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Tracklist

CD 1: Blues, Jazz, Swing & The Big Bands 1900-1945
CD 2: The Birth of R'n'b 1946-1953
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1That’s All Right
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup2:55
2Let the Good Times Roll
Louis Jordan2:48
3Chicken Shack Boogie
Amos Milburn2:51
4I Can’t Be Satisfied
recording of:
I Can’t Be Satisfied
lyricist and composer:
Muddy Waters (blues musician)
publisher:
Bug Music (music publishing) and Watertoons Music
Muddy Waters2:43
5Good Rockin’ TonightRoy Brown with Bob Ogden & Orchestra2:59
6Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air
Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight2:29
7We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll
Wild Bill Moore Sextet2:38
8Boogie Chillen’
John Lee Hooker3:09
9All She Wants to Do Is Rock
baritone saxophone:
Bill McLemore (Saxophonist) (on 1949-04-13)
double bass:
Gene Ramey (on 1949-04-13)
drums (drum set):
Kelly Martin (US jazz drummer) (on 1949-04-13)
piano:
Elmo Hope (on 1949-04-13)
tenor saxophone:
Freddie Douglas (on 1949-04-13) and Johnny Griffin (on 1949-04-13)
trombone:
Matthew Gee (jazz trombonist) (on 1949-04-13)
trumpet:
Joe Morris (US jazz trumpeter) (on 1949-04-13)
vocals:
Wynonie Harris (R&B singer, known as “Mr. Blues”) (on 1949-04-13)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Proper Records Ltd. (company credits only; do NOT use as release label)
recording of:
All She Wants to Do Is Rock (on 1949-04-13)
writer:
Wynonie Harris (R&B singer, known as “Mr. Blues”) and Teddy McRae
Wynonie Harris2:33
10The Fat Man
recording of:
The Fat Man (on 1949-12-10)
lyricist and composer:
Antoine Dominique Domino and Dave Bartholomew
Fats Domino42:37
11Every Day I Have the Blues
Lowell Fulson2:31
12Please Send Me Someone to Love
recording of:
Please Send Me Someone to Love
lyricist and composer:
Percy Mayfield (until 1950)
publisher:
ATV Music
Percy Mayfield2:55
13Black Night
Charles Brown3:06
14Flamingo
cover recording of:
Flamingo
lyricist:
Edmund Anderson
composer:
Ted Grouya
Earl Bostic2:42
15Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
alto saxophone:
Joseph Harris (on 1952-03-13)
double bass [bass]:
Frank Fields (on 1952-03-13)
drums (drum set) [drums]:
Earl Palmer (on 1952-03-13)
guitar:
Ernest McLean (on 1952-03-13)
piano:
Fats Domino (on 1952-03-13)
tenor saxophone:
Herb Hardesty (on 1952-03-13)
trumpet:
Dave Bartholomew (on 1952-03-13)
lead vocals:
Lloyd Price (on 1952-03-13)
conductor:
Dave Bartholomew (on 1952-03-13)
recorded at:
J&M Record Shop in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States (on 1952-03-13)
recording of:
Lawdy Miss Clawdy (on 1952-03-13)
lyricist and composer:
Lloyd Price (in 1952-03)
writer:
Lloyd Price
publisher:
ATV Music, Carlin Music Corporation, Sony/ATV Songs LLC and Venice Music
Lloyd Price2:33
16One Mint Julip
The Clovers2:29
17Honey Hush
Big Joe Turner2:43
18Hound Dog
recorded in:
Los Angeles, California, United States (on 1952-08-12)
producer:
Johnny Otis
double bass [bass]:
Albert Winston (R&B bassist) (on 1952-08-12)
drums (drum set):
Leard Bell (R&B drummer) (on 1952-08-12)
guitar:
Pete Lewis (R&B guitarist) (on 1952-08-12)
piano:
Devonia Williams (US R&B pianist/singer) (on 1952-08-12)
vibraphone [vibes]:
Johnny Otis (on 1952-08-12)
vocals:
Big Mama Thornton (on 1952-08-12)
orchestra:
Johnny Otis & His Orchestra
part of:
Blues Hall of Fame: Classic of Blues Recording Single (number: 2006)
recording of:
Hound Dog (on 1952-08-13)
lyricist:
Jerry Leiber (on 1952-08-12)
composer:
Mike Stoller (on 1952-08-12)
previously attributed to:
Johnny Otis
publisher:
Chappell Morris Ltd., Cherry Lane Music, Cherry Lane Music Publishing, Elvis Presley Music, Gladys Music, Lion Publishing Co., MCA Music Inc. (US-based music publishers), MCA Music Ltd., MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group), Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Universal/MCA Music (music publisher; do not use as release label!), Williamson Music Company and Williamson Music, Inc.
Big Mama Thornton4.652:52
19Money Honey
Clyde McPhatter2:58
20Dust My Broom
recording of:
Dust My Broom
additional lyricist and additional composer:
Robert Johnson (1930s blues legend)
lyricist and composer:
Elmore James
publisher:
Flair Publishing and MPCA King of Spades
version of:
I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom
Elmore James3:01
21Smokestack Lightnin’
recording of:
Smokestack Lightning
lyricist and composer:
Chester Arthur Burnett
publisher:
Arc Music (U.S. rock & blues publisher)
Howlin’ Wolf3:05
22Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
cover recording of:
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Seven Lively Arts musical revue)
lyricist and composer:
Cole Porter (composer) (in 1944)
publisher:
Chappell & Co Ltd., Chappell & Co., Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), Chappell Music Co. Inc. and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
Ella Fitzgerald3:36
23Crying in the Chapel
cover recording of:
Crying in the Chapel (on 1953-06-30)
lyricist and composer:
Artie Glenn (in 1953)
publisher:
Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA), Chappell Morris Ltd., Hill & Range Songs, Inc. and Mijac Music
The Orioles3:04
24Teardrops in My Eyes
Ruth Brown3:00
25Manhattan
cover recording of:
Manhattan
lyricist:
Lorenz Hart (in 1925)
composer:
Richard Rodgers (composer) (in 1925)
publisher:
Edward B. Marks Music Co. (founded originally as J. Stern & Co. in 1894, renamed in 1919), Piedmont Music Company and Williamson Music Company
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
Ella Fitzgerald2:53
CD 3: The Rock'n'Roll Years 1945-1962
CD 4: Classic Soul, Part 1 1963-1966
CD 5: Classic Soul, Part 2 1967-1970
CD 6: Nu Wave Soul 1971-1974
CD 7: Disco Inferno 1975-1979
CD 8: Black Pop & Hip Hop Culture, Part 1 1980-1983
CD 9: Black Pop & Hip Hop Culture, Part 2 1984-1991
CD 10: Urban Explosion 1992-1999