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Good Rocking Tonight (album)

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Released
  
1978

Genre
  
R&B Blues

Producer
  
Roy Brown

Recorded
  
1947 — 1954

Label
  
Route 66 Records

Compiler
  
Bengt Weine, Per Notini, and Roy Brown

Good Rocking Tonight is a compilation album by the blues musician Roy Brown.

Contents

Released by Route 66 Records in 1978 in mono as KIX-6, and is a follow-up to an earlier release titled Laughing But Crying (KIX-2). This album's subtitle is "Legendary Recordings, Vol 2 (1947–1954)". The cover features a portrait of Roy Brown, courtesy of Roy Brown, taken in 1950.

The back cover includes extensive liner notes, and biographical and autobiographical information attributed to:

  • John Broven: "Roy Brown", Blues Unlimited 123–124
  • Jonas Bernholm: unpublished interview
  • Staffan Solding: Swedish Radio Broadcast, 1978

    • Track listing

    All songs by Roy Brown except where noted.

    Personnel

  • Placide Adams — drums [13)
  • Chuck Badie — bass [10]
  • Earl Barnes — tenor sax [1,3]
  • Edgar Blanchard — guitar [6,8?,12]
  • Frank Campbell — baritone sax [7]
  • Walter Daniels — piano [3]
  • Wallace Davenport — trumpet [3]
  • Salvador Doucette — piano [13]
  • Jimmy Davis — guitar [7,13,14]
  • Johnny Fontenette — tenor sax [5,6,7,8?,10,12,13]
  • Percy Gabriel — bass [3]
  • Albert "June" Gardner — drums [14]
  • James C. Harris — piano [14]
  • Wilbur Herden — trumpet [6,8?,12]
  • Ike Isaacs — bass [6,8?,12]
  • George Jenkins — drums [12]
  • Leonard Jefferson — bass [14]
  • Bill Jones — guitar [3]
  • Melvin Lastie — trumpet [13]
  • Ray Miller — drums [7]
  • Tony Moret — trumpet [1]
  • Alexander Nelson — baritone sax [10]
  • Charlie Nelson — piano [10]
  • Bob Ogden — drums [1]
  • Jerome O'Neill — alto sax [1]
  • Frank Parker — drums [5]
  • Sammy Parker — tenor sax [7,13,14]
  • LeRoy Rankins — baritone sax [5,6,8?,12]
  • Teddy Riley — trumpet [5,7,10,14]
  • Edward Santineo — piano [5,6,8?,12]
  • Louis Sargent — guitar [5]
  • Calvin Sheilds — drums [6,8?]
  • Tommy Shelvin — bass [5,7,13]
  • Wilbert Smith — bass [10]
  • Clement Tervalon — trombone [1,3]
  • Victor Thomas — tenor sax [7,14]
  • Jimmy Williams — piano [7]
  • Unknown — bass [1,2,4,9,11]
    — drums [2,3,4,9,11]
    — guitar [1,11]
    — piano [1,2,4,9,11]
    — tenor sax [2,4,9,11]
    — trombone [2,4,9]
    — trumpet [2,4,9]

    • References

    Good Rocking Tonight (album) Wikipedia
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