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RESPECT
Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song, ‘bout a funny old world that's a-coming along, seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn, and it looks like it's a-dying and it's hardly been born
Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know, all the things that I'm a-saying and a many a-times more, I'm a-singing you this song but I can't sing enough, 'cause there's not many men have done the things that you've done
Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Lead Belly too, and to all the good people that travelled with you, here's to the hearts and the hands of the men, that come with the dust and are gone with the wind
Bob Dylan launched his recording career in 1962 by telling you where he was coming from, not where he was going to. He was a young man wise beyond his years. He took the punk baton from here - the left-of-centre world of music was in good hands.
Bob's set was almost my album of the year but, unfortunately for him, the Howlin’ Wolf was on his A-Game and who can compete with that?
The Jukebox Rebel
12-Dec-2015
revised 16-Feb-2016

Howlin’ Wolf
Chess LP-1469


Jukebox picks: “Goin’ Down Slow” (10) • “Down In The Bottom” (9.9) • “The Red Rooster” (9.4)


Bob Dylan
Columbia CL-1779


Jukebox picks: “Song To Woody” (10) • “In My Time Of Dyin’” (9.6) • “Highway 51 Blues” (9.2)


Jimmy Reed
Vee Jay Records VJLP-1050


Jukebox picks: “Too Much” (8.9) • “Oh John” (7.8) • “I’ll Change My Style” (7.7)


Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
Deltone LPM-1001


Jukebox picks: “Misirlou Twist [live ’61]” (9.8) • “Surf Beat [live ’61]” (8.6) • “Shake ’n’ Stomp [live ’61]” (7.4)


Roy Orbison
Monument M-4007


Jukebox picks: “Running Scared” (9.9) • “Wedding Day” (8.0) • “Crying” (7.8)


Booker T. and The M.G.’s
Stax S-701


Jukebox picks: “Green Onions” (9.7) • “Mo’ Onions” (8.4) • “Behave Yourself” (7.2)


Fats Domino
Imperial LP-9208


Jukebox picks: “Nothing New (Same Old Thing)” (9.0) • “Goin’ Home [album version ’62]” (8.6) • “Stop The Clock” (7.5)


Ewan MacColl and A. L. Lloyd
Prestige International INT-13043


Jukebox picks: “The Leaving Of Liverpool” (9.4) • “Haul Away For Rosie” (7.8) • “Little Sally Racket” (7.5)


Patsy Cline
Decca DL-4282


Jukebox picks: “She’s Got You” (9.7) • “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (7.7) • “Lonely Street” (7.0)


The Shirelles
Scepter Records LP-504


Jukebox picks: “Voice Of Experience” (8.4) • “Putty In Your Hands” (8.2) • “Soldier Boy” (7.3)


Ewan MacColl with accompaniments by Peggy Seeger, Alf Edwards and Alfie Kahn
Folkways Records FW-3043


Jukebox picks: “King Lear And His Three Daughters” (7.3) • “Room For Company” (7.0) • “Pity's Lamentation” (6.6)


Ruth Brown
Philips 200-055


Jukebox picks: “Satisfied” (8.7) • “Morning Train” (8.3) • “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” (7.1)


John Lee Hooker
Vee Jay Records VJLP-1043


Jukebox picks: “Boom Boom [1961 version]” (7.8) • “Drug Store Woman” (7.7) • “Process” (6.6)


Fats Domino
Imperial LP-9170


Jukebox picks: “Wait And See” (8.1) • “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?” (7.2) • “Twistin’ The Stomp” (7.1)


Dr. Feelgood and The Interns
Okeh OKM-12101


Jukebox picks: “Mister Moonlight” (7.9) • “I’ll Be Home One Day” (7.3) • “I’ll Give Anything” (6.5)


Ewan MacColl with accompaniments by Peggy Seeger, Alf Edwards and Alfie Kahn
Folkways Records FW-3044


