VA - Rock N Roll Heroes - Five Classic Albums Plus (Rock & Roll Hit Parade / Rock & Roll… All Flavors / Well Now, Dig This / Ritchie Valens / Here’s Larry Williams) (2021)

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Artist: Various Artists, The Jodimars, Johnny Otis, Ritchie Valens, Larry Williams, Freddie Bell & The Bell Boys
Title: Rock N Roll Heroes - Five Classic Albums Plus (Rock & Roll Hit Parade / Rock & Roll… All Flavors / Well Now, Dig This / Ritchie Valens / Here’s Larry Williams)
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: AVID Rock N Roll
Genre: Rock and Roll, Rockabilly
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:32:52
Total Size: 472 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Various Artists – Honey Love (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:23)
2. Various Artists – Sh-Boom (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:24)
3. Various Artists – Earth Angel (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:59)
4. Various Artists – Gee (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:00)
5. Various Artists – Sincerely (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (03:08)
6. Various Artists – The Midnite Creeper (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:54)
7. Various Artists – At My Front Door (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:31)
8. Various Artists – Long Tall Sally (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (01:53)
9. Various Artists – Only You (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:33)
10. Various Artists – One Mint Julep (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:19)
11. Various Artists – Hey Hey Hey Hey (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:56)
12. Various Artists – Please Don't Leave Me (Johnny Otis: Rock & Roll Hit Parade) (02:26)
13. Various Artists – Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me) (02:26)
14. Various Artists – Willie and the Hand Jive (02:36)
15. Various Artists – Take the First Train out of Town (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:38)
16. Various Artists – Giddy up a Ding Dong (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (01:59)
17. Various Artists – Rompin' and Stompin' (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:11)
18. Various Artists – Stay Loose Mother Goose (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:13)
19. Various Artists – I Said It and I'm Glad (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:30)
20. Various Artists – Voo Doo (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:52)
21. Various Artists – Teach You to Rock (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:15)
22. Various Artists – Hey There You (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:30)
23. Various Artists – All Right, Okay, You Win (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:34)
24. Various Artists – Big Bad Wolf (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:08)
25. Various Artists – Hound Dog (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:20)
26. Various Artists – Hucklebuck (Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys: Rock & Roll...All Flavors) (02:47)
27. Various Artists – Well Now, Dig This (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:04)
28. Various Artists – Dance the Bop (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:17)
29. Various Artists – Let's All Rock Together (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:18)
30. Various Artists – Boom, Boom My Bayou Baby (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:03)
31. Various Artists – Eat Your Heart out Annie (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:39)
32. Various Artists – Lotsa Love (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:09)
33. Various Artists – Rattle My Bones (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:19)
34. Various Artists – Clara Bella (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:01)
35. Various Artists – Rattle Shakin' Daddy (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:19)
36. Various Artists – Midnight (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:18)
37. Various Artists – Cloud 99 (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (02:08)
38. Various Artists – Later (The Jodimars: Well Now, Dig This) (01:55)
39. Various Artists – That's My Little Suzie (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (01:51)
40. Various Artists – In a Turkish Town (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:16)
41. Various Artists – Come on, Let's Go (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:04)
42. Various Artists – Donna (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:29)
43. Various Artists – Boney-Maronie (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:46)
44. Various Artists – Ooh, My Head (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (01:48)
45. Various Artists – La Bamba (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:08)
46. Various Artists – Bluebirds over the Mountain (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (01:43)
47. Various Artists – Hi-Tone (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:05)
48. Various Artists – Framed (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (02:13)
49. Various Artists – We Belong Together (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (01:55)
50. Various Artists – Dooby-Dooby-Wah (Ritchie Valens: Ritchie Valens) (01:55)
51. Various Artists – Fast Freight (01:58)
52. Various Artists – Short Fat Fannie (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:24)
53. Various Artists – Make a Little Love (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (01:59)
54. Various Artists – Hootchy-Koo (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:36)
55. Various Artists – Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:10)
56. Various Artists – Peaches and Cream (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:01)
57. Various Artists – Give Me Love (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:03)
58. Various Artists – Bony Moronie (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (03:03)
59. Various Artists – Little School Girl (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (01:53)
60. Various Artists – Dizzy, Miss Lizzy (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:12)
61. Various Artists – Teardrops (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:22)
62. Various Artists – You Bug Me, Baby (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (01:52)
63. Various Artists – Ting a Ling (Larry Williams: Here's Larry Williams) (02:04)
64. Various Artists – Slow Down (02:44)
65. Various Artists – Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats) (02:49)
66. Various Artists – Seventeen (Boyd Bennett and His Rockets) (02:04)

Five Rock n Roll Heroes, some you may have heard of, some maybe, some maybe not, but here they are. Ritchie Valens of course, we all know the seventeen year old whizz kid of La Bamba , Donna and Come On Let’s Go fame and the tragedy that took him from the world along with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper. All his great hits are here, read the Liner notes and weep for what could and should have been. Another great name from the R&B and R&R era that I’m sure we all know is Larry Williams, the Bony Moronie, Dizzy Miss Lizzy and Short Fat Fannie man and another child prodigy winning singing competitions at age sixteen and writing all his own material. You will find all of his great hits on our fine selected album. Not so sure about this lot? Freddie Bell & The Bellboys, Giddy Up A Ding Dong? Sounds like something Freddie & The Dreamers would have come up with? Mind you the names a bit close! It’s a bit of a shock to read in the Liner notes that rock n roll terrorist Freddie Bell was “happily married with two wonderful children”….and “liked to relax on any golf course”, oh well different times I guess? Now we know where Alice Cooper got the golf bug (gy) from! In fact the boys were pretty big in the UK and across Europe and even got to perform in the movie Rock Around The Clock. Which brings us neatly to our next band The Jodimars, great name! I hadn’t heard of them, I thought maybe a breakaway band from The Jordanaires? I was nearly correct, The Jodimars were in fact a breakaway band, but from Bill Haley & His Comets. In 1955 three of the guys in the Comets decided they wanted a bigger piece of the Haley pie and struck out on their own. Big mistake, by 1957 they were toast, but not before leaving us with the fine Well Now, Dig This. Our last but certainly by no means least hero is the legendary Johnny Otis. I have definitely heard of this fellow but had no idea what an influential figure he was in the R&B and R&R world at the time and would go on to be in many fields during his long career. In terms of discovering new talent he was beyond comparison with a string of names he would discover, audition, write for and produce from Big Mama Thornton (he co-wrote Hound Dog for her), Little Esther, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John to Etta James, Hank Ballard and The Robins (later to become The Coasters). That’s a pretty impressive list from the man they called unsurprisingly, The Godfather of R&B. Our fine selection features the greatest hits of the day in the inimitable Johnny Otis style. And that’s not to mention his brilliant musician son Shuggie Otis!

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