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Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD)

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Hank Ballard & The Midnighters: Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD)

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Ballard, Hank & The Midnighters - Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Work With Me Annie Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
02 Until I Die Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
03 Give It Up Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
04 That Woman Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
05 Sexy Ways Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
06 Don't Say Your Last Goodbye Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
07 Annie Had A Baby Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
08 She's The One Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
09 Annie's Aunt Fannie Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
10 Crazy Loving (Stay With Me) Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
11 Tell Them Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
12 Stingy Little Thing Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
13 Ashamed Of Myself Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
14 Ring, A, Ling, Ling Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
15 Why Are We Apart Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
16 Switchie Witchie Titchie Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
17 Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More) Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
18 Whatsoever You Do Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
19 It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day) Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
20 Looka Here Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
21 Give It Up Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
22 That Woman Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
23 Rock And Roll Wedding Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
24 That House On The Hill Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
25 Don't Change Your Pretty Ways Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
26 We'll Never Meet Again Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
27 Partners For Life Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
28 Sweet Mama, Do Right Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
29 Rock Granny Roll Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
30 Open Up The Back Door Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Ballard, Hank & The Midnighters - Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD) CD 2
01 Tore Up Over You Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
02 Early One Morning Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
03 I'll Be Home Some Day Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
04 Come On And Get It Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
05 Let Me Hold Your Hand Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
06 Oh Bah Baby Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
07 E Basta Cosi Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
08 In The Doorway Crying Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
09 Oh, So Happy Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
10 Is Your Love For Real Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
11 Let 'Em Roll Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
12 What Made You Change Your Mind Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
13 Stay By My Side Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
14 Daddy's Little Baby Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
15 Baby Please Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
16 Ow, Wow, Oo, Wee Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
17 Teardrops On Your Letter Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
18 The Twist Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
19 Kansas City Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
20 I'll Keep You Happy Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
21 Sugaree Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
22 Rain Down Tears Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
23 Cute Little Ways Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
24 A House With No Windows Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
25 I Could Love You Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
26 Never Knew Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
27 Look At Little Sister Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
28 I Said I Wouldn't Beg You Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
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"Hank Ballard & The Midnighters"

Hank Ballard & The Midnighters

Long before Motown officially put Detroit on the international musical map and humble little recording studios started popping up all over town in the mammoth wake of Hitsville U.S.A.'s unprecedented success, the Motor City could already lay claim to more than its share of street corner vocal groups, even if there weren't many local record labels to transfer their sweet harmonies onto wax during the 1950s. The modest imprints that did exist were mom-and-pop operations like Fortune Records, which released seminal mid-'50s vocal group sides by The Diablos, most notably their ethereal ballad The Wind.

Nolan Strong, the lead tenor of The Diablos, was one of Smokey Robinson's principal influences. Other local singers opted to idolize the modern jazz-inflected harmonies of The Four Tops, who were a force around town for nearly a decade before Motown managed to pin them down to a longterm contract. But for more than a few up-and-coming young aggregations, it didn't get any better than Hank Ballard and The Midnighters. They were the first Detroit R&B group to transcend their local standing to really make it big on a national basis, and Ballard was their chief source of material as well, composing nearly all of his group's hits and a great many more classics that didn't dent the charts.

"The Midnighters were The Temptations before The Temptations in Detroit," exclaims Joe Harris, a member of The Peps during the '60s and eventually handpicked by Motown producer Norman Whitfield to be lead singer of The Undisputed Truth. "I was really deciding that this was what I wanted to do when I was hanging around those guys, 'cause they always seemed like they were having a lot of fun."

Their impact wasn't limited to the Motor City. The Midnighters were the first professional vocal group young James Brown ever witnessed in person. He and Bobby Byrd were dazzled by their crowd-pleasing antics at the Greenville Textile Hall in Greenville, South Carolina, and they vowed one day soon they'd be onstage doing the very same thing.

Recording initially for the Federal subsidiary of Cincinnati-based King Records and later the parent imprint itself, The Midnighters were hitmakers from 1954 on, when their salacious Work With Me Annie crashed the peak of the R&B hit parade and was one of the most important rhythm and blues waxings of the year. Its inherent raunchiness precipitated corporate hand-wringing from coast to coast as uptight radio programmers banned the leering anthem from their lily-white airwaves. But that didn't deter teenagers of every hue from buying the platter, even if they had to hide it from their disapproving parents.

Ballard's piercing, slightly pinched lead tenor was quite invigorating and immediately identifiable. And not only were Hank and his Midnighters devastating on wax, concentrating primarily on blistering rockers and only occasionally slowing down for a blues-permeated ballad, they were relentless high-energy showmen, engaging in rowdy onstage routines that were as influential to their acolytes as their recordings. When it came to their raucous choreography, Hank readily deferred to his high-stepping mid-'50s group mates, tenor Henry Booth (a master at doing the splits who had started out with another Detroit group, The Serenaders), tenor/baritone Lawson Smith, and bass singer Ardra 'Sonny' Woods.

