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Album: 70 Years of The Sun Sound Volume 02
Sub-Title: The R&B Performers
Label: Koko Mojo (KM-CD-154)
Songs: Thirty
Compilation/ re-issue Producer: Mark Armstrong
Sleeve notes: Mark Armstrong
Artwork: Urban Zotel
Mastering: The Studio That Time Forgot, El Paso Texas
Filed under: Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Rock ‘n’ Roll
Atomicat Records “Often imitated, never duplicated”
“Rhythm & Blues Memphis Style.”
“Koko Mojo Records (KM-CD-154) 70 Years of The Sun Sound Volume 02 is the second tribute to Florence, Alabama-bred Samuel (Sam) Cornelius Phillips. The album looks at his labels; Sun, Flip and Phillips International, with the spotlight being shone upon the R&B Performers.”
On 3 January 1950, Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, and two years later in February 1952 the Sun Record Company was formed. In the summer of 1958 Phillips brought property on 639 Madison Avenue in Memphis a few blocks from his old studio because the original studio outgrew its Union Avenue location. The Sam Phillips Recording Service 639 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, opened in 1960. Phillips in 1961 through to 1964 opened a studio in Nashville located in the Cumberland Lodge building.
Koko Mojo (KM-CD-154) 70 Years Of The Sun Sound Volume 02 “The R&B Performers” looks at the 70-year history of Phillips labels. The album by design does not feature the household names which are catered for on numerous other compilations. The album looks at the artists who had often one release or faded from public view but left behind a musical legacy. The album is in a chronological year order from 1953 through to 1963. The recordings shuffled around to balance the style and enhance the listening pleasure, and the concept is focused upon titles released on 78 and 45 RPM and includes some album tracks.
The featured Negro acts include; Rufus “Hound Dog” Thomas Jr., Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog) and Tiger Man, which Elvis Presley also recorded, Little Junior’s Blue Flames provide Feelin’ Good, and Love My Baby which became a rockabilly classic when covered by Hayden Thompson (see ACCD113). The versatile Billy “The Kid” Emerson offers several different approaches to R&B music with, The Woodchuck, Move Baby Move, Something For Nothing, and Red Hot, which became a rockabilly classic when Billy Riley and Bob Luman recorded it. The left-handed one-man blues musician Doctor Ross offers the jumping, Chicago Breakdown and The Boogie Disease, Rosco Gordon indulges in R&B and rockabilly with, Love For You Baby, Shoobie Oobie, Cheese And Crackers (from the pen of Hayden Thompson) and Sally Jo. The variety is heightened with the inclusion of; future member of the Drifters Bill Pinkey, the legendary, James Cotton, the Jackie Wilson-ish Freddie North, Jeb Stuart and The Chippers go country, Frank Frost uses the guitar skills of Roland Janes and Frank Ballard with Phillip Reynolds Band conclude the fun.
The series is compiled by Dee Jay Mark Armstrong, and designed by artist and musician Urban Zotel, and the Atomicat-sound is achieved by our mastering team at The Studio That Time Forgot, El Paso Texas. The album is ideal for Dee Jays to fill the dance floor with, and for home listening or while cruising around. All that remains is to say, “crank up the volume and dig these musical gems.
Our albums have; stunning design, sleeve notes, songs mastered for the best possible sound. The disc is housed in an attractively designed cardboard sleeve, specially designed to avoid the use of plastic and be environmentally friendly. You are listening to music from the past and preserving the future! Atomicat Records “Often imitated, never duplicated”
Dee Jay Mark Armstrong Bühl, Germany
Full Version (KM-CD-154) Koko Mojo 70 Years Of The Sun Sound Volume 02 The R&B Performers
01 Rufus “Hound Dog” Thomas Jr. Bear Cat (The Answer To Hound Dog) (Phillips) Sun 181 – 1953
02 Big Memphis MaRainey with The Onzie Horne Combo Baby, No, No (Keisker, Addington) Sun 184 – 1953
03 Little Junior’s Blue Flames Feelin’ Good (Parker) Sun 187 – 1953
04 Doctor Ross Chicago Breakdown (Ross) Sun 193 – 1953
05 Little Junior’s Blue Flames Love My Baby (Parker) Sun 192 – 1953
06 Joe Hill Louis We All Gotta Go Sometime (Louis) Sun 178 – 1953
07 Willie Nix The Memphis Blues Boy Baker Shop Boogie (Phillips, Nix) Sun 197 – 1953
08 Rufus Thomas Jr. Tiger Man (King Of The Jungle) Sun 188 – 1953
09 Billy (The Kid) Emerson The Woodchuck (Emerson) Sun 202 – 1954
10 Doctor Ross The Boogie Disease (Ross) Sun 212 – 1954
11 James Cotton Hold Me In Your Arms (Cotton) Sun 199 – 1954
12 Hot Shot Love Harmonica Jam (Love) Sun 196 – 1954
13 Little Milton If You Love Me (Campbell) Sun 200 – 1954
14 James Cotton My Baby (Cotton) Sun 206 – 1954
15 Rosco Gordon Love For You Baby (Gordon) Flip 237 – 1955
16 Sammy Lewis with Willie Johnson I Feel So Worried (no writer credit) Sun 218 – 1955
17 Billy “The Kid” Emerson Move Baby Move (Emerson) Sun 214 – 1955
18 The Five Tinos Don’t Do That! (Tinos) Sun 222 – 1955
19 Billy “The Kid” Emerson Red Hot (Emerson) Sun 219 – 1955
20 Rosco Gordon Shoobie Oobie (Gordon) Sun 257 – 1956
21 Billy “The Kid” Emerson Something For Nothing (Emerson) Sun 233 – 1956
22 Rosco Gordon Cheese And Crackers (Thompson) Sun 257 – 1956
23 Bill Pinky and The Turks After The Hop (Justis, Pinkney) Phillips International 3524 – 1958
24 Bill Pinky and The Turks Sally’s Got A Sister (Pinkney) Phillips International 3524 – 1958
25 Rosco Gordon Sally Jo (Phillips, Gordon) Sun 305 – 1958
26 Freddie North Don’t Make Me Cry (Stevens) Phillips International 3574 -1961
27 Jeb Stuart and The Chippers I Ain’t Never (Tillis, Pierce) Phillips International 3580 – 1962
28 Frank Frost Crawlback (Frost) Phillips International 3574 – 1962
29 Frank Frost with The Nighthawks Now What You Gonna Do (Frost) Phillips International LP 1975 – 1962
30 Frank Ballard with Phillip Reynolds Band You Gotta Learn To Rock And Roll (Ballard, Reynolds) Phillips International LP 1985 – 1962 March