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| How Latin Music Changed Rhythm And Blues
Latin rhythms have infiltrated into every new branch of popular music that has emerged during the twentieth century. Jelly Roll Morton and W.C. Handy incorporated the Cuban habanera into early jazz and blues; the Argentinean tango found its way into twenties dance-band music; the Brazilian baion and bossanova styles wound their way through the sixties beat boom and were revived in the drum’n’bass of the nineties. But none had such an all-pervasive influence as the rumba. Its journey from the Middle-East through North Africa and Spain to the New World brought it into American dance halls in the thirties. The syncopated, rhythmic riffs of bandleaders such as Xavier Cugat helped to liberate dancers from stuffy foxtrots and waltzes, opening up an altogether more sensual world of excitement and exoticism. In post-war popular music, rumba is everywhere, from Dave Bartholomew’s Country Boy to the Clash’s Rock The Casbah, picking up Little Richard’s Slippin’ and Slidin’ and the Beatles’ Ballad Of John And Yoko along the way. Even hillbilly records featured rumba bass lines. Its 3-2 clave rhythm, which Bo Diddley stylised and made into his very own, became an integral part of American music and continues to cast its spell over popular music to the current day. |
Rumba Doo-Wop
Vocal Groups pick up on the Latin Groove
Vol 1: 1933 – 1953 Gospel, Blues, Jubilee 2CD 28 page booklet 62 songs
RANDB015 £9.50
Available 4th December 2011
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Disc One - I Got Rhythm 1933-1953
1. I Got Rhythm The 5 Spirits Of Rhythm
2. Tiger Rag The Mills Brothers
3. Jesus Is A Rock In A Weary Land The Charioteers
4. La Cucaracha The Delta Rhythm Boys
5. Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go The Golden Gate Quartet
6. St Louis Blues The Jubalaires
7. Brother Bill The 5 Blind Boys of Montana
8. Choo Choo The Four Vagabonds
9. Shadrack The Golden Gate Quartet
10. Casey Jones The Jubalaires
11. Dry Bones The Missionary Quintet
12. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well The Pilgrim Travelers
13. Swing Down Chariot The Jubalaires
14. Ol' Man River The Ravens
15. Wanda The Heartbreakers
16. Roll Roll Pretty Baby The Swallows
17. Besame Mucho The Ray-O-Vacs
18. Don't You Know I Love You? The Clovers
19. I'm So High The Five Keys
20. My Baby's Gone The Ray-O-Vacs
21. Be Bop Wino The Lamplighters
22. I Didn't Want To Do It The Spiders
23. Softly And Tenderly The Prisonaires
24. Good Lovin' The Clovers
25. Calypso Song The Ravens
26. Geechie Goomie The Mello Tones
27. Whop The Squires
28. Baby Doll The Four Dukes
29. Chee Koo Baby The Dukes
Disc Two - Mambo Sh-Mambo 1954
1. It's Too Late Now The Hawks
2. Be Bop Baby The Peacheroos
3. Real Gone Mama The Moonglows
4. I've Got My Eyes On You The Clovers
5. Such A Night The Drifters
6. Mambo Shevitz The Crows
7. All Night Mambo The Cookies
8. Shake It Up Mambo The Platters
9. Natural Natural Ditty The Jewels
10. Irene The Holidays
11. Sweet Lulu The Love Notes
12. Boppin' With The Mambo The Sultans
13. White Cliffs Of Dover The Pelicans
14. Drunk, Drunk, Drunk The Kidds
15. Down In Mexico The Pelicans
16. I Want You To Be My Baby The Royals
17. Five Minutes Longer The Lamplighters
18. Mambo Sh-Mambo The Charms
