King Of The Surf Guitar: The Best Of Dick Dale & His Del-Tones

 

Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was the pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second studio album.

Dale was one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s. Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and The Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, and often included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums. His style and music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May.

He has been mentioned as one of the fathers of heavy metal. Many credit him with tremolo picking, a technique that is now widely used in many musical genres (such as extreme metal, folk etc.). His speedy single-note staccato picking technique was unmatched until guitarists like Eddie Van Halen entered the music scene.

Working together with Leo Fender, Dale also pushed the limits of electric amplification technology, helping to develop new equipment that was capable of producing thick and previously unheard volumes including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier. Dale also pioneered the use of portable reverb effects.

The use of his recording of "Misirlou" by Quentin Tarantino in the film Pulp Fiction led to his return in the 1990s, marked by four albums and world tours. He was also nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the song "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

In "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", Dale was ranked 31st in 2003 and 74th in the 2011 revision.

1 Let's Go Trippin' 2:10

2 Shake 'N' Stomp 2:08

3 Misirlou 2:15

4 Mr. Peppermint Man (Vocal) 2:12

5 Surf Beat 2:38

6 Take It Off 2:08

7 King Of The Surf Guitar (Vocal) 2:10

8 Hava Nagila 2:03

9 Riders In The Sky 2:12

10 The Wedge 2:32

11 Night Rider 1:45

12 Mr. Eliminator 2:00

13 The Victor 3:11

14 Taco Wagon 2:05

15 Tidal Wave 2:00

16 Banzai Washout 2:15

17 One Double One Oh! (Instrumental Version) 2:36

18 Pipeline 2:58 (with Stevie Ray Vaughan)

King Of The Surf Guitar

The Coasters – Rollin' With The Coasters - 26 Greatest Hits & Classic Tracks All Original Recordings...remastered

 

The Coasters were formed on October 12, 1955, when two of The Robins, a Los Angeles–based rhythm-and-blues group, joined Atlantic Records. They were dubbed The Coasters because they went from the west coast to the east. The Robins included Carl Gardner and Bobby Nunn. The original Coasters were Gardner, Nunn, Billy Guy, Leon Hughes (who was replaced by Young Jessie on a couple of their early Los Angeles recordings), and the guitarist Adolph Jacobs. Jacobs left the group in 1959.

The songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller started Spark Records and in 1955 produced "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for the Robins (their sixth single with Leiber and Stoller). The record was popular enough for Atlantic Records to offer Leiber and Stoller an independent production contract to produce the Robins for Atlantic. Only two of the Robins—Gardner and Nunn—were willing to make the move to Atlantic, recording their first songs in the same studio as the Robins had done (Master Recorders). In late 1957, Nunn and Hughes moved to New York and joined with Cornell Gunter and Will "Dub" Jones to form The Coasters. The new quartet was from then on stationed in New York, although all had Los Angeles roots.

The Coasters' association with Leiber and Stoller was an immediate success. Together they created a string of good-humored "storytelling" hits that are some of the most entertaining from the original era of rock and roll. According to Leiber and Stoller, getting the humor to come through on the records often required more recording "takes" than for a typical musical number.

1 Smokey Joe's Cafe

2 Down In Mexico

3 Turtle Dovin

4 One Kiss Led To Another

5 Brazil

6 Searchin

7 Young Blood

8 Lola

9 Idol With The Golden Head

10 (When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes To Me

11 Sweet Georgia Brown

12 What Is The Secret Of Your Success?

13 Dance!

14 Gee, Golly

15 Yakety Yak

16 Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart

17 The Shadow Knows

18 Sorry But I'm Gonna Have To Pass

19 Charlie Brown

20 Three Cool Cats

21 Along Came Jones

22 That Is Rock And Roll

23 Poison Ivy

24 I'm A Hog For You

25 Run Red Run

26 What About Us

The Coasters

Jo Ann Campbell ‎– That Real Gone Gal - the complete Gone and Roulette recordings

 

Jo Ann Campbell (born July 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer.

