RED HOT R&B, C&W & ASSORTED PRE-ELVIS GEMS HERALD THE BIRTH OF ROCK'N'ROLL

STEP IT UP AND GO!: TEARING UP THE ROOTS OF ROCK 'N' ROLL Cat. No: PRCD 150 CD - £9.99

TRACKLISTING Disc 1 1. Dig These Blues THE FOUR CLEFS 2. Step It Up And Go THE BLACK CATS & A KITTEN 3. Sittin' On Top Of The World BOB WILLS 4. Little Bittie Gal's Blues JOE TURNER 5. Ee-Bob-A-Liba BIG JIM WYNN 6. Daddy's Got The Deep Elem Blues JIMMIE REVARD 7. I Want My Lovin' ARTHUR CRUDUP 8. Everybody's Boogie WYNONIE HARRIS 9. I Gotta Have You RED FOLEY & ROBERTA LEE 10. Freight Train Boogie THE DELMORE BROTHERS 11. I've Been Your Dog (Ever Since I've Been Your Man) THE MOONGLOWS 12. Snatchin' It Back MARGIE DAY 13. Honky Tonk Baby HARDROCK GUNTER 14. Get Lost THE DU-DROPPERS 15. Rock Me Baby JOHNNY OTIS ORCHESTRA 16. Dig'n And Datin' GENE HENSLEE 17. Yes Baby JOHNNY ACE & BIG MAMA THORNTON 18. All Shook Out MOOHAH 19. The Way You're Treatin' Me JIM GATLIN 20. It's You I Love RUDY GREEN 21. Eat 'Em Up EDDIE CARTER QUINTET 22. I'm A Little Red Caboose (On The Choo Choo Train Of Love) ROSE MADDOX 23. Rockin' Chair On The Moon BILL HALEY & THE SADDLEMEN 24. But Officer! SONNY KNIGHT 25. Ol' Man River THE RAVENS 26. Gee THE CROWS 27. Red Light MERRILL MOORE Disc 2 1. Corrine, Corrina BOB WILLS 2. Yes Indeed! MOM'S MABLEY & THE ORIOLES 3. One Sweet Letter From You ANNIE LAURIE & PAUL GAYTEN 4. Jersey Rock ZEB TURNER 5. Boogie Woogie Baby Of Mine BOB BURTON 6. Crazy Man Crazy RALPH MARTIERI 7. Ooh Look-A There Ain't She Pretty THE TRENIER TWINS 8. Teardrops From My Eyes LOUIS JORDAN 9. Caldonia CHUCK WILLIS 10. Crawfishin' CLARENCE GARLOW 11. Please Louise WYNONIE HARRIS 12. I Done It MOON MULLICAN 13. Motorhead Baby CHUCK HIGGINS 14. False Hearted Girl TENNESSEE ERNIE & ELLA MAE MORSE 15. I'll Be True FAYE ADAMS 16. Oh Babe LOUIS PRIMA 17. Feelin' Happy JOE TURNER 18. Forty Cups Of Coffee DANNY OVERBEA 19. 13 Women & One Man DICKIE THOMPSON 20. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie KENNY ROBERTS 21. Hello Little Boy RUTH BROWN 22. It Should've Been Me RAY CHARLES 23. Long Gone Daddy LOU GRAHAM 24. Move It On Over HANK WILLIAMS 25. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie THE TRENIERS 26. Rock The Joint BILL HALEY & THE SADDLEMEN 27. Rock Around The Clock SONNY DAE & HIS KNIGHTS

The post-war years leading up to the arrival of Rock'n'Roll provided jukeboxes and airwaves alike with a rich and varied menu. The US, with its distinctive regional identities, was fertile ground for that diversity be it jazz-tinged R&B from Northern cities like Chicago, Texas Western Swing, Hillbilly straight from the backwoods of Arkansas or the soul-drenched Blues of the rural South. The fusion of predominantly black R&B and white C&W would later give rise to a unique new sound - Rock'n'Roll. That it was able to fuse at all is remarkable, and this CD explores the ground-breaking recordings and artists which led up to its birth. Reading like a role call of honour - Hank Williams, Chuck Willis, Ray Charles, Joe Turner, Ruth Brown, Bob Wills, Wynonie Harris, Louis Jordan, Moon Mullican, Bill Haley - every one played their part in changing the face of popular music and, with the boundaries blurred, never again would it be so easy to pigeon-hole. Of special interest to collectors will be the original recording of Rock Around The Clock, the song most often credited as having put Rock'n'Roll well and truly on the map, and celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2004.