19. Bye Bye The Dreamers
20. Ain't Gonna Do It The Pelicans
21. Trying To Get To You The Eagles
22. Give It Up The Hawks
23. All I Do Is Rock The Robins
24. Sweet Sue The Starlighters
25. Watts The Chanters
26. Ling Ting Tong The Charms
27. I Wanna Love The Crowns
28. You Made Me Cry The Platters
29. White Christmas The Drifters
30. Hey Senorita The Penguins
31. Tempting The Moonglows
32. Kokomo The Flamingos
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Rumba Doo-Wop
Vocal Groups pick up on the Latin Groove
Vol 2: 1954 – 1955 R&B, Rock’n’Roll
2CD 28 page booklet 62 songs
RANDB016 £9.50
Available 4th December 2011 |
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Disc One - Gumbo Mambo - 1955
1. Help Me The Aladdins
2. Somebody Changed The Lock The Empires
3. Zindy Lou The Chimes
4. Jingle Jangle The Penguins
5. That's The Way I Like It The Queens
6. When You Dance The Turbans
7. Mardi Gras Mambo The Hawketts
8. Hot Mama The Chanters
9. You Know I Can't Refuse The Five Dollars
10. Do-Be-Do-Be-Wop-Wop The Squires
11. Witchcraft The Spiders
12. Lips Red As Wine The Colts
13. Dont Do That The Five Tinos
14. Day By Day The Four Freshmen
15. Rollin' Stone The Marigolds
16. Gumbo Mambo The Larke Sisters
17. Grand, Nice, Swell The Ebony Moods
18. Chop Chop Boom The Danderliers
19. Morocco Chant The Moroccos
20. Going Down to Tia Juana The Don Juans
21. Two Things I Love The Cardinals
22. Rock It, Davy, Rock It The Jaguars
23. Cha Cha Baby The New Yorkers 5
24. Yacka Hoom Boom The Savoys
25. Cigareetos The Orioles
26. Laverne The Earls
27. Ay Si Si The Dootones
28. Mambo Baby To-Nite The Falcons
29. Watussi Wussi Wu The Tenderfoots
30. Cool, Mambo The Sheppards
31. Red Hots and Chili Mac The Moroccos
32. Man From Utopia The Vel-Aires
Disc Two - Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Wop 1956
1. In Paradise The Cookies
2. Goin' Goin' Gone The Jewels
3. Gift O' Gabbin' Woman The Nutmegs
4. Everybody's Whalin' The Rhythm Aces
5. Stranded In The Jungle The Jayhawks
6. Down In Mexico The Coasters
7. Last Ride The Dukes
8. Smooth, Slow And Easy The Drivers
9. Out Of The Picture The Robins
10. Mexico Bound The Champions
11. So Good The Playboys
12. It Was a Night Like This The Turbans
13. Show Me The Merengue The Hearts
14. Cotton Pickin' Hands The Dukes
15. I'm Yours The Mellows
16. Let's Do The Razzle-Dazzle The Rip Chords
17. Gotta Have You Baby The Combonettes
18. Choo Choo The Cardinals
19. Watusi The Pharaohs
20. Mambo Fiesta The Calvaes
21. A-1 In My Heart The Spiders
22. Cha Jezabel The Notes
23. Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Wop The El Capris
24. Tonight The Supremes
25. A Fallen Tear The El Dorados
26. Ain't She Got Nerve The Mellows
27. Last Night The Starlighters
28. All My Love Belongs To You The Joytones
29. Don't Worry About A Thing The Sweet Teens
30. Patricia The Rhythm Masters
31. Brazil The Coasters
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Rumba Blues 1940-53
CD 26 songs – 32 page booklet
RANDB010 £7
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1. That’s Your Last Boogie Joe Swift with Johnny Otis Orchestra 1948
2. T-Bone Blues T-Bone Walker with Les Hite Orchestra 1940
3. Daybreak Pee Wee Crayton 1951
4. Fat Meat 'n' Greens Edgar Hayes 1949
5. Mambo Boogie Johnny Otis Orchestra 1951
6. Back Home Blues Lowell Fulson 1950
