Train Of Love - Johnny Cash
Where'd You Stay Last Night - Ray Harris
That Ain't It - Rock Rogers (Leon Payne)
Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte
The Girl I Love - Cadillacs
I Asked For Water - Howlin' Wolf
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! - Johnny Otis
Lonely Avenue - Ray Charles
Hot Dog Buddy Buddy - Bill Haley & Comets
Breath Of Air - Squires
Tough Mama - Nitecaps
Christmas In Jail - Youngsters
Honey Chile - Fats Domino
Let's Do The Boogie - BB King
Sweet Lorraine - Mellows
Heartbreak Hotel - Thumper Jones
Down In The Bottom - Rockers
In The Middle Of The House - Rusty Draper
Mister Whiz - Jerry Reed
Don't Be Cruel (stereo) - Elvis
Waiting For Your Call - Fi-Tones
Meet Me Half Way - Arbee Stidham
Baby, Baby, Oh My Darling - Clovers
Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day
Pappa Shotgun - Billy Stafford
You're Mine Oh Mine - Bobby & Ronald
Don't You Know - Johnny Ace
Rockin' Around - Ernie Freeman
Miss O'Malley's Rally - George "Harmonica" Smith (Little Walter)
You Gotta Go - Kinglets
Yes It's You - Little Margie
Rock Rock Rock -Jimmy Cavello & House Rockers
Let 'Er Roll - Sid King & Five Strings
What Kinda Man Is This - Jake Porter & Combo-Nets
Forgive Me, Clawdy - Lloyd Price
I Need Someone - Amos Milburn
Slippin' And Slidin' - Little Richard
No, No, No, No - James Brown
Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Rosemary Clooney
Draggin' - Curtis Gordon
You're Gone - Rudy Grayzell
Look What You Done To Me - Emery Blades
Find A New Woman - Arnold Parker
Your Imagination - Sonny Boy Williamson
My Sweet Norma Lee - Limelighters
Moore Boogie - Abe Moore
Rock 'n' Roll Drive-In - Fatso Theus & Flairs
I Can't Believe - Ravens
Margie - Supremes
It Hurts Me, Too - Jimmy Nolen
Crying For You Baby - Barons

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <SavoyBG@aol.com>
wrote:

Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte

Always liked this song but I agree the extra vocal LP original is
warmer and makes the 45rRPM version sound rather sterile in comparison

Heartbreak Hotel - Thumper Jones

Recorded two months after Elvis did it this was George Jones first
outing as the rock 'n roller "Thumper" . It first appears on a Dixie
label EP later in 1956 (that also contains his versions of "Blue Suede
Shoes" and "Folsom Prison Blues"). Pretty good version but Elvis rules
with this one

Down In The Bottom - Rockers

I still have nightmares about this great little number I nominated for
the March 2019 Obscuritiess contest coming in second to your Little
Hoe & Thrillers' "This I Know".

Then waking up and finding it was true :-(

In The Middle Of The House - Rusty Draper

Whadya have to go spoiil my day for!!!

I dislike this song in any version intensely and always turned the
radio down back in the day whenever it got played

Que Sera, Sera - Doris Day

Pleasant enough song that I'm always surprised was chosen by Hitchcock
to feature in his great remake (of his own) "The Man Who Knew Too
Much" in which La Doris also acts. And quite well she does too

Rock Rock Rock -Jimmy Cavello & House Rockers

Unsurprisingly this is the title song from the movie of that name
which IMO is the only serious rival to "The Girl Can't Help It" in the
best of the 1950's rock 'n' roll movies stakes

Draggin' - Curtis Gordon

One of the best of his several rockabilly items and one thas was
chosen for the brilliant "Mercury Rockabillies" compilation album over
here in 1975. Also included was another favorite of mine "Sittin' On
Top" (same song as recorded by Carl Perkins later for his 1958
Columbia LP). The only Gordon single to appea on these shores ewas the
rather maudlin "Sixteen" in 1957

Margie - Supremes

I remember reading a George Moonogian piece about these guys back in
the day in one of the old doowop magazines. I remember him saying this
record was only pressed in small quantity (200 IIRC) on the Kitten
label and tha t the guys all hailed from Massachusetts. Good little
number by a group not to be confused with the "Just For You And I"
Supremes on Ace and definitely not with those Motown gals

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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Heartbreak Hotel - Thumper Jones

Recorded two months after Elvis did it this was George Jones first
outing as the rock 'n roller "Thumper" . It first appears on a Dixie
label EP later in 1956 (that also contains his versions of "Blue Suede
Shoes" and "Folsom Prison Blues").

Did not know that. Just listened to both on Youtube. "BSS" stinks," he's accenting the wrong syllables throughout. "FPB" is better, but still not so great. It doesn't even have the right type of break.

