Urban Zotel

Koko Mojo Records introduce our new Spotlight Series, which inaugurates with the voice of R&B Clyde McPhatter, and as an added introductory bonus, the album runs to thirty-two recording.

77 minutes of traditional Country holiday music . 31 wonderful christmas songs not only for Hillbillies. Volume 2

Doo Wop Christmas Party! 30 Christmas Hits in DooWop style

28 classic trailblazing vocal group rockers from the Lymon brothers

Lets discover Grady Martin as outstanding studio musician playing Hillbilly, Country, Rockabilly and Rock 'n' Roll style

26 classy Western Swing, Hillbilly Boogie and Honky Tonk recordings

Atomicat Records turn their attention towards Garner, Parker County, Texas-bred Huelyn Wayne Duvall, who is talked about as a rockabilly performer, although his music was more rock ‘n’ roll in style. The thirty-song album includes Huelyn Duvall‘s fourteen classic sides which were recorded from 1957 through to 1960. The album then showcases the lively recordings Duvall made with Swedish group Wildfire Willie and The Ramblers in 2003, and makes available for the first time six songs recorded in 2004 with the Berlin “A” team The Lighting Recordings Boys and The Mellow Men. In 2017 Duvall with Berlin-based Long John and The Ballroom Kings rerecorded in a swing style one of his most well-known recording Pucker Paint and we include this version on the album. The album closes with a vintage life show from 1957 featuring Huelyn Duvall and The Troublesome Three, which was his original group, although they never professionally recorded together. The old saying in the rockabilly music circles is “The original was better” and the later recordings are mainly originals by an original performer! The Atomicat ethos of digging deeper means you can add lesser-known recordings to your collection. The album is perfect for home listening, compiled for danceability and hip-to-the-groove Dee Jays will fill the dance floor with a variety of tuneful dancing sounds. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany

a 30 track Rock 'n' Roll, Hillbilly, Doo Wop, and a few seasonal favorites included to make the album family orientated

It’s Christmas Once Again - 30 Atomicat style Christmas songs

It’s that special time of year once again, and what better way to celebrate the festival period than with another round of Doo Wop at Christmas via Koko Mojo’s ‘It’s Doo Wop Christmas Time’. There is just something deeply satisfying when hearing the golden tones of harmony groups huddled closely together and perfecting a balancing act of high and deep tones set to a backing of traditional rhythm and blues and, under such circumstances, the occasional sleigh bell in the background for comfort. With added “snap, crackle, and pop”, the listener is transported back to a golden age of music, and a reminder of when Christmas felt like the real deal with ‘It’s Doo Wop Christmas Time’.

Detroit, Michigan -bred Jackie Wilson was one of the most fantastic vocalists of the rhythm & blues and rock 'n' roll era, topped off with an amazing stage show he was Mr Excitement.

Jerry Byrd’s name may not be known to everyone, even though he played on Hank Williams’ version of Lovesick Blues. This album cherry-picks the songs he recorded as a named artist, and performed on as a musician, and we aim to make his contribution to the music world more common knowledge. Atomicat Records (ACCD 146) present a value for money thirty-two song album Byrd’s The Word (with a supporting cast), which is a tribute to Jerry Byrd as a performer and studio musician.The album is embellished with sleeve notes, has a detailed session information, and is lovingly designed by artist Urban Zotel.

