VA - Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans /Rock-n-Roll/

[Roger11]

Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974

Release Date
Apr 2, 1996

Recording Date
1947-1974

Label
EMI

c/w covers & booklet
VBR ~ 200 kbp/s
app. 600 MB

The new king of the hill as far as retrospectives of early New Orleans R&B/rock go. This four-CD, 119-song box has hits by all of the major artists and hits and misses by most of the important minor ones as well. The standards for inclusion are flexible and reasonable: Although New Orleans residents usually carry the day, important records that were recorded in New Orleans by non-natives are also featured. Fats Domino, Little Richard, Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey, Smiley Lewis, Chris Kenner, Barbara George, Ernie K-Doe, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Lloyd Price, Aaron Neville, Professor Longhair, Shirley & Lee, and Dr. John are all here, as are one-shots and regional figures like the Showmen, Earl King, Benny Spellman, Dave Bartholomew, and the Spiders. There are plenty of hits, but also plenty of fine songs that most listeners won't be aware of: the original versions of "My Ding-A-Ling" (two of them!), "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday," and "One Night," for instance, which were covered for huge smashes by Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley. It's the best chunk of New Orleans rock/R&B in one place, with more than enough variety to make the lengthy set a pleasure all the way through.

This set has it all. If you want party music, silly, fun music, crying in your beer music. The lyrics are great and the music is just wonderful. You can hear Fats Domino before he hit it big. Also included are songs made bigger (but not necessarily better) by others. You can hear the original "I Hear You Knockin'" "One Night Of Sin" (later done by Elvis as "One Night With You") and "Let the Good Times Roll (by Nillson). The line-up is phenomenal- Dr. John, LaBelle, The Meters, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Do (Mother-In-Law), Smiley Lewis, Professor Longhair and many others. If you know that rock n' roll didn't start with Elvis and want to hear how it sounded before commercialism got a hold of it you need to listen to this. Do your ears a favor and buy this set and turn your friends on to it. They will thank you, and you don't even have to tell them where you heard about this great set.


Tracks:

Disk 1:

01. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans
02. Fats Domino - The Fat Man
03. Roy Brown - Mighty Mighty Man
04. Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy
05. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do
06. Spiders - I Don't Want to Do It
07. Sugar Boy Crawford - Jock-A-Mo
08. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
09. Little Richard - Tutti Fruitti
10. Fats Domino - Ain't That a Shame
11. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll
12. Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home
13. Roy Brown - Let the Four Winds Blow
14. Dave Bartholomew - The Monkey
15. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Don't You Just Know It
16. Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt. 1
17. Fats Domino - Walkin' to New Orleans
18. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-In-Law
19. Prince La La - She Put the Hurt on Me
20. Showmen - It Will Stand
21. Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That Pt. 1
22. Barbara George - I Know
23. Irma Thomas - It's Raining
24. Lee Dorsey - Workin' In the Coal Mine
25. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
26. Meters - Cissy Strut
27. Dr. John - Right Place Wrong Time
28. LaBelle - Marmalade

Disk 2:


01. Tommy Ridgley - Boogie Woogie Mama
02. Fats Domino - Detroit City Blues
03. Jewel King - 3 x 7 = 21
04. Dave Bartholomew - That's How You Got Killed Before
05. Smiley Lewis - Tee-Nah Nah
06. Archibald - Stack a Lee Part 2
07. Dave Bartholomew - Poppa Stoppa Theme Song
08. Joe Turner - Jumpin' Tonight
09. Dave Bartholomew - Ain't Gonna Do It
10. Fats Domino - Every Night About This Time
11. Archibald - Shake Shake Baby
12. Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie
13. Shirley & Lee - I'm Gone
14. Tommy Ridgley - Looped
15. Smiley Lewis - The Bells Are Ringing
16. Dave Bartholomew - Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear
17. Fats Domino - Goin' Home
18. Smiley Lewis - Lillie May
19. Archibald - Great Big Eyes
20. Dave Bartholomew - Little Girl Sing Ding a Ling
21. Clarence Roulet - Bon Ton Roulet
22. Lowell Fulson - You've Gotta Reap
23. Fats Domino - Goin' To The River
24. Bobby Mitchell - Baby's Gone
25. Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
26. Spiders - You're The One
27. Jesse Allen - Sittin' and Wonderin'
28. Smilin' Joe - ABC's Part 1
29. Smilin' Joe - ABC's Part 2
30. Bees - Toy Bell

Disk 3:


01. Spiders - I'm Slippin' In
02. Billy Tate - Single Life
03. Pee Wee Crayton - Runnin' Wild
04. Dave Bartholomew - Four Winds
05. Shirley & Lee - Feel So Good
06. We Willie Wayne - Travelin' Mood
07. Dave Bartholomew - Would You
08. Spiders - Witchcraft
09. Fats Domino - I'm In Love Again
10. Smiley Lewis - One Night
11. Bobby Mitchell - Try Rock'n Roll
12. Shirley Lewis - One Night
13. Smiley Lewis - Someday
14. Lee Allen - Rockin' at Cosmo's
15. Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
16. Charles Brown - Please Believe Me
17. Smiley Lewis - Shame, Shame, Shame
18. Chris Kenner - Sick and Tired
19. Johnny Fuller - Sister Jenny
20. Ruth & Al - I'll Be the Bee
21. Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
22. Faye Adams - Keeper of my Heart
23. Bobby Mitchell - I'll Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
24. Fats Domino - I Want to Walk You Home
25. Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo
26. Allen & Allen - Tiddle Winks
27. Aaron Neville - Over You
28. Jessie Hill - Whip It On Me
29. Ernie K-Doe - Hello My Lover
30. Bobby Charles - I Just Want You
31. Fats Domino - It Keeps Rainin'

Disk 4


01. Ernie K-Doe - Tain't It the Truth
02. Earl King - Come On
03. Allen & Allen - Heavenly Baby
04. Allen Orange - True Love Never Dies
05. Blazer Boy - New Orleans Twist
06. Irma Thomas - Cry On
07. Lee Diamond - It Won't Be Me
08. Aaron Neville - Let's Live
09. Del Royals - Grumblin' Fussin' Nag Nag
10. Ernie K-Doe - I Cried My Last Tear
11. The Showmen - Country Fool
12. Ernie K-Doe - Te-Ta Te-Ta Ta
13. Irma Thomas - I Done Got Over It
14. Jessie Hill - Oogsey Moo
15. Ernie K-Doe - A Certain Girl
16. The Showmen - Fate Planned It This Way
17. Tommy Taylor - I Want Somebody
18. The Senors - Searching for Olive
19. Daimond Joe - Help Yourself
20. Al Robinson - The Blues
21. Earl King - Always a First Time
22. Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
23. Calvin Lee - Valley of Tears
24. Earl King - Trick Bag
25. Benny Spellman - Every Now and Then
26. Eskew Reader - Never Again
27. Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces
28. Irma Thomas - Ruler of My Heart
29. The Showmen - 39-21-40 Shape
30. Irma Thomas - Take a Look



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