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JOHNNY CASH
The Outtakes
3-CD Cap-Box with 100-page booklet
BCD 16325 CR (counts as a double CD for S&H purposes)

Bear Family Records is proud to present the most eagerly awaited entry in its series of Studio Outtakes releases that includes the Everly Brothers and Janis Martin. Johnny Cash is an American legend. Until now, alternate takes of his Sun recordings have appeared scattered on numerous sources, unsystematically issued all over the world. Acknowledging the importance of alternative versions of his iconic Sun recordings, Bear Family has issued for the first time a collection of every Johnny Cash alternate take known to exist in the Sun archives.
These recordings, many of which have never been previously released, offer the deepest insight yet into Johnny Cash's formative years at the Sun label. Collectors and fans will want to make side-by -side comparisons with the originally released versions of these songs. Bear Family have facilitated this by grouping alternate takes together and presenting them in chronological order according to most up -to-date research. Whether it's the thrill of hearing a previously unknown lyric, a slightly different instrumental sound or eavesdropping on a vocal or guitar fluff, this collection offers the most penetrating look beyond the famous master recordings made by a man who has become a towering figure in American music. The package includes a lavishly illustrated booklet containing rare and previously unpublished photos as well as original session notes.

CD1:
1. Wide Open Road
2. You're My Baby (Little Woolly Booger) (false starts & complete take)
3. My Treasure (false starts & complete take)
4. Hey Porter
5. Folsom Prison Blues
6. Folsom Prison Blues
7. Folsom Prison Blues
8. Folsom Prison Blues
9. Wide Open Road
10. My Two Timin' Woman
11. Cry, Cry, Cry (extended version)
12. Rock And Roll Ruby
13. I Walk The Line
14. Brakeman's Blues (incomplete take)
15. Get Rhythm (false start & complete take)
16. Get Rhythm
17. Get Rhythm (microphone test)
18. Get Rhythm
19. Train Of Love
20. Train Of Love
21. One More Ride (incomplete take)
22. I Love You Because
23. Don't Make Me Go (incomplete take)
24. Don't Make Me Go (false start)
25. Don't Make Me Go (false start & complete take)
26. Don't Make Me Go
27. Don't Make Me Go
28. Don't Make Me Go (false start)
29. Don't Make Me Go
30. Don't Make Me Go
31. Don't Make Me Go
32. Don't Make Me Go
33. Don't Make Me Go

CD2:
1. Home Of The Blues (false start & undubbed master)
2. Give My Love To Rose
3. Give My Love To Rose
4. Give My Love To Rose (false starts & complete take)
5. Country Boy
6. Leave That Junk Alone
7. Doin' My Time
8. Country Boy
9. If The Good Lord's Willing
10. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (false starts)
11. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
12. I Was There When It Happened
13. Big River (false starts & complete take)
14. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
15. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
16. Goodnight Irene
17. Come In Stranger
18. Guess Things Happen That Way (undubbed master)
19. Guess Things Happen That Way (alternate vocal overdub)
20. Guess Things Happen That Way (alternate vocal overdub)
21. Oh Lonesome Me (undubbed master)
22. Sugartime
23. Born To Lose (incomplete take)
24. Born To Lose (false start)
25. Born To Lose (undubbed master)
26. You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
27. The Story Of A Broken Heart (false starts)
28. The Story Of A Broken Heart (complete take & false starts)
29. Always Alone (false starts & incomplete take)
30. Always Alone (incomplete take)
31. Always Alone (incomplete take)
32. You Tell Me (false start)
33. You Tell Me (false start)
34. You Tell Me (master)
35. You Win Again
36. You Win Again (false starts & undubbed master)
37. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
38. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You (undubbed master)
39. Hey Good Lookin'
40. Hey Good Lookin' (undubbed master)

CD3:
1. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
2. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) (undubbed master)
3. Cold, Cold Heart
4. Cold, Cold Heart
5. Katy Too (false starts)
6. Katy Too
7. Katy Too
8. Katy Too
9. The Ways Of A Woman In Love
10. Fools Hall Of Fame
11. Fools Hall Of Fame (false start & complete take)
12. Thanks A Lot
13. Thanks A Lot (false starts)
14. Thanks A Lot
15. Thanks A Lot
16. Thanks A Lot (undubbed master)
17. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub)
18. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub)
19. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub – ending only)
20. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub – ending only)
21. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub – ending only)
22. Thanks A Lot (vocal overdub – ending only)
23. It's Just About Time (incomplete take)
24. It's Just About Time
25. It's Just About Time
26. It's Just About Time
27. It's Just About Time (incomplete take)
28. It's Just About Time
29. I Forgot To Remember To Forget (incomplete take)
30. I Forgot To Remember To Forget (false start)
31. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
32. I Forgot To Remember To Forget
33. I Just Thought You'd Like To Know (incomplete take)
34. I Just Thought You'd Like To Know
35. I Just Thought You'd Like To Know (incomplete take)
36. I Just Thought You'd Like To Know
37. Down The Street To 301
38. Down The Street To 301 (false start & complete take)

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BILL MONROE: My Last Days On Earth, 1981-1994
BCD 16637-DK
4-CD Box Set (LP-Size) with 84-page hardcover book

Mission Accomplished! Back in 1988, Bear Family began the monumental task of issuing every recording by the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Nearly 20 years and five boxed sets later, they’ve finished. When they started, Monroe was still alive, and bluegrass was a minority-interest music. In the intervening years, Monroe has died, but bluegrass music has gone from strength to strength. The industry bible, 'Billboard' magazine, actually started a Bluegrass chart, and bluegrass/old time country music formed the soundtrack to one of the most successful movies of recent times, 'O Brother.'

This final Bill Monroe box captures the great man in the autumn of his years. He had nothing left to prove, but still made fabulous records because he wanted to, and because he still had legions of admirers who wanted nothing more than to record with him. That’s why this set includes vocal contributions from Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, the Oak Ridge Boys, Barbara Mandrell, and even Johnny Cash….not to mention fellow bluegrass stars like the Osbornes, Ralph Stanley, Del McCoury, Jim & Jesse, Mac Wiseman, the Country Gentlemen, Carl Story, and the Seldom Scene.

Bill Monroe’s earlier recordings were powerful, insurgent...even revolutionary...music. These are the works of an elder statesmen. A prideful man with plenty to be proud of!

CD 1: Old Ebenezer Scrooge (instrumental) - Go Hither To Go Yonder (instrumental) - Right, Right On (instrumental) - Lochwood (instrumental) - Old Danger Field (instrumental) - Fair Play (instrumental) - Melissas's Waltz For J.B. (instrumental) - Lady Of The Blue Ridge (instrumental) - My Last Days On Earth (instrumental with vocal backing) - Evening Prayer Blues (instrumental) - Precious Memories - Little Shepherd (instrumental) - The Old Crossroads - Wayfaring Stranger - In The Gloryland Ways - What A Friend We Have In Jesus - Shouting On The Hills Of Glory - Baptize Me In The Cumberland River - Wicked Path Of Sin - I'll Fly Away
CD 2: My Louisiana Love (& Mel Tillis) - Is The Blue Moon Still Shining (& The Gatlin Brothers) - My Sweet Blue-Eyed Darlin' (& Ricky Skaggs) - Old Riverman (& John Hartford) - With Body And Soul (& Waylon Jennings) - I Still Miss Someone (& Johnny Cash) - Blue Moon Of Kentucky (& The Oak Ridge Boys) - The Sunset Trail (& Willie Nelson) - Kentucky Waltz (& Emmylou Harris) - My Rose Of Old Kentucky (& Barbara Mandrell) - Hear A Sweet Voice Calling (& The Osborne Brothers) - True Life Blues (& Carl Story) - Lord, Protect My Soul (& The Country Gentlemen) - Travelin' This Lonesome Road (& Mac Wiseman) - I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home (& Jim & Jesse) - Mighty Dark To Travel (& Jim & Jesse) - Remember The Cross (& The Seldom Scene) - Let The Gates Swing Wide (& Tater Tate) - Can't You Hear Me Callin' (& Ralph Stanley) - The Golden West (instrumental) (& Bobby Hicks) - Old Brown County Barn (instrumental) (& Bobby Hicks) - I'm Going Back To Old Kentucky (& Del McCoury) - Bluest Man In Town (& Del McCoury)
CD 3: Dancin' In Brancin' (instrumental) - Jekyll Island (instrumental) - Stay Away From Me - Music Valley Waltz - Angels Rock Me To Sleep - The Long Bow (instrumental) - God Holds The Future In His Hands - The Old Crossroads - Southern Flavour (instrumental) - Stone Coal (instrumental) - Texas Lone Star (instrumental) - Sugar Loaf Mountain (instrumental) - The Days Gone By - White Rose - Life's Highway - Give Me Wings - What A Wonderful Life - Take Courage Un' Tomorrow
CD 4: Molly And Tenbrooks - Footprints In The Snow - Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight - Precious Memories - Rawhide - My Sweet Darlin' - In The Pines - Love, Please Come Home - Pike County Breakdown (instrumental) - I'm Working On A Building - Watermelon Hanging On The Vine (instrumental) - Just A Little Talk With Jesus - Harbor Of Love - Are You Lost In Sin? - He'll Take You In - Just Over In The Glory Land - Baptize Me In The Cumberland River - You're Drifting Away - This World Is Not My Home - Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord - Shine Hallelujah Shine - Boston Boy (instrumental) - Southern Flavor (instrumental) - Never Leave The A-String (instrumental) - Tennessee Blues (instrumental) - I'd Love To Be Over Yonder (instrumental) - Rawhide (instrumental) - Sally Goodin (instrumental)

ROD McKUEN: If You Go Away - The RCA Years 1965-1968
BCD 16122-GL
7-CD Box-Set (LP-Size) with 104-page hardcover book

Who was the most commercially successful American poet/singer-songwriter of the 20th century? The answer is: Rod McKuen, Now, for the first time anywhere, his complete 1960s RCA Victor recordings are compiled in a lavish boxed set of 7 compact discs.

