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