V.A.
You Heard It Here First
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Date:  2008
Length:  1:04:43
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Gloria Jones - Tainted Love    2:13
      2.  
      		 Mark James - Suspicious Minds    3:04
      3.  
      		 The Wild Ones - Wild Thing    2:30
      4.  
      		 The Crickets - I Fought The Law    2:14
      5.  
      		 Howlin' Wolf - The Red Rooster    2:29
      6.  
      		 The Raindrops - Hanky Panky    2:23
      7.  
      		 Bessie Banks - Go Now    2:41
      8.  
      		 Priscilla Bowman & The Spanials - A Rockin' Good Way    2:14
      9.  
      		 Sammy Ambrose - This Diamond Ring    2:32
      10.  
      		 John D. Loudermilk - Tobacco Road    2:45
      11.  
      		 Yvonne Fair - I Found You    2:26
      12.  
      		 Eddie Riff - Ain't That Loving You Baby    2:18
      13.  
      		 Richard Berry & The Pharoes - Louie Louie    2:14
      14.  
      		 Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollipop    2:18
      15.  
      		 The Little Darlings - Little Bit O'Soul    2:18
      16.  
      		 Johnny Darrell - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town    2:17
      17.  
      		 Hoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand    2:38
      18.  
      		 Muddy Waters - You Need Love    2:43
      19.  
      		 Diane And Annita - A Groovy Kind Of Love    2:01
      20.  
      		 Ian & Sylvia - You Were On My Mind    2:46
      21.  
      		 Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself    2:51
      22.  
      		 The Kinston Trio - Let's Get Together (Live)    2:39
      23.  
      		 Joe Jones - California Sun    2:22
      24.  
      		 Carson & Gail - Something Stupid    2:05
      25.  
      		 The Leaves - Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go    2:43
      26.  
      		 Sunny Dae & The Knights - Rock Around The Clock    2:47
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      Audio CD (25 Aug 2008)
      Number of Discs: 1
      Label: Ace
      . Tainted Love - GLORIA JONES
      2. Suspicious Minds - MARK JAMES
      3. Wild Thing - THE WILD ONES
      4. I Fought The Law - THE CRICKETS
      5. The Red Rooster - HOWLIN' WOLF
      6. Hanky Panky - THE RAINDROPS
      7. Go Now - BESSIE BANKS
      8. A Rockin' Good Way - PRISCILLA BOWMAN & THE SPANIELS
      9. This Diamond Ring - SAMMY AMBROSE
      10. Tobacco Road - JOHN D. LOUDERMILK
      11. I Found You - YVONNE FAIR
      12. Ain't That Loving You Baby - EDDIE RIFF
      13. Louie Louie - RICHARD BERRY & THE PHARAOHS
      14. My Boy Lollipop - BARBIE GAYE
      15. Little Bit O'Soul - THE LITTLE DARLINGS
      16. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - JOHNNY DARRELL
      17. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - HOAGY LANDS
      18. You Need Love - MUDDY WATERS
      19. A Groovy Kind Of Love - DIANE AND ANNITA
      20. You Were On My Mind - IAN & SYLVIA
      21. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - TOMMY HUNT
      22. Let's Get Together (Live) - THE KINGSTON TRIO
      23. California Sun - JOE JONES
      24. Something Stupid - CARSON & GAILE
      25. Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go - THE LEAVES
      26. Rock Around The Clock - SUNNY DAE & THE KNIGHTS

      26 original versions of some of the most enduring classics of the 1950s and 1960s.
      * These tracks embrace some of the greatest country, soul, pop, rock`n'roll and R&B tunes ever recorded. We may never know why these songs did not become hits first time around, but musical inferiority is certainly not among the reasons why they didn't.

      * Some of these originals are well known, others are hardly known at all. Most people with a passion for rock`n'roll will know that Richard Berry wrote and recorded the original `Louie Louie', but hardly anyone will know that the Kingston Trio and Mark James did `Get Together' and `Suspicious Minds' before the Youngbloods and Elvis Presley did.

      * Hear how `Rock Around The Clock' sounded three years before Bill Haley and the Comets got to it, or how the Crickets `Fought The Law' almost half a decade before the Bobby Fuller Four and 15 years before the Clash did. Find out where Led Zeppelin acquired the source material for `Whole Lotta Love' and the Animals got `Baby let Me take You Home' from. Marvel at how closely the later hit versions were often modelled on these originals, and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right.
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