Rod McKuen's three dozen books of poetry have been published in eleven languages, sold 65 million copies, and placed him securely among the most popular poets of all time. He's also worked as a rodeo cowboy, lumberjack, and Bmovie actor.

'If You Go Away' concentrates on four fruitful years of McKuen's recording and songwriting career. Since the 1950s, he estimates, more than 200 albums have been released under his name, and selections from his catalog of more than 1,500 compositions have been recorded by singers including Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Johnny Cash, and Frank Sinatra. This collection gathers Rod's six original albums for RCA Victor, released between 1965-'68, plus an incredible lode of unreleased master and alternate takes, demos, and even a few 'live' recordings.

Included are Rod's own versions of such now-standard original compositions, translations and poems as If You Go Away, The World I Used To Know, A Cat Named Sloopy, I'm Strong But I Like Roses, and Seasons In The Sun. You'll hear duets with Glenn Yarbrough and Don Ho; and songs written especially for (though never recorded by) The Beach Boys and SSgt. Barry Sadler.

The enclosed album-sized hardcover book includes an essay by Todd Everett and track-by track comments by Rod himself, discussing the material on the album; plus quotes from past and present associates as varied as Yarbrough and comic Phyllis Diller, both important figures in establishing Rod's career; and numerous photographs and other treasures from Rod's personal archives.

CD 1: The Summer's Long - Channing Way - Each Of Us Alone - I've Been To Town - Yes - The Hunters - One Day Soon - Summer In My Eye - Times Gone By - Looking Back At 30 - So Many Others (remake) - The Lovers - Rusting In The Rain - The Plains Of My Country Ballet Suite in 3 Movements - Alamo Junction - The Summer's Long (alternate take) - The House Upon The Hill - Stanyan Street Revisited - We Have Only Love (demo) - On My Own (demo) - The Tamarack Tree - Take Me Home Again - Sleep Now Love - Trashy - So Many Others (alternate take)
CD 2: Some Trust In Chariots - People Change - How Deep Is Down? - When Flora Was Mine - If You Go Away (Ne me quittes pas) - So Long San Francisco - The Loner - Solo - The Lonely Things - She - The Good Times Is All Done Now - Truck Stop - Thank You - I Turn To You - Church Windows (instrumental) - Flowers - Me And The Cat - For Silence Is Golden (demo) - Watching You Sleep / Thank You - My Old Man - Darlin' Don't You Know (& Glenn Yarbrough) - The Girls Of The Summer (& Glenn Yarbrough) - Happy Birthday Ernie (Bon Anniversary Ernie) - Flowers - My Mother's Eyes - The World I Used To Know (rejected version) - G - It's Nice To Be Alone (demo) - If You Go Away (alternate version) - So Long San Francisco (alternate lyrics)
CD 3: The Hurtin' - You - Before The Monkeys Came - The Summertime Of Days - The Women - Zangra - Down At Mary's Old Time Bar - Meantime - Open The Windows And See All The Clowns - I'm Strong, But I Like Roses - The Statue - Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe - Loneliness In Crowds - Nouveau Fleur (instrumental) - Me And The Cat - Something More - Meantime (alternate take) - Open The Window & See All The Clowns (alt) - Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose - Ain't You Glad You're Livin' Joe - The Habit - The Habit - My Old Man - You (take 2) - I'm Strong But I Like Roses (alternate take) - Meantime (1st Version) - Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose - Open The Window & See All The Clowns - Loneliness In Crowds (alternate take) - Something More (demo)
CD 4: I'll Say Goodbye (Je Partirai) - La Mer Sans Soleil (Sea Without Sun) - Le Bourgeois - Through European Windows - Song Without Words (Chanson Sans Paroles) - Paris (Mon Arbre) - Baby Be My Love (L'amour Avec Toi) - The Ever Constant Sea - Like A Child - On The Road Again (Qu'est-ce Que Tu Attends La) - Nathalie - The Far West (Le Plat Pays) - Pushing The Clouds Away - Do You Like The Rain? - Gifts From The Sea - Some Day We'll See Spain (Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra) Extract from 2nd Movement - Seasons In The Sun - Capri In July - Je Vien de Loin, (French vocal / 1st International issue) - A Kind Of Loving - I'm Only Me - Chasin' The Sun - The Money Boys Of Cannes (demo & Glenn Yarbrough) - Bon Soir Mademoiselle - Through European Windows (alternate take)
CD 5: Prologue: A Cat Named Sloopy - To Share Tthe Summer Sun - Round, Round, Round - I'll Never Be Alone - The Ducks On The Millpond - Midnight Walk - Listen To The Warm - It's Raining - Weekend - Brown October - Where are We Now? - The  Singing Of The Wind - Dandelion Days - I Live Alone - Epilogue: One Day I'll Follow The Birds - Entre Act: Listen To The Warm (Instrumental) - Listen To The Warm - I Have Loved You In So Many Ways - We Touch Shoulder To Shoulder - Sunday In November - Beyond This Wall (The Phoenix) - The Warm And Gentle Girls - Be Gentle, Please - Hurry - Round, Round, Round (Reprise) - Conversation After 1:AM - I Have Loved You in So Many Ways (Theme) - Me And The Cat - After The Toll Beach - Listen To The Warm (alternate vocal) - Twenty-Nine - Midsummer
CD 6: The Single Man - Leave Me Something - I Never Go There Anymore - The Phoenix - The Last Of The Wine - Elegy #1 - The Girls Of The Summer - Where Would I Be? - Elegy #2 - I've Saved The Summer - In Passing - Some Of Them Fall - Elegy #3 - The Importance Of The Rose (C'est La Rose) - The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (instrumental) - Inside Of Me - The Voyeur - Home To See Maria - The Lovers Of December - Things To Come (Gymnopedes #1) - Home By Water (Gymnopedes #3) - Sometimes - And To Each Season - The Wind Of Change - The Girls Of The Summer (alternate vocal) - The Ivy That Clings To The Wall (vocal)
CD 7: Up - I'll Catch The Sun - Glad Rag Doll - The Women (alternate take) - We Have Only Love - Soldiers Who Want To Be  Heroes (parody) - The Waltz Goes On (demo) - To Die In Summertime (demo) - Seasons In The Sun (alternate vocal) - So Many Others - Ain't You Glad You're Livin', Joe (alternate take) - Simple Gifts (demo) - If You Go Away - Love And Let Love (demo) - Don't Forget To Bring Her A Rose - Some Of Them Fall (alternate vocal) - When The Green Berets Come Home - The New Words - Portuguese Bend - El Monte - Children One And All - We - I Never Will Marry (demo & Chet Atkins) - River, River (demo & Chet Atkins) - Things Bright And Beautiful - One By One (& Don Ho) - All Of Me Is Mine (demo)

The Mercury New Orleans Sessions 1950 & 1953
BCD 16804-BH
2-CD Digipac with 72 page booklet

Back in 1989, Bear Family issued a double LP, 'Mercury Records--The New Orleans Sessions, 1950.' Containing early and great (not to mention some unissued) recordings by Professor Longhair, Alma Mondy, and other Crescent City legends, it was a definitive statement of New Orleans R&B at its inception. Bear Family uncovered the original acetates at Mercury Records' vault, and painstakingly restored them, thereby re-creating one of the great field trips in record business history on two LPs!

Since CDs were introduced, Bear Family have had requests to reissue that 2-LP set, but couldn't see how they could improve upon it...until now. Researcher Rick Coleman, whose recently published book on Fats Domino is recognized as a classic work in New Orleans R&B, figured out that a Mercury R&B session long thought to have taken place in Los Angeles in 1953 actually took place in New Orleans. To confirm his hunch, Rick spoke with Mercury A&R man Dee Kilpatrick, who recalled recording Alma Mondy along with a female impersonator, Pat Valadear, Woo-Woo Moore, and Plas Johnson's brother, Ray. So Bear Family included everything from that session, plus the ultra -rare gospel recordings by the Silvertone Singers from the 1950 sessions!

Add new photos, new notes, and digitally enhanced sound. That's how Bear Family took the story of Mercury's New Orleans sessions to a new level. A fitting tribute, especially as so many of the neighborhoods that gave birth to this music may never return!

