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Record LabelVmps, Vampi Soul

UPC8435008862992

eBay Product ID (ePID)2317117952

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2015

GenreRock

ArtistVarious

Release TitleR&B Hipshakers Vol. 4: Bossa Nova and Grits

Dimensions

Item Height0.20 in

Item Weight0.10 lb

Item Length5.50 in

Item Width4.60 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks20

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Bossa Nova and Grits - Lil Joe Washington 1.2 The Way You Do - Jimmy Nolen 1.3 Cherry Wine - Little Esther 1.4 Be-Bop Wino - the Lamplighters 1.5 Hold Your Loving - Titus Turner 1.6 Stop Knockin' - Juanita Nixon 1.7 We'll Never Meet Again - the Midnighters 1.8 Somewhere Down the Line - Jimmy Scott 1.9 You're Lower Than a Mole - Camille Howard 1.10 Good Mambo Tonight - Wynonie Harris 1.11 She's Gone Too Long - Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men 1.12 Syam's Blues - King Syam 1.13 Love Love Love D-R-E-A-M - Gene Wilson ; His Genies 1.14 Same Old Thing - Amos Milburn 1.15 You Can't Hide - Lula Reed ; Feddy King 1.16 Back on the Block - Sam Anderson ; the Telstars 1.17 Baby Don't You Leave Poor Me - Clarence Paul 1.18 Don't Be Ashamed - the 5 Royales 1.19 Mister Glenn - Little Willie John 1.20 Space Guitar - Young John Watson

NotesHold it, hold it - this ain't over yet! I know: The passage of three long years since we last met may have led you to worry I'd abandoned my noble endeavor to unearth all of the mind-bending rhythm and blues in the nearly bottomless King and Federal vaults. But fear not. To paraphrase the immortal words of Titus Turner in 'Hold Your Loving,' I'm gonna keep at it till the meatballs bounce! I'm delighted to report that Bossa Nova and Grits features some show stopping acts new to the R&B Hipshakers series: there's 18-year-old Little Esther Phillips and her indelibly nasal voice, which would make her a star for decades to come; her fierce, piano-pounding fellow Texan Camille Howard, pushing 40 by the time she growled 'You mole, you!'; Angelenos The Lamplighters, led by a young Thurston Harris (doin' sixty-what'd-they-say?!); the otherworldly singer's singer Jimmy Scott, just before a sad 20-year lull in his recording career that would be followed by a fresh round of well-deserved accolades in the 1990s. And then there's our first dip into the oeuvre of guitar god Jimmy Nolen, who would basically invent funk guitar playing a decade later as a member of James Brown's band but is already wielding a pretty expressive instrument in 'The Way You Do.' Some old favorites are back, too: it wouldn't be a Hipshakers, after all, without brilliant new entries from Little Willie John, The 5 Royales, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Johnny Watson, and Freddy King - he in a rousing dance-floor duet with series stalwart Lula Reed. Non-bouncing meatballs? We've got 'em. Slinky mambo beats? They're here. Back-to-back odes to vino? Yep. Wailing instrumentals? But of course. Twin blast-offs to outer space? Check. Prepare to taste the sound of these boss grits -Mr Fine Wine. Also includes tracks by Little Joe Washington, Juanita Nixon, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men, King Syam, Gene Wilson & His Genies, Amos Milburn, Sam Anderson & The Telstars, and Clarence Paul. Tracks originally released between 1953 and 1967.