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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte

Always liked this song but I agree the extra vocal LP original is
warmer and makes the 45rRPM version sound rather sterile in comparison

Agree with what? I think the 45 version is much better. It was my last song of the night many times when I was listening to music in the wee hours of the morning. The LP version is a 7, the 45 version is a 9.

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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Down In The Bottom - Rockers

I still have nightmares about this great little number I nominated for
the March 2019 Obscuritiess contest coming in second to your Little
Joe & Thrillers' "This I Know".

Can't blame me, I put my own record last in the finals and it still won.

Draggin' - Curtis Gordon

One of the best of his several rockabilly items and one thas was
chosen for the brilliant "Mercury Rockabillies" compilation album over
here in 1975.

Yes, I played the hell out of some tracks on that album. That's where I became a big fan of the 3 Billy Wallace tracks AND of "Flip Flop Mama" by Eddie Bond.

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:38:03 -0800 (PST), Bruce <SavoyBG@aol.com>
wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Draggin' - Curtis Gordon

One of the best of his several rockabilly items and one thas was
chosen for the brilliant "Mercury Rockabillies" compilation album over
here in 1975.

Yes, I played the hell out of some tracks on that album. That's where I became a big fan of the 3 Billy Wallace tracks AND of "Flip Flop Mama" by Eddie Bond.

One of my partners in Moondog's had some pull with Phonogram Records
in London and helped in cmpiling that album. He also worked on the
Chess Rockabillies set

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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 10:46:23 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:28:38 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte

Always liked this song but I agree the extra vocal LP original is
warmer and makes the 45rRPM version sound rather sterile in comparison

Agree with what? I think the 45 version is much better. It was my last song of the night many times when I was listening to music in the wee hours of the morning. The LP version is a 7, the 45 version is a 9.

You specified "LP version". What am I supposed to think?

I said at the start that the playlist is everything I have from 1956 that is a 6 or better. Did you also think that I preferred the alternate of "Boppin' The Blues?" The 45 version of "JF" will come up eventually. As will the regular version of "Rubber
Biscuit," although in that case I DO prefer the alternate. It's got the tenor big in the background and the released version does not.

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:28:38 -0800 (PST), Bruce <SavoyBG@aol.com>
wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:

Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte

Always liked this song but I agree the extra vocal LP original is
warmer and makes the 45rRPM version sound rather sterile in comparison

Agree with what? I think the 45 version is much better. It was my last song of the night many times when I was listening to music in the wee hours of the morning. The LP version is a 7, the 45 version is a 9.

You specified "LP version". What am I supposed to think?

As I said I like the fuller sound LP version much better but neither
of them get anywhere near 9. LP a high 7 45 a lowrer 7


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On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:54:32 -0800 (PST), Bruce <SavoyBG@aol.com>
wrote:

On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 10:46:23 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:28:38 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>
wrote:=20
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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 3:16:22 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:=20

On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 13:34:36 -0800 (PST), Bruce <Sav...@aol.com>=20
wrote:=20

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Jamaica Farewell (LP version) - Harry Belafonte=20

Always liked this song but I agree the extra vocal LP original is=20
warmer and makes the 45rRPM version sound rather sterile in comparison= >=20

=20
Agree with what? I think the 45 version is much better. It was my last s= >ong of the night many times when I was listening to music in the wee hours = >of the morning. The LP version is a 7, the 45 version is a 9.=20

You specified "LP version". What am I supposed to think?=20

I said at the start that the playlist is everything I have from 1956 that i= >s a 6 or better. Did you also think that I preferred the alternate of "Bopp= >in' The Blues?" The 45 version of "JF" will come up eventually. As will th= >e regular version of "Rubber Biscuit," although in that case I DO prefer th= >e alternate. It's got the tenor big in the background and the released vers= >ion does not.

Okay now I understand.

Personally I only list the version I like best of any given number
like say Jerry Lee's LP version of "It'll Be Me" I still like the
45rpm of course but the alternate is better. As it is with several
other things



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On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 11:33:27 AM UTC-5, Roger Ford wrote:

Personally I only list the version I like best of any given number

Same here, but this is not my yearly list. This is everything in my MP3 "library" from 1956 that is a 6 or better. I have lots of other stuff from 1956 that I don't file in the library, such as everything that made the BB pop, country, and R&B charts
from that year. Lots of the pop and country did not make it into the library, but are still on the computer in a directory. Generally I only put things hat get a 5 (pretty good) or better into the library, but sometimes there are things below a 5 if they
are by artists I care about, or are significant historically, or are important hits.

For example, some fours from 1956 that are in the library include "It Only Hurts For A Little While" and "A Crazy Little Palace" and "When You're Sincere and "I Make Believe" by McPhatter. There's a 3 in there that I just spotted, "Drifting Heart" by
Chuck.

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