CD1:
1. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Miss Lollypop's Confession
2. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Love Troubles
3. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Baby Get Wise
4. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Just As Soon As I Go Home
5. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Street Walkin' Daddy
6. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): A Job For A Jockey
7. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Still My Angel Child
8. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): No Stuff For Me
9. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): I Need You Baby
10. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): You Done Me Wrong
11. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Byrd's Blues
12. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Her Mind Is Gone
13. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Bald Head
14. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Hey Now Baby
15. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Oh Well
16. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Hadacol Bounce
17. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Longhair Stomp
18. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Been Foolin' Around
19. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Between The Night And Day
20. Theard Johnson: I Walk In My Sleep
21. Theard Johnson: Lost Love
22. George Miller & His Mid Driffs: Boogie's The Thing
23. George Miller & His Mid Driffs: Bat-Lee Swing

CD2:
1. Little Joe Gaines: She Won't Leave No More
2. Little Joe Gaines: Snuff Dipper
3. Dwine Craven (Mr. Brown): Mercury Boogie
4. Dwine Craven (Mr. Brown): New Way Of Loving
5. Silvertone Singers: Bye And Bye
6. Silvertone Singers: What Are They Doing In Heaven Today
7. Silvertone Singers: Call On Jesus In Scret Prayer
8. Silvertone Singers: Rest From Labor
9. Pat Valdevear: Keep Your Hands On Your Heart
10. Pat Valdevear: Baby, Rock Me
11. Ray Johnson: Boogie The Blues
12. Ray Johnson: House Of Blues
13. Ray Johnson: I'll Never Let You Go
14. Ray Johnson: Smilin' Blues
15. Herbert 'Woo Woo' Moore: Something's Wrong
16. Herbert 'Woo Woo' Moore: Five Long Letters
17. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Miss Lollypop's Confession
18. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Love Troubles
19. Alma Mondy (Alma Lollypop): Just As Soon As I Go Home
20. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Her Mind Is Gone
21. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Hadacol Bounce
22. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Longhair Stomp
23. Roy Byrd (Professor Longhair) & His Blues Jumpers: Between The Night And Day
24. George Miller & His Mid Driffs: Bat-Lee Swing

Bonanza
BCD 16584 AS
CD Digipac with 56-page booklet

A supplement to the Bear Family 4 CD 'Bonanza' box set (BCD 15684), this album includes vocal and instrumental themes of the Bonanza theme by the original cast; star Lorne Greene; country singers, Johnny Cash and Faron Young; guitarist Al Caiola, and trombonist/swing bandleader Buddy Morrow. David Rose, the show’s musical director, contributes his own version of the theme, plus two other pieces from the series’ score. Cash and Greene team up for their version of the Rusty Draper hit The Shifting, Whispering Sands. Also included are six songs by the show’s costar, Michael 'Little Joe' Landon, aimed at the pop music market. Filling out this ‘Bonanza’ are several songs by German artists (tracks 18-25), inspired by the TV series.

CD:

1. Lorne Greene: Bonanza
2. Buddy Morrow: Bonanza
3. Johnny Cash: Bonanza
4. Al Caiola: Bonanza
5. Faron Young: Bonanza
6. Michael Landon : Gimme A Little Kiss (Will 'Ya' Huh)
7. Michael Landon: Be Patient With Me
8. Michael Landon: Fight, Fight
9. Michael Landon: Linda Is Lonesome
10. Michael Landon: Without You
11. Michael Landon: Linda Is Lonesome (2)
12. David Rose: Bonanza
13. David Rose: Ponderosa
14. David Rose: Hoss
15. David Rose: Hoedown At Virginia City
16. Johnny Cash & Lorne Greene: The Shifting Whispering Sands
17. Lorne Greene: Saga Of The Ponderosa
18. Vater Cartwright erzählt von der Ponderosa (Promotion Single)
19. Ralf Paulsen : Bonanza
20. Ralf: Wir warten jeden Sonntag auf Bonanza
21. Ralf Paulsen: Die Cowboys von der Ponderosa
22. Bonanza Trio: Little Joe
23. Nordwinds: Bonanza
24. Heino : Zu der Ponderosa reiten wir
25. Gunter Gabriel: Die Sage der Ponderosa

JOHNNY BOND
Put Me To Bed, Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
2-CD Digipac with ?? page booklet
BCD 16810 AH

- 1957's rousing The Little Rock Roll
- 4 previously unissued masters
- Swinging performances of Louisiana Swing and I'm Pounding The Rails Again
- Accompaniment by Hollywood's studio aces: Joe Maphis, Wesley Tuttle, Noel Boggs,
Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West and by Nashville A-team: Harold Bradley, Grady Martin,
Farris Coursey, Bob Moore, and others
- An essay by Packy Smith

Laconic, humorous, self-deprecating, and surprisingly hard rockin’ Johnny Bond was a west coast country music pioneer, a successful music publisher, and even Tex Ritter’s official biographer. Originally from Oklahoma, Johnny had a hard-driving style rooted in western swing. To date, he has been very poorly served by the reissue business. If at all, then as a cowboy singer, but Bear Family now remedies that with his first 'Rockin'' compilation! They figured that most fans (especially fans of their 'Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight' series) should hear his ‘Rockin’ songs, so they've carefully chosen 30 of the best from across Johnny's barnstorming years with Columbia Records in the 1950s! In fact, they’ve even included some unissued recordings for the diehard collectors who thought they had everything. Johnny’s ‘Town Hall Party’ DVD was an eye-opener, but this puts everything else in the shade.

The Little Rock Roll - Alabama Boogie Boy (1) - The Son Of Old Casey - Put A Little Sweetnin’ In Your Love - I'll Be Here (After You're Gone) - Honky-Tonk Fever - Fast Women And Sloe Gin - Livin’ It Up - Keep Your Cotton Pickin’ Hands Off My Gal - Lay It On The Line - Somebody's Pushin’ - Sale Of Broken Hearts - That’s Just What I’ll Do - Wild Cat Baby - Don’t Take It Away - Wildcat Boogie - Broken Doll - Louisiana Swing - Number Nine Blues - All I Can Do Is Cry - Lonesome Train - Put Me To Bed - It Ain’t A Gonna Happen To Me - Tennessee, Kentucky And Alabam’ - Barrel House Bessie - Bartender’s Blues - Women Make A Fool Out Of Me - Tennessee Walking Horse - Put Me To Bed #2 - I’m Pounding The Rails Again

NAT KING COLE: L-O-V-E - The Complete Capitol Recordings 1960 - 1964
BCD 16717-KL
11-CD Box Set (LP size) with 184-page hardcover book

Nat King Cole (1919-1965) was the most popular male singer of his generation, and, along with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one of the four best known male vocalists of all time. Making Cole's story all the more remarkable, he began his career not as a pop singer but as one of the greatest of all jazz pianists. Yet by the time he had made the transition from jazz to pop, he had sold more records and racked up more hit singles than anyone in the immediate post-war era, even Frank Sinatra. He was also the first Afro-American pop music superstar - and still the greatest.

Cole's baritone voice was sweet and pretty, and most of his greatest successes were with love songs. Still, he had the greatest time of any singer ever, and was equally well-versed in swinging rhythm numbers and blues. In his combination of tenderness and bluesy energy, Cole was a founding father of R&B and a major influence on the soul movement – as cited by Charles Brown, Ray Charles and many other later stars. Like Frank Sinatra, he collaborated closely with the greatest pop orchestrators of all time, particularly Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Ralph Carmichael, and in particular, Nelson Riddle.

In many ways, the last five years of his recording career was his most successful period: despite the insurgence of rock 'n' roll and other non-traditional pop musics, Cole was riding higher than ever. He had more big hits in these years than ever before, and he mastered the technique of turning hit singles into best selling albums. The years 1960-1964 found Cole collaborating extensively with a new and outstanding musical director, the highly talented Ralph Carmichael, as well as creating some of his best -remembered albums with old friends like Billy May and Gordon Jenkins. There also were wonderful one-shot projects like his team-up with the great pianist George Shearing and Cole’s only official live recording.

This new 11-CD set is the first complete collection of all of Nat Cole's recordings from the final half -decade of his career, a total of 292 masters.

