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Track Listing
1. Good Rocking Tonight
2. Mighty, Mighty Man
3. Long About Midnight
4. Rockin' at Midnight
5. Boogie at Midnight
6. Butcher Pete (Part 1)
7. Butcher Pete (Part 2)
8. Hard Luck Blues
9. Cadillac Baby
10. Love Don't Love Nobody
11. Bar Room Blues
12. Beautician Blues
13. Big Town
14. Laughing But Crying
15. Gal From Kokomo
16. Ain't No Rocking No More
17. Black Diamond
18. Let the Four Winds Blow
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Roy Brown (vocals); Bill Jones, Louis Sargent, Bill Jennings, Justin Adams, Jimmy Davis (guitar); O'Neil Jerome (alto saxophone); Earl Barnes, Johnny Fontenette (tenor saxophones); Tony Moret, Wallace Davenport, Teddy Riley (trumpet); Clement Tervalone (trombone); Walter Daniels, Leroy "Batman" Rankins (piano); Percy Gabriel, Tommy Shelvin, Charles "Ike" Isaacs (bass); Robert Ogden, Frank Parker, Calvin Shields (drums).
Recorded between 1947 & 1957. Includes liner notes by Art Fein.
Since there's no such thing as the first rock record (any more than there is a real first romantic novel), Roy Brown's "Good Rockin' Tonight" can't really claim the honors. But there's no question that GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT put ideas in a lot of people's heads. A few years later, for example, the document provided Elvis Presley with something of a manifesto.
Brown came up in various gospel groups and later worked as a Bing Crosby imitator. This anthology of his work for King Records, cut between 1947 and 1955, shows the singer making a seamless transition between 40s jump blues (as personified by his contemporary and mentor Wynonie Harris), and 50s rock-and-roll of the Fats Domino/New Orleans variety, albeit with far more salacious lyrics. In fact, in songs like the title tune or "Butcher Pete," single entendres just don't get any better. GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT is a seminal, highly influential rock and roll platter.
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