| features in: Album Chart of 1957 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s |
In all, between 1949 and 1955, Ruth Brown had stayed on the R&B chart for a total 149 weeks, with sixteen Top 10 records including five number ones. The hyperbole was in overdrive: “In the South Ruth Brown is better known than Coca Cola.” Atlantic Records became known as “The house that Ruth built”. She was widely acknowledged as “the queen of R&B”. It took until 1957 however, for her first Pop Hit, the Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller penned “Lucky Lips”, which reached number 6 on the R&B chart, and number 25 on the US pop chart. This “debut album” was quickly assembled (Atlantic 8004), leading with the hit song and rounding up the big hitting sides from the preceding years. 1954’s “Hello Little Boy” is the clear highlight - a sensational stormer from her own pen… The album stands as a super introduction to the Ruth Brown story thus far.
The Jukebox Rebel
09–Apr–2012
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:09]  Ruth Brown - Lucky Lips (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A2 | [02:45]  Ruth Brown and her Rhythmakers with orchestral accompaniment - As Long As I’m Moving (Jesse Stone) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A3 | [02:32] Ruth Brown with Orchestra - Wild Wild Young Men (Ahmet Ertegün) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A4 | [02:56]  Ruth Brown with Orchestra - Daddy Daddy (Rudy Toombs) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A5 | [02:48]  Ruth Brown and her Rhythmakers with Orchestra - Mambo Baby (Charles Singleton, Rose Marie McCoy) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A6 | [03:01]  Ruth Brown with Budd Johnson’s Orchestra - Teardrops From My Eyes (Rudy Toombs) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| A7 | [02:41]  Ruth Brown with Orchestra - Hello Little Boy (Ruth Brown) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B1 | [02:57] Ruth Brown - (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean (Johnny Wallace, Herbert J. Lance) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B2 | [03:17] Ruth Brown with Orchestra - 5-10-15 Hours (Rudy Toombs) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B3 | [02:46]  Ruth Brown - It’s Love Baby (24 Hours Of The Day) (Ted Jarret) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B4 | [02:39]  Ruth Brown and The Delta Rhythm Boys - Sentimental Journey (Les Brown, Bud Green, Benjamin Homer) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B5 | [02:19]  Ruth Brown and her Rhythmakers with Orchestra - Old Man River (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) Big Band / Jive / Swing |
| B6 | [02:43]  Ruth Brown as heard with Eddie Condon’s N.B.C. Television Orchestra - So Long (Remus Harris, Russ Morgan, Irving Melsher) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
| B7 | [03:03]  Ruth Brown and her Rhythmakers with Orchestra - Oh What A Dream (Chuck Willis) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
