Rama Story [Import]

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The story (in 34 artist and 60 tracks on 2CD's) of one of New York's most important labels of the early Rock 'N' Roll years. Contains innumerable classics of Doo Wop, Pop and Rockabilly and many rare and valuable items making their CD debut.

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In The Beginning There Was Rhythm & Blues

Rama Story
The Crows , The Five Budds , Viola Watkins , Bert Keyes , Lonnie Johnson , The Buccaneers , Jimmy Wright , Valli Hinton , The Pretenders , and Various Artists
Manufacturer: Westside UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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George Goldner Presents the Gee Story

ASIN: B00000IN3E
Release Date: 1999-03-02

Tracks:

Gee - The Crows
I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You) - The Five Budds
I Want Her Back - The Five Budds
No Help Wanted - The Crows
Seven Lonely Days - Viola Watkins And The Crows
Be With The One You Love - Bert Keyes And His Trio
Real Fine Man - Viola Watkins
I Was Such A Fool (To Fall In Love With You) - Bert Keyes
Will You Remember (The Answer To Tomorrow Night) - Lonnie Johnson
The Stars Will Remember - The Buccaneers
In The Mission Of St. Augustine - The Buccaneers
Too Hot To Handle - The Blue Notes
If My Heart Could Only Talk - The Blue Notes
Untrue - The Crows
Write Me Baby - Bert Keyes
Gumbo Mambo - The Larke Sisters
Come Back My Love - The Wrens
What Can I Tell Her Now? - The Bells
The Wedding - The Bell Tones
Lily Maebelle - The Valentines
Betty Jean - The Wrens
Readin' 'Ritin' 'Rithmetic Rock 'N' Roll - The Five Encores
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - The Five Encores
You're An Angel - The Continentals
All My Love Belongs To You - The Joytones
Teenage Heart - Rita Delmar
C'est La Vie - The Wrens
The Woo Woo Train - The Valentines
2:20 A.M. - Jimmy Wright

Tracks:

Move Over - Jimmy Wright
Runaround - Valli Hinton
I've Got To Have You Baby - The Pretenders
Roll Over Beethoven - The Four Chaps
Alabama Rock 'N' Roll - Mabel King
Gee What A Boy! - The Joytones
Three Wishes - The Harptones
Symbol Of Love - Mabel King With The Royale Cita Chorus
Stop Knocking Rock 'N' Roll - Bob Cornegie (Kornegay)
Nature's Creation - The Valentines
They Say - The Rainbows
Lover - The Pretenders
I Love My Baby - Lillte Billy Mason
Hole In The Bucket (My Bucket's Got A Hole In It) - Bob Davis And The Rhythm Jesters
On Sunday Afternoon - The Harptones
My Follish Heart - The Joytones
A Thousand Miles Away - The Heartbeats
The Memory That Followed Me Home - Alan Dean
Just As I Am - Pattie Jerome
Oo Wee Baby - The Harptones
Wedding Bells - The Heartbeats
Thinking Of You - Little Billy Mason
Baby Take Me Back - Roc La Rue And The Three Pals
Don't Say Goodnight - The Valentines
My Steady Girl - Chuck Darty
Reluctantly - Chuck Darty
Only One - Don 'Red' Roberts
Everybody's Somebody's Fool - The Heartbeats
One Foolish Mistake - The Dorrell Sisters
Leave My Woman Alone - The Cleftones
Vacation In The Mountains - The Cleftones

Album Description

The story (in 34 artist and 60 tracks on 2CD's) of one of New York's most important labels of the early Rock 'N' Roll years. Contains innumerable classics of Doo Wop, Pop and Rockabilly and many rare and valuable items making their CD debut.

Customer Reviews:

In The Beginning There Was Rhythm & Blues.......2000-11-28

What a bargain, 2 cds with 60 tracks chronicling the story of George Goldner's Rama Records and the beginning of Rock and roll. "Gee", the big hit by the Crows in 1954 is considered by many to be the first Rhythm & Blues record to cross over to a white audience and the new music knowned as Rock & Roll. Everything else is here to tell the story of this labal that only lasted 3 years but gave us so many memories. We have "A Thousand Miles Away", by the Heartbeats, great early tracks by the Harptones, the Wrens, Valentines and the very rare songs by the Crows that followed "Gee". Some of the rarest group recordings are also included by the Bucaneers, Five Budds and Blue Notes. But Rama also released single artists, Pop singers and even a few Rock-a Billy records during these few years. R&B vocal group lovers will enjoy the preponderence of these tracks but will surely skip the popish and Rock-a-Billy recordings. Rock-a-Billy fans won't find enough to satisfy them with only a few tracks and you can hear how bad most fifties pop music was by listening to some of those numbers. But for sheer quality and quantity of Rhythm and Blues vocal groups this can't be beat. You can rock to the "Woo Woo Train" and you close your eyes and enjoy the beautiful "Three Wishes", by the Harptones. You can hear how R&B was changing to Rock and Roll by differences in the early Bucaneers and Blue Notes tracks with the later tracks of the Heartbeats, Wrens and

Valentines. This was how it all started and West Side records has done a remarkable job of bringing this story of a pioneer Rock and Roll label to the older "original fans like me", and the many new fans who are beginning to dig and discover these treasures. A great bargain! 60 tracks! You're bound to like a good portion of them.

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