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New Orleans - Glory Days of Rock 'n' Roll Reviews:
New Orleans Music
2008-11-23 - Glory Days of Rock 'n' Roll: New Orleans is one hour, seventeen minutes, and fifty-two seconds. Four of the songs on this set did not cahrt. I like this two CD set; mainly because of the style of music on it. You don't hear much of this type of music on today's radio; if they play New Orleans style at all. Granted I myself am not going run out to the local record store and stock up on New Orleans music. For me it was a nice change of pace. Glory Days of Rock 'n' Roll: New Orleans gets a B+.

Disc One
Thirty-nine minutes and thirteen seconds

Go To the Mardi Gras-Professor Longhair
Did not chart
Ya Ya-Lee Dorsey
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Feel So Good-Shirley and Lee
#2 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Whole Lotta Loving-Fats Domino
#6 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Something You Got-Chris Kenner
Did not chart
Don't You Just Know It-Huey (Piano) Smith and The Clowns
#9 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#4 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Over You-Aaron Neville
#111 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#21 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Iko Iko-The Dixie Cups
#20 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
Ready Teddy-Little Richard
#44 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#8 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
I Hear You Knocking-Smiley Lewis
#2 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Ain't Got No Home-Clarence "Frogman" Henry
#20 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#3 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Mother-In-Law-Ernie K-Doe
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
You Talk Too Much-Joe Jones
#3 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#9 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
It's Raining-Irma Thomas
Did not chart
There Is Something On Your Mind, Pts. 1 & 2-Bobby Marchan
#31 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides

Disc Two
Thirty-eight minutes and thirty-nine seconds

Sea Cruise-Frankie Ford
#14 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#11U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu-Huey (Piano) Smith and The Clowns
#52 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#7 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette)-Benny Spellman
#80 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#28U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
(I Don't Know Why I Love You) But I Do-Clarence "Frogman" Henry
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#9 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
I Know (You Don't Wan Me No More)-Barbara George
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
A Certain Girl-Ernie K-Doe
#71 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
I Like It Like That-Chris Kenner
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Stagger Lee-Lloyd Price
#1 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
Ooh Poo Pah Doo-Jessie Hill
#30 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles
#5 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Sides
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday-Bobby Mitchell
Did not chart
I'm In Love Again-Fats Domino
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Let The Good Times Roll-Shirley and Lee
#20 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Rhythm & Blues Records
Barefootin'-Robert Parker
#7 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles
Working In The Coal Mine-Lee Dorsey
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
It Will Stand-The Showmen
#61 U.S. Billboard Pop Singles

Not All New Orleans-Associated - But Still A Great Volume
2007-10-28 - In the midst of their massive Rock `n' Roll Era, Your Hit Parade, and Big Band mail-order only series which got under way some 12-15 years ago, Time-Life/Warner Special Productions came out with the start of a sub-series around 1999 under the generic heading The Glory Days Of Rock 'N' Roll, each with a sub-title indicating the theme of the volume in question.

I'm not certain as to the extent of that series but, in addition to this volume (all of which are becoming increasingly hard to find), other sub-titles I know for certain are: One Hit Wonders 1; One Hit Wonder 2; Dance Party; Doo Wop; Doo Wop Oldies But Goodies; Girl Group Sound; Golden Classics; Great Love Songs; Great Rockers; Great Vocals; Hard-To-Find Hits; Instrumentals; Legendary Artists; # 1 Hits; R&B Classics; R&B Legends; Rockabilly; Teen Ballads; Teen Ballds; and Teen Idols.

Many of the selections, kindly shown by reviewer Coral Hawley, have since been released on countless other such compilations, but if what you're looking for is listed, or in the event you're among those seeking to experience the early days of R&B and R&R for the first time, then rest assured these are all originals with wonderful clarity of sound, augmented by informative background notes and discography of contents. Several nice photos of some of the artists are also included.

Strictly speaking, a few of the artists included here are not really associated with what has become known as the "second-line rhythm" of New Orleans music. On record, that was developed to mimic those who parade behind the coffin in a traditional New Orleans funeral procession, clapping rhythmically to the beat of the brass band. But while their own sound may emulate to some degree the traditional sounds of the likes of Professor Longhair and Huey "Piano" Smith, Bobby Marchan hailed from Youngstown, Ohio, Benny Spellman from Florida, The Showmen from Norfolk, Virginia and, of course, Little Richard from Georgia.

Perhaps the album would have been better represented by The Spiders, Cookie & His Cupcakes, Johnny Adams and, say, Alvin Robinson. But even at that, this is still a solid 2 disc compilation with 30 of the best R&B cuts ever recorded, including a few not that easy to find even today. Such as Ernie K-Doe's A Certain Girl. A # 71 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in late 1961 as the B-side to I Cried My Last Tear (# 69 Hot 100), strangely, neither side made any impact on the R&B Top 100.

Also a delight to see, regardless of where he originated, are both Parts 1 and 2 of There's Something On Your Mind by Bobby Marchan, a # 1 R&B/# 31 Hot 100 in summer 1960, and the melancholy It's Raining by the so vastly underrated Irma Thomas. Just listen to that, and then give me a rational reason why that never became a hit for her. Of course, some of her best came out in late 1963 and throughout 1964 when Billboard had suspended the R&B charts (only later assigning the Pop results to the R&B listings for "historical" purposes).