- The set includes all of the following albums, in many cases including rare 'bonus' material from the same sessions:
- Cole's only in-concert recording, 'Live At The Sands' (1960) – universally regarded as one of the great live albums of all time.
- 'Wild Is Love' – Cole's only original-story concept album, containing the classic title song, and his last collaboration with the great arranger Nelson Riddle (1960).
- 'The Magic Of Christmas' – The King's only all-original Christmas concept album, a collection of traditional carols that marked his first project with the wonderful musical director Ralph Carmichael (1960).
- 'The Touch Of Your Lips' – One of Cole's all-time greatest ballad albums, with sumptuous arrangements by the brilliant Mr. Carmichael (1960).
- 'Nat King Cole Sings / George Shearing Plays' – Another brilliant collection of love songs, Cole's only meeting with the marvelous jazz pianist, backed by more deluxe string arrangements from Ralph Carmichael – including many bonus tracks (1961).
- 'The Nat King Cole Story' – Cole's massive autobiographical statement of 1961, in which he recreated his classic hits of the '40s and '50s in state of the art stereo with the original orchestrations in an elaborate three-LP package – including several bonus tracks.
- 'Let’s Face The Music!' – Cole's last teaming with his old chum Billy May proved to be one of the hardest-swinging albums of his career, in which he not only swung the hell out of 12 great songs but contributed five solos (the only ones of his career) on electric organ (1961)!
- 'More Cole Espanol' – Cole's final Spanish-language album brought him South of the border to Mexico City, both musically and literally! With Ralph Carmichael (1962).
- 'Ramblin’ Rose' – Cole’s first mega-hit of this period, a blockbuster country song "by two Jewish boys from Brooklyn" that became one of his all-time best-sellers and led to an equally succesful album (1962).
- 'Dear Lonely Hearts' – The second of Cole's country albums. (1962).
- 'Where Did Everyone Go' – The only time that Cole recorded a set of saloon-and-suicide songs in the style of Frank Sinatra’s 'Only The Lonely.' An all-time classic if under-appreciated album of quality pop music, orchestrated in high style by the great Gordon Jenkins and featuring several all-time Cole classics, such as the title song and the haunting I Keep Going Back To Joe’s (1962).
- 'My Fair Lady' – Cole's marvelous but little-known recording of the complete score to the 1956 classic musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe, with marvelous orchestrations by Ralph Carmichael (1963).
- 'Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer' – One of the biggest hits of the early '60s, and a song that all but defined an era, expanded into a marvelous sing-a-long album – 12 warmly nostalgic songs of the good old summertime, featuring Cole, Carmichael's orchestra and a large chorus. Includes That Sunday, That Summer, among the most beautiful songs Cole recorded in the later period (1963).
- 'I Don't Want To Be Hurt Anymore ' – Cole’s final country album, the most modern sounding of the three, with sophisticated charts by Ralph Carmichael, and including many bonus tracks and singles (1964).
- 'L-O-V-E' – Cole's last hit was a German import by Bert Kaempfert that he and Ralph Carmichael worked into a classic album, all of hard-swinging, Basie-esque love songs with a continental flavor. Cole's final album featured some of the best singing (and swinging!) of his entire career.

- Plus over 40 singles, nearly none of them ever reissued on LP or CD, including some wonderful, hidden gems, such as :
- Several outstanding showtunes, such as Look No Further from 'No Strings,' and Magic Moment from 'The Gay Life.'
- Cole's little-known 1960 reunion session with Stan Kenton and his Orchestra.
- Cole's only date with arranger Richard Wess, which resulted in the swinging Cappuccina.
- A marvelous selection of foreign language versions of his hit songs, most never commonly available in any country!
- Several outstanding movie songs, including Cole's vocals from his last film, the classic comedy-western 'Cat Ballou.
- Most of these singles tracks have only been heard in the last 40 years with over-dubbed rhythm section – this package marks their first compilation in the orginal, untampered masters, as they were meant to be heard.

The hardcover book features the usual Bear Family amenities: 184 pages of full-color photos from the Capitol vault, extensive analysis and background by Will Friedwald, the definitive Cole scholar, as well as a complete discography and tune index by Michel Ruppli, Jordan Taylor, Russell Wapensky & Richard Weize

CD 1: Ballerina - Funny (Not Much) - The Continental - I Wish You Love - You Leave Me Breathless - Thou Swell - My Kinda Love - The Surrey With The Fringe On Top - Where Or When (instrumental) - Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today) - Joe Turner's Blues - Mr. Cole Won't Rock And Roll - Introduction - Wild Is Love - Wild Is Love - Hundreds And Thousands Of Girls - It's A Beautiful Evening - Tell Her In The Morning - Are You Disenchanted? - Pick-Up - Beggar For The Blues - World Of No Return - In Love Again - Stay With It - Wouldn't You Know - He Who Hesitates - Wild Is Love (reprise)
CD 2: Steady - My Love -1 - Magic Night - Is It Better To Have Loved And Lost? - Someone To Tell It Too - Baby Blue - When It's Summer - You Are Mine - Away In A Manger - I Saw Three Ships - Silent Night - The First Noel - Joy To The World - Deck The Halls - Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Adeste Fideles 1 - Adeste Fideles 2 - O Tannenbaum - A Cradle In Bethlehem - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Caroling, Caroling - O Holy Night - O Little Town Of Bethlehem - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Buon Natale Means (Merry Christmas To You) - The Happiest Christmas Tree - Toys For Tots (Marine Corps Release)
CD 3: If I Knew - I Remember You - Sunday, Monday Or Always - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - My Need For You - Poinciana - The Touch Of Your Lips - You're Mine, You! - Illusion - Funny (Not Much) - Not So Long Ago - Only Forever - Lights Out - It's Only A Paper Moon - Sweet Lorraine - (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 - Straighten Up And Fly Right - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Embraceable You - Answer Me My Love - Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup - Smile - Pretend
CD 4: The Sand And The Sea - A Blossom Fell - Nature Boy - Too Young - Somewhere Along The Way - Unforgettable - Mona Lisa - Send For Me - If I May-1 - Looking Back - Goodnight Little Leaguer - Take A Fool's Advice - The First Baseball Game - Because You Love Me - Make It Last - Capuccina - Let True Love Begin (Let's Begin Again) - Let True Love Begin (Let's Begin Again) (with chorus) - Love - I Heard You Cried Last Night - Orange Colored Sky - To The Ends Of The Earth - Non Dimenticar - Blue Gardenia - Night Lights - Calypso Blues - I Am In Love - Lush Life - Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Ballerina (Dance, Ballerina, Dance)
CD 5: Ebony Rhapsody - Day In, Day Out - Too Little, Too Late - When My Sugar Walks Down The Street - Cold, Cold Heart - Let's Face The Music And Dance - Something Makes Me Want To Dance With You - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - The Rules Of The Road - Warm And Willing - Bidin' My Time - Moon Love - Azure-Te - A Beautiful Friendship - Everything Happens To Me - Pick Yourself Up - September Song - Let There Be Love - I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good - Serenata - The Game Of Love - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) - Guess I'll Go Back Home - I'm Lost - Don't Go - There's A Lull In My Life - Lost April
CD 6: Step Right Up - Magic Moment - The Right Things To Say - Look No Further - La Feria De Las Flores - Guadalajara - La Golondrina (The Swallow) - Tres Palabras (Without You) - Piel Canela - Solamente Una Vez (You Belong To My Heart) - Las Chiapanecas (While There's Music ,There's Romance) - Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You) - Adios Mariquita Linda (Adios And Farewell My Lover) - No Me Platiques - Aqui Se Habla En Amor (Love Is Spoken Here) - A Media Luz - Dear Lonely Hearts - Ramblin' Rose - Nothing Goes Up Without Coming Down - The Good Times - Who's Next In Line? - When You're Smiling - Wolverton Mountain - One Has My Name, The Other Has My Heart - Skip To My Lou - Sing Another Song (And We'll All Go Home) - Your Cheatin' Heart - Goodnight, Irene, Goodnight - I Don't Want It That Way - Twilight On The Trail - He'll Have To Go
CD 7: Farewell To Arms - Happy New Year - When The World Was Young - Spring Is Here - No, I Don't Want Her - Say It Isn't So - Am I Blue? - Laughing On The Outside - I Keep Going Back To Joe's - The End Of A Love Affair - That's All There Is - Someone To Tell It To - If Love Ain't There - Where Did Everyone Go? - Miss You - Oh How I Miss You Tonight - All Over The World - Lonesome And Sorry - My First And Only Lover - Near You - Why Should I Cry Over You? - Yearning - All By Myself - It's A Lonesome Old Town - Misery Loves Company
CD 8: In The Cool Of The Day - Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer - Felicia - You'll See - Mr. Wishing Well - On The Sidewalks Of New York - Get Out And Get Under The Moon - After The Ball Is Over - There Is A Tavern In The Town - On A Bicycle Built For Two - In The Good Old Summertime - That Sunday, That Summer - Our Old Home Town - Don't Forget - You Tell Me Your Dream - That's What They Meant - Wouldn't It Be Loverly? - I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face - I Could Have Danced All Night - With A Little Bit Of Luck - You Did It - Show Me - I'm An Ordinary Man - Hymn To Him - Get Me To The Church On Time - The Rain In Spain - On The Street Where You Live
CD 9: Silver Bird - My True Carrie Love - I Don't Want To Be Hurt Anymore - A Rag, A Bone, A Hank Of Hair - People - Let Me Tell You, Babe - Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes - You're Crying On My Shoulder - Was That The Human Thing To Do? - Only Yesterday - Road To Nowhere - Go, If You're Going - I'm Alone Because I Love You - Don't You Remember? - I'm All Cried Out - I Don't Want To See Tomorrow - You're My Everything - L-O-V-E - Wanderlust - Marnie - More And More Of Your Amore - The Ballad Of Cat Ballou - They Can't Make Her Cry - How I'd Love To Love You - Coquette (Little Coquette)
CD 10: More - Your Love - My Kind Of Girl - Thanks To You - There's Love - Swiss Retreat - The Girl From Ipanema - Three Little Words - No Other Heart - Je Ne Repartirai Pas (French version) - Les Feuilles Mortes (French version) - Le Bonheur C'est Quand On S'aime (French version) - Crois-Moi a Durera (French version) - Passing By (French version) - L-O-V-E (Italian version) - Tu Sei Cosi Amabile (Italian version) - Amor (Spanish version) - Tu Eres Tan Amable (Spanish version) - Muetterlein (German version) - L-O-V-E (German version) - I Don't Want To Be Hurt Anymore (Japanese version) - L-O-V-E (Japanese version) - Kareha (Japanese version)
CD 11: (The Overdubs) Magic Night - Is It Better To Have Loved And Lost? - Baby Blue - When It's Summer - You Are Mine - If I Knew - Looking Back - Take A Fool's Advice - Because You Love Me - Make It Last - Capuccina - Let True Love Begin (Let's Begin Again) - Magic Moment - Farewell To Arms - Happy New Year - Felicia - You'll See - Mr. Wishing Well - Silver Bird - People - Let Me Tell You, Babe - Marnie - No Other Heart - Unforgettable - Felicia - A Rag, A Bone, A Hank Of Hair - I Don't Want To See Tomorrow - Song Of Raintree Country

