Specialty Story [Box set]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 1994)
• Original Release Date: April 21, 1994
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QLW
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,582 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #89 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > West Coast Blues

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Boogie #1

2. Voo-It! Voo-It!

3. Milton's Boogie

4. R.M. Blues

5. Rainy Day Blues

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Pink Champagne

2. Junior Jives

3. Where There Is No Love

4. Everything's Gonna Be All Right Tonight

5. Please Send Me Someone to Love

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Oooh-Oooh-Oooh

2. Restless Heart

3. Dream Girl

4. Tell Me Pretty Baby

5. Ain't It a Shame?

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Nite Owl

2. Tutti Frutti

3. Eternity

4. Rich Woman

5. Squeeze Box Boogie

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The holy grail, March 30, 2005

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jive rhapsodist (NYC, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Specialty Story (Audio CD)

It is impossible to give a play by play of this fantastic box. The influence of New Orleans R and B is perhaps its deepest aspect. But then, it is also permeated by Gospel. All the manifestations of Black Music come into play. The fact that the Jazz side of R and B is perhaps the most "dumbed down" side has led to much misunderstanding: Jazz people love to compare their hard-won gains re: the world's having finally woken up to the fact that "Jazz is Art" to the "mere entertainment" value of R and B. Well, wake up folks - Little Richard singing "Heebie Jeebies" is art by any definition that I understand. Essential listening.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Audio Samples Play "Oklahoma", Not Specialty!! It's R&B, not R&H!! Holy Moly!, June 30, 2010

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W. David English (Somerville, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Specialty Story (Audio CD)

I usually can distinguish Little Richard from John Raitt without strenuous mental exertion, so I was amused to discover that the "sample" cuts on the Amazon site for this fine Specialty box set play cuts from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" instead of the gritty R&B from the Specialty label. It's pretty funny, as it would be tough to think of music less funky, less black, than "Oklahoma". Well, okay, it's not that tough....Lawrence Welk is even unfunkier, unblacker. So is Perry Como. And I suppose "Oklahoma" is James Brown and his Fabulous Flames next to "The Sound of Music".

Wop bop a loo bop a bop bam boom, what a beautiful mornin'!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars History lesson in a box, November 24, 2009

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William J. Thibault "beaglesayarf" (Sparks NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Specialty Story (Audio CD)

There are many retrospectives of early rock n'roll, but this is one of the best. Not only do you get Little Richard and Larry Williams, modestly represented so as to make room for all the other artists that Specialty had on their roster, but you also get the very first r & b record release, the Sepia Tones "Boogie" plus tunes from Roy Milton and his Solid Senders, Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers & Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy. The ladies are represented by Camille Howard, and the Blues Woman, Marion Abernathy. The liner notes reveal that Specialty also dabbled in country & western, jazz and gospel. It would be nice to see those selections get the same treatment. This is simply wonderful!