s and '50s. A marvellous singer - far more versatile than most of her contemporaries - Christine worked with Joe Turner, Fats Domino, Memphis Slim, Little Walter, Johnny Otis and even Count Basie. Her relatively few recordings, mainly on unfashionable labels, possessed rare expressiveness that could elevate a mundane song into something exceptional. She sang late night mood songs like Heartache Blues and Don-t Do It, and pounding rockers like Call His Name and Lord Have Mercy - where she is backed by Little Richard on piano and vocals. Her rerecording of Call His Name in the 60s, became a northern soul classic. She also recorded the original version of the anthemic I-m A Woman. Her biggest hit, Sittin- Here Drinking, featured one of her trademark spoken intros.--Nashville-born Kittrell settled in Columbus, Ohio where she became a matriarch of her local blues scene. She suffered a number of falls and illnesses, starting with mortar bomb injuries received on a singing tour during the war in Vietnam - she liked to say that she was the only blues singer wounded in action! She died in 2001. This 31-track CD collects together all 29 different songs Christine recorded in the 1950s and 1960s for the Tennessee, Republic, Champion, Vee-Jay, Hit/Spar and Federal labels.	Bear Family 2010	CD	18.00 €
Chuck Berry - On The Blues Side 21 tracks	Ace Records 1993	CD	17.00 €
Chuck Willis - Chuck Willis Wails! 2 CD The Complete Okeh Recordings, '51-56	Sundazed 2003	CD	29.00 €
Chuck Willis - The King Of The Stroll originally released 1958. Japanese pressing	Warner Music Japan 2012	CD	17.00 €
Clarence Gatemouth Brown - Dirty Work At The Crosroads 1947-1953	Acrobat Music 2006	CD	10.00 €
Claudine Clark - Ask The Girl Who Knows - The Best Of 1958-1969 Multi-talented singer from Philadelphia. This CD includes 24 tracks with some alternate takes, pseudonymous recordings and great previously unissued tracks.	Ace Records 2008	CD	17.00 €
Clifton Chenier - Zodico Blues And Boogie You say Zodico I say Zydeco, whichever way you say it, Clifton Chenier was the undisputed King & these 1955 Specialty sides go a long way to proving it. To this day, Clifton Chenier is probably the best known name in zydeco music. Much of this recognition was fuelled by Clifton being championed as the first major star after the rediscovery of the music in the early '60s (perhaps discovery would be a better word as most American and European listeners had never heard sounds like these before). Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records began issuing albums by Clifton in 1964 and it was his involvement that led to around a dozen new albums of Chenier being recorded plus a wealth of reissued cajun and zydeco archive material (dating from the 1920s through to the '50s) making it to microgroove. Clifton played festivals, his material was licensed to labels like Blue Thumb (Harvest in England) and he appeared in the Les Blank documentary Hot Pepper. Health problems beset him in the 70s and, following an operation to amputate his foot, he died on 12 December 1987. His distinctive blend of zydeco accordion tradition, Louisiana swamp blues rhythms and the latest (often Excello label) R&B hits made his zydeco brand of blues and boogie a potent brew and an influence on many that followed after him. Go to a gig by either Queen Ida or Rockin' Dopsie, for instance, and you are hearing Clifton's legacy writ large. Long before his 1964 (re)discovery, however, Clifton, then a regional performer of note, had cut sessions for Specialty. Three singles were released, Ay-Te Te Fee b/w Boppin The Rock, being a particular best seller and getting Clifton booked into a large R&B package show which included Etta James, Lowell Fulsom and Jimmy Reed. Most of the Specialty material remained on the shelf until 1971, when the Bayou Blues album appeared. For Zodico Blues & Boogie, Ray Topping has dug deep into the Specialty vaults and come up with not only a fuller appraisal of the artist's work for the label, but one more truthful to the sounds going down in the studio at the time. Many of the issued titles, including those on Bayou Blues had been doctored technologically by overdubbing and splicing intercuts. Zodico Blues & Boogie presents these sides for the first time without the sweeteners. Diamonds in the rough, as they were heard back in 1955. (Ace Records)	Ace Records 1992	CD	17.00 €
