One Good Boogie Deserves Another [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] [Import]

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 31, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jasmine Music
• ASIN: B00004YL0E
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,459 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Guitar Boogie

2. Guitar And Piano Boogie

3. Boomerang

4. Banjo Boogie

5. Who Shot Willie? V. Arthur Smith

6. Mountain Be Bop

7. Mandolin Boogie

8. Be Bop Rag

9. Don't Look For Trouble V. Arthur Smith

10. Banjo Rag

11. Twelfth Street Rag

12. Cubanola Glide V. Roy Lear

13. Just Lookin' V. Arthur Smith

14. I.H. Boogie

15. River Rag

16. Five String Banjo Boogie

17. I'm Only Telling You (What They Told Me) V. Arthur Smith

18. South

19. Guitar Jamboree

20. Cracker Boogie

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

This compilation focuses heavily on the boogie aspects of Arthur Smith s recordings, many with their unmistakable Roots of Rock N Roll feel. The three early hits are included, duplicating "Guitar Boogie" and "Boomerang" from the previous compilation but here improved by finding better source material. Also duplicated is "South", except this is a later, slightly slower (thus longer) recording, and it must be said, not so light in touch as the single-note guitar runs towards the end testifies. Electric guitar is self-evident on "Mountain Be Bop" and "Be Bop Rag" (both recorded at the same session), also on "Express Train Boogie". On other titles, as appropriate Arthur swaps guitar for banjo (Don Reno also crops up on banjo) or mandolin, and perhaps surprising to some listeners are his vocal contributions, all very much of the novelty Country variety. Anyway, whatever Arthur gets up to, this is a stomping reminder of the contribution he made, unwittingly maybe, to the genre which would change Pop music forever - Rock N Roll. See Also: JASMCD3502 - Here Comes The Boogie Man - The Original Recordings JASMCD3530 - Have A Little Fun

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars One Good Boogie Deserves Another, December 30, 2011

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This review is from: One Good Boogie Deserves Another [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] (Audio CD)

Love the music,the remastering leaves a bit to be desired, it sounds a bit flat in places, however this does happen. As always thanks Amazon for the prompt delivery to South Africa.

4.0 out of 5 stars Country Music Groundbreaker & R&R Instrumental Pioneer, September 3, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Good Boogie Deserves Another [ORIGINAL RECORDINGS REMASTERED] (Audio CD)

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, from South Carolina, became one of the first country artists to abandon the acoustic guitar for an electric one. It was also at the beginning of his long association with radio station WTB in Charlotte that he first cut the selection [for Super Disc Records] he is best remembered for - Guitar Boogie - while a member of The Tennessee Ramblers in 1945.

Later he moved to MGM at the head of his own band, The Cracker-Jacks, where, in September 1948, he chalked up his first instrumental hit, Banjo Boogie [more or less the same tune as Guitar Boogie] which peaked at # 9 on the country charts b/w Have A Little Fun [not included here].

Late that year he did it again with a guitar, and it was this version of Guitar Boogie that made him famous - for awhile - as it hit the charts at Christmas, rising eventually to the # 8 Country slot in January 1949 as well as crossing over to the Pop charts at # 25. The flipside, Boomerang, also went to # 8 Country, and both were billed to Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith And His Cracker-Jacks.

In 1953 a group known as The Super-Sonics would do it for the Rainbow label [unsuccessfully] as New Guitar Boogie Shuffle, followed in 1959 by The Virtues who, under the title Guitar Boogie Shuffle, would take it to # 5 Billboard Pop Hot 100 and # 27 R&B for the Hunt label.

Further charted hits would evade Arthur for 14 long years until, in 1963, he released a parody of the Rolf Harris hit, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport called Tie My Hunting Dog Down, Jeb, a # 29 country that October b/w Guitar Hop (not included here).

That would turn out to be his last charted single, although he would go on to record several fine albums for Dot, Starday, Nashville, Monument and CMH while continuing with his radio and television shows for WBT.

If you can, seek out his 1955 Feudin' Banjos for MGM, a duet with Don Reno, and you'll see why they were successful in legally contesting the right of Eric Weisberg and Steve Mandel to claim composing rights under the title Dueling Banjos for the film Deliverance. Arthur and Don ultimately received the royalties which were their due.

Not a huge success as a singles artist by any means, but his influence would be felt in the changing music scene in 1954 with the advent of people like Bill Haley & His Comets. Worth having, but it loses one star from this reviewer for omitting the missing B-sides.