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You Heard It Here First! (Original Versions of Famous Songs)

You Heard It Here First! (Original Versions of Famous Songs)
Various Artists

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You Hear it Here First! 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 modeled on these originals, and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right.

Track Listing

  1. 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

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #3590 in Music
  • Released on: 2008-09-09
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Dimensions: .26 pounds