24-06-2018 12:07 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1952-1943

Radio DJ Alan Freed in the 1950s.

24-06-2018 12:07 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1952-1943   >>Bill Haley, Wally Mercer, Merrill Moore, John Lee Hooker, Les Baxter, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughan, Lowell Fulson, Thelonious Monk, Alberta Hunter, Cecil Gant, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Four Clefs, Lester Young, Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne, Xavier Cugat<<

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1952-1943

Wally Mercer - Rock Around the Clock (Wallace Mercer) 2:42
Bill Haley - Rock the Joint (Doc Bagby / Harry "Fats" Crafton) 2:56
John Lee Hooker - Walkin' the Boogie (John Lee Hooker) 2:44
 from Roots of Rock N' Roll Vol 8 1952
This is the eighth volume in a series of double-disc anthologies from French label Fremeaux Records that chronicles the years that led up to the birth of rock & roll. While the magic year of 1954 is usually accepted as the dawn of the rock & roll age, the whole matter has always generated a good deal of debate, and this installment in the Fremeaux series only muddies the waters, since the year it covers, 1952, shows things rocking along pretty well... Whether these tracks contain the musical DNA that begat rock & roll or not is, in the end, fairly irrelevant, since these records rock, pedigree or no.

Exotica pioneer whose blend of Polynesian forms and orchestral arrangements appealed to the bachelor pad set of the 1950s and '60s. 
Les Baxter
Jalousie (Jacob Gade) 2:59
Venezuela (Alfredo Corenzo) 2:38
La Cumparsita (Gerardo Matos Rodríguez) 2:29
from Arthur Murray's Favorites: Tangos 1951
"Personally recommended for dancing by Arthur Murray." 

A brilliant, towering musical figure who through his singing and piano playing helped invent
soul and R&B music. Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of black pop by merging '50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues, and (in the '60s) country. Then there was his singing; his style was among the most emotional and easily identifiable of any 20th century performer, up there with the likes of Elvis and Billie Holiday. He was also a superb keyboard player, arranger, and bandleader. The brilliance of his 1950s and '60s work, however, can't obscure the fact that he made few classic tracks after the mid-'60s, though he recorded often and performed until the year before his death.

Ray Charles
I Love You, I Love You (I Will Never Let You Go) (J. Lee Lawrence) 2:40
Rockin' Chair Blues (Aaron McKee) 2:44
Sitting on Top of the World (Lonnie Chatmon / Walter Vinson) 2:15
from Blues & Rhythm Classics 1949-1950
1949-1950 highlights the earliest Ray Charles sessions for the Swingtime and Downbeat labels, featuring 15 tracks from 1949 and six from 1950. Anyone with the slightest interest in Charles should investigate this material. It's amazing to hear Charles' metamorphosis from silky-voiced pop crooning (imitating his idols Charles Brown and Nat King Cole) into his passionate gospel-powered voice shortly after he signed with Atlantic Records in 1952.