VARIOUS ARTISTS
West Indian Rhythm -Trinidad Calypsos on world and local events featuring the censored recordings 1938-1940
10-CD Boxed Set (LP-size) with 316-page hardcover book
BCD 16623 JM

HISTORIC CALYPSO AT ITS VERY BEST

There was no more cosmopolitan island in the world than Trinidad. Once under Spanish rule, it became a British colony. African, Spanish, French, British, American, even east Indian influences coalesced into the music. Then came New Orleans jazz. And then came some of the most insightful social commentary found in any music anywhere. Ever. It was an intoxicating musical cocktail that sometimes reached the mainland (as when Rum And Coca Cola became a hit or when Harry Belafonte popularized the music), but the REAL calypso music was rarely heard outside the islands or the Trinidadian enclaves of New York or London. Now Bear Family transports you back to Port of Spain, Trinidad during Carnival in 1938, 1939, and 1940.

Decca Records' commitment to Calypso seventy years ago was unbelievable. From 1935 until 1937, Decca brought Trinidad's greatest entertainers to New York for marathon sessions, but in 1938 they shipped recording equipment on a boat bound for Trinidad, and gave producer Ralph Perez carte blanche to record what would turn out to be the greatest library of calypso music ever recorded! Perez recorded new calypsos, old calypsos, topical songs, dance bands, Shango and Shouter Baptist hymns, carnival chants, stick-fighter songs, and much else. The quality, variety, depth and breadth of what he captured was so impressive that Decca sponsored return trips in 1939 and 1940 to expand its impressive Calypso catalog.

Some performances went unissued at the time, often because of restrictions imposed by local censors who became nervous when calypso bards turned to controversial and political topics. Calypso always thrived on scandal, and sought to tell the truth to power, and Decca faithfully captured whatever eluded the censor's grasp. These songs document sensational labor riots and ther political fallout, together with songs that capture the gathering storm that led to World War II. Closer to home, calypsonians addressed and described adulterers, chicken thieves, gossipers, peeping toms, prostitutes, and a bevy of colorful street brawlers with names like Joe Laugher, Greasy Pole, Gumbo Lai Lai.

Every single master but one has survived and has been assembled for this magnificent collection, and there's a substantial book with essays, photos, song texts, discography, and everything else you want and expect from an authoritative Bear Family collection. Calypso scholars John Cowley, Don Hill, Dick Spottswood and Lise Winer have prepared the book.

Just look at the list of titles and you'll get some idea of just how entertaining this music is!

35 previously unissued masters

CD 1:
CODALLO'S TOP HATTERS ORCHESTRA: Hold Your Hand Madam Khan - Bastardy - Ida, Ida Let Me Know - The History Of Man
HARMONY KINGS' ORCHESTRA: Sunny Grenada - Anything For Love - Don't Touch Me - Jack's Broth
THE CARESSER: Madam Khan - The More They Try To Do Me Bad
CODALLO'S TOP HATTERS ORCHESTRA: I Want To Build A Bungalow
THE LION: Excursion To Grenada - Ba Boo La La
ATILLA THE HUN: I Don't Want No Bungalow
CYRIL MONROSE STRING ORCHESTRA: Tres Bemoles
ATILLA THE HUN: Commission's Report
THE CARESSER: Joe Louis - Ruby Canera
THE LION: I Am Going To Buy A Bungalow - Emmalene
LORD EXECUTOR: Seven Skeletons Found In The Yard - My Troubles With Dorothy
THE CARESSER: Clear The Way When The Bamboo Play
JOE COGGINS: Me And My Neighbour Don't Agree
JOE COGGINS AND ZEDA: Will Dispute
RALPH FITZ SCOTT: Shout All Guiana - Why I Killed Winifred
CD 2:
HARMONY KINGS' ORCHESTRA: Li'l, Li'l Gal
LORD EXECUTOR: The Orphan Children
THE CARESSER: Rubina
HARMONY KINGS' ORCHESTRA: Back To Grenada
LORD EXECUTOR: The Lajebeless Woman
THE CARESSER: Theresa
JOE COGGINS: Show Me What You Could Do
RALPH FITZ SCOTT: The Bushwoman Come To Town
THE CARESSER: Lillian
LORD EXECUTOR: The Censoring Of Calypso Makes Us Glad
BLACK PRINCE: The Bamboo Band
THE CARESSER: Shango
ATILLA THE HUN: Deliso - Mr. Nankivell's Speech
THE CARESSER: Cicilia - Exploiting - My Wedding Celebration
BLACK PRINCE: School Boys' Adventure
ATILLA THE HUN: The Banning Of Records - West Indian Rhythm - The Governor's Resignation - The Horrors Of War
CYRIL MONROSE STRING ORCHESTRA: Victoria
ATILLA THE HUN: Jimpy's Ingratitude - Not Me With Matrimony
LORD EXECUTOR: The League Of Nations - Tobago's Scandal
CD 3:
ZEDA: Captain, Put Me Ashore
JOE COGGINS: Give Me Back My Ring
THE LION: Ancient Carnival - Hojoe - Sa Gomes' Emporiums - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie - Heroes Of Old - Vitalogy - I Am Happy To Be In Love
LORD EXECUTOR: Poppy Day - We Mourn The Loss Of Sir Murchison Fletcher
ATILLA THE HUN: The Strike - The Normandie
THE CARNIVAL'S VAGABONDS: We Want Sa Gomes
ATILLA THE HUN AND LORD EXECUTOR: The Drinker And The Gambler
LORD EXECUTOR: How I Spent My Time At The Hospital
FITZJAMES WILLIAMS' SEXTET: Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells - What Kind Of Shoes You Going To Wear
THE LION: When Me Body Lay Down In The Grave - Jonah, Come Out The Wilderness - Mamy Mine My Baby For Me - Ting A Ling Mi Bangola - African War Call
AL PHILIP IERE SYNCOPATORS: Play Mass, Don't Do Me That - Little Gal, Mother Is Calling You
ATILLA THE HUN: Fire Brigade - Archie Boulay
LORD EXECUTOR: They Say I Reign Too Long
CD 4:
ATILLA THE HUN: Manuelita
THE TIGER: The Beautiful Land Of Iere - Civil War In Spain - I Don't Want Them To Stand Me Bail - Next Door Neighbour
BLACK PRINCE: I Want A Radio At Home
ATILLA THE HUN: Where Was Butler?
THE LION: The Vendor's Song
THE LION AND ATILLA THE HUN: Guests Of Rudy Vallee
EMERY COURNARD SERENADERS: Why Me Craf Vex With Me (Why Me Neighbour Vex With Me) - Under The British Commander (The Gold In Africa)
THE LION: Tina
CODALLO'S TOP HATTERS ORCHESTRA: Tropical Heat
JOHN 'BUDDY' WILLIAMS AND HIS BLUE RHYTHM ORCHESTRA: Barre-A-Oh - Marian
THE LION: Girls Of Today - Man, Man, Man Peter
LORD EXECUTOR: Nellie Go Out Mi Door
THE TIGER: Down The Road - Darling Kimberlin - Senorita Panchita - Emilia
CYRIL MONROSE STRING ORCHESTRA: El suspiro del pobre
THE LION: Love Has Done For Me
ATILLA THE HUN AND LORD EXECUTOR: Jim Congo Myer
THE TIGER: Gertrude - Miss Marie's Advice
CD 5:
CODALLO'S TOP HATTERS ORCHESTRA: Lopez Contreras - Tierras Lejanas - Linda Vista - Mi Vida
THE GROWLER: Old Man - Only Foreigners - Calypso Behind The Wall - Too Botheration - History Of Woodbrook Vicinity
GEORGIE JOHNSON AND HIS RHYTHM KINGS: Happy Man
THE GROWLER: Hitler Demands - Bosie Darling - Trinidad Loves To Play Carnival - The Coldness Of The Water - In The Morning - Police Diplomacy - The Diamond Ring For Emmaline
LORD INVADER: Demasbar - Ten Thousand To Bar Me One
THE LION: Buddy Abraham
LORD EXECUTOR: They Talk About Nora's Badness - Who Has Done The Most For Humanity
ATILLA THE HUN: Love Me Emily - The Five Year Plan
THE CARESSER: Home Sweet Home - Time For Man Go Home - So Many Women
CD 6:
THE CARESSER: Fare Thee Well
THE LION: Woman Headache - Malicious Neighbors
LORD BEGINNER: After The Bacchanal - Chamberlain Says Peace - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning - Don't Tickle Me Dorothy
THE GROWLER: In The Dew And The Rain - I Don't Want No Calaloo
THE CARESSER: Mois La Travy - Peggy Dearie
THE LION: Death - Bee - Sweet Emily - Old Woman - Hooray Hurrah - Fire Girls - Elsie Jambie
KING RADIO: Elsie - Old Men Come Back Again - Matilda - John O'Carr - It's The Rhythm We Want
ATILLA THE HUN: The West Indian Sheik - Dem Policeman - La Belle Trinidad - Inequality Of Life
CD 7:
LORD EXECUTOR: My Life Of Matrimony
THE CARESSER: No Surrender - Fire, Fire In Port-of-Spain - If The Follow Me They Get Fever
ATILLA THE HUN: Freddo - La Reine Maribone
THE LION: Charming Trinidad
ATILLA THE HUN: Gabilan Bombay
LORD EXECUTOR: Alla Nom (Go Way Nan)
THE CARESSER: You Better Let Me Go - I Am Free, Single And Disengaged
LORD INVADER: Don't Stop The Carnival - Sofie Bellah
KING RADIO: Too Much Sorry And Pain
THE GROWLER: Joe Louis-Schmeling Fight - Soup In Bottle - High Brown
THE LION: Bad Woman Oh - Blow Wind Blow - Kash Kash Kmona - Customs Fire - The Power Of The Lion - Where Is My Sister This Morning - Ara Da Da
ATILLA THE HUN: Scorpion
LORD EXECUTOR: The New Shop Law - My Indian Girl Love
THE LION: Bing Crosby - Mama I Want It
CD 8:
GEORGE CABRAL: Memories Of Trinidad
THE CARESSER: Amanja Soqua Me
LORD EXECUTOR: Two Bad Men In The World - Gambo Lai Lai Before The Court
THE GROWLER: Leave Me Alone Dorothy - Advantageous Young Girls
PRETENDER: Adeline
BLACK PRINCE: You Felt Me Bundle Before The Dro
LORD ZIEGFIELD: Hitler
LORD INVADER: My Intention Is To Join The Volunteers - Hitler Demanded Trinidad - Romance In The Moonlight - Caro At Point Cumana - Ochro and Rice
THE LION: The Invasion Of Poland - Sir Neville Chamberlain - Hitler's Mistake
THE CARESSER: Freedom And Liberty - Clementina - Not So Carolina
ATILLA THE HUN: Finland
KING RADIO: My Impressions Of Demerara - Sedition Law - Two Sisters Scandal
LORD BEGINNER: Run Your Run Hitler
THE LION: Hitler's Attitude
GORILLA: Brambroocoo Dance - Appetite
CD 9:
THE TIGER: Let Them Fight For Ten Thousand Years
THE LION: Lion Oh - Carnival Revue
SA GOMES RHYTHM BOYS WITH CAMBULAY: Run Your Run Hitler
THE CARESSER: Do You Remember Me?
LORD BEGINNER: Second Hand Girls - Cocoa Tea Puzzle to Me
THE TIGER: No No No Miss Angeline - In My Own Native Land
THE GROWLER: When I Marry Dorothy
KING RADIO: Emily - Germany Invade Poland - Story Of Mr. Paul
MIGHTY DESTROYER: Leave Me Alone Dorothy - Matrimony Becomes a Papyshow
LORD ZIEGFIELD: Lillian's Slackness - Don't Worry With Me
THE GROWLER: Bertha I Feel You - No, No, Marie - Demi Gal - Nazi Spy Ring
THE LION: Deliso
THE TIGER: Ah Neighbours Neighbours
THE LION: Happy Land Of Canaan - Suzi-Qu - I Send My Wife To The Market - Shango Dance - Rada Dance
CD 10:
LUIS DANIEL QUINTANA (TROVADOR DE LA MEDIA NOCHE): La Vieja Mia
LORD EXECUTOR: Carnival Again - Sambo Why You Are Go
LUIS DANIEL QUINTANA (TROVADOR DE LA MEDIA NOCHE): Patria Preferida
ATILLA THE HUN: Gambie Law Ray - The Admiral Graf Spee - No Wedding Bells For Me - Li Li Pierrot Darrie - Send Hitler To St. Helena
LORD BEGINNER: Teener Have Sympathy
KING RADIO: The Guardian Contest - The War
THE GROWLER: Harold Change Your Mind - Women Diplomacy
THE LION: Orphan Home
THE TIGER: Ellis Nottingham
YOUNG PRETENDER: Policeman
LUIS DANIEL QUINTANA (TROVADOR DE LA MEDIA NOCHE): General Contreras

