Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran
2. B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go - Gene Vincent
3. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
4. Rock Billy Boogie - Johnny Burnette
5. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
6. Leroy - Jack Scott
7. Black Slacks - Joe Bennett
8. Sunglasses After Dark - Dwight Pullen
9. Put Your Cat Clothes On - Carl Perkins
10. Duck Tail - Joe Clay
11. Woo-Hoo - The Rock*A*Teens
12. Come on, Let's Go - Ritchie Valens
13. I'm Ready - Fats Domino
14. Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner
15. Jump, Jive, An' Wail - Sam Butera & the Witnesses, Louis Prima, Keely Smith
16. Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn
17. Finger Poppin' Time - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
18. Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy, Duane Eddy
19. How Can You Be Mean to Me - Dale Vaughn
20. My Boy Elvis - Janis Martin
21. My Baby Left Me - Elvis Presley
22. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis
23. That Is Rock & Roll - The Coasters
24. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent

Disc 2:

1. Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd
2. Let's Have a Party - Wanda Jackson
3. Rave On - Buddy Holly
4. Action Packed - Ronnie Dee
5. Red Hot - Billy Lee Riley
6. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis
7. Girl Can't Help It - Little Richard
8. Hey! Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
9. Willie and the Hand Jive - The Johnny Otis Show
10. Hand Clappin' - Red Prysock
11. Flip Flop and Fly - Big Joe Turner
12. Jumps, Giggles and Shouts - Gene Vincent
13. Roll over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
14. Hippy Hippy Shake - Chan Romero
15. I'm Shakin' - Little Willie John
16. Lovin' Machine - Wynonie Harris
17. Bony Maronie - Larry Williams
18. Tallahassee Lassie - Freddy Cannon
19. Claudette - The Everly Brothers
20. Maybellene - Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry
21. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
22. School of Rock & Roll - Gene Summers
23. Little Demon - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
24. Race With the Devil - Gene Vincent
25. Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker
26. Rockin' in the Graveyard - Jackie Morningstar
27. Henrietta - Jimmy Dee & The Offbeats

Disc 3:

1. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
2. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
3. Raw-Hide - Link Wray
4. Who Do You Love? - Bo Diddley
5. See You Later, Alligator - Bill Haley
6. Rockin' Bones - Ronnie Dawson
7. Splish Splash - Bobby Darin
8. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
9. Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
10. Oh, Boy! - The Crickets, Buddy Holly
11. Whole Lotta Lovin' - Fats Domino
12. Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
13. Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper
14. Honey Don't - Carl Perkins
15. Go! Go! Go! - Roy Orbison
16. Forty Days - Ronnie Hawkins
17. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston
18. Frenzy - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
19. Koko Joe - Don & Dewey
20. King Kong - Big "T" Tyler
21. Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith
22. Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll - Billy Lee Riley
23. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
24. Rockin' This Joint Tonite - Kid Thomas
25. Honey Hush - Johnny Burnette
26. Yakety Yak - The Coasters
27. Crazy Country Hop - Johnny Otis
28. Rumble - Link Wray

Disc 4:

1. Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly
2. Somethin' Else - Eddie Cochran
3. Crazy Man Crazy - Bill Haley
4. Train Kept A Rollin' - Johnny Burnette
5. Number Nine Train - Tarheel Slim
6. Mercy - Larry Collins, Lorrie Collins
7. Brand New Cadillac - Vincent Taylor, Vince Taylor
8. Slow Down - Larry Williams
9. Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford, Huey "Piano" Smith
10. I Feel Good - Shirley & Lee
11. Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
12. Bamba - Ritchie Valens
13. Tequila - The Champs
14. Charlie Brown - The Coasters
15. All Night Long - Joe Houston Orchestra
16. Breathless - Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis
17. Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
18. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino
19. Believe What You Say - Rick Nelson
20. Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson
21. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison
22. Queen of the Hop - Bobby Darin
23. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
24. Love Me - Phantom
25. Harlem Nocturne - The Viscounts

