As y'all already know, so many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only "originated" this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black Rhythm and Blues music was suddenly re-named "Rock and Roll" to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Once again, some tunes are pretty well-known, but the vast majority are not. Chances are that you never-ever heard a lot of the tracks included here - even if a lot of them were pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this new series (just like the first one) were actually household names in the "Rock and Roll World" of the '50s and early '60s. When Rock & Roll history was re-written from a strictly white rock standpoint only a few black rockers were included (maybe less than a dozen) when actually back in the day almost every African-American R&B act (maybe a MILLION or more) was actually Rock & Roll and white artists were actually a minority for a long time. So "BLACK" by popular demand here's to you "MORE Boss Black Rockers." DIG IT!
01. Tony Harris – Chicken, Baby, Chicken (Harris) Ebb 104 1957
02. Bobby Brookes – Looka, Looka, Looka (Feaster, Vignolo) Carlton 515 1959
03. Otis Riley – Rock and Roll Riley (Riley) Kappa KA208 1958
04. Prentice Moreland – Come On Pretty Baby (McKelvey, York) Challenge 9181 1963
05. Eddie Daniels – Hug Me, Kiss Me (Daniels, Laboe) Starla S-9 1958
06. Neil Darrow with The Quarter Notes – She’s A Fine Chick (Sperry) Wizz 717 1959
07. Chuck Grey – Rock And Roll Is In My Soul (Greenwood) Fable F-616 1958
08. Titus Turner – Hold Your Loving (Snelson, Turner) King 5095 1957
09. Don and Dewey – Justine (Harris, Terry) Speciality 631 1958
10. Mae Mercer – Great Googa Mooga (McCoy) Atlas 1207-3 1960
11. Jackie Wilson – You Better Know It (Wilson, Henry) Brunswick 9-55149 1959
12. Earl Gaines – Now Do You Hear (Hardison, Jarrett) Champion 1001 1958
13. Phil Flowers – No Kissing At The Hop (Davis, Flowers) Wing 2100X45 1958
14. The Jewels – Goin’ Goin’ Gone (Jackson) Imperial X5387 1956
15. H-Bomb Ferguson – Mary Little Mary (Shubert) Federal 45-12411 1961
16. Hannah Dean – Itty Bitty Love (Clayton) Columbia 4-41768 1960
17. Little Joe Hinton – Lets Start A Romance (Hinton) Arvee 5029 1961
18. Roy Wright – No Haps (Wright) Drexel D-912 1957
19. Leonard Johnson – The Bug (Hawkins) Arvee 576 1959
20. Eugene Church – Mind Your Own Business (Church) King 5545 1961
21. Teddy Humphries – Guitar Pickin’ Fool (Glover) King 5182 1959
22. Johnny Johnson – Great Cooga-Mooga (Johnson) Assault 1830 1962
23. King Perry – Come Back Baby (Perry) Trylyte 4001 1956
24. Kenny and Moe (The Blues Boys) – So Long I’m Gone (Ballard, Pelham, Lucie) Deluxe 45-6154 1957
25. The Pyramids – Shakin’ Fit (Saunders, Davis) Vee Jay 489 1963
26. Sammy Taylor – Switchin’ In The Kitchen (Unknown) Jalynne 109 1961
27. Lee Diamond – Hatti Malatti (Diaomond) Vee Jay 272 1958
28. Ernie Fields Orchestra – Knocked Out (Marascalco) London 1260 1960
