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You Heard It Here First! (Original Versions of Famous Songs) | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Ace (U.K.)
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 5740
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 296670344258
EAN: 0029667034425
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Tainted Love - GLORIA JONES | | • | Suspicious Minds - MARK JAMES | | • | Wild Thing - THE WILD ONES | | • | I Fought The Law - THE CRICKETS | | • | The Red Rooster - HOWLIN' WOLF | | • | Hanky Panky - THE RAINDROPS | | • | Go Now - BESSIE BANKS | | • | A Rockin' Good Way - PRISCILLA BOWMAN & THE SPANIELS | | • | This Diamond Ring - SAMMY AMBROSE | | • | Tobacco Road - JOHN D. LOUDERMILK | | • | I Found You - YVONNE FAIR | | • | Ain't That Loving You Baby - EDDIE RIFF | | • | Louie Louie - RICHARD BERRY & THE PHARAOHS | | • | My Boy Lollipop - BARBIE GAYE | | • | Little Bit O' Soul - THE LITTLE DARLINGS | | • | Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - JOHNNY DARRELL | | • | Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - HOAGY LANDS | | • | You Need Love - MUDDY WATERS | | • | A Groovy Kind Of Love - DIANE AND ANNITA | | • | You Were On My Mind - IAN & SYLVIA | | • | I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - TOMMY HUNT | | • | Let's Get Together (Live) - THE KINGSTON TRIO | | • | California Sun - JOE JONES | | • | Something Stupid - CARSON & GAILE | | • | Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go - THE LEAVES | | • | Rock Around The Clock - SUNNY DAE & THE KNIGHTS |
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Product Description
26 original versions of some of the most enduring classics of the 1950s and 1960s.These tracks embrace some of the greatest country, soul, pop, rock 'n' roll and R&B tunes ever recorded. We may never know why these songs did not become hits first time around, but musical inferiority is certainly not among the reasons why they didn't. Some of these originals are well known, others are hardly known at all. Most people with a passion for rock 'n' roll will know that Richard Berry wrote and recorded the original Louie Louie, but hardly anyone will know that the Kingston Trio and Mark James did Get Together and Suspicious Minds before the Youngbloods and Elvis Presley did. Hear how Rock Around The Clock sounded three years before Bill Haley and the Comets got to it, or how the Crickets Fought The Law almost half a decade before the Bobby Fuller Four and 15 years before the Clash did. Find out where Led Zeppelin acquired the source material for Whole Lotta Love and the Animals got Baby Let Me Take You Home from. Marvel at how closely the later hit versions were often modeled on these originals, and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right.
Album Description
2008 collection containing 26 original versions of some of the most enduring classics of the '50s and '60s. These tracks embrace some of the greatest Country, Soul, Pop, Rock `N' Roll and R&B tunes ever recorded. Some of these originals are well known, others are hardly known at all. Most people with a passion for Rock 'N' Roll will know that Richard Berry wrote and recorded the original `Louie Louie', but hardly anyone will know that the Kingston Trio and Mark James did `Get Together' and `Suspicious Minds' before the Youngbloods and Elvis Presley did. Hear how `Rock Around The Clock' sounded three years before Bill Haley and the Comets got to it, or how the Crickets `I Fought The Law' almost half a decade before the Bobby Fuller Four and 15 years before the Clash did. Find out where Led Zeppelin acquired the source material for `Whole Lotta Love' and the Animals got `Baby Let Me Take You Home' from. Marvel at how closely the later hit versions were often modeled on these originals, and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right. Ace Records. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews:
Essential For Music Historians/Collectors September 12, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ace Records of London has come up with yet another winner in this volume which chronicles the origins of some of the biggest hit singles of the 1950s and 1960s, and in the 28-page booklet, Rob Finnis and Tony Rounce provide detailed track-by-track background information that reads like a history lesson on the development of popular music. Throughout the 28 pages are 45 rpm and poster reproductions related to the cuts, along with photographs of many of the artists. On the reverse, as is their norm, Ace shows the full label details and year of release for each track.
Understandably, without having had the luck which often make the difference between an also-ran and a hit (some were also handicapped by the "small label" curse - no funds for proper promotion or "payola" when that was rampant), most are so obscure that photos likely are just not available. But there are some that Ace was able to dig up which likely would never have come to light again but for their unmatched efforts in providing us with the unusual.
One such is Sunny Dae & The Knights, a four-piece Philadelphia group who actually recorded Max Freedman's now immortal Rock Around The Clock in the year preceding the Bill Haley version, which initially charted in 1954 (not "three years before" as intimated in the above blurb) and also released it in 1954 on the small Arcade label. It isn't surprising that this didn't make any charts. First, Arcade didn't have the resources to get it heard and besides, Sunny (real name Paschal Vennitti and actually an acquaintance of Bill's) had neither the voice nor the arrangement designed to grab anyone's attention, unlike the Haley version, released as (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock. Still, it's great to see it available on disc and you won't want to miss the full tale behind the recording as told by Rob Finnis.
Other extremely interesting stories lie behind Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go? by The Leaves (they recorded it twice - this is the initial rendition), Barbie Gaye's My Boy Lollipop (shown on the actual record as "Lollypop"), which she recorded 7 years before Millie Small for the tiny Darl label, and Richard Berry & The Pharaoh's Louie, Louie, a 1957 recording that came out in 1957 on Ember E.P. 4527 Volume 3 and was promptly forgotten until a group from Portland, Oregon calling themselves The Kingsmen recorded it and launched a legend.
And when you hear songs like Something Stupid by Carson & Gaile, Ain't That Loving You Baby by Eddie Riff, Go Now by Bessie Banks, A Rockin' Good Way by Priscilla Bowman & The Spaniels, and I Fought The Law by The Crickets you will realize that these could just as easily have been as big as the later versions to come - if not better in a few cases.
I can't praise this latest release from Ace enough, and I guarantee that you will enjoy the booklet as much as the music.
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