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98826 in Music
• Released on: 1999-05-18
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
"Communist, Eastern European countries... may have come up with Karl Marx," punk entrepreneur Brett Gurewitz once said, "and they may have come up with Trotsky, but they'll never come up with Chuck Berry." The 1950s' rock revolution, this four-CD box is designed to remind us, led to more than just Happy Days and Grease; it was part and parcel of the movement for social change in racial and sexual terms that, like the music, was impossible to stop. Of course, it sounded great, too. ("That ain't no freight train that you hear rollin' down the railroad tracks," the Coasters remind us near the end of disc one. "That's a country-born piano man playin' in between the cracks.") Loud, Fast & Out of Control offers its share of the usual oldies-radio fodder, but also tosses in countless little-heard gems, from Gene Vincent's "B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go" (with Cliff Gallup serving up several of rockabilly's most inspired, unhinged guitar solos) and several Johnny Burnette Trio singles to Little Richard's towering title song for The Girl Can't Help It, the Johnny Otis Show's "Crazy Country Hop," and Carl Perkins's "Put Your Cat Clothes On." --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

Could have been titled Loud or Fast or Out Of Control
The intent of the compilers is to give the 50's music the credibility and relevance it deserves. It is true that 60's and 70's music is filed in stores by artist, and with the excetion of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, or Jerry Lee Lewis, 50's music is relegated to oldies bins.

In addition, this decade has been associated with Doo Wop, slow ballads (Earth Angel, for example) and Sock Hops. The box presents the music as it was intended: dangerous, rebellious music.

To set this tone, the odd discs open with famous audio bites where religious figures, political figures were condemning rock and roll and trying to ban it. The even discs close with these. One you might remember: "Rock and Roll has got to go...We're all through playing Rock & Roll" This soundbite in an imaginative move closes the box completely at the end of disc four.

If this is the compilers wish, they can breathe easier. They have accomplished their objective many times over. When one plays these tracks, excitement, and awesome energy emerges. Stagger Lee, La Bamba, and a slew of obscure tracks are deserving of repeated listenings.

The accompanying booklet is well assembled, with lots of liner notes under each track, photos of the artist, and introductory notes that defend the motive of this box. The sound quality is topnotch. But why wouldn't it be with restoration wizard Bill Inglot at the helm. Force fade-outs that were applied to these tracks over the years are gone, so the songs have sharp cold drop offs as was intended.

The only beefs one can find, is some songs were left off seemingly due to the fact they don't fit the title of the set (Loud, Fast, and Out of Control). However, Fats Domino's My Blue Heaven, and the Everly Brothers' Wake Up Little Suzie, sound tame when compared with Elvis Presley's Hound Dog which wasn't included.

Also, the set does cheat a little bit with Buddy Holly's Brown-Eyed Handsome Man. This song was released posthumously in 1963 on the overdubbed album Reminiscing. Their the Fireballs overdubbed instruments to give it a full studio and stereo sound. The stripped down original with Jerry Allison's drumming now audible was not released until the 1980's on the CD For The First Time Anywhere. Yet, it's on this.

Other than these two flaws, the set is a worthy purchase, and deserves to be put next to the Nuggets box set!

Too Much Cat!
Well I'll be the first to tell you that selling my soul for rock and roll has not payed such great dividends. Yes, I live in a cardboard box down by the river, and as such cannot afford this lushly packaged and produced product from the often genius (but never completely perfect) folks down at Rhino. But, if I could.... Wow what a collection! The thing about golden era fifties rock and roll groups (Elvis, B. Holly, C. Berry, seveal others accepted) was that most only had two or three or four great songs. This box set has (most) of them all! Now, I'm not going to waste your time telling what's all not here. Just look what IS here... one hit wonders, obscure should have been hits, and many many geniuses of deliquent music (link wray rules my world!). this is the stuff (along w/ bee bop) that came at a great time in recorded music and seperated the old (what they are calling "Roots Music" on PBS now) and the new. Finally, I think this collection should put to rest the old faulty theory that rock and roll is "white" music. Many of the men who recorded, produced, and wrote much of the songs were black and were not being ripped off any more than their white brothers.

So, in conclusion, if you are gainfully employed and can miss a night of drinking at a upright type of bar that uses glasses and what not, buy this c.d. collection. Then sell it to me at your garage sale.

The true essence of rock and roll in a box!
Rhino does it again! This stuff is dangerous! True attitude of rock and roll. Includes the first record I ever bought in 1953, Crazy, Man, Crazy by Bill Haley & his Comets and the rest is just incredible. There is just too much good stuff and good rockin' to mention. Whether you lived through it, are fascinated by it or are just curious and academic about it, this boxed set is an important chapter of American music. Real music! You can almost smell the leather and the burning rubber. A boxed set you'll go back to again and again. Pure fun!