Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Go, Boy Go
2. Jersey Rock
3. Flamin' Mamie
4. Hopahoola Boogie
5. Kiss the Baby Goodnight
6. Shot Gun Boogie
7. Long Gone Daddy
8. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
9. Pat-A-Cake
10. Hey Now Honey
11. Cadillac in Model a
12. Most
13. Rock the Joint
14. Go Man, Go Get Gone
15. Oklahoma Boogie
16. Blackberry Boogie
17. Done Gone Crazy
18. Dig'n and Datin'
19. Later Alligator
20. Stratosphere Boogie

Disc 2:

1. Train Kept-A-Rollin'
2. In My Real Gone Rocket
3. Dig Me Little Mama
4. Back Up Buddy
5. Red Light
6. Jump Rope Boogie
7. Shake, Rattle and Roll
8. Idaho Red
9. Sittin' on the Top of the World
10. Honey, Honey
11. Hard Top Race
12. Flyin' Saucer Boogie
13. Thirteen Women
14. Rock the Joint
15. That's All Right
16. Lovey Dovey
17. Caffeine and Nicotine
18. Waitin' for My Baby
19. Great Medical Menagerist
20. Take It or Leave It

Disc 3:

1. Rock Around the Clock
2. New Love
3. Shook Shake
4. You Upset Me Baby
5. Pan American Boogie
6. My Gal Gertie
7. Head Home Honey
8. Bo Diddley
9. This Is the Thanks I Get
10. Baby, Baby Me
11. Sweet Jennie Lee
12. Pepper Hot Baby
13. Prison Cell of Love
14. Truck Drivin' Man
15. Rock H-Bomb, Rock
16. Uh Uh Honey
17. Rockin' and Rollin'
18. Boogie the Blues
19. Sneaky Pete
20. Hawk-Eye

Disc 4:

1. Blue Moon of Kentucky
2. Hey Mama
3. Rockin' Chair Daddy
4. My Baby Keeps Rolling
5. Catfish Boogie
6. Rockin' and A-Knockin'
7. Rock Around the Clock
8. Hot Rod Race
9. Why Baby Why
10. Rock Love
11. I'm Gonna Have Some Fun
12. Seventeen
13. Bawlin' and Squalin'
14. Sundown Boogie
15. My Baby Loves Me
16. There's Gonna Be a Ball
17. See You Later Alligator
18. Gonna Dance All Night
19. I'm Gonna Anchor My Heart
20. Rocket 88

Disc 5:

1. Tutti Frutti
2. Love Spelled Backwards Is Evol
3. Don't Stop Now
4. I'd Like to Tell You
5. All She Wants to Do Is Rock
6. Go Ahead On
7. Honeymoons Over
8. Crocked Dice
9. Fan It
10. Whoa Boy
11. No Money in This Deal
12. Two Hound Dogs
13. How Long
14. Beetle Bug Bop
15. Boogie Blues
16. Fly Right Boogie
17. Gee
18. Such a Night
19. I Don't Know
20. Automobile Song

Disc 6:

1. I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
2. Checkbook Baby
3. You Came a Long Way from St. Louis
4. Sag, Drag and Fall
5. Money Bag Woman
6. Thanks to You
7. Daddy-O Rock
8. Busy Body Boogie
9. Drinkin' Wine Spoo-Dee-O-Dee
10. I'll Be True to You
11. Honey Love
12. Dirty Bird Song
13. How Can You Be So Mean
14. Juke Joint Johnny
15. Man! Turn Me Loose
16. Ten, Ten A.M.
17. Play It Cool Man
18. Cherokee Boogie
19. Wildwood Boogie
20. Pull Down the Blinds

Disc 7:

1. Gone, Gone, Gone
2. Pack, Shack and Stack
3. Boom-De-Dee-Boom
4. Female Hound Dog
5. Forty Cups of Coffee
6. Sugar Plum Boogie
7. Hot Springs
8. Answer the Call
9. Dig That Hot Rod
10. Honky Tonk Baby
11. House of Blue Lights
12. Two Timin' Mama
13. Boogie Blues
14. Happy Baby
15. Fallen Angel
16. Let's All Rock Together
17. Oh Babe
18. Jump Jump Honey
19. Pinball Boogie
20. Hot Rod Rag

Disc 8:

