Mike Pedicin Quintet Jive Medicin (CD)

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(Bear Family Records) 32 tracks - 20 page booklet If you like that Haley sound, then you... more

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Mike Pedicin Quintet: Jive Medicin (CD)

(Bear Family Records) 32 tracks - 20 page booklet

If you like that Haley sound, then you really need to check out Mike Pedicin. Recorded for RCA between 1955 and 1957, these 32 songs are in the Vegas rock 'n' roll style. They include Mambo Rock, I'm Hip, The Hot Bacarolle, When The Cats Come Marching In, Hotter Than A Pistol, The Beat, Save Us Preacher Davis... etc. The set is rounded out with perhaps the first live rock 'n' roll recording from Detroit in 1955.

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Interpret: Mike Pedicin Quintet
Album titlle: Jive Medicin (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127157386
weight in Kg 0.115

Pedicin, Mike - Jive Medicin (CD) CD 1
01	Mambo Rock	Mike Pedicin Quintet
02	I Want To Hug You, Kiss You, Squezze You	Mike Pedicin Quintet
03	D-E-V-I-L	Mike Pedicin Quintet
04	Rock-A-Bye (vers. 1)	Mike Pedicin Quintet
05	I'm Hip	Mike Pedicin Quintet
06	The Large, Large House (vers. 1)	Mike Pedicin Quintet
07	Jackpot	Mike Pedicin Quintet
08	Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum	Mike Pedicin Quintet
09	The Hot Barcarolle	Mike Pedicin Quintet
10	You Gotta Go	Mike Pedicin Quintet
11	When The Cats Come Marching In	Mike Pedicin Quintet
12	The Banjo Rock	Mike Pedicin Quintet
13	The Large, Large House (vers. 2)	Mike Pedicin Quintet
14	Rock-A-Bye (vers. 2)	Mike Pedicin Quintet
15	Hotter Than A Pistol	Mike Pedicin Quintet
16	Teen Age Fairy Tales	Mike Pedicin Quintet
17	The Beat	Mike Pedicin Quintet
18	Save Us, Preacher Davis	Mike Pedicin Quintet
19	Close All the Doors	Mike Pedicin Quintet
20	TD's Boogie	Mike Pedicin Quintet
21	The Hucklebuck	Mike Pedicin Quintet
22	Calypso Rock	Mike Pedicin Quintet
23	Hi'Yo Silver	Mike Pedicin Quintet
24	Tiger Rag	Mike Pedicin Quintet
25	Ain't That A Shame	Mike Pedicin Quintet
26	Crazy Ball	Mike Pedicin Quintet
27	You Gotta Go!	Mike Pedicin Quintet
28	When The Cats Come Marching In	Mike Pedicin Quintet
29	I Want You To Be My Baby	Mike Pedicin Quintet
30	Night Train/Sweet Georgia Brown	Mike Pedicin Quintet
31	Rock-A-Bye	Mike Pedicin Quintet
32	Hotter Than A Pistol	Mike Pedicin Quintet

Mike Pedicin To those who live by chart statistics alone, Mike Pedicin had only two hits:... more

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"Mike Pedicin Quintet"

Mike Pedicin

To those who live by chart statistics alone, Mike Pedicin had only two hits: Large Large House, which hit #79 for one week in March 1956, and Shake A Hand which stuttered to #71 during its two week chart run in February 1958.

But there was more to Mike Pedicin than a mere three weeks on 'Billboard's' Hot 100. Coming of age in the era of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, he helped to develop a hybrid musical style which incorporated elements of swing and R&B and led directly to the commercial genesis of rock'n'roll. Some called it 'house-rock', a reference to the casino lounges of Las Vegas and Atlantic City where many of the earliest rock'n'roll combos prospered.

Bill Haley and his Comets formed the vanguard of the movement by revamping Louis Jordan's sound and using Jordan's producer. Any direct comparison with other house-rockers would strain the facts but there were several prime movers who gained reputations for staying power despite a lack of hit records.

The Treniers, a black band who gained their mass popularity on the New Jersey shore, especially Wildwood, were among the most important. Their handclapping, stomping, shouting blend of blues, swing and slapstick stepped out of Louis Jordan's slipstream and engendered a state of euphoria among clientelle who'd lost their shirts at the blackjack and roulette tables.

But most house-rocking bands were white and they stamped their Italian-American accents on a form of rock'n'roll radically different to the crazed rockabilly pulse of the rural South. The clubs and casino hotels of

Philadelphia and New Jersey played host to Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, the Tyrones, Don Haven and the Hi-Fis, Jimmy Cavello and his House Rockers (out of Syracuse, New York), the Playboys, Charlie Gracie and his Wildcats, the Esquire Boys (with Danny Cedrone who played the guitar solo in Rock Around The Clock), Billy Duke and his Dukes and Dave Appell and the Applejacks (whose pre-Cameo records were Haley-influenced).

Many of these musicians would have been perfectly at home in the rhythm section of a big band but the wartime economy had waned and big bands became economically unsupportable. Freed of the stiff restrictions imposed by large regimented sections, these bearers of the good news looked mainly towards looser forms of jazz and blues. "1 listened to WHAT and WDAS in Philly" Charlie Gracie recalled. "They had Joe Turner and B.B. King.

This is 1951 and only us kids knew who they were. My mother took me to see Bill Haley in 1952 when he and the Saddlemen were dressed up in cowboy suits but they'd added drums to a country band which was kinda unorthodox. 1 also bought Louis Prima and the Treniers but my own records (on Cadillac and 20th Century) retained the dying influence of the big bands.

For Mike Pedicin, nearly twenty years Gracie's senior, the influence of swing music was deep and inseparable. His greatest inspiration was Charlie Barnet, perhaps the jazziest of the white swing musicians, and he claims not to have heard any hillbilly music before making records of his own...

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