Mr. Ward's book is an excellent reference work for anyone who has the same interest that I do in American music, and the essential role of African-American musicians and composers in the evolution of all modern popular music.
Having read the book, I decided to go back through it and listen to the recordings Ed Ward references in his history.
I started by googling variations on the phrase: "History of Rock and Roll, by Ed Ward, discography", hoping to find a list of you-tube links to the original disks. Nothing turned up but reviews of the book and sites that sell the book.
So, if I have to basically, re-read the entire book, plus type in performer/song names, I might as well save my typing in a text file and create a discography.
My plan is to make a post for each chapter, and possibly add photos of the original performers when I can find them.
I will create links to you-tube uploads of every recording Mr. Ward references within quotation marks. There are a lot of them. I'll upload my completed list for Chapter One as soon as I finish this introductory post.
Thanks for visiting.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Chapter One: Discography for The History of Rock and Roll Volume One, by Ed Ward
The Record Industry:
Race and Country
Mamie smith
Blind lemon jefferson
Eck Robertson and Henry Gilliland
Vernon Dalhart
Jimmy Rodgers
Blue yodels
More will be added...
Bob Wills
Mississippi Sheiks
Big Bill Broonzy
Sons of the Pioneers
Robert Johnson
Lil Green
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Chapter Two: Discography for The History of Rock and Roll Volume One, by Ed Ward
Independence
Cecil Gant
Joe Liggins
Hadda Hopgood
Muddy Waters
Mean Red Spider
Let Me be Your Coal Man
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Driftin Blues
Merry Christmas Baby
Hank Williams
You're Gonna Change (or I'm Gonna Leave)
I just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
I can't Help It ( If I'm Still in Love With You)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Honky Tonkin'
Arthur Smith
Guitar Boogie
Delmore Brothers
Freight Train Boogie
Wynona Carr
The Ball Game
Dragnet for Jesus
Amos Milburn
Don Tosti
Pachuco Boogie
Muy Sabroso Blues
Lalo Guerrero
Marihuana Boogie
Lowell Fulson
Every Day I have the Blues
Ray Charles (Seattle, 1951)
Lonely Boy
Mahalia Jackson
Move On Up A Little Higher
Wynonie Harris
There's Good Rockin' Tonight
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Chapter Three: Discography for The History of Rock and Roll Volume One, by Ed Ward
Blues, Birds and a Moondog
Lucky Millander's Band, featuring Wynonie Harris
Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
Roy Brown
There's Good Rockin' Tonight
The Soul Stirrers
Why do You Like Roosevelt (Poor Man's Friend)
Not found
Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb
Not found
The Trumpeters
Milky White Way
The Ravens
Silent Night
White Christmas
The Orioles
It's Too Soon To Know
Stick Mcghee (Brownie McGhee's brother)
Drinkin Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
Ruth Brown
So Long
John Lee Hooker
Boogie Chillen'
Lightnin Hopkins and Thunder Smith
Tim Moore's Farm
(Original recording not found, substitute 1948 solo recording by Lightnin' Sam Hopkins)
Lightnin' Hopkins
Katie Mae
Short Haired Woman
Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm (released as by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats; Ike's saxophone player and lead singer)
Rocket 88
BB King
Three O'clock Blues
Muddy Waters
Louisiana Blues
Howlin' Wolf
How Many More Year
Moanin' at Midnight
(Original Chess recording, sides A and B)
Charles Brown
Black Night
Earl Bostic
Flamingo
The Dominoes
Sixty Minute Man
Monday, May 27, 2019
Chapter Four: Discography for The History of Rock and Roll Volume One, by Ed Ward
Black Voices in The Heartland
Jewel King
3 x 7=21
Fats Domino
The Fat Man
Champion Jack Dupree
Junker Blues (cited as the source for "The Fat Man")
Lloyd Price (with Fats Domino)
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Jackie Boy and Little Walter. (Not the Harmonica player of the same name)
Selling My Whiskey
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
Slipping Around
Hank Thompson
The Wild Side of Life
Kitty Wells
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Webb Peirce
Back Street Affair
There Stands The Glass
Jimmy Forest
Night Train
Illinois Jacquet
Port of Rico
Count Basie
Paradise Squat
Johnny Hodges
A Pound of Blues
Little Walter
Your Cat Will Play
(Retitled Juke on release)
Johnny Ace
My Song
Percy Mayfield
Please Send Me Someone to Love
Little Esther and The Robins with the Johnny Otis Quintet
Double Crossing Blues
Johnny Ray
Cry
The Dominoes with Clyde McPhatter
Have Mercy Baby
The 5 Royales (originally, the Royal Sons Quintet)
Baby Don't Do It
Help Me Somebody
Crazy, Crazy, Crazy
Laundromat Blues
Big Mama Thornton
Hound Dog
Annisteen Allen
Baby I'm Doin' It ("answer song" to Baby Don't Do It by The 5 Royales)
Ruth Brown
(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean
"Answer songs" to (Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean)
Swinging Sax Kari with Gloria Irving
Daughter (That's Your Red Wagon)
Scatman Crothers
Papa (I don't Treart That Little Girl Mean)
Bennie Brown
Papa
Wynonie Harris
Mama, Your Daughter Done Lied on Me
Rufus Thomas
Bear Cat (answer to Hound Dog)
TIger Man (King of The Jungle)
The Prisonaires
Just Walkin in the Rain
Little Junior Parker
Feelin' Good
Mystery Train
The Orioles
Crying in the Chapel
The Dominoes
I'd Be Satisfied
The Bells
Pedal Pushin' Papa
These Foolish Things
The Drifters
Money Honey
Ruth Brown
WIld Young Men
Ray Charles
Losing Hand
Mess Around
Robert Johnson
I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Elmore James
Dust My Broom (WIth Sonny Boy Williamson II AKA RIce Miller)
I Believe
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Chapter Five: Discography for The History of Rock and Roll Volume One, by Ed Ward
1953-1954: The Stars Align
Elvis Presley (First recordings)
My Happiness
That's When Your Heartaches Begin
I'll Never Stand in Your Way
It Wouldn't Be the Same Without You
Guitar Slim (with Ray Charles)
The Things I Used to Do
Ray Charles
It Should Have Been Me
The Midnighters (Nee The Royals, featuring Hank Ballard)
Work WIth Me Annie
Sexy Ways
Annie Had A Baby
Moonrise
Bull Moose Jackson
Big Ten Inch Record
The Clovers
Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
The Drifters
Such a Night
The Chords
Sh-Boom
The Charms (with Otis Williams)
Hearts of Stone
The Spaniels
Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite
The Moonglows
Sincerely
The Penguins
Earth Angel
The Harptones
A Sunday Kind of Love
The Cadillacs
Gloria
The Drifters
White Christmas
Big Joe Turner
Honey Hush
TV Mama (featuring Elmore James on Guitar)
Shake Rattle and Roll
Bill Haley and The Saddlemen
Rock This Joint
Rocket 88
Shake Rattle and Roll
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom
Ruth Brown
Oh What a Dream
Patti Page
Oh What a Dream
Elvis Presley
I Love You Because
That's All Right Mama
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Good Rockin' Tonight
Carl Perkins
Movie Magg
Honky Tonk Gal
Turn Around
Ray Charles
I've Got a Woman
Come Back Baby
Professor Alex Bradford
Too Close to Heaven
Etta James
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