1. Good Rockin' Tonight
2. Crawfishin'
3. Blackeyed Joe's
4. Jukebox Cannonball
5. Snatchin' and Grabbin'
6. Honky Tonk Spree
7. A.B.C. Boogie
8. Lookout Mountain
9. Idaho Red
10. Cats and Dogs
11. Crazy Man, Crazy
12. Freight Train Boogie
13. I Gotta Have You
14. Don't Let the Star Get in Your Eyes
15. You Look Bad
16. Good Deal, Lucille
17. Doggie House Boogie
18. Oh, Look A-There Ain't She Pretty
19. It Don't Make No Never Mind
20. Feelin' Happy

Disc 9:

1. Move It on Over
2. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
3. Louisiana Boogie
4. I'd Do It for You
5. Rock Me Baby
6. I'm Wonderin' Now
7. Dim, Dim the Lights
8. Honey, Won't You Please Come Home
9. Rockin' Daddy
10. Crying My Heart out for You
11. Hep Cat Baby
12. My Boy Flat Top
13. Caffeine and Nicotine
14. Green Tree Boogie
15. Divided Heart
16. Real Rock Drive
17. I Feel Like Cryin'
18. Jumpin from Six to Six
19. Bye Bye Young Men
20. Don't Call Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185661 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-25
• Number of discs: 10
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .64 pounds

Album Description
10 CD Wallet Box of the best of 50s rock'n'roll including Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley and many more. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Actually Rockabilly influence on R&R
95% of this set is rockabilly 1950-1955. Alot of pretty obscure stuff but you get a good sense of what Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Elvis were probably listening to. You can also see how they got a hold of this sound and made it actually rock n roll.
For me about half of the 200+ tracks in this set have too many fiddle solos to be called a R&R set. Better if the 10 CD's had drawn from north of the Mason-Dixon line to include more R&B influence. Also there are about 20% of the tracks that are questionable rock tunes at all (Sorry if your a Bunny Paul fan but she doesn't get out of the early 50's pop mode and there are 5 or 6 tracks by her)
So if early rockabilly is your thing this is a great set. To me half of this stuff is too obscure. The rest make for a good listen.

what was happening
I can't say the previous reviewer is wrong, so much as I would say I love the set for the very reasons he dislikes it. It is the sound of what was happening when rock n' roll emerged. Who knew Little Jimmie Dickens recorded a risque song at the time? I didn't. Who knew about H-Bomb Ferguson and "H Bomb Rock"? I was delighted by this and many other serendiptious discoveries on every cd in the set.

How I wish the radio and other outlets would play less of late Elvis and more of "Blue Moon of Kentucky," and "It's Alright Mamma," and other classics and experiments of the early early days of Elvis. Part of Elvis's genius was that he initially drew on country, blues, and R&B, and combined these in his own special way. This cd makes that absolutely clear. George Jones is here, but here also is a rollicking rocking country Tennessee Ernie Ford. Little Richard is here, but so also is the important and less well known Wynonnie Harris.

Anyone who doesn't find Harmonica Frank delightfully interesting isn't listening with open ears. Now we know what Greil Marcus was talking about in Mystery Train. In any case, a number of things clearly came together from the late '40s to the mid-50s, when performers as different as the Delmore Brothers, Sonny Fisher, H-Bomb Ferguson, Eddie and Chuck, Merle Travis, The Carlisles, Sonny Dae, Tennessee Ernie Ford,and Jimmy Cavello and the House Rockers, were putting "boogie" and "rock" into the titles of their songs and the music they played.

Yes, the previous reviewer is right about one thing. There is a lot of southern music here, although it is not all southern. It is hard to imagine any cd history of rock's beginnings without a lot of southern music. If you don't like that fine, but keep in mind that that attitude will make you deaf to one of the great streams of white and black music that has influenced all of American music and much of music around the world.

I had only one problem with my set. CD2 and CD 3 contained the exact same material even though they list different material on each sleeve.

Poor sound quality
I got several Membran 10-CD sets for 9.99$. Most of these are old mono recordings and I've been very happy with their quality. But this one is an exception - the sound quality of many tracks is very poor, showing hissing and distortions. Unless there is music here that you cannot get from somewhere else, you should avoid this set, even if you can get it very cheap. Keep an eye for other Membran collections though.