Johnny Otis -Rock Me Baby -Cherry Red Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Otis, Johnny "Johnny Otis radio show signature tune"

02. Otis, Johnny "Oopy-doo"

03. Otis, Johnny "One o' clock jump"

04. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "Baby baby blues"

05. Otis, Johnny "One nighter blues"

06. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel / Wilson, Ada "The love bug boogie"

07. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "Gypsy blues"

08. Otis, Johnny "Goomp blues"

09. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "Sugar sugar"

10. Otis, Johnny / Wilson, Ada "Why don't you believe me?"

11. Otis, Johnny "Stardust"

12. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "The candle's burning low"

13. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "Call operator 210"

14. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "The last mile"

15. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "Brown skin butterball"

16. Otis, Johnny / Walker, Mel "The game is over"

17. Otis, Johnny / Wilson, Ada "Wishing well"

18. Otis, Johnny / Peacocks, The "Rock me baby"

19. Otis, Johnny "Young girl"

20. Otis, Johnny / Ryder, Junior "Sad story"

21. Otis, Johnny "Shake it"

22. Otis, Johnny "I won't be your fool no more"

23. Otis, Johnny / Junior & Marie "Boom diddy wa wa"

24. Otis, Johnny "Sittin' here drinkin'"

25. Otis, Johnny "You got me cryin' (Down by the river)"

26. Otis, Johnny / Ryder, Junior "Better stop"

27. Otis, Johnny "Butterball"

28. Otis, Johnny "Sandy's boogie"

29. Otis, Johnny / Ace, Johnny / Thornton, Big Mama "Yes baby"

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Description:

Repressing. Johnny Otis was something of an iconoclast. While it is common nowadays for young white people to emulate the style and speech of young African-Americans, during the first half of the 20th century the opposite was true. Otis was considered strange that he, a man born white, would forego all the racial privileges that that birth-right entailed to buck the trend and pass for a black man. He had black friends, lived in the black neighborhood and married a black woman, and his reward was the support of the black community during his record-making years making him the most successful white act of the 1950s on the Billboard R&B chart. This CD represents the early 1950s recordings of Johnny Otis, which are the rarest and least-reissued of his career. We kick off with a short blast from his radio and TV show signature theme to introduce proceedings and allow Johnny himself to describe what will follow: Rockin' R'n'B, greasy Doo-Wop, mighty Jump Blues and Swing sides give US Johnny Otis in full effect!! 29 tracks total. Rev-Ola Bandstand.

Producer:

Dave Penny, Joe Foster

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Manufacturer No.:

37748092

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