Drawing mainly on recordings from the genre's golden age of the 1950s, the 48-track Jamaica Is The Place To Go explores Mento, the island's original popular music. Together with the American R&B favoured by local sound systems, Mento represents the origins of modern Jamaican music. History lesson aside, Jamaica Is The Place To Go offers over two hours of infectious fun: the perfect soundtrack to your summer! When Fantastic Voyage released Mento, Not Calypso! The Original Sound Of Jamaica in 2013, it was a journey into uncharted waters for the label, but one that has proved so popular that, two years on, we are proud to present Jamaica Is The Place To Go, another 2CD survey of Jamaica's most popular form of indigenous music pre-ska.

Three CD set. 2015 collection, the third installment in the Jamaican Sound System Classics series. It's Jamaica Jump Blues Time! is a selection of US jump/shuffle blues recordings, which will be of equal interest to both Jamaican music fans and connoisseurs of classic US rhythm & blues. This is the music that provided the inspiration for Ska and all that followed. So enjoy sound system favorites by Louis Jordan, Joe Liggins, King Pleasure, Fats Domino, Louis Prima, Rosco Gordon, T-Bone Walker, Professor Longhair and a host of other names, both famous and obscure.

Soul City Los Angeles presents recordings which served to establish the musical direction of LA and neighboring West Coast conurbations in the late 1950s and early 1960s when R&B was evolving into the style that became known as soul. Compiled and annotated by soul music authority Clive Richardson, Soul City Los Angeles is the latest in a series that has previously explored the nascent soul scenes in Detroit, New York and Chicago.

More Jamaican R&B and the Birth of Ska The sequel to Youths Boogie, and again compiled by genre specialist Mike Atherton (Echoes, Record Collector), Mash It! portrays the popular music of Jamaica in the period 1959 to 1962, before it became formerly known as ska, but by which time most of the characteristics of ska were present and correct.

Als Nachfolger zu "It's Saturday Night" (FVTD145) erscheint nun "Teenage Blues", eine Sammlung von Rockabilly und Hillbilly Bop Songs der Startday Custom Serie. Rock'n'Roll Fachmann Dave Penny hat 101 der besten und rarsten Singles aus den Jahren 1953-1970 vom texanischen Starday Label ausgesucht. Stardays Konzept der Custom Serie bestand darin, dass Künstler ohne Plattenvertrag gegen Vorkasse limitierte Singles über Starday pressen konnten, um ihre Konzerte bei lokalen Radiostationen zu promoten und kleine Mengen an Fans direkt abzusetzen.

50 Great Dance Floor Moments Of The 60s It s1961 and the breakout of the Twist as a global trend is just the shot in the arm that the music business has been looking for in the wake of the payola scandal. The fall-out from this disturbing debacle has been far greater than anyone might imagine. Many key radio stations across the United States have panicked and changed their formats from rock & roll to quality music , with the result that listening figures have dropped away almost as fast as the advertisers.

Not every record that s released can be a hit, but - hit or not - every record released is still a memory for someone. In The Forgotten 45s 1957-1959 we are remembering the records that deserved to be a UK hit but, for whatever reason, were not. Packed with singles by hit-makers of the calibre of Gene Vincent, Alma Cogan, Frankie Lymon, Lonnie Donegan, Brenda Lee and Dion, as well as US acts hoping to extend their success beyond the domestic market, this 3CD set devotes one disc to each year from 1957 to 1959, and will be followed by a companion set covering the years 1960-1962. Reflecting the musical preferences of the era, the featured styles run the gamut of R&B, doo wop, rock & roll, country, skiffle and mainstream pop. Considered alongside hits-of-the-year compilations, like Fantastic Voyage s exhaustive British Hit Parade series, The Forgotten 45s offers a fascinating parallel narrative. Artists, labels and other pundits could reasonably have expected these recording to be UK hit singles, but they were denied that success. The reason may be apparent with hindsight: the timely release of a rival version, or the listening public starting to fall out of love with the artist, or their style of music. But other misses are harder to fathom, and of course it is this unpredictability that goes a long way to explain our fascination with hit records. If you were one of the few that bought one or more of these tracks back in the day, then you already know the enjoyment you derived from them, and you can sit back and let the memories come flooding back. If you are only now discovering the music of a bygone age, then The Forgotten 45s offers an intriguing, different dimension to your journey.

Above the album worked the 'Doo Wop The Rock & Roll Vocal Group Sound 1957-1961', and his release took place on 2012. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Above the album worked the 'Graduation Day 50 Songs That Shaped the Beach Boys ', and his release took place on 2013. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.