Clovers - Your Cash Ain't Nothing But Trash 28 tracks	Rev-Ola 2006	CD	17.00 €
Clyde McPhatter - Genius Of 27 tracks	Rev-Ola 2005	CD	17.00 €
Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters - Twice As Nice 1959-1961 2CD Founder of The Drifters and with a successful solo career, Clyde McPhatter was one of the most influential and consistently popular R&B artists of the pre-soul era. This superb 2CD set offers the four original albums: Let's Start All Over Again, Greatest Hits, May I Sing For You and Ta Ta all on one compilation for the first time. Features hit singles including: 'Ta Ta', 'I Told Myself a Lie', 'Let's Try Again'. There are also classic interpretations of American songbook standards including: 'Three Coins in a Fountain', 'Love is a Many Splendored Thing'. Clyde McPhatter was a force to be reckoned with and this is a perfect compilation for fans of him and R&B.	Jasmine Records 2012	CD	13.00 €
Clyde McPhatter with Billy Ward And His Dominoes - Clyde McPhatter with Billy Ward And His Dominoes 12 biisiä	King Records 1987	CD	15.00 €
Cookie And The Cupcakes - Kings Of Swamp Pop I suspect that during the golden age of swamp pop, which is often said to be from 1958 to 1963, few people in this country had heard of Cookie and the Cupcakes. I confess ignorance until the 70s when I bought their reissue LPs on the Jin label. Today, any aficionado will immediately quote Mathilda as the Cupcakes' outstanding offering. In his book "South To Louisiana", John Broven describes it thus: If swamp-pop has a signature tune, an anthem, it has to be the quintessential "Mathilda". Recorded for George Khoury's Lyric label and leased to Judd (owned by Judd Phillips of Memphis), the single climbed to #47 in the Billboard chart in early 1959. Mathilda would surely have gone higher with a bigger company behind it. Cookie's crying vocal was stunning. Billboard was right when it noted that "the cat has a sound and he belts it as tho' from the swamps" The Cupcakes' instrumental backing - baying saxes, tripleting piano, and swirling guitar over a wallowing beat - was just as majestic, while the song itself was memorably melodic. Even today, everybody accepts that if a local band plays Mathilda and nobody dances, the musicians may just as well pack up and go home. Johnnie Allan speaks of Cookie's great influence on other performers and of how Mathilda was played on all the radio stations, Cajun, country and western, rock'n'roll and R&B. Written around 1956, but not recorded until 1958 after being turned down by Eddie Shuler and Don Robey among others, it's this hit version that closes the CD and should not be confused with the 1962 remake which is also included. Starting as the Boogie Ramblers and with Huey 'Cookie' Thierry only recently joined, the Cupcakes signed for Eddie Shuler's Goldband label in July 1952 but for some reason the single Cindy Lou /Such As Love, with original member Shelton Dunaway on vocals, was not released until 1955. That historic offering is presented here. Cookie became joint leader with Shelton, sharing vocals and both playing tenor sax. Other members were Sidney 'Hot Rod' Reynaud, tenor sax-.-Marshall LeDee, guitar-.-Ernest Jacobs, piano-.-Joe 'Blue' Landry, bass guitar-.-and Ivory Jackson, drums. Around 1963 Little Alfred (Babino) joined the band after his success with Walking Down The Aisle which was recorded with the Berry Cups who were modelled on the Cupcakes. A slew of emotional swamp-pop classics appeared between 1959 and 1964, including Until Then, I've Been So Lonely, Even Though, the lively I Cried and the wonderful Belinda. Cover versions also appeared, adapted to the inimitable Cupcakes' style but usually faithful to the original, such as the traditional Betty & Dupree-.-Got You On My Mind, the Big John Greer R.&B hit from 1952-.-Ivory Joe Hunter's I Almost Lost My Mind-.-Jiving Gene's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do-.-Shirley and Lee's Feel So Good-.