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Marga Benitez
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Geechie Goomie / Winos on Parade
UK
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Juke Box Jam
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It’s their 7th release on the Jukebox Jam label, so they thought it was about time to throw you a curve ball with something truly interesting and unique…Back to back on one 45 are the 2 best sides from the 2 super hard to find singles accredited to the mysterious Marga Benitez, a calypso singing ‘exotic dancer’ originally from the Caribbean who first made her way to a studio in 1954 with vocal group the Mello Tones. The label artwork for this reissue, incidentally, features an illustration of the lady herself, in full shake ’n’ maraca mode!
The top side here features the potent and intoxicating concoction that is ‘Geechie Goomie’, a record unlike any other we’ve ever heard like of. The slinky, seductive tones of Ms Benitez and her whacked out lyrics sit alongside an almost clunky exotic piano-led accompaniment and some oddly sinister backing vocals from the Mello-Tones to create a wonderful record which was perhaps always destined to find its audience in another time and place.
The B-side features the prize of the earlier session for Decca Records, ‘Wino’s on Parade’, a curious one-off oddity which should definitely appeal further to fans of the weird and wonderful with its unique blend of calypso vocals, quirky story-telling lyrics and doo-wop backing vox. Both singles dually flopped on original release and whilst ‘Geechie Goomie’ has had a small but dedicated following on the Belgian popcorn scene for a while, we anticipate that with this limited run 45rpm reissue the time and place for Marga Benitez’s indisputably unique charms has finally arrived!
Evelyn Freeman
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Didn't It Rain
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UA
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Something a little different here, this is more or less straight ahead call and response Gospel, only with a prominent R&B stomp and clap rhythm. Drop it in at the right time in the night and this will raise the roof!
The Nightriders
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Lookin' For My baby
USA
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Sue
7"
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Wild Black Rock & Roll from bandleader Doc Starkes and vocalist Mel Smith. Cut just before the turn of the 60s, this raucous piece of bawdy RnB is a surefire party-starter and comes strongly recommended!
Dave Bartholomew
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Shrimp
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Juke Box Jam
7"
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Our first release on the Jukebox Jam subsidiary showcased the production talents of New Orleans' finest Dave Bartholomew on Rose Mitchell's haunting rendition of 'Baby Please Don't Go' (now sold out everywhere!). For Jukebox Jam number four it's time for Dave himself to take centre stage with two solo sides from his prolific spell with Imperial Records, both with some distinctly Latin/Caribbean seasoning, hence the naming of this label 'Mambo'.
Nightriders
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Pretty Plaid Skirt
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Sue
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Total lunacy from Doc Starkes band, with Mel Smith on vocals, the same team which brought us ‘Lookin’ For My Baby’ (see elsewhere on this page). A crazed percussion heavy backing led by a savage twanging guitar riff, there must have been something in the studio air when they recorded this wild and unique rocker.
Big Walter and his Thunderbirds
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Pack Fair and Square
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Peacock
7"
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Big Joe Turner’s hit ‘Flip Flop and Fly’ influenced scores of similar records and Big Walter’s ‘Pack, Fair and Square’ is amongst the very best of them, a Jump Blues thriller with great horns and a bouncing rhythm.
Billy La Mont
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Country Boy
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Okeh
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Outstanding Black Rock & Roll here, with a classic stop-start vocal leading into a rockin’ guitar line. The super tight band is rumoured to have been Little Richard regulars The Upsetters, led by Grady Gaines.
Big Al Downing
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Georgia Slop
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Columbia
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Originally a small hit for Jimmy McCracklin, the energy levels were cranked up a bit for Big Al Downing’s cover version – this is a floor-filling Bo Diddly-esque R&R banger make no mistake!
Peppermint Harris
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Angel Child
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Duke
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Any record which starts with the lyric ‘Good Googa Mooga’ demands your full attention! What follows is stomping low-fi Black Rock and Roll of the highest calibre.
Roy Brown
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Hip Shakin' Baby
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Imperial
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Cool R&R from the prolific and influential Jump Blues maestro Roy Brown. Interestingly, this is a cover of a song written by the great Rockabilly team of Johnny and Dorsey Burnette, proving that when it came to influence between Black and White musicians back in the 50s it wasn’t totally one way traffic…
Tiny Bradshaw
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The Train Kept A-Rollin'
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King
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…And neatly done, here is the original R&B number made legendary in Rockabilly circles by Johnny Burnette’s classic cover version later in the 50s. And a completely different feel to that version, this is that classic big band Jump Blues feel, a laid back, easy bumper with effortless cool.
Ann Cole
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Got My Mo-Jo Working
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Baton
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Most people associate this song with Muddy Waters, who had a big hit with it in 1957. Not so many know that it was originally recorded a year earlier, and by a female vocalist. Though the accent is different, Ann Cole’s version is every bit as good as the follow-up, brimming with feminine sass where Muddy amped up the masculine swagger.
Little Willie John
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Fever
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King
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A bona-fide classic. That riff is so irresistibly well-crafted it’s not surprising that the song inspired so many, many answer songs and covers. Add on one of the greatest singers of his time, and you have something in no way short of essential. Flip side stomper 'Uh Huh' isn't too bad either!
Lord Lebby with the Caribs
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Caldonia
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R
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Lord Lebby was a popular calypso artist in his native Jamaica and so it’s surprising to find him straying so far from that more traditional sound as he does here, on this raucous rendition of the Louis Jordan Jump Blues classic. Perhaps the wildest take on ‘Caldonia’ ever, in fact!
Frankie Lee Sims
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I'm Long
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Specialty
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A real nice rockin blues-bopper with great cotton-pickin' fretwork from the cousin of Lightnin' Hopkins.
Little Papa Joe
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Looking for my Baby
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Blue Lake
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2 great sides, ‘Looking…’ is a hot, hopping, bopper, the flip side ‘Easy Lovin’ is a more low-slung, cool blues number with tasty horn chugs.
Buster Smith and his Heat Waves
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Til Broad Daylight
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Big Town
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Swinging big band R&B with a vocal coated in gravel, rough n ready!
Shy Guy Douglas
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Monkey Doin' Woman
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Todd
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Insistent rhythm with a wild harp and a casual, laconic vocal from Mr. Shy Guy, who sounds anything but!
Schoolboy Cleve
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She's Gone
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Feature
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Tough harp-led, holler and stomp Blues Bop! Killer stuff.
Percy Welch
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Nursery Rhyme Rock
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Fran
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Big Band Jump Blues / Proto-Rock N Roll with an infectious Jiving rhythm and an entertaining vocal turn from Percy Welch, twisting up a few popular nursery rhymes. You get more knockabout fun on the flip-side, as Welch decides he’s going to stop messing around with other people’s women. Quite right too!
Jimmy Good
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Watch Dog
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Jet
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An interesting one which shows the changing times of its recording date, 1961. The rhythm is a straight Rock N Roll / R&B pattern, but the horn parts anticipate the soul music movement. Nice, steady beat and a catchy vocal too…
Bo Diddley
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Mumblin' Guitar
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Checker
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You can divide people’s taste thus: You either love Bo or you don’t have any! Of course, we can’t get enough of him so this terrific reissue of two of his lesser known recordings.
Billy Lamont
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Come on Right Now/ Hear me Now
UK
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King
7"
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The dancefloor will surely thank you for gifting it such a catchy and infectious record as this one. Great shouting, bopping black Rock and Roll, nothing more complex than that – and all the better for it too!