GENE SIMMONS: Drinkin' Wine - The Sun  Years, plus
BCD 16758-AH
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To most pop music fans and historians, Gene Simmons was a One-Hit Wonder. We know better. For nearly a decade before he hit the best-seller charts in 1964 with Haunted House, Gene had been writing songs, performing in scruffy beer joints, and laying down tracks at Sun's tiny studio on Union Avenue. Only one record was ever released on the original Sun label, but many of Gene's other Sun titles and alternate takes have appeared in haphazard fashion over the years as part of the never -ending cycle of Sun archaeology.

Finally, this collection brings together all the essentials of Gene's recording career at Sun Records. Every title he cut at 706 Union Avenue is here, many in multiple takes. From his earliest Tupelo demos to more polished studio work, these tapes reveal as never before the heavy influence of southern blues on Gene Simmons' music. They also showcase the distinctive lead guitar work provided by Gene's brother, Carl. New interview material by Sun historian Hank Davis helps to round out the fullest picture yet of this underrated artist. As a bonus, we also present the first three recordings Gene made across Memphis at the Hi Records Studio in 1959, two of which appeared on the Checker label. All in all, this is the most comprehensive look yet at one of Sun’s most enthusiastic rockabilly performers.

I Don't Love You Baby - I Done Told You (alt) - Drinkin' Wine (alt) - Juicy Fruit (alt-2) - If I'm Not Wanted (alt-2) - Peroxide Blond And Hopped Up Model Ford - Mom And Pop (alt-1) - Blues At Midnight - Down On The Border (alt-1) - Crazy Woman (alt - 1) - Chains Of Love - Shake, Rattle And Roll - Drinkin' Wine (Sun 299) - Money, Money, Money (alt-1) - I Done Told You (Sun 299) - Juicy Fruit (alt-1) - If I'm Not Wanted (alt-1) - Guitar Boogie - Mom And Pop (alt-2) - Drinkin' Scotch - I Done Told You (false start) - Money, Money, Money (alt-2) - Down On The Border (alt-2) - Crazy Woman (alt-2) - Juicy Fruit (alt-3) - The Shape You Left Me In - Bad Boy Willie - Going Back To Memphis

JOHNNY PAYCHECK aka DONNY YOUNG: Shakin' The Blues
BCD 16738-AH
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Most people remember outlaw country maverick Johnny Paycheck from his 1977 mega hit Take This Job And Shove It, and in recent years reissues have focused on his highly influential Little Darlin’ label recordings from the mid to late 1960s. But what a few collectors have known for years is that Johnny Paycheck cut some of his best records in the late 50s and early 60s under his original stage name of Donny Young.

For the first time, Bear Family has gathered together all of Donny Young’s recordings, from his Decca cuts with Owen Bradley producing, to his Mercury label tracks with George Jones' band providing the backing, to true obscurities from the Todd label, some of which are seeing the light of day for the first time here.

From the stomping Shakin’ The Blues on down to weepers like On Second Thought, Paycheck’s vocal mastery shines through, with a style that is said to have influenced George Jones, who was Paycheck’s boss at the time. Those who only know the gravely voiced Paycheck of the late 70s will be surprised to hear the soaring high voice he possessed in his early years. For those whose tastes run to hardcore honky-tonk and stone country of the late 50s and early 60s, this is as good as it gets. Don’t miss this long overdue retrospective on the early years of one of country music’s true stylists.

I Guess I Had It Coming - It's Been A Long, Long Time - On This Mountain Top - The Old Man And The River - Story Behind The Photograph - Pictures Can't Talk Back - Shakin' The Blues - Miracle Of Love - Go Ring The Bells - One Day A Week - I'm Out Of My Mind - Second Thought - Big Swamp Land - I'd Come Back To Me - Love Problems - Down To My Last Dime - Not Much I Don't - Don't You Get Lonesome Without Me - I'm Glad To Have Her Back Again - The Same Old Me - A Woman's Intuition - Why I'm Walkin' - Accidentally On Purpose - Above And Beyond - Your Old Used To Be - Window Up Above - Heart Over Mind - Hello Walls - I Love You Best Of All

GENE VINCENT: The Ballads Of
BCD16846-AR
CD Digipac

Gene Vincent will always be remembered as the Screaming End - the tortured rock 'n' roll singer who rocked harder than anyone in the mid-1950s. What people tend to forget is that Gene had another side, a sweet high voice that lent itself well to ballad material. He grew up with country music and classic pop, and that background comes through on these rarely-heard recordings. From his first session in 1956 until one of his last in 1971, this collection showcases some of the best ballads Vincent ever recorded, from Important Words to Over The Rainbow and The Night Is So Lonely and many more. When the right mood hits you, this collection will send chills down your spine, so enjoy this other side of Gene Vincent!