-Pat Philips' Sea Of Love-.-Joe Turner's Honey Hush-.-Chuck Willis' Charged With Cheating-.-and the Platters' The Great Pretender featuring Carol Fran. All tracks have been remastered to achieve the best possible sound and this is apparent in comparison with the 1990 Japanese P-Vine CD, the only other release in that format that I am aware of which makes available some of the 30 tracks included here. Shane K Bernard's booklet notes also tell the story of Cookie's disappearance from South Louisiana in the mid-60s (he moved to Los Angeles)-.-of the rumours of his disabilities or even death-.-and of his rediscovery by Cupcakes' pianist Ernest Jacobs in 1992. Disabled he was, but able to walk with the aid of a stick which is how he performed magnificently at the 1995 Blues Estafette in Utrecht, backed by the revived nine-piece Cupcakes who included Shelton Dunaway, Ernest Jacobs, 'Hot Rod' Reynaud, Little Alfred and Marshall LeDee. It was a memorable gig and this is a memorable CD. (Ace Records)	Ace Records 1997	CD	18.00 €
Damita Jo - I'll Save The Last Dance For You 23 tracks - with Brook Benton	Combo Records 1999	CD	9.90 €
Dave "Baby" Cortez - Happy Organs Wild Guitars & Piano Shuffles 25 tracks from 1959-1965. his "Clock" Recordings	Ace Records 2007	CD	18.00 €
Dave Appell & The Applejacks - Rock And Roll Story 31 biisiä	Sparkletone 1995	CD	18.00 €
Dave Bartholomew - In The Alley 20 tracks	King 2000	CD	15.00 €
Dean Barlow - The Solo Sides 26 tracks	Lescay	CD	18.00 €
Della Reese - The Best Thing For You 19 biisiä	Jasmine Records 1996	CD	13.00 €
Diamonds - Little Darlin' 25 tracks	Remember 1999	CD	10.00 €
Dinah Washington - Risque Blues as the title says.	Evergreen Records	CD	18.00 €
Dion - Deja Nu his studio-album from 2000	Ace Records 2000	CD	18.00 €
Don And Dewey - Jungle Hop 25 tracks Specialty recordings	Ace Records	CD	18.00 €
Don Gardner & Dee Ford - I Need Your Lovin' 25 biisiä	Relic Records	CD	17.00 €
Don Julian & The Meadowlarks - Heaven & Paradise	Ace Records	CD	18.00 €
Dreamers - They Sing Like Angels 20 biisiä tyttöyhtyeeltä vuosilta 1954-1963	Ace Records 2001	CD	18.00 €
Du Droppers - Boot Em Up 23 tracks	Acrobat Music 2005	CD	9.00 €
Earl Palmer - Backbeat 30 tracks from 1956-1960	Ace Records 1999	CD	17.00 €
Eartha Kitt - Fascinating	Hallmark Music 2009	CD	8.00 €
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Bald Headed Blues He had no hair, but blues fans don't care - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was revered as R&B royalty-on-record for nearly 45 years. His dual reputations as a first rank blues shouter (or should that perhaps be "blues squealer"!) and admired saxophonist remain intact nearly two decades after his passing, and this month it's Ace's pleasure to devote a whole CD to 26 of his most noteworthy recordings, from what is a (happily) extensive back catalogue. BALD HEADED BLUES marks the first time that all 25 of Vinson's King masters have been collected together in the same CD package - legally or otherwise. Added echo or stereo reprocessing has marred all previous vinyl issues of the earliest King sides. However, Ace's attention to detail gives you the chance to hear them as they sounded on the original 78s (with the exception of Eddie's Bounce and the previously unissued Sittin On It All The Time, which have been lifted straight from the once-believed-lost session acetate). All post-1950 sessions come to you straight from the original tapes. You can believe me when I tell you that they have never sounded so good as they do here. "Cleanhead"'s reputation was already in place when he signed to King in 1948, thanks to his lengthy spell with jazz giant Cootie Williams' Orchestra and some stellar Mercury sides, under his own name, that marked him out as a budding blues superstar. Even so, there's no question that his six King sessions, over the next three years, added considerable weight to that reputation. Indeed, with hindsight they might well be the sessions that best represent his near-50 year career. Their breadth of repertoire ranges from new explorations of his all-time classics Cherry Red and Kidney Stew - in Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red and Rice And