The Mar-Vel Masters : Get With The Beat : Lost Decade Of American Rock 'N' Roll

Various Artists - Rock - Vintage Rock & Roll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009UD
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,181 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet Lucy

2. Get with the Beat

3. Honky Tonkin' Rhythm

4. Come on, Let's Go

5. Jump, Baby, Jump

6. My Friend

7. Seven Lonely Days

8. Out of the Picture

9. I'm Settin' You Free

10. I Need Some Lovin'

11. Heartsick and Blue

12. Dark and Stormy

13. Count Down

14. Hot Lips Baby

15. Ha Ha Hey Hey

16. Would It Matter at All

17. Boogie Woogie Baby of Mine

18. I Don't Want You

19. Basil Smith Stomp

20. The Way You're Treating Me

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mid-West "Hillbilly" Rock roots, April 18, 2006

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Den NC USA "Den" (NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mar-Vel Masters : Get With The Beat : Lost Decade Of American Rock 'N' Roll (Audio CD)

Mar-Vel' was a small, basically one-man operation in the Mid West during the 50's and early 60's. The lovingly compiled and annotated (Cowboy Carl Records) compilation is a mixed-bag of nearly straight steel and guitar, sometimes sax country swing/boogie, with the mixing of early rockabilly rock elements on some. The wide variety of sounds and tunes, some very normal, some, like the tunes Sweet Lucy, by Shorty Ashford, and the big collector's item, Hot Lips Baby by Herbie Duncan are pretty far out, even by the early day standards of, "Say, boy, you can play and sing... let's make a record together."
Calumet City, close to Chicago, was the operation ground central of Mar-Vel' Records, run by Harry Glenn. Glenn did personal "barnstorming" promotions out of a truck with a sound system strapped on to the top, stopping at local radio stations to sell his latest recording, somtimes accompanied by the performers, who were ready to do "appearances" at the drop of a $20 bill. But the great commentary by the co-producer of this set, Cowboy Carl Schneider, must be read in full to enjoy all the stories, and the backgrounds of each of the fine performers.
Each recording has a sound and style, and all are done with care and finess, while keeping the "down-home" sound that just begins to get wild like the rock'n'roll greats that took the country sound of "Hillbilly" music with Black Blues and R&B, and made it GOLD when it broke as Rock'n'Roll.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straight-up Hillbilly Rock, July 9, 2006

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Slugger (Columbus OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mar-Vel Masters : Get With The Beat : Lost Decade Of American Rock 'N' Roll (Audio CD)

Raw, unvarnished bangin' and strummin' coming out of the center of the same crossroads of rnb, country and gospel that the great Sun Records stuff sprang from. These guys were havin fun first and trying to make money second (albeit a CLOSE second). I suppose that IS strange, bein' that it's so unlike todays "country" music- you know, the kind without the "o" in it (thank you Shooter Jennings). If you dig Hillbilly roots music you're gonna be one happy puppy with this disc!

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars LOST HISTORICAL DOCUMENT FOUND, July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Mar-Vel Masters : Get With The Beat : Lost Decade Of American Rock 'N' Roll (Audio CD)

Impossible to "star", this odd collection does forsee rock from a primordial swamp. Despite the laughable "Hee-Haw" theme, one does sense better things to come. Very strange. I would recommend it to rock historians building an archive. Very strange.