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(ACE Records 30 tracks 1956-62 with 28 page booklet This is a low-key launch for what is a... more

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Various: The Golden Age Of American Rock & Roll Vol.11 (CD)

(ACE Records 30 tracks 1956-62 with 28 page booklet

This is a low-key launch for what is a big moment in the Ace schedules – the arrival of a new edition of the near legendary “Golden Age of American Rock’n’Roll”, a series which collectively tells the story in sound and vision (well words, actually) of the greatest moments in the chart history of early rock’n’roll.

We know from our mailbox that a great many of you are suffering from mild to serious withdrawal symptoms brought on by a lack of a regular “Golden Age” fix but one might argue that this has made the wait - or the suffering - even more worthwhile.

Weighed down by the burden of expectation, Trevor Churchill and I were so strict in maintaining our exacting criteria, that it has taken even longer than usual to prepare another volume.

One immediately notices the astonishing audio quality. Even if you already have a couple or more of the songs on other CDs, it is unlikely that you will have heard them sounding quite this good, a classic example being the opening tune, LaVern Baker’s Jim Dandy which thumps out of the speakers with age belying power.

As always, several tunes appear here on a legal CD for the first time, among them the intoxicating Miss Fine by the New Yorkers (actually the 5 Satins in disguise), Last Chance by Collay & the Satellites, White Bucks And Saddle Shoes by Bobby Pedrick Jr, Mathilda by Cookie & his Cupcakes, Chills And Fever by Ronnie Love and Bobby Comstock’s rather engaging take on Tennessee Waltz. We have gone to great lengths to track down master tapes where others would have long given up…

As a sidebar, we ought to mention that the version of Peanut Butter by the Marathons heard here is the Argo re-record rather than the more common Arvee version (a lawsuit meant that two marginally different versions of this hit were marketed at the same time). The Argo re-cut has never been issued on CD before and you’ll have fun trying to hear the difference. Co-compiler Trevor Churchill succeeded in pinning down the correct version only after painstakingly sifting through a confusing number of options with his usual algebraic precision. He noted “variations in the vocal inflections” while I detected “differences in the shimmying of the tambourine”. Well, blow me, can the rest of us now get on with our lives.

The accompanying booklet, bulging with anecdotes, historical facts and beautifying illustrations, feels reassuringly weighty. The cover is gorgeous. It’s business as usual.

Feast yourselves.

By Rob Finnis

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Interpret: Various
Album titlle: The Golden Age Of American Rock & Roll Vol.11 (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Ace Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0029667029322
weight in Kg 0.107

Various - The Golden Age Of American Rock & Roll Vol.11 (CD) CD 1
01	Jim Dandy	BAKER, Lavern & The Gliders
02	Ruby Baby	DION
03	White Bucks And Saddle Shoes	PEDRICK JR, Bobby
04	Transfusion	NERVOUS NORVUS
05	Lavender Blue	TURNER, Sammy
06	(You're The) Apple Of My Eye	FOUR LOVERs
07	Mathilda	COOKIE & His Cupcakes
08	Henrietta	DEE, Jimmy & The Offbeats
09	One Track Mind	LEWIS, Bobby
10	I Need Your Lovin'	TWITTY, Conway
11	Tennessee Waltz	COMSTOCK, Bobby & The Counts
12	Love Is Strange	MICKEY & SILVIA
13	Pretend	MANN, Carl
14	Drip Drop	DRIFTERS
15	Chills And Fever	LOVE, Ronnie
16	Let The Good Times Roll	SHIRLEY & LEE
17	Miss Fine	NEW YORKERS
18	I'm Stickin' With You	BOWEN, Jimmy & The Rhythm Or
19	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	JIVIN' GENE & The Jokers
20	Goodbye Baby	SCOTT, Jack
21	This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'	BROWN, Ruth
22	Last Chance	COLLAY & The Satellites
23	Record Hop Blues	QUARTER NOTES
24	Without Love (There Is Nothing)	McPHATTER, Clyde
25	Village Of Love	MAYER, Nathaniel & The Faboul
26	Fabulous	GRACIE, Charlie
27	Peanut Butter	MARATHONS
28	Smokey Joe's Cafe	ROBINS
29	Come On Over	STROLLERS
30	Finger Poppin' Time	BALLARD, Hank & The Midnight

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