Title: Rock Me Baby: The Mercury and Peacock Sides 1950-55 Artist: Johnny Otis Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5013929480926 Genre: Blues Release Date: 2007-02-20 Number of Discs: 1
Repressing. Johnny Otis was something of an iconoclast. While it is common nowadays for young white people to emulate the style and speech of young African-Americans, during the first half of the 20th century the opposite was true. Otis was considered strange that he, a man born white, would forego all the racial privileges that that birth-right entailed to buck the trend and pass for a black man. He had black friends, lived in the black neighborhood and married a black woman, and his reward was the support of the black community during his record-making years making him the most successful white act of the 1950s on the Billboard R&B chart. This CD represents the early 1950s recordings of Johnny Otis, which are the rarest and least-reissued of his career. We kick off with a short blast from his radio and TV show signature theme to introduce proceedings and allow Johnny himself to describe what will follow: Rockin' R'n'B, greasy Doo-Wop, mighty Jump Blues and Swing sides give US Johnny Otis in full effect!! 29 tracks total. Rev-Ola Bandstand.
Tracks: 1.1 Johnny Otis Radio Show Signature Tune 1.2 Oopy Do (V Johnny Otis) 1.3 One O'Clock Jump 1.4 Baby Baby Blues (V Mel Walker) 1.5 One Nighter Blues 1.6 The Love Bug Boogie (V Mel Walker ; Ada Wilson) 1.7 Gypsy Blues (V Mel Walker) 1.8 Goomp Blues 1.9 Sugar Sugar (V Mel Walker) 1.10 Why Don't You Believe Me? (V Ada Wilson) 1.11 Stardust 1.12 The Candle's Burnin' Low (V Mel Walker) 1.13 Call Operator 210 (V Mel Walker) 1.14 The Last Mile (V Mel Walker) 1.15 Young Girl Johfnny Otis) 1.16 Sad Story (V Junior Ryder) 1.17 Shake It (V Johnny Otis) 1.18 I Won't Be Your Fool No More (V Johnny Otis) 1.19 Boom Diddy Wa Wa (V Junior ; Marie) 1.20 Sittin' Here Drinkin' (V Johnny Otis) 1.21 You Got Me Cryin' (Down By the River) (V Johnny Otis) 1.22 Better Stop (V Junior Ryder) 1.23 Butterball (V Johnny Otis) 1.24 Sandy's Boogie 1.25 Yes Baby (V Johnny Ace ; Big Mama Thornton) 1.26 Better Stop 1.27 Butterball 1.28 Sandy's Boogie 1.29 Yes Baby