7. Cuba Doll Lloyd Glenn 1952
8. Heartbreaker Ray Charles 1953
9. Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton 1953
10. Woke Up This Morning B.B. King 1953
11. Hey Now Baby Professor Longhair 1949
12. Country Boy Dave Bartholomew 1953
13. Bon Ton Roula Clarence Garlow 1950
14. Jock-O-Mo Sugar Boy Crawford 1954
15. Mardi Gras In New Orleans Fats Domino 1949
16. Tell Me Pretty Baby Lloyd Price 1953
17. Hey Little Girl Billy Wright 1951
18. Banana Split Kid King’s Combo 1953
19. Early In The Morning Louis Jordan And His Timpani Five 1948
20. I Come From Jamaica Chris Powell’s Five Blue Flames 1952
21. Jumping With The Rhumba Sonny Thompson 1951
22. My Baby’s Gone The Ray-O-Vacs 1951
23. Rhumba Blues Skeets Tolbert 1942
24. Roll And Rumba Jimmy Reed 1953
25. I Can’t Be Satisfied Muddy Waters 1948
26. Mexican Reminiscences Champion Jack Dupree 1946
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Rumba Blues 1953-56
The Mambo Years
CD 30 songs – 32 page booklet
RANDB012 £7 |
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1. Baby Please Don't Go Rose Mitchell 1953
2. Thirteen Women Dickie Thompson 1953
3. Griff's Mambo Griffin Brothers 1953
4. I Cried Jimmy McCracklin 1953
5. I Feel So Bad Chuck Willis 1954
6. Dye-Oooh Mambo Chuck Higgins 1954
7. Salty Dog Marvin Phillips 1954
8. Lovey Dovey The Clovers 1953
9. Mambocito Mio Illinois Jacquet 1954
10. Mambo Baby To-Nite Candy Rivers & The Falcons 1954
11. New Kind Of Mambo Big Maybelle 1954
12. Mambo Baby Ruth Brown 1954
13. Mambo Gunch Chris Powell & The Blue Flames 1954
14. Let's Babalu The Platters & Linda Hayes 1954
15. Mambo Joe Houston 1955
16. Here Comes The Train Bob Roubain with Cliffie Stone 1955
17. Mambo Blues Duke Jenkins 1955
18. One Night Smiley Lewis 1955
19. We Like Mambo Huey "Piano" Smith 1955
20. Hey, Bo Eddie Bo 1956
21. Blow Wind Blow Junior Gordon 1956
22. Slippin' And Slidin' Little Richard 1956
23. Thirty Days Clyde McPhatter 1956
24. Can't Stop Loving Elmore James 1953
25. Congo Mombo Guitar Gable 1956
26. Evil Howlin' Wolf 1954
27. Bo Diddley (take 2) Bo Diddley 1955
28. Mambo Chillun John Lee Hooker 1955
29. Drifting Heart Chuck Berry 1956
30. Harlem Nocturne Neil Lewis and His Quintet 1954
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Rumba Jazz
The History of Latin Jazz & Dance Music 1919-45
Double CD 52 songs – 32 page booklet RANDB009 £9.50 |
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Disc One - Tango-Ragtime-Rumba-Samba
1. New St Louis Blues Johnny Dodds 1927
2. La Rosita Eddie South 1927
3. Rumba Negro Bennie Moten 1929
4. Admiration The Jungle Band 1930
5. Memphis Blues James Reese Europe 1919
6. Charleston, South Carolina Lovie Austin 1924
7. The Peanut Vendor Louis Armstrong 1931
8. Ubangi Man Charles Lavere 1935
9. Under The Creole Moon Noble Sissle 1934
10. El Manisero Don Azpiazu 1930
11. Masabi Alberto Socarras 1935
12. The Music Goes Round And Round Augusto Coén 1936
13. Take Me Away From The River Fletcher Henderson 1932
14. Danzon Carl Kress 1934
15. Heat Wave Joe Venuti 1933
16. Porto Rican Chaos Duke Ellington 1935
17. The Carioca Movita Castaneda 1933
18. Brazil Fred Waring 1942
19. Baia Bing Crosby 1944
20. South American Way Carmen Miranda 1939
21. Big Noise From Winnetka Bauduc and Haggart 1938
22. Tabou The Lecuona Cuban Boys 1936
