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Good Rocking Tonight: The Best of Roy Brown

Roy Brown
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (March 8, 1994)
  • Original Release Date: March 8, 1994
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Rhino / Wea
  • ASIN: B00000335T
  • In-Print Editions: Music Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #175,256 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Rocking Tonight
2. Mighty, Mighty Man
3. 'Long About Midnight
4. Rockin' At Midnight
5. Boogie At Midnight
6. Butcher Pete (Part 1)
7. Butcher Pete (Part 2)
8. Hard Luck Blues
9. Cadillac Baby
10. Love Don't Love Nobody
11. Bar Room Blues
12. Beautician Blues
13. Big Town
14. Laughing But Crying
15. Gal From Kokomo
16. Ain't Rocking No More
17. Black Diamond
18. Let The Four Winds Blow

Editorial Reviews

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A descendant of Louis Jordan's Saturday-night fish fries and a contemporary of the proto-rock jump-blueser Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown was among the earliest of the R&B shouters. "Good Rocking Tonight" became a standard after Harris covered Brown's 1947 original; Elvis Presley later cut it for his second Sun Records disc. (Brown's own rewrite, "Rockin' at Midnight," was plucked by Robert Plant for his Honeydrippers side project.) Brown also put his powerful voice to use on mournful down-tempo ballads such as "Hard Luck Blues" and "Laughing but Crying" and briefly revived his career with the Fats Domino-penned "Let the Four Winds Blow." All, plus the hilariously ribald two-par