| Disc 1 |
| Joe Swift – That’s Your Last Boogie |
| T-Bone Walker – T-Bone Blues |
| Skeets Tolbert – Rhumba Blues |
| Pee Wee Crayton – Blues After Hours |
| Edgar Hayes – Fat Meat ‘n’ Greens |
| Johnny Otis Orchestra – Mambo Boogie |
| Lowell Fulson – Back Home Blues |
| Lloyd Glenn – Cuba Doll |
| Ray Charles – Heartbreaker |
| Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog |
| B.B. King – Woke Up This Morning |
| Professor Longhair – Hey Now Baby |
| Dave Bartholomew – Country Boy |
| Clarence Garlow – Bon Ton Roula |
| Sugar Boy Crawford – Jock-O-Mo |
| Fats Domino – Mardi Gras In New Orleans |
| Lloyd Price – Tell Me Pretty Baby |
| Billy Wright – Hey Little Girl |
| Kid King’s Combo – Banana Split |
| Louis Jordan – Early In The Morning |
| Chris Powell’s Five Blue Flames – I Come From Jamaica |
| Sonny Thompson – Blues Mambo |
| The Ray-O-Vacs – My Baby’s Gone |
| Jimmy Reed – Roll And Rumba |
| Muddy Waters – I Can’t Be Satisfied |
| Champion Jack Dupree – Mexican Reminiscences |
| Disc 2 |
| Lazy Lester – I’m A Lover Not A Fighter |
| Slim Harpo – I’ve Got Love If You Want It |
| Muddy Waters – Got My Mojo Working |
| Dale Hawkins – Susie Q |
| Wynona Carr – Jump Jack, Jump! |
| Guitar Junior – The Crawl |
| Big “T” Tyler – King Kong |
| André Williams – The Greasy Chicken |
| Art Neville – Arabian Love Call |
| Bobby Freeman – Do You Wanna Dance |
| B.B. King – Ruby Lee |
| Tommy Ridgley – When I Meet My Girl |
| Fats Domino – I’m Walking |
| Paul Gayten – For You My Love |
| Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues |
| Richard Berry – Louie, Louie |
| Charles Sheffield – Wicked Old Fever |
| Bill Doggett – Ram Bunk Shush |
| Smokey Hogg – Good Mornin’ Baby |
| Otis Rush – All Your Love |
| Champion Jack Dupree – The Wrong Woman |
| Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Frenzy |
| Bo Diddley – Hush Your Mouth |
| Larry Williams – Bad Boy (Junior Cha Cha Cha) |
| Leonard Carbo – Pig Tails And Ribbons |
| Eddie Lang – She’s Mine All Mine |
| Screamin’ Joe Neal – Tell Me Pretty Baby |
| The Champs – Tequila |
| Lavern Baker – It’s So Fine |
| Albert Collins – The Freeze |
| Memphis Slim – Guitar Cha Cha Cha |
| Harry Belafonte – Star-O |
| Disc 3 |
| Ray Charles – What’d I Say (Part 1) |
| Texas Ray – Mary Ann |
| Arthur Alexander – The Girl That Radiates That Charm |
| Junior Wells – Messin’ With The Kid |
| Willie Jones – Where’s My Money |
| Little Willie John – Heartbreak (It’s Hurtin’ Me) |
| Link Wray & The Wraymen – Raw-Hide |
| James Brown – And I Do Just What I Want |
| Davey Cortez – Hurricane |
| Ruth Brown – I Don’t Know |
| The Coasters – Poison Ivy |
| Teddy Randazzo – Let The Sunshine In |
| Curtis Knight – Voodoo Woman |
| Tal Miller – Only Sixteen |
| Renaldo Jackson – Congolese Tip |
| The Orioles – Hey Little Woman |
| Barrett Strong – You Know What To Do |
| Bo Diddley – Crawdad |
| Charles Brown And Amos Milburn – Educated Fool |
| The Isley Brothers – St Louis Blues |
| Cozy Cole – Topsy II |
| Bobby Hebb – Night Train To Memphis |
| Andre Williams – Shoo-Doo |
| Phil Upchurch – Cha Cha Cha Blues |
| Buddy Guy – Gully Hully |
| Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers – Frisco. |
| Huey “Piano” Smith – We Like Birdland |
| The Olympics – Well…(Baby Please Don’t Go) |
| Ford Eaglin – Yours Truly |
| Chuck Berry Mad Lad |
| Gary U.S. Bonds – I Wanna Holler |
| Disc 4 |
| T.N.T. Tribble – Annie’s Mambo |
| Cozy Cole – Cozy’s Mambo |
| Cherokee & Band – Mambo Blues |
| Classie Ballou – The Crazy Mambo |
| Billy Taylor Trio – Early Morning Mambo |
| Lionel Hampton – Hamp´s Mambo |
| Linda Hayes with The Platters – I Just Wanna Mambo |
| Jimmy Forrest – Night Train Mambo |