I Sure Miss You - Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) - Up A Lazy River - Unchained Melody - Important Words (version 1) - Wear My Ring - In My Dreams - You Belong To Me - Keep It A Secret - Peace Of Mind - Now Is The Hour - Lonesome Boy - You Are The One For Me - Maybe - My Heart - The Night Is So Lonely - Over The Rainbow - Weeping Willow - There I Go Again (Whoops I'm Dreaming) - Love Of A Man - Where Have You Been All My Life - Lavender Blue - Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) - Hi-Lili Hi Lo - Lonely Street - Scarlet Ribbons - The Rose Of Love - Distant Drums

THE MADDOX BROS & ROSE: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight - Ugly And Slouchy
BCD 16796-AH
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One of the most important and influential groups in the "bawdy birthing" of rock 'n' roll, the Maddox Bros & Rose were a family band that ruled the West Coast in the 1940s and 1950s. Headed by Rose Maddox and featuring her feisty vocals, the Maddox Bros & Rose recorded everything from pure hillbilly to Western songs to wild rockabilly. The Maddox Bros & Rose counted among their fans Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, all of whom took lessons on flashy "rock star" behavior from the family group described as "the most colorful hillbilly band in America." Bear Family have finally made the best compilation of the group for fans of rockabilly and uptempo hillbilly. All killer no filler! This collection of Columbia recordings from the 1950s includes their wildest rockabilly number The Death Of Rock And Roll, along with hillbilly boogie classics like Ugly And Slouchy, Dig A Hole, Paul Bunyan Love, and Rose Maddox solo recordings like Wild Wild Young Men and I'll Go Steppin' Too. If you like hillbilly music on the rough and rowdy side, this is a compilation you don’t dare miss!

Wild Wild Young Men - I'll Make Sweet Love To You - No Help Wanted - Hearts And Flowers - Ugly And Slouchy - I'm A Little Red Caboose (On The Choo Choo Train Of Love) - Kiss Me Quick And Go - The Time Is Spring - Hey Little Dreamboat - You Won't Believe This - Fountain Of Youth - I Wonder If I Can Lose The Blues This Way - Paul Bunyan Love - I've Got Four Big Brothers (To Look After Me) - I Gotta Go Get My Baby - No More Time - The Hoot-Owl Melody - Looky There Over There - I'll Find Her - Old Black Choo-Choo - Tall Man - I'll Go Steppin' Too - Love Is Strange - Did You Ever Come Home - Old Man Blues - A Short Life And Its Troubles - Stop Whistlin' Wolf - Dig A Hole - Let Me Love You - The Death Of Rock And Roll

FARON YOUNG: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight  - Hi-Tone Poppa
BCD 16801-AH
CD

Country Music Hall Of Fame singer Faron Young had a long career, from Hank Williams style soundalikes on his first records in the early 1950s, to crooning country pop ballads in the 1960s and 1970s. Although the commercially minded Faron probably would object, his finest recordings are his country boogie songs from the mid 1950s, including Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young, I’ve Got Five Dollars And It’s Saturday Night, and I’m Gonna Live Some Before I Die. All are included here on this compilation of his most uptempo recordings, from the superb country boogie tunes mentioned above, to his rockabilly recordings from the late 50s and great country shuffles from the late 50s and early 60s. You'll hear everything from his first hit Goin' Steady on up to his biggest hit Hello Walls, and everything in between, with an emphasis on the fast, rocking and harder edged songs - so if you want a Faron collection that omits the country weepers and gets right down to Honky Tonkin’, this is the one for you!

Alone With You - If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') - A Place For Girls Like You - Just Married - Honey Stop! (And Think Of Me) - Goin' Steady - Hi-Tone Poppa - That's What I'd Do For You - Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - I'm Gonna Tell Santa Claus On You - Snowball - Go Back, You Fool - Hot Rod Shotgun Boogie, No. 2 - It's A Great Life (If You Don't Weaken) - All Right - I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night - Sweet Dreams - Rosalie (Is Gonna Get Married) - Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way - I'm A Poor Boy - I'm Gonna Live Some Before I Die - That's The Way It's Gotta Be - I Can't Dance - I Made A Fool Of Myself - That's The Way I Feel - Last Night At A Party - I Hate Myself (For Falling In Love With You) - When It Rains It Pours - Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy - Hello Walls - I Hear You Talkin' - Goin' Steady

VARIOUS ARTISTS: One More Record Please
BCD 16788-AR
CD Digipac

It’s hard to imagine, but before another generation goes by, the subject matter of this collection will pass into history. Songs about phonograph records. Making them, buying them, playing them and measuring the stages of our lives by them. These are the topics of the songs on this collection. Records were part of our lives. Everyone bought them. Some of us brought them to parties or listened to them with our friends. Others listened to records alone, drawing the power of the music into our personal lives. Many of us played the jukebox or listened nightly as disc jockeys played the hits of the day. We even wrote or phoned the radio station to request our favorite songs. A few of those disc jockeys made their own preferences known when they tried to save the world from rock 'n' roll; they made news by breaking records over the air rather than playing them.

For us, records were more than disposable pieces of popular culture. We sought out records and collected them. A thin piece of shellac or vinyl became a source of pleasure or excitement. The mere act of finding or owning a record became a matter of pride. Gradually, phonograph records became more than the music that was stamped on to them. The look of the labels, themselves, became additional sources of pleasure. A Sun 78 with that wonderful rooster who didn’t make it onto the 45s. An early buff-colored Bluebird label.

The quest for records meant more than a trip to our neighborhood record store. For many of us it meant visits to yard sales and flea markets. Vacations were planned around record hunting trips. A rare find meant bragging rights. Not just about the music – but about the records.

The songs on this collection celebrate the world of phonograph records across five decades of country and rockabilly music. It was a world we took for granted while it was here, and one that is disappearing before our eyes. The changes have happened very quickly. Technology won't stand still.

And now we have arrived at a generation of people who barely know what a record is. Music is no longer something you buy. It is something you download. It's become a lot more efficient in terms of storage but it's also become a lot less romantic in the process. That's what is being lost with the cold march of technology. Many of us remember the first 78 we bought. The first 45. The first LP. Will today's teenagers talk as fondly about the first MP3 they ever downloaded? Every individual involved in the production of this collection and everyone who buys this disc is part of a family. We may grow smaller in number and older each year but we are still a visible minority. Just by owning and playing this record (CD) we celebrate the values and experiences we share. We help to keep them alive.

Billy Walker: The Record
Margie Singleton: Old Records
Sandie Selsie: Gonna Get Some Records
Jimmy Strickland: Gonna Buy Me A Record That Cries
Betty Cody: Phonograph Record
Bob Denton: I'm Sending You This Record
Charlie Monroe: It's Only A Phonograph Record
Mac Wiseman: 45s And 8x10
Tom Tall: Stack-A- Records
Tommy Collins: Ernest Tubb 78s
Charles Senns: Dig Me A Crazy Record
Bruce Culver: Square Record
Kenny Loran: One More Record Please
Willie Nelson: Mr. Record Man
Merle Haggard: Please Mr. DJ
Carol Jarvis: Dee Jay With A Broken Heart
Floyd Tillman: The Record Goes Round And Round
George Morgan: Lonesome Record
Joyce Moore: Don't Play Number Ten (On The Juke-Box Tonight)
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper: Don't Play That Song (On The Juke Box Tonight)
Vernon Oxford: Turn The Record Over
Carson Robison: Making A Record, Parts 1 & 2
Jon & Sondra Steele: They All Recorded To Beat The Ban
Art Gibson: No More Records
Skeets Yaney: Play That Old Song Again

MAC WISEMAN: On Susan's Floor
BCD 16736-DK
4-CD Box Set (LP size) with 60-page hardcover book

These were, in many ways, MAC WISEMAN's golden years. He was bringing his music to a worldwide audience and recording many of the songs for which he became well known at home and overseas. This 4-CD retrospective of his career from 1965 to 1979 begins with his ultra-rare Canadian LP for his own Wise Records, featuring his first recordings of Molly Bawn and Bringing Mary Home. Then within the space of a few weeks he recorded a 20-song LP of vintage country, bluegrass, and folk songs for Rural Rhythm together with three conceptualized LPs for Dot, including a bluegrass LP with the OSBORNE BROTHERS. All are here complete, reissued for the first time.

After one single on MGM, Mac signed a long-term contract with RCA, and was produced by the legendary Cowboy Jack Clement. Under Jack's guidance, he recorded songs like On Susan's Floor, It Rains Just The Same In Missouri, and Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill as well as novelty songs like Johnny's Cash And Charley's Pride and You Can't Go In The Red Playing Bluegrass. At the same time, Mac was recording LPs that featured the best of Nashville's new songwriters together with established favorites from long ago. As a postscript this box also includes Mac's recordings for Churchill Records between 1977 and 1979, featuring his hit single of My Blue Heaven with big band leader Woody Herman, as well as some of the most challenging songs he ever recorded.