Campbell began attending music school at the age of four, and won many honors as a drum majorette at Fletcher High School. In 1954 she travelled Europe as a dancer, then moved to New York, where she joined the Johnny Conrad Dancers and made several television appearances on shows such as The Milton Berle Show and The Colgate Comedy Hour.

In 1956, Campbell decided to quit dancing and become a singer. She received her first recording contract with RKO-Point Records in New York and released her debut single "Where Ever You Go" / "I'm Coming Home Late Tonight" with them in 1956. It was unsuccessful and she then signed a recording contract with Eldorado Records after performing at Harlem's Apollo Theater. She wrote and released her second single, "Come On Baby" in 1957. Later that year she released "Wait a Minute", and appeared at the Brooklyn Paramount and on Dick Clark's American Bandstand show.

Campbell appeared in two films: Go, Johnny, Go (1959) and Hey, Let's Twist! (1962), while continuing to release records. In June 1961 she reached No. 41 in the UK Singles Chart with "Motorcycle Michael". She had her biggest hit in August 1962 with "I'm the Girl from Wolverton Mountain", an answer song to Claude King's "Wolverton Mountain". Some pressings showed the title as "(I'm the Girl on) Wolverton Mountain". The song reached No. 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In April 1963, she followed up with "Mother, Please! (I'd Rather Do It Myself)", a take-off on an Anacin television commercial of the day, but this reached No. 88.

After marrying Atlantic Records record producer Troy Seals in 1964, Campbell left the music industry.

1 Wait A Minute

2 It's Time

3 I Really Really Love You

4 I'm Nobody's Baby

5 Mama (Can I Go Out Tonite)

6 Beachcomber

7 You're Driving Me Mad

8 I Ain't Got No Steady Date

9 Wassa Matter With You Baby

10 Rock And Roll Love

11 You-Ooh

12 Nervous

13 Happy New Year Baby

14 How About That

15 Tall Boy

16 Let Me Do My Twist

17 It's True (alt. take)

18 Mama (Can I Go Out Tonite) (alt. take)

19 Wait A Minute (Instrumental rhythm track)

That Real Gone Gal

Charlie Feathers - Jungle Fever / Uh Huh Honey - compilation albums

These two Charlie Feathers compilations have similar tracks on each with a few variations. For the Charlie Feathers completists and rock and roll fans alike. They were acquired from another source so not my own copies, they are at 192kps. Enjoy anyway! 

Tongue-Tied Jill 1:55

Get With It 1:55

Bottle To The Baby 2:24

One Hand Loose 2:18

Nobody's Woman 2:12

Can't Hardly Stand 2:52

Everybody's Lovin' My Baby 2:06

Too Much Alike 2:10

When You Come Around 2:06

When You Decide 2:24

Jungle Fever 2:26

Why Don't You 2:24

Wild Wild Party 2:25

Today And Tomorrow 2:30

Stutterin' Cindy 2:19

Tear It Up 2:38

Uh Huh Honey 2:48

That Certain Female 2:90

She Set Me Free 3:12

A Wedding Gown Of White 2:42

Jungle Fever

Stutterin' Cindy 2:18

Tear It Up 2:38

Gone Gone Gone 3:00

Tongue Tied Jill 2:11

Wild Side Of Life 1:59

Do You Know 2:41

She Knows How To Rock Me 2:10

Wide River 2:28

Crazy Heart 2:22

Chicken Plucker 2:49

Uh Huh Honey 2:04

Cold Dark Night 2:17

Rain 1:46

Mama Oh Mama 2:44

There Will Be Three 3:25

That Certain Female 3:01

I Guess I'm Crazy 2:40

We're Getting Closer To Being Apart 2:57

Long Time Ago 2:29

Rain 1:52

Uh Huh Honey