23. Egyptian Fantasy Sidney Bechet 1941
24. Sous Les Palmiers The Haitian Orchestra 1939
25. The Crave Jelly Roll Morton 1939
26. Blues In C Sharp Minor Teddy Wilson 1936
Disc Two - When Satan Does The Rhumba
1. Satan Does The Rhumba Erskine Hawkins 1939
2. The Daughter Of A Planter From Havana Louis Armstrong 1937
3. The Rhumba Jumps Glenn Miller 1939
4. Lady In Red Xavier Cugat 1939
5. The Weekend Of A Private Secretary Mildred Bailey 1938
6. Sing, Sing, Sing Benny Goodman 1937
7. Jungle Dreams Artie Shaw 1938
8. Harlem Rhumbain' The Blues Hot Lips Page 1940
9. Cuban Boogie Woogie Andy Kirk 1941
10. Rhumboogie Bob Zurke 1940
11. Yancey Special Bob Crosby 1938
12. Surrealism Charlie Barnet 1937
13. Mamacita Fats Waller 1940
14. Begin The Beguine Art Tatum 1940
15. Perfidia Gene Krupa 1940
16. Conga Brava Duke Ellington 1940
17. El Maraquero Antobal's Cubans 1936
18. La Conga En Nueva York Desi Arnaz 1939
19. Chili Con Conga Cab Calloway 1939
20. Cuban Swing Joe Daniel 1938
21. Los Hijos De Buda Edmundo Ros 1941
22. Rhumba In The Dark John Kirby 1941
23. Nague Machito 1941
24. Besame Mucho Edmond Hall 1944
25. Porto Rico Bunk Johnson 1945
26. Las Chiapanecas Woody Herman 1941
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This is slippery and seductive music with that tricky undercurrrent that rumba beats bring, and to hear how these diverse musicians adapted and bent it to their own styles is just a whole heap of fun. More than that though, if you take the time to read the liner note essay, this collection is instructive history. But history that will put a smile on your face and dip in your step.
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I thoroughly recommend this one…all tracks are pretty great…a really excellent compilation…contains tracks you wouldn’t necessarily associate with latin music…it messes together very, very well
Mark Lamarr BBC Radio 2
This little gem… the extensive, well-written accompanying notes could usefully be used by anyone lecturing on the subjects
Brian Smith R2
We sometimes overlook the influence of Latin rhythms which have been storming into R&B ever since Perez Prado infiltrated the USA with his Cuban mambo beat back in 1951. Of course, congas, timbales and maracas have been giving us itchy feet in the blues since way before that, and here are 30 assorted slabs of joyful proof. If this collection doesn’t put an umbrella in your pina colada then you should see a doctor. What makes this glorious album so interesting is the sheer variety of acts, from straight-up mid-century R&B greats such as Chuck Willis, Big Maybelle and Jimmy McCracklin to John Lee Hooker’s atmospheric 1955 Mambo Chillun and even a slightly-off mambo message Little Richard (though welcome to the party) with Slippin’ And Slidin’. Then there’s the genuinely hard-core instrumental Latin gems bristling with brass such as the Griffin Brothers with Griff’s Mambo, and Illinois Jacquet’s terrific sexy sax on Mambocito Mio. And if you’re thinking this might be all snake hips and exotic women’s hats piled with fruit, there are even Latin tracks from Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James, not forgetting Bo Diddley, among others. As a collection to dance to, this is a brilliant idea. Olé! Git down and boogie…er…mambo.
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