The Koko Mojo Songwriter Series album Crazy, Crazy Party (KM-CD-174) explores Jesse Stone’s contribution to the world of Rhythm & Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll music from his writing skills. The album furthermore includes some of his performances using his birth name and his alter ego Charles/Chuck Calhoun, which was also a name he used for writing. The album showcases thirty rhythmic rockers encapsulating the years 1948 through 1962, and numerous songs featured fall into the “must-have” classification. In 1974, the head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun, said, ''Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock and roll sound than anybody else.'' This accolade is a strong statement that Stone’s work for the Atlantic Record Company helped shape Rhythm & Blues music and made the cross-over into the emerging Rock ‘n’ Roll music. Several songs on this album often had his physical presence upon them, and the sleeve notes provide were available the session information and indicate his personal involvement. Jesse Albert Stone was born in Atchison, Kansas on 16 November 1901, he was the grandson of Tennessee slaves. From this background, a man whose identity is on over 1,000 writing and arranging credits had a fantastic impact on music history, and music fans should be indebted to him. Stone made his first recording in 1927, and initially performed in jazz clubs around Kansas City. Stone eventually moved to New York, and from the late 1940s into the early 1950s he recorded and wrote swinging jazz-based jive songs which were moving towards Rhythm & Blues in structure. One prime example of Jesse Stone’s developing style is Get It While You Can which comes from his 1948 RCA Victor session. The second song on the album The Jumpin' Jack features Lucky Millinder with vocals from John Greer and was recorded in 1951, and musically it is an up-tempo jazz-infused big band sound. After these recordings, you will hear the change from the big band to the new Rhythm & Blues sound within the album. Stone also performed as Charlie or Charles Calhoun; in 1955 for MGM as Charlie, he recorded the stroll tempo Smack Dab In The Middle, as Charles with The Four Students (who became The Cues) in 1956 for Groove he upped the pace, for the jive tempo Jamboree. Using his birth name in 1958 he recorded a double-sided 45 RPM for the Polar label, and one side Tall And Short is included. The legend from Kansas City Big Joe Turner graces the album; with His Blues Kings for Shake, Rattle And Roll, and with His All Stars for Lipstick, Powder And Paint, and solo for Flip, Flop And Fly, although the band members were not an actual group they were studio musicians. Some of the numerous big names in the music world who recorded Stone’s compositions include; The Clovers with the strolling tempo Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash, The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter serve up a must-have stroller entitled Bip Bam, and a different line-up of Drifters vocalists, they sing the up-tempo I Gotta Get Myself A Woman. In later formation, the group members record as The Flyers the energetic hot jiver On Bended Knee. More dance-floor-filling songs are sourced from; The Du Droppers with the R&B romper Dead Broke, The Cues’ sing their dance-floor hit Why, and Jimmy Witherspoon’s superlative All Right Miss Moore should be in everyone’s collection. The album from these songs alone could be sub-titled “Instant Dee Jay with one Album.” The Eagle-Aires 1954 version of Money Honey combines barber shop, gospel harmonies and doo-wop, the arrangement is different to that of for example Caucasians Ella Mae Morse, or Elvis Presley and is a welcome inclusion in the album. Crooner, Gospel artist and occasional rocker Billy Williams sings Lucy Lou which is different from the mainstream R&B rockers Stone wrote, as it is clearly derived from the nursery rhyme Frere Jacques.

Jimmy Dolan - 3CD Box

28 rousing R&B rockers, including dance-floor filling international hits

30 songs of Rock n Roll love and happiness, not only on Valentine's Day!

30 songs of Rock n Roll love and happiness, not only on Valentine's Day!

The Mojo Man presents 30 songs about food & drinks

The Mojo Man presents 28 songs about food & drinks

28 Blues / Rhythm & Blues songs about food & drinks Volume 3 Southern Menu

28 Blues / Rhythm & Blues songs about food & drinks Volume 4 Rib Joint

Leroy Edward Kirkland aka Claude Cloud was primarily a jazz and rhythm & blues guitarist, who also worked behind the scenes as; a composer, conductor, session leader, and arranger. He is largely unknown to the general public and media-wise he is mainly confined to the annals of musical history, and his importance is not overtly acknowledged. The intention of this tribute to Leroy Edward Kirkland’s songwriting skills is to focus on his up-tempo titles which will entertain you at home, please the couples who enjoy dancing and bring his name into vernacular speech.

Lets Have A DooWop Christmas! 30 Christmas Hits in DooWop style

The Koko Mojo Records Songwriter Series continues with an exploration of the skills of Lincoln Chase during Fancy Dance (KM-CD-173). The album focuses on and includes alongside the man himself singing, white and black artists, who also sang his compositions, of which numerous versions became hits. The songs are sourced from the years 1953 to 1963 with twenty titles coming from the 1950s, and the album is programmed year by year. Due to Chase’s mixed Cuban and West Indian parentage, some of his sounds have an exotic sound and tempo, and his legacy is weird, wacky, and intriguing. The Koko Mojo ethos of digging deeper means you can add lesser-known recordings to your collection. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany (KM-CD-173)Koko Mojo Records, The Songwriter Series, Lincoln Chase, Fancy Dance

Hillbilly & Rustic Rockabilly Bop 2: 28 rustic rockers that bridged the music from Hillbilly towards Bop and Rockabilly Music

The triple CD anthology contains 93 songs that the rollicking family, including solo recordings from Rose, Fred, and Cal Maddox, all recorded up-tempo between 1947-1962, plus seven unreleased acetates. The Maddox family's raunchy recordings blended rhythm and blues, and country music titles, and through this amalgamation, rockabilly was in an embryotic development. The Maddox's fast-paced songs and brushfire shows ignited every concert hall they performed in. Fred Maddox was fond of saying the Maddox’s were always “ten years ahead of ourselves” his sister Rose would snap back with the retore “twenty!” Mama Says’ It's Naughty, Atomicat Records (ACCD 155) confirms their point of view in music! Atomicat Records endeavors to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its "killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers.

Folks, its all about the Dollar bill here. Everybody likes money or simply need greenbacks and Black Americans aint no different.

More DooWop Christmas Gems! 30 Christmas Hits in DooWop style

This album salutes the African American workers.

Peter Egri's One Man Band Boogie - Under The Memphis Moon