| J.J. Jones – Night Train Mambo |
| The Miracletones – Mambo Train |
| Larry Liggett – Perdido Mambo |
| Tiny Grimes – Showboat Mambo |
| Jack Costanzo & His Orchestra – Peter Gunn Mambo |
| Tony Martinez & His Mambo Combo – Robin’s Mambo |
| Big John Greer – We Want to See Santa Mambo |
| Buddy Lucas – Mambo Blues |
| Mickey Baker – Guitar Mambo |
| Edna McGriff & The Tomcats – Mambo Baby |
| Shake Keane & His Highlifers – Mambo Indio |
| Manny Duran & His Sextet – Johnny Comes Marching Mambo |
| Bill Doggett – Real Gone Mambo |
| Walter Ward & The Challengers – Mambo Beat |
| Chuck Higgins – Blues ‘n’ Mambo |
| James Moody – Mambo With Moody |
| Yma Sumac – Bo Mambo |
| The Bop-A-Loos – South Parkway Mambo |
| Arcano Y Sus Maravillas – Goza Mi Mambo |
| Pérez Prado – Cuban Mambo |
| Nat Brooks & The Mambo Boys – Mambo Blues |
| Choker Campbell – Jackie Mambo |
| Disc 5 |
| Fay Simmons – Big Joe Mambo |
| Rollee McGill – Helena Mambo |
| Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson – Hi-Beam Mambo |
| J.J. Jones – After Hours Mambo |
| Mel Gray – Mambo Jungle |
| Harmonica ‘Blues King’ Harris – Blues King Mambo |
| Dolly Wade – Mambo Baby |
| Mickey Baker – Guitarambo |
| Lawrence Peel & The Filatones – Filatone’s Mambo |
| Classie Ballou – Mambo |
| Robert Banks & The Waileros – Mambo Blues |
| Sonny Burke Orchestra – Mamboogie |
| Kid King’s Combo – Mambino |
| Chris Powell – Sandman Mambo |
| Esther Sutherland – Clock Mambo |
| Buddy Johnson – Slide’s Mambo |
| Vin Strong – Mambo’s Got the Blues |
| Chaz + 2 – Mambo Twist |
| Paul Williams – Don’t Teach Me To Mambo |
| Ernie Fields Combo – T-Town Mambo |
| Otis Freeman – Mambo Arribique |
| The Celebrities – Mambo Daddy |
| Ellie Russell & Sy Oliver – St Louis Blues Mambo |
| The Five Tinos – Mambo Baby |
| Larry Liggett – Junior’s Mambo |
| Gene Casey & The Cubanos – Avalon Mambo |
| Carlos Molina – Dragnet Mambo |
| Juan Toradez & His Amigos – Lucky Mambo |
| Jimmy Smith – Judo Mambo |
| Joe Holiday – Mambo Holiday |
RUMBA BLUES – MAMBO BLUES – 5CD SET
£12.00
Description
Latin rhythms have infiltrated every branch of popular music, but none has had such a wide ranging influence as the rumba. It is this rhythm, combined with the New Orleans second line beat, that formed the basis of the Stax and Motown sound and the more complex rhythms of funk in the 1960s. But where would rock be without the cha-cha-cha? Think Respect, Satisfaction, Wild Thing…The mambo was born in Cuba in 1938, of African and European parentage but 1954 was the year of the mambo dance craze as record companies encouraged their R&B artists to come up with songs in a Latin vein and to include the word mambo in the title. The samba was next. It is the spring in the beat and the almost imperceptible skip at the end of each measure that differentiate it from Cuban rhythms. The repetitive riff making over a groove so beloved of 60’s and 70’s rock springs not from the blues but from Latin song-form and the vamps and montunos found in samba and mambo. What we present here in this collection are 150 songs from artists such as T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles, all recorded between 1948 and 1962 spread over 5 CDs with 72 pages of illustrations, annotated notes and discographical details.
I thoroughly recommend this one…all tracks are pretty great… a really excellent compilation.
Mark Lamarr
This is slippery and seductive music with that tricky undercurrrent that rumba beats bring, that will put a smile on your face and dip in your step. Elsewhere.co.nz
As a collection to dance to, this is a brilliant idea. Olé! Git down and boogie…er…mambo.
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