Jukebox picks: “A King And No King” (6.8) • “The Female Frolic” (6.5) • “Give Me My Yellow Hose” (5.9)


Ewan MacColl
Folkways Records FS-3850


Jukebox picks: “Mary Ann” (7.3) • “The Bark Gay Head” (6.8) • “Desolation” (6.5)


The Beach Boys
Capitol Records T-1808


Jukebox picks: “Moon Dawg” (7.4) • “Surfin’ Safari” (7.2) • “409” (7.0)


Johnny Cash
Columbia CL-1802


Jukebox picks: “Lost On The Desert” (7.9) • “Let Me Down Easy” (6.4) • “I’m Free From The Chain Gang Now [1962]” (6.3)


Solomon Burke
Atlantic 8067


Jukebox picks: “Cry To Me” (7.5) • “I’m Hanging Up My Heart For You” (7.0) • “Looking For My Baby” (6.2)


The Shirelles and King Curtis
Scepter Records LP-505


Jukebox picks: “Welcome Home Baby” (6.8) • “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” (6.1) • “New Orleans” (5.6)


Wanda Jackson
Capitol Records ST-1776


Jukebox picks: “You Don’t Know Baby” (8.6) • “Is It Wrong” (7.3) • “I Don’t Wanta Go” (7.1)


The Everly Brothers
Warner Bros. Records W-1430


Jukebox picks: “Trouble In Mind” (7.8) • “Jezebel” (5.9) • “True Love” (5.5)


Ray Charles
ABC-Paramount ABC-410


Jukebox picks: “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (8.9) • “Worried Mind” (6.0) • “Half As Much” (5.6)


Elvis Presley
RCA Victor LPM-2523


Jukebox picks: “Suspicion” (6.8) • “Steppin’ Out Of Line” (6.7) • “Gonna Get Back Home Somehow” (6.4)


The Wailers
Etiquette Records ETALB-1


Jukebox picks: “Dirty Robber [live ’61]” (6.0) • “All I Could Do Was Cry [live ’61]” (5.6) • “Shivers [live ’61]” (5.2)


Nina Simone
Colpix Records CP-425


Jukebox picks: “I Like The Sunrise” (7.2) • “The Gal From Joe’s [1962 album version]” (6.4) • “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” (5.4)


Johnny Cash
Columbia CL-1722


Jukebox picks: “When I’ve Learned Enough To Die” (5.2) • “Taller Than Trees” (5.1) • “I Got Shoes” (5.0)


Nina Simone
Colpix Records CP-421


Jukebox picks: “Zungo [live ny ’61]” (6.7) • “House of the Rising Sun [live ny ’61]” (5.4) • “Just in Time [live ny ’61]” (5.0)


Little Stevie Wonder
Tamla TM-232


Jukebox picks: “Don’t You Know” (5.4) • “Come Back Baby” (5.2) • “Sunset” (4.5)


Gene Pitney
Musicor MM-2003


Jukebox picks: “Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (5.5) • “If I Didn’t Have A Dime (To Play The Jukebox)” (5.5) • “I Should Try To Forget (But I Keep Forgetting To Try)” (5.2)


Little Stevie Wonder
Tamla TM-233


Jukebox picks: “Wondering” (5.9) • “Manhattan At Six” (4.3) • “Fingertips” (4.0)


Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
Verve Records V6-8432


Jukebox picks: “Baia” (4.3) • “Samba De Uma Nota Só” (3.9) • “Samba Dees Days” (3.9)


Elvis Presley
RCA Victor LPM-2621


Jukebox picks: “Return To Sender” (6.3) • “I Don’t Wanna Be Tied” (4.4) • “Thanks To The Rolling Sea” (4.0)


Lou Rawls with Les McCann Ltd.
Capitol Records T-1714


Jukebox picks: “See See Rider” (3.4) • “(They Call It) Stormy Monday” (3.2) • “I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water” (3.2)

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