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Roy Brown: Roy Brown - Rocks (CD)

1-CD Digipak with 36-page booklet, 30 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.
  • Roy Brown, one of the all-time greats of early rhythm 'n' blues and jointly responsible for the breakthrough success of rock and roll - ROCKS!
  • His Good Rocking Tonight from 1948 is regarded as an epitome of early rocking R&B and constitutes a cornerstone of R'n'R!
  • That rocker and 29 additional tunes in the most comprehensive CD series on Bear Family Records® are pure energy from a fantastic blues shouter!
  • The album features recordings from 1948-51 (DeLuxe), 1952-55 (King), 1956-58 (Imperial) and 1960 (Home of the Blues), including Rockin' At Midnight, Boogie At Midnight, Butcher Pete, Hurry Hurry Baby, Gal From Kokomo and Ain't No Rocking No More.
  • Carefully mastered and accompanied by a detailed biography of Bill Dahl in the illustrated 36-page booklet, this CD fits seamlessly into the series of great rockers in our ROCKS series!

Few figures in the history of postwar rhythm and blues played a larger role in the development of rock and roll than Roy Brown, even if he wasn’t able to cash in on his innovations. Brown’s Good Rocking Tonight was a clarion call to a tremendously exciting future when it broke through in 1948, even though Wynonie Harris’ cover stole away much of its chart thunder. 

Bear Family’s 30-track ‘Roy Brown Rocks’ pays loving tribute to this R&B pioneer, tracing the mighty blues shouter from his earliest days on the Braun brothers’ DeLuxe label, where he scored his biggest hits from 1948 through ‘51, through his sizzling 1952-55 sides for Syd Nathan’s King Records and then his brief 1956-58 career rebirth at Imperial Records, when New Orleans A&R man Dave Bartholomew updated the Louisiana native’s sound and got him back on the charts. 

1960’s Rocking All The Time for Ruben Cherry’s Home of The Blues label in Memphis summarizes Roy’s entire career; his DeLuxe sides Rockin’ At Midnight, Boogie At Midnight, and the incredibly graphic two-part Butcher Pete and the scalding King label jumps Hurry Hurry Baby, Gal From Kokomo, and Ain’t No Rocking No More spotlight an incredible singer boasting a sky-high church-trained tenor who rewrote all the rules behind the mic when it came to R&B vocalists, backed by a band he aptly christened The Mighty-Mighty Men. 

What’s more, his 1957 hit rendition of Let The Four Winds Blow stands as definitive. As long as we have Roy Brown’s priceless recordings to remember him by, the good rocking need never stop.

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  • Interpret: Roy Brown

  • Album titlle: Roy Brown - Rocks (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127177490

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Brown, Roy - Roy Brown - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01Saturday NightRoy Brown
02Butcher Pete -part IRoy Brown
03Rocking All The TimeRoy Brown
04I've Got The Last Laugh NowRoy Brown
05I'm Ready To PlayRoy Brown
06Good Rockin' ManRoy Brown
07Train Time BluesRoy Brown
08Good Rockin' TonightRoy Brown
09Gal From KokomoRoy Brown
10Mr. Hound Dog's In TownRoy Brown
11Riding HighRoy Brown
12Rocking At MidnightRoy Brown
13Let The Four Winds BlowRoy Brown
14Good Man BluesRoy Brown
15Cadillac BabyRoy Brown
16Hip Shakin' BabyRoy Brown
17Hurry Hurry Baby (alt. version)Roy Brown
18Rock-A-Bye BabyRoy Brown
19Shake 'em Up BabyRoy Brown
20Love Don't Love NobodyRoy Brown
21Boogie At MidnightRoy Brown
22Black DiamondRoy Brown
23We're Goin' Rockin' TonightRoy Brown
24Bar Room BluesRoy Brown
25Ain't Gonna Do ItRoy Brown
26Beautician BluesRoy Brown
27New RebeccaRoy Brown
28Letter From HomeRoy Brown
29Butcher Pete -part IIRoy Brown
30Ain't No Rockin' No MoreRoy Brown
Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men Mit seiner mächtigen Gesangsröhre und einer... more
"Roy Brown"

Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men

Mit seiner mächtigen Gesangsröhre und einer Band, die die Grundfeste jeder Kneipe erschüttern konnte, nahm Roy Brown den Aufstieg des Rock'n'Roll vorweg. Tatsächlich verbreitete er die Nachricht schon 1947 mit seinem epochalen Good Rocking Tonight, das er selbst geschrieben hatte und in New Orleans für DeLuxe aufnahm; allerdings war die Coverversion von Wynonie Harris der größere Hit. 