Peas respectively - to the bootin' R&B of Good Bread Alley. The near-be bop instrumentals Eddie's Bounce and Jump And Grunt (the latter a showcase for the keyboard wizardy, and accompanying snorts, of the great Milt Buckner) offer a compelling counterpoint to the ghettoisms of Home Boy, surely the first recording to use this Ebonic term, more than three decades before it became indelibly a part of hip hop jargon. And talking of counterpoints, can there be any two more apposite poles of rhythm & blues than Vinson's earnestly-crooned version of the MOR standard Time After Time and the lascivious double-entendre diatribe that is the original version of Sittin' On It, later cut with great success by Vinson's King label-mate Wynonie Harris? All this and more is here for you to savour, including the first version of another instant blues standard Person To Person, heard here in two quite different takes. If this CD's not a "must have" for all R&B and blues fans, then I'd like to know what is. An all-encompassing Eddie Vinson King CD package has been a long time coming, but it's finally arrived and for that we should all be very grateful indeed. BALD HEADED BLUES is a first-rate documentation of the era when blues was evolving into R&B and, eventually, the music's upstart little brother rock'n'roll. Grab yourself a big bowlful of Rice And Peas and a bottle of Wineola, and take the Lonesome Train to Good Bread Alley 'cos it's time to Jump and Grunt with the King of Blues Squealing, Mr Eddie Vinson. TONY ROUNCE (ACE Records)	Ace Records 2003	CD	17.00 €
Eddie Cooley & The Dimples - Fever 27 tracks from 1956-61	Hydra Records 2006	CD	15.00 €
Eddie Holland - It Moves Me Many artists have fallen into the music business almost by accident, but few as accidentally as the subject of our latest Motown collection: Eddie Holland, who attended an audition with a pal just to keep him company, and ended up the one with a recording contract. And many have had a single hit, and after a few unsuccessful years have given up their recording careers to take up a position in some other part of the business, but few with such spectacular results as Eddie, who together with his brother Brian and Lamont Dozier formed Holland-Dozier-Holland, one of the most successful songwriting teams of the 1960s. Much has been written about Holland-Dozier-Holland’s songs and productions, but little about Eddie’s recording career, which spanned six years and resulted in 15 singles, one LP and a wealth of tracks hitherto unknown to the public. Our aim here is to present all of the records he cut from his 1958 debut through to 1964, when he withdrew from performing to concentrate on writing songs for the Supremes, Martha & the Vandellas, the Four Tops etc. Following an extensive trawl of the Motown mastertapes in New York last summer, we’ve included everything we were able to find that Eddie recorded for Mercury, United Artists, Motown and the tiny Kudo label, where he appeared under his brother’s name on a commercial for a brand of wine. The set contains 56 tracks; including 30 new to CD, 18 of which have never been released in any form before. The story of Eddie’s recording career is narrated in the bumper booklet by the man himself. Looking back, often with amazement and sometimes complete lack of recognition of some of the songs in this collection, he commented: “You know what is very clear to me? We were very, very fortunate to have a place where we could record that many pieces of product, and experiment that much, with somebody paying for it. That was like going to school, and somebody’s paying for your classes. That’s what Berry Gordy was doing. Can you imagine recording all those songs, learning your craft, and not even thinking about how much it was costing? I would say to you that Berry Gordy should be given an extraordinary amount of credit, because everybody was always criticising him. But you should pat him on the back and say, You know what? You made that possible.” Watch this space for more Ace/Motown releases in the not too distant future. By Keith Hughes (Ace Records)	Ace Records 2012	CD	17.00 €

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