Description
54 tracks across 2 discs.
Long before Mod reached the masses, circa 1964, there existed 'Modernists', a central London cult that pre-empted the dress sense in constant flux. Everything had to be just so: back vents precisely seven inches once week, exactly five the next. At Soho's open-all-night Flamingo one Saturday, you had to be electric-blue Italian. Go back the following Thursday, and it'd be Parisian.
It was these same early harbingers of sartorial elegance who drew-up the blueprint for the sonic delights that continue to dominate mod-culture half a decade after it emerged. The charts - then known as 'the hit parade' - was snobbishly dismissed in favour of modern jazz, early soul cuts, brutish R'n'B, and even the odd 'girl-group', the earliest examples of which (at least under any hip leaning of the term) were just emerging when the pioneers of this new-movement were still on target practice.
This compilation - augmented with extensive sleevenotes - brings together an impressive 54 tracks that illustrate perfectly what got the younger siblings of the first rock & roll generation onto the dance floors. With classics of the genre rubbing shoulders with obscure gems and old school ties co-existing with the future sounds of London, a finer collection of the roots of the most enduring of all British youth cults can barely be envisaged.
Track Listing
Disc 1:- The Sunset Four Jubilee Singers - Wade In The Water
- Roosevelt Sykes - Night Time Is The Right Time
- James Moody - Moody's Mood For Love
- Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers - Pink Champagne
- Buddy Morrow - Night Train
- Juliette Greco - Je Suis Comme Je Suis
- Earl Bostic - Flamingo
- Otis Blackwell - Daddy Rolling Stone
- Ray Charles - Get On The Right Track
- The Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Walkin' Shoes
- Bo Diddley - I'm A Man
- Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
- James Brown - Please Please Please
- Shirley and Lee - Let The Good Times Roll
- Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollipop
- Muddy Waters - I Love The Life I Live
- Mose Allison - Parchman Farm
- Laurel Aitken - Nebuchadnezzar
- Doris Day - Everybody Loves A Lover
- Huey ââ¬ËPianoââ¬â¢ Smith - Don't You Just Know It
- Andy Williams - House Of Bamboo
- Ike Turnerââ¬â¢s Kings Of Rhythm - She Made My Blood Run Cold
- Rosco Gordon - Just A Little Bit
- Lambert, Hendricks And Ross - Gimme That Wine
- Horace Silver - Sister Sadie
- Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For You Precious Love
- Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk
- Ray Charles - What'd I Say
- Googie Rene - Caesar's Pad
- Nat Adderley - Work Song
- The Isley Brothers - Respectable
- The Top Notes - Twist and Shout
- Owen Gray - Cutest Little Woman
- Bill Blackââ¬â¢s Combo - My Girl Josephine
- Ann Cole - Plain As The Nose On Your Face
- Eric Morris And His Drumbago All-Stars - Humpty Dumpty
- James Brown - I Don't Mind
- Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step
- Phil Upchurch Combo - You Can't Sit Down Part 1 & 2
- Ike and Tina Turner - It's Gonna Work Out Fine
- Teddy Randazzo - Let The Sunshine In
- The Coasters - Little Egypt
- Bobby ââ¬ËBlueââ¬â¢ Bland - Turn On Your Love Light
- Don Covay - Pony Time
- Barbara George - I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)
- The Dave Clark Five - Chaquita
- The Shirelles - Baby Its You
- Billy Preston - Volcano
- Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl
- The Dukays - Nite Owl
- James Booker - Gonzo
Additional Details
Label: Chrome Dreams
Genre: Pop/Rock
Run Time: 158 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 08/09/11
UPC: 823564619729
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