B.B. King, Bobby Bland und Jackie Wilson waren alle stark beeinflusst von Roys Gesang, dessen facettenreiche Koloratur-Höhenflüge ein direkter Vorläufer des Soulgesangs waren. Es scheint daher merkwürdig, dass Roys frühes Idol Bing Crosby war! Geboren am 10. September 1925 in New Orleans, trat Brown in Galveston, Texas, auf, als ihm die Idee zu Good Rocking Tonight kam. Er bot Harris den Song an, der ihn hochmütig ablehnte. Der Pianist Cecil Gant war mehr beeindruckt und kontaktierte Jules Braun von DeLuxe Records in Linden, New Jersey, in Browns Namen. Braun reiste nach New Orleans und hatte die Aufsicht, als Roy seinen Debüt-Klassiker in Cosimo Matassas aufstrebenden J&M-Studios aufnahm. Dann überlegte es sich Wynonie anders und coverte Good Rocking Tonight, was ihn an die Spitze der R&B-Charts brachte.

Dies war der Beginn einer unglaublichen Serie von Hits für Brown auf DeLuxe. Sein 'Long About Midnight war Ende 1948 die Nr. 1 der R&B-Charts; Boogie At Midnight schaffte 1949 fast die selbe Platzierung, und der durch Mark und Bein gehende Hard Luck Blues war 1950 sein zweiter Nr.-1-Erfolg. Love Don't Love Nobody stieg Ende 1950 bis auf Platz Nr. 2 der R&B-Charts; begleitet von seinen eigenen Mighty Mighty Men (Trompeter Wilbur Harden, Johnny Fontennette und Leroy 'Batman' Rankin an den Saxofonen, Pianist Edward Santineo, Bassist Ike Isaacs, Drummer Calvin Shields sowie der Gitarrist Edgar Blanchard aus New Orleans, der sich einfallsreich einbringt), ist es ein typischer, mitreißender Parforceritt des Künstlers. 

Brown wurde 1952 von King Records übernommen, doch seltsamerweise blieben danach die Erfolge aus, obwohl der Sänger in den nächsten drei Jahren einige seiner aufregendsten Rocker veröffentlichte. 1956 unterzeichnete Brown bei Imperial, wo er versuchte, mit dem Ansturm jener Musik klarzukommen, die er fast ein Jahrzehnt zuvor mutig vorausgesagt hatte. Roy konnte sich 1957 noch mit dem Song Let The Four Winds Blow des Produzenten Dave Bartholomew über einen Hit freuen, aber seine Erfolgstage waren gezählt. Er machte in den 60ern noch gelegentlich Aufnahmen und schaffte im folgenden Jahrzehnt so etwas wie ein Comeback, bevor ein Herzschlag das Leben dieses 'mighty, mighty man' am 25. Mai 1981 in seiner Wahlheimat Los Angeles beendete 

 

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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11 May 2024

TOP compilation!

A great selection of his 'King' and 'Imperial' output!

11 May 2024

Rocking All The Time

superb compilation

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Tracklist
Brown, Roy - Roy Brown - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Saturday Night
02 Butcher Pete -part I
03 Rocking All The Time
04 I've Got The Last Laugh Now
05 I'm Ready To Play
06 Good Rockin' Man
07 Train Time Blues
08 Good Rockin' Tonight
09 Gal From Kokomo
10 Mr. Hound Dog's In Town
11 Riding High
12 Rocking At Midnight
13 Let The Four Winds Blow
14 Good Man Blues
15 Cadillac Baby
16 Hip Shakin' Baby
17 Hurry Hurry Baby (alt. version)
18 Rock-A-Bye Baby
19 Shake 'em Up Baby
20 Love Don't Love Nobody
21 Boogie At Midnight
22 Black Diamond
23 We're Goin' Rockin' Tonight
24 Bar Room Blues
25 Ain't Gonna Do It
26 Beautician Blues
27 New Rebecca
28 Letter From Home
29 Butcher Pete -part II
30 Ain't No Rockin' No More