Lewis Smiley: Rocks
Lewis Smiley: Rocks
Format: CD
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Artist: Lewis Smiley
Label: Bear Family Germany
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127166760
Genre: Rock
The most comprehensive single-disc collection available of Smiley Lewis rocking 1950s output for Imperial. Features the brilliant Studio Band at Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio: saxists Lee Allen and Herbert Hardesty, drummer Earl Palmer, pianists Edward Frank and Huey Smith, and trumpeter/producer Dave Bartholomew among them. Contains both scorching versions of Shame, Shame, Shame, many equally fabulous rockers, like Bumpity Bump and Smiley Lewis' classic originals I Hear You Knocking and One Night, covered by Gale Storm and Elvis Presley respectively. Boasting a booming vocal delivery, Smiley Lewis was one of the seminal performers on the 1950s New Orleans R&B scene. The charts didn't reflect just how spectacular Smiley Lewis' 1950s output for Imperial Records was. Under the savvy aegis of producer/songwriter Dave Bartholomew and featuring the Crescent City's top studio sidemen, Smiley Lewis made some of the most blistering rockers of his era. Yet only a handful of them were national hits; his classic original I Hear You Knocking was victimized by a puerile Gale Storm cover that killed his pop crossover potential, and Elvis Presley latched onto One Night, cleaned it up, and sold a lot more copies than Smiley Lewis ever did. Why She's Got Me Hook, Line And Sinker, Bumpity Bump, Rootin' And Tootin', and Shame, Shame, Shame weren't hits during rock 'n' roll's primordial age we'll never know. Bear Family's jam-packed single-disc collection of Smiley Lewis greatest rockers showcases his huge, wall-shaking voice (reminiscent of Big Joe Turner's on the bluesier early stuff) on a non-stop barrage of rockers ranging from 1950 to 1958. Dave Bartholomew was Smiley Lewis best source for material, writing most of his most memorable releases, though Smiley Lewis penned a few of his own early on... Read more at: https://www. Bear-family. #de/
Tracks:
1.1 Shame, Shame, Shame
1.2 Big Mamou
1.3 Ain't Gonna Do It
1.4 Down the Road
1.5 The Bells Are Ringing
1.6 Can't Stop Loving You
1.7 Ooh la la
1.8 My Baby Was Right
1.9 Blue Monday
1.10 Dirty People
1.11 Jailbird
1.12 Where Were You
1.13 Real Gone Lover
1.14 Bumpity Bump
1.15 I Hear You Knocking
1.16 Sad Life
1.17 Come on
1.18 Bee's Boogie
1.19 Queen of Hearts
1.20 Lillie Mae
1.21 One Night
1.22 Caldonia's Party
1.23 Nothing But the Blues
1.24 She's Got Me Hook, Line ; Sinker
1.25 Rootin' and Tootin'
1.26 Please Listen to Me
1.27 Down Yonder We Go Ballin'
1.28 No Letter Today
1.29 Mama Don't Like
1.30 Play Girl
1.31 Go on Fool
1.32 Goin' to Jump and Shout
1.33 Bad Luck Blues
1.34 School Days Are Back Again
1.35 Lil Liza Jane
1.36 Shame, Shame, Shame!
Audio Sample:
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