Today, Mac Wiseman is one of the few survivors from the early days of bluegrass. He connects the music to the folk and parlor songs that preceded it, and sings with the same unaffected sincerity. That's why so many generations know him as THE VOICE WITH A HEART.

In addition, this exclusive set includes 114 recordings, plus an extensive hardcover book with an essay by Colin Escott that includes interviews with Mac, as well as a complete discography and many previously unpublished photos.

CD 1: Maple Sugar Sweetheart - Bringing Mary Home - Legend Of The Irish Rebel - The Ghost Of Bras D'or - Prince Edward Island Is Heaven To Me - What A Waste Of Good Cornlikker - My Nova Scotia Home - When Its Apple Blossom Time In Annapolis Valley - My Molly Bawn - Atlantic Lullaby - My Cape Breton Home - Pistol Packin' Preacher - Wreck Of The Old 97 - Little Mohee - Corinna, Corinna - Sittin' On Top Of The World - How Many Biscuits Can You Eat - Ring Those Golden Bells - I Saw Your Face In The Moon - I'll Be All Smiles Tonight - The Waltz You Saved For Me - Just Over In The Gloryland - My Grandfather's Clock - Little Blossom - There's More Pretty Girls Than One - Rovin' Gambler - Sourwood Mountain - Midnight Special - Mary Of The Wildmoor - The Black Sheep - Bringing In The Georgia Mail - Turkey In The Straw
CD 2: We Live In Two Different Worlds - Tragic Romance - I'll Be All Smiles Tonight - This Is Where I Came In - You're The Best Of All The Leading Brands - Don't Make Me Go To Bed And I'll Be Good - The Bluebirds Are Singing For Me - New Black Suit - How Lonely Can You Get - Since The Day You Went Away - Darling Little Joe - A Million, Million Girls - The Letter That Never Came - Wreck Of The C&O #5 - The Black Sheep - The Legend Of The Haunted Woods - Put My Little Shoes Away - The Letter Edged In Black - Ballad Of The Lawson Family - The East Bound Train - My Mother's Old Sunbonnet - May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister - Molly Bawn - White Silver Sands - When It's Springtime In The Rockies - Little Bird - You're The Only Star In My Blue Heaven
CD 3: A Maiden's Prayer - Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight - At The Rainbow's End - Lonely City Park - This Is Where I Came In - Me And My Memory - The Isle Of Capri - Forever And Ever - Got Leavin' On Her Mind - She Simply Left - The Things You Have Turned To - Johnny's Cash And Charley's Pride - Mama, Put Your Little Shoes Away - Crystal Chandelier - All I Have To Offer You (Is Me) - Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill - Ring Of Fire - Me And Bobby McGee - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen - Guess Things Happen That Way - The Day The World Stood Still - The Easy Part's Over - Big River - The Little Folks - Sweet Sadness - I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand - I'd Rather Live By The Side Of The Road - Sing Little Birdie - Colours
CD 4: Song Of The Wildwood - At The Crossroad - Let Time Be Your Friend - On Susan's Floor - Let's All Go Down To The River - Sunny Side Of The Mountain - Eight More Miles To Louisville - Keep On The Sunny Side - Will The Circle Be Unbroken - A Tragic Romance - It Rains Just The Same In Missouri - City Of New Orleans - Catfish John - You Can't Go In The Red Playin' Bluegrass - It Comes And Goes - Dixie Hummer - I've Got To Catch That Train - Never Going Back Again - Goodbye Mexico Rose - Dancing Bear - Scotch And Soda - Me And The Boys - Two Hundred Dollars - 45s – 8x10s - My Blue Heaven (& Woody Herman) - If I Could Be With You (It Must Be True) (& Woody Herman)

ROGER MILLER: A Man  Like Me - The Early Years Of Roger Miller
BCD 16760-AH
CD

Everybody knows Roger Miller's Mercury Records hits of the 1960s, like King Of The Road, Dang Me, Chug-A-Lug, etc. Some even know about his pre-Mercury recordings for RCA (especially those who bought Bear Family's 'King Of The Road' CD), but before now, there hasn't been a comprehensive collection of his very first recordings. In fact, no one was even sure who he'd recorded for and when…until Bear Family began researching!

Bear Family once again steps up to the plate, providing a complete picture of the early years of Miller's career, from his 1957 first recordings for Starday, through his two Decca singles in 1959, to his 'sound-alike' recordings he did for Starday in 1960, this is essential listening for fans of real honky -tonk country music.

Miller was a country songwriter of the highest caliber, and these sides may reveal a side of him that you didn't know before. Songs like A Man Like Me and The Wrong Kind Of Girl are some of the best country music to come out of Nashville in the 1950s.

You're Forgetting Me - My Pillow - Can't Stop Loving You - Poor Little John - A Man Like Me - The Wrong Kind Of Girl - Sweet Ramona - Jason Fleming - Country Girl - I Ain't Never - Under Your Spell Again - Jimmie Brown The Newsboy - Who Shot Sam - Playboy - Hot Rod Lincoln - I Wish I Could Fall In Love Today - The Tip Of My Fingers

JACK SCOTT: Jack Rocks
BCD 16841-AR
CD Digipac

Jack Scott was…in every sense…a classic rock 'n' roll artist, and this new release in our equally classic 'Rocks' series is the absolutely, positively definitive collection of Jack Scott's rock 'n' roll numbers! From Leroy to Baby She's Gone to The Way I Walk and many more, this disc showcases the rocking side of Detroit's finest rock 'n' roller. Greasers all over the world love Jack's tough guy stance and menacing vocal delivery, so this is the disc to play at the next rumble!

Includes all of Jack's best rockers from his 1957 ABC-Paramount debut to his classic Carlton and Top Rank material to his quick stab with Capitol Records to his 'greasers' last stand' rockers of 1966 for RCA and Groove.

Leroy - Two Timin' Woman - Goodbye Baby - Go Wild Little Sadie - I Never Felt Like This - The Way I Walk - Midgie - Save My Soul - Baby She's Gone - Geraldine - What Am I Living For - Baby, Baby - Good Deal Lucille - Cruel World - Lonesome Mary - Patsy - Found A Woman - One Of These Days - True True Love - Strange Desire - Grizzily Bear - Meo Myo - Wiggle On Out - Flakey John - The Road Keeps Winding - Greaseball

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Eat To The Beat - The Dirtiest Of The Dirty Blues
CD Digipac with 92-page booklet
BCD 16816 AS

Annisteen Allen & Her Home Town Boys: I Wanta Man (Who's Gonna Do Right)
Dirty Red: Mother Fuyer
Dinah Washington: Long John Blues
Tom Archia: Fishin' Pole
Cousin Joe With Pete Brown's Brooklyn Blue Blowers: Weddin' Day Blues
Amos Milburn: Hard Driving Blues
Crown Prince Waterford: Move Your Hand, Baby
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends: Don't Come Too Soon
Wynonie Harris: I Like My Baby's Pudding
The Dominoes: Sixty Minute Man
Bullmoose Jackson: Big Ten-inch Record
The Clovers: Rotten **********'s Ball
Dave Bartholomew & His Orchestra: My Ding-A-Ling
The Treniers: Poon-Tang!
Jesse Powell & His Orchestra; Fluffy Hunter: vocal: The Walkin' Blues (Walk Right In, Walk Right Out)
The '5' Royales with Charlie 'Little Jazz' Ferguson & His Orchestra: Laundromat Blues
Wynonie Harris with Todd Rhodes Orchestra: Keep On Churnin'
Dinah Washington: Big Long Slidin' Thing
The Blenders: Don't **** Around With Love
Dorothy Ellis: Drill Daddy Drill
The Royals: Work With Me, Annie
The Toppers: (I Love To Play Your Piano) Let Me Bang Your Box
Jackie Wilson & Lavern Baker: Think Twice (Version X)
Snatch & The Poontangs; Two-Time Slim: vocal: Hard Driving Blues
Chick Willis: Stoop Down Baby
Boozoo Chavis: L.A. Women Love Uncle Bud
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Bite It
Fred Wolff Combo: Somebody Else

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BCD 16340 BK
Various Artists
Cotton Club - A 2-CD set with a big book, rare recordings and rare pictures. Run by the underworld and patronised by New York's high society, the Cotton Club was the focal point of the Harlem Renaissance. Now an important new Bear Family release takes you back there. During the night of April 20-21, 1931, a German commentator broadcast live from the Cotton Club, but the recordings lay dormant in the vaults, until they were discovered and identified by John Hammond’s former assistant, Michael Brooks. The show is musically fascinating and ranks among the earliest surviving sound documents of German radio.

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BCD 16674 AH
Various Artists
Spanish EyesTo celebrate the eightieth anniversary of Bert Kaempfert's birth, we feature 20-plus recordings of Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples), and document the interesting story of how the song was recorded, and marketed. In addition to the well-known recordings by Al Martino, Bert Kaempfert and Freddy Quinn, we hear Engelbert, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathi