Good Rocking Tonight (album)
Good Rocking Tonight | |
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Portrait of Roy Brown taken in 1950. Provided by Roy Brown for use as the cover. | |
Compilation album by Roy Brown | |
Released | 1978 |
Recorded | 1947 — 1954 |
Genre | R&B Blues |
Label | Route 66 Records |
Producer | Roy Brown |
Compiler | Bengt Weine, Per Notini, and Roy Brown |
Good Rocking Tonight is a compilation album by the blues musician Roy Brown.
Released by Route 66 Records in 1978 in mono as KIX-6, and is a follow-up to an earlier release titled Laughing But Crying (KIX-2). This album's subtitle is "Legendary Recordings, Vol 2 (1947–1954)". The cover features a portrait of Roy Brown, courtesy of Roy Brown, taken in 1950.
The back cover includes extensive liner notes, and biographical and autobiographical information attributed to:
- John Broven: "Roy Brown", Blues Unlimited 123–124
- Jonas Bernholm: unpublished interview
- Staffan Solding: Swedish Radio Broadcast, 1978
Track listing
# | Song Name | Time | Location | Date |
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1. | "Good Rocking Tonight" | 3:03 | New Orleans | 1947 |
2. | "Long About Midnight" | 3:09 | New Orleans | 1948 |
3. | "Whose Hat Is That" | 2:34 | New Orleans | October 1947 |
4. | "Fore Day in the Morning" | 3:00 | New Orleans | October 1948 |
5. | "Butcher Pete, pt 2" (Brown–Bernard) |
2:47 | Cincinnati | November 2, 1949 |
6. | "Dreaming Blues" | 3:11 | Cincinnati | June 15, 1950 |
7. | "Old Age Boogie, pt 1 & 2" | 4:35 | New Orleans | December 19, 1952 |
8. | "Good Man Blues" | 2:29 | Cincinnati | June 15?, 1950 |
9. | "Miss Fanny Brown Returns" | 2:39 | New Orleans | 1948 |
10. | "Brown Angel" | 3:01 | Cincinnati | September 27, 1951 |
11. | "Grandpa Stole My Baby" | 2:52 | Unknown | Unknown, early 1953? |
12. | "Teenage Jamobree" | 3:01 | Cincinnati | June 22, 1950 |
13. | "Black Diamond" | 2:31 | New Orleans | September 2, 1954 |
14. | "This Is My last Goodbye" | 2:39 | Cincinnati | April 2, 1954 |
15. | "Mighty, Mighty Man" | 2:26 | Unknown | Unknown |
All songs by Roy Brown except where noted.
Personnel
- Placide Adams — drums [13)
- Chuck Badie — bass [10]
- Earl Barnes — tenor sax [1,3]
- Edgar Blanchard — guitar [6,8?,12]
- Frank Campbell — baritone sax [7]
- Walter Daniels — piano [3]
- Wallace Davenport — trumpet [3]
- Salvador Doucette — piano [13]
- Jimmy Davis — guitar [7,13,14]
- Johnny Fontenette — tenor sax [5,6,7,8?,10,12,13]
- Percy Gabriel — bass [3]
- Albert "June" Gardner — drums [14]
- James C. Harris — piano [14]
- Wilbur Herden — trumpet [6,8?,12]
- Ike Isaacs — bass [6,8?,12]
- George Jenkins — drums [12]
- Leonard Jefferson — bass [14]
- Bill Jones — guitar [3]
- Melvin Lastie — trumpet [13]
- Ray Miller — drums [7]
- Tony Moret — trumpet [1]
- Alexander Nelson — baritone sax [10]
- Charlie Nelson — piano [10]
- Bob Ogden — drums [1]
- Jerome O'Neill — alto sax [1]
- Frank Parker — drums [5]
- Sammy Parker — tenor sax [7,13,14]
- LeRoy Rankins — baritone sax [5,6,8?,12]
- Teddy Riley — trumpet [5,7,10,14]
- Edward Santineo — piano [5,6,8?,12]
- Louis Sargent — guitar [5]
- Calvin Sheilds — drums [6,8?]
- Tommy Shelvin — bass [5,7,13]
- Wilbert Smith — bass [10]
- Clement Tervalon — trombone [1,3]
- Victor Thomas — tenor sax [7,14]
- Jimmy Williams — piano [7]
- Unknown — bass [1,2,4,9,11]
— drums [2,3,4,9,11]
— guitar [1,11]
— piano [1,2,4,9,11]
— tenor sax [2,4,9,11]
— trombone [2,4,9]
— trumpet [2,4,9]
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