50's/ 60's Rock n' Roll R&B MIX

aghaller8 · Post by **aghaller8** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:26 pm

I started making a mix (quickly turning into a double album) of early rock n' roll shit. I was hoping some of you could turn me on to something I've been missing. Something true and gritty, and real. So far I have the "million dollar quartet"/ Sun Studio Boys, Link Wray, Ike Turner, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers, James Brown, Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, Ricky Nelson, Richie Valens... Anyone got anything I seem to be missing? I have to wake up early and go job hunting, and I thought this would make the whole damn experience less depressing.

joeysimms · Post by **joeysimms** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:12 pm

Bo Diddley

bluesman · Post by **bluesman** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:35 am

Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Leslie Gore, The Shangri-las, Wanda Jackson. Everyone loves chics who rock!

johnny7 · Post by **johnny7** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:43 pm

Little Richard
His early stuff is phenomenal!
Johnny
also, Ruth Brown, and Janis martin

Kyle Motor · Post by **Kyle Motor** » Fri May 26, 2006 6:55 am

Nathaniel Mayer "Village Of Love".

Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs "Stay", and if you can find it "May I" (sometimes credited to just "The Zodiacs").

digitaldrummer · Post by **digitaldrummer** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:21 pm

the Ventures, Sandy Nelson, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays (Ok, maybe these were later and I'm drifiting to the soul side...)

joeysimms · Post by **joeysimms** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:42 pm

The Phantom doing 'Love Me'
Dom and Dewey
Larry Williams
Dale Hawkins
Little Walter (Mellow Down EEeeeeeeeeeeee-asy!)

aghaller8 · Post by **aghaller8** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:01 pm

Good call on the Little Richard. I may have to start a funk/ soul mix too:) Some O. V. Wright, some JB, Otis, etc.

curtiswyant · Post by **curtiswyant** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:24 am

ELVIS PRESLEY?
Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke...

joeysimms · Post by **joeysimms** » Mon May 29, 2006 10:45 am

curtiswyant wrote:ELVIS PRESLEY?
Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke...

".. So far I have the "million dollar quartet"/ Sun Studio Boys..

konabuzz · Post by **konabuzz** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:06 pm

Give Gene Vincent's Be-bop A Lula a listen....closely.

I agree with all of the suggestions above, but I've been fascinated with this 1956 recording forever. It was cut in Owen Bradley's studio in Nashville for Capitol, and featured a new echo/reverb approach devised by engineer Mort Thomasson. Honestly.....I can't put my finger on it, but I've never ever heard a defter, more sophisticated use of echo/reverb on any recording then or now. I believe everything was mixed to mono.....the single, certainly.

Makes me shake my head......I like the sound of Sun's lo-fi chamber, and the big labels' underground tanks and plates, but I've just never heard anything else like Be-bop A Lula.

my .02

aghaller8 · Post by **aghaller8** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:16 pm

Great call on the Gene Vincent, man I definitely gave a 'what the hell?!?!' vocal and solo are crazy. Badass stuff, a lil like Charlie Feathers ... obscure rockabilly, well, there's something to be said for that.

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