Various Artists - Gettin` Funky: The Birth Of New Orleans R&B [Box]

Artist:

Various Artists

UPC:

604988992823

Description:

Full title: Gettin` Funky: The Birth Of New Orleans R&B.
Includes a 56 page booklet.
Performers include: Champion Jack Dupree, Professor Longhair, Archibald, Dave Bartholomew, Paul Gayten, Smiley Lewis, Roy Brown, Fats Domino.
Contains 107 tracks.
New Orleans musicians have long mixed a diverse laundry list of styles from blues, Latin, pop, swing, jazz, stride piano, mainstream R&B and even a little country into the immediately recognizable gumbo known as New Orleans R&B. This four-disc box from Proper (each of the four discs in Gettin` Funky: The Birth of New Orleans R&B, are available separately as Piano Power, The Pioneers, The Hit Makers and Hip Shakin` Mamas, Crooners and Shouters, are also available as standalone albums) provides 107 tracks from the early pioneers of this feisty, energetic and joyous music, with several selections from, among others, Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Champion Jack Dupree, Dave Bartholomew, Paul Gayten and Roy Brown. ~ Steve Leggett

Track Listing:

DISC 1: PIANO POWER:

1. Shake Dance
2. Junker`s Blues
3. Big Time Mama
4. Byrd`s Blues
5. Her Mind Is Gone
6. Bald Head
7. Hey Now Baby
8. Oh Well
9. Hadacol Bounce
10. Longhair Stomp
11. Been Fooling Around
12. Between the Night and Day (In the Wee Wee Hours)
13. Hey Now Baby
14. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
15. She Walks Right In
16. Hey Little Girl
17. Willie Mae
18. Walk Your Blues Away
19. Professor Longhair Blues
20. Boogie Woogie
21. Longhair`s Blues-Rhumba
22. Stack-a-Lee Pts 1 & 2
23. Shake Baby Shake
24. Ballin` With Archie
25. My Gal
26. Little Miss Muffet
27. Crescent City Bounce
28. She`s Scattered Everywhere

DISC 2: THE PIONEERS:

1. Mr. Fool
2. Country Boy
3. Gert Town Blues
4. Basin Street Breakdown
5. Pyramid
6. Messy Bessie
7. Nickel Wine
8. Ain`t Gonna Do It (Rest of My Life)
9. Good Jax Boogie
10. Now That You`re Gone
11. Backtrackin`
12. Baby, What`s New?
13. My Rough and Ready Man
14. You Shouldn`t
15. Confused
16. You Oughta Know
17. Fishtails
18. I`ll Never Be Free
19. I Ain`t Gonna Let You In
20. Lowdown
21. Slide Me Down
22. Growing Old
23. If You Ever Loved a Woman
24. Dirty People
25. Where Were You?
26. My Baby Was Right

DISC 3: THE HIT MAKERS:

1. Good Rockin` Tonight
2. Lolly Pop Mama
3. Special Lesson No.1
4. Woman`s a Wonderful Thing
5. Roy Brown`s Boogie
6. Miss Fanny Brown
7. Long About Midnight
8. Rainy Weather Blues
9. Rockin` at Midnight
10. Please Don`t Go
11. Ridin` High
12. Rock-a-Bye Baby
13. Big Town, (The Girls in)
14. Detroit City Blues
15. Fat Man, The
16. Hide Away Blues
17. She`s My Baby
18. Brand New Baby
19. Little Bee
20. Boogie Woogie Baby
21. Hey, La Bas Boogie
22. Korea Blues
23. Every Night About This Time
24. Careless Love
25. Hey! Fat Man
26. For You My Love
27. I`ll Get Along Somehow, Pts 1&2
28. Lost My Baby

DISC 4: HIP SHAKIN` MAMAS, CROONERS AND SHOUTERS:

1. Hip Shakin` Mama
2. Chubby`s Confession
3. Back Bitin` Woman
4. Bedroom Blues
5. Close to Train Time
6. New Orleans Lover Man
7. Miss Lollipop`s Confession
8. Baby Get Wise
9. Streetwalkin` Daddy
10. Job For a Jockey, A
11. Boogie`s the Thing
12. She Won`t Leave No More
13. Mercury Boogie
14. Blazer Boy Blues
15. New Orleans Women Blues
16. Jump and Shout
17. I Never Missed My Baby
18. Mellow Woman Blues
19. Shrewsbury Blues
20. Don`t Marry Too Soon
21. 3x7=21
22. I`ll Get By
23. I Broke My Mother`s Rule
24. I Cried
25. Just to Be Home With You

Album Information

Release Date:

12/11/2001

Type:

Collection

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Piano

Label:

Proper Records

Catalog Number:

1028

Original Release Year:

2001

# of Discs:

4

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mixed

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