"We created dances on the stage for the songs. If it looked good and everybody liked it, and the three of us liked it, we'd keep it in. Because Hank didn't dance," says Norman Thrasher, who replaced Woods in 1957. "We all did the splits. We created the dances on how we would feel, 'cause each one of us would take an individual part on the stage doing 'The Twist' or doing 'Finger Poppin' Time' or doing 'Let's Go.' Then we had those comical outfits up under our clothes. I would have them big drawers on, them big bloomers on. And I'd jump off the stage, dance up the aisles, and pull 'em off and hit folks in the head with 'em!" Although King Records inevitably placed a solo photo of Hank on their album covers, this was a full-fledged vocal group whose shenanigans deeply impacted the next generation of Motor City vocal aggregations.

"We always had patterned our group after The Midnighters," says Joe Billingslea of The Contours, who gave Motown one of its first R&B chart-toppers in 1962 with their gritty Do You Love Me. The Contours' amazing acrobatics followed in the athletic footsteps of The Midnighters, and their first audition for Berry Gordy reflected the impact of their heroes on their repertoire. "We did 'Whole Lotta Woman,' 'Come On And Be Mine,' and another song, probably one of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' songs, because we were definitely Midnighters fans," says Billingslea. "We patterned our routines after The Midnighters."

"We had been on a show with those guys," says The Contours' Billy Hoggs. "They helped us out a few times when we did a show with them. We went backstage and talked to 'em, and asked them what did they think they could criticize us on that we need to improve. And they told us a few pointers. Anytime we were on a show with someone more adept, or more experienced in the field, we'd ask them suggestions. And then we would incorporate it."

Ballard wasn't even part of the group when they began recording, and they didn't start out as The Midnighters. Their genesis goes back to 1950, when original lead tenor Charles Sutton joined forces with three more denizens of Detroit's East Side--Booth, Woods, and baritone Freddie Pride (a close friend of Jackie Wilson's, who was part of their musical social circle along with future Four Tops lead Levi Stubbs)--to form The Royals. An early promotional blurb from King Records claimed they'd originally been known as The Four Falcons. Entranced by the beautiful harmonies of out-of-town hitmakers such as The Orioles, Five Keys, and Dominoes, they fashioned a repertoire heavy on ballads. Also part of their fledgling group was the more experienced Alonzo Tucker (probably born November 21, 1915), who would serve as one of their primary songwriters and arrangers and knew his way around a guitar. When Pride was drafted into the military, Lawson Smith took his place.

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Tracklist
Ballard, Hank & The Midnighters - Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Work With Me Annie
02 Until I Die
03 Give It Up
04 That Woman
05 Sexy Ways
06 Don't Say Your Last Goodbye
07 Annie Had A Baby
08 She's The One
09 Annie's Aunt Fannie
10 Crazy Loving (Stay With Me)
11 Tell Them
12 Stingy Little Thing
13 Ashamed Of Myself
14 Ring, A, Ling, Ling
15 Why Are We Apart
16 Switchie Witchie Titchie
17 Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More)
18 Whatsoever You Do
19 It's Love Baby (24 Hours A Day)
20 Looka Here
21 Give It Up
22 That Woman
23 Rock And Roll Wedding
24 That House On The Hill
25 Don't Change Your Pretty Ways
26 We'll Never Meet Again
27 Partners For Life
28 Sweet Mama, Do Right
29 Rock Granny Roll
30 Open Up The Back Door
Ballard, Hank & The Midnighters - Come On And Get It - Singles 1954-59 (2-CD) CD 2
01 Tore Up Over You
02 Early One Morning
03 I'll Be Home Some Day
04 Come On And Get It
05 Let Me Hold Your Hand
06 Oh Bah Baby
07 E Basta Cosi
08 In The Doorway Crying
09 Oh, So Happy
10 Is Your Love For Real
11 Let 'Em Roll
12 What Made You Change Your Mind
13 Stay By My Side
14 Daddy's Little Baby
15 Baby Please
16 Ow, Wow, Oo, Wee
17 Teardrops On Your Letter
18 The Twist
19 Kansas City
20 I'll Keep You Happy
21 Sugaree
22 Rain Down Tears
23 Cute Little Ways
24 A House With No Windows
25 I Could Love You
26 Never Knew
27 Look At Little Sister
28 I Said I Wouldn't Beg You