CD 192562 DANNY DAVIS vol. 2

Tracks: Nine Times Out Of Ten, Sealed With A Kiss, Joanna, The Twelfth Or Never, Lessons In Love, You Are The One For Me, When The Girl In Your Arms, Apron Strings, What To Do, I'm Walkin' The Blues, You Were The Sun, Raining In My Heart, Tough Enough, Nobody Knows, Dancing Shoes, Donna, We Say Yeah, Spanish Harlem, Blue Hotel, More Than I Can Say

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CD 192514 DANNY DAVIS & THE BOYS

Tracks: Hemels Blauw (instr.), Move It, Living Doll, Please Don't Tease, The First One (instr.), Travellin' Light, Gee Whiz It's You, I Love You, So Sad (instr.), Do You Wanna Dance, A Voice In The Wilderness, The Young Ones, One Way Ticket (instr.), Forty Days, Theme For A Dream, Flying Carpet (instr.), A Girl Like You, Summer Holiday, The Golden Sea (instr.), Constantly, It's All In The Game, Exodus (instr.)

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CD 192458 THE STORY OF ... DANNY & THE ELECTRO STRINGS

Tracks: Gonzales, Gee Whiz It's You (v), Evening Glow, We Say Yeah (v), Spanish Eyes, Forty Days (v), Una Aventura Mas, The Lonely Bull, Misty, goldfinger, Bonzo, Along The Navajo Trail, Sweet Barbara Hanna, Dark Man, Shanty, Namrekka, More Than I Can Say, Before Dark, Summernight Dreams, Say It With Music, Second Street, Round and Round, Gipsy Woman, Las Tres Carabelas, Mexican Bodega, Sleepwalk

(from PIPELINE #17 - Spring 1993)

The front cover is a vintage early sixties shot but don't be fooled, these are "modern" recordings - only ten years old in fact! Danny & The Electro Strings' first release was the EP Tribute To Cliff & Shadows with the six tracks that open this CD. I have to say that the singing is superb, only the language is a slight problem. Their other solo release was an EP for Rocker in 1983 which led off with Goldfinger and Bonzo. Like all of the 23 instrumentals here, they are strong melodies and equally strong performances. Solid bass and drum work support the rich lead guitar sound and it's great to hear a real rhythm guitarist filling things out nicely. Aurally the only problem is a digital hitch on Say It With Music where a note or two are lost after 13 seconds of play. Elsewhere everything is fine and it's a pleasure to listen to, if you like your instrumentals to be Shadows influenced then look no further. The track selection helps, there are no originals but on the other hand very few overworked titles. Half a dozen tracks are associated with The Shadows but none were singles, the other selection are drawn from Australian, South African and American sources in addition to European product. (Yes, Namrekka is Akkerman backwards!) This is one classy CD, apart from the vocals you'll be happy to play it as a whole rather than track skipping your way through it. This is due in no small part to the quality of the material, the closest this CD sinks to corn is on Misty. Listen out too for a '57 Strat through an AC30 and Bison echo as you enjoy another fine CD from Rarity, congratulations to them and well done Danny & The Electro Strings (Alan Taylor)

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CD 192730 GOLDEN MEMORIES

Tracks: We All Get Lucky Sometimes / Wasting Time With You / I Guess, I Wanna Dance With You / I Feel Lucky / There Goes My Heart / Blue Hawaii / Moonflower (instr) / You´re Still The One / The Losing Side Of Me / Look At Us / Forget Me / Someone Had To Teach You / Paralyzed / Be My Baby / Hurricane Beat (instr) / Wait A Minute / Pictures And Memories / Walk In The Room / She´s Not You - Love Me / Heart Is Right / She´s Not Crying Anymore / Sweet Nothin´s

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CD 192738 TEA BREAK

Tracks: We´re Gonna Move / Tea Break (instr.) / You´re A Heartbreaker / Besame Mucho (instr.) / So Glad You´re Mine / The Kid (instr.) / When It Rains, It Really Pours / Armchair (instr.) / Dirty, Dirty Feeling / Daisy (instr.) / It Is So Strange / Danger (instr.) / Give Me The Right / 1861 (instr.) / Sound Advice / Early Bird (instr.) / Hard Knocks / Trambone (instr.) / Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers / French Dressing (instr.) / Easy Come, Easy Go 

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CD 192647 THE DEL RIOS / HOT ROCK (2 albums on 1 CD)

Tracks: THE DEL RIOS: Devils Potion / Teenage Heaven / Pointed Toe Shoes / Just Hanging Round / Twenty Flight Rock / Drunk Again / Sally-Anne / Listen Here / No More / Two I´s / Swampland Boogie / Well Oh Well
HOT ROCK: Longest Legs / Breaking Rock Again / Rock & Roll Brute / Take A Booze / Angel / Mama Belle / Outlaw Man / Saturday Night / Jimmy Lee / Even Lotsa Money / I´m A Man / Rollin´ / Lula / Please Gonna Wear My Diamond Ring

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CD 192725 THE ROCKIN´ SINGER SONGWRITER

Tracks: Wild Wind / On Return / She´s Gone Rockin´ / Sinful Kisses / Too Many Women / Long Gone Papa / Raindrops / Hook, Line And Sinker / You´re The One / I´m Gonna Getcha / Sea Of Beer / Up There / Ramblin´ In Your Soul / You Better Stop / Hair Of The Dog / That´s Not What You Told Me / Chasing Ghost 
The Wildcats: Wild Cat Jump / Rockabilly Beat / I Found A Friend In Alcohol / Mean Mean Baby
Rocky Road: Let Me Tell You Why / Dangerous / Blue Rhythm

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CD 192508 THE DESPERATES

Tracks: Desperates Express, My Girl Josephine (v), It'll Be Me (v), Little Geisha, Sally Was A Good Old Girl (v), Wait And See (v), Cosy, You Never Can Tell (v), I'm Ready (v), Moonshot, Hello Catharina (v), I'm In Love Again (v), Black Eyes Rock. Brush Those Tears (v), Smokey Mountain Boogie (v), Snoertje Van Bloedrode Kralen, You Win Again (v), Sweet Little 16 (v), Second Street, Rocky Road Blues (v), Little Queenie (v), Geronimo, It Keeps Rainin' (v), I Want You Yo Know (v), La Comparsa

(from PIPELINE #29 - Winter 1995)

25 new recordings by The Desperates comprise this first Rarity CD from a band that goes right back to 1961. The nine guitar instrumentals are evenly spread amongst the (Berry, Domino, Vincent etc.) rock & roll vocals so there is a pattern of one instro to every two vocals. Indo-rock is represented by an evocative La Comparsa, a lovely slow Black Eyes Rock that finally bursts open after three of its four minutes, and the lightweight jollity of Snoertje Van Bloedrode Kralen. Shads fans will be impressed by the mood captured on Geronimo and a really startling Cosy that leaps out of the speakers and grabs you like the bear-hug of a lost friend. Moonshot retraces The Spotnick' launch of three decades ago while Second Street will be familiar to Lenny Clerwall and 1961 fans, they opened their Convention with it in '95. Little Geisha is Wheels with balls but still rather impotent which leaves the opener, Desperates Express. The only original track, it obviously has its origins in Shadoogie and is delivered with enough punch to merit its title. (Alan Taylor)

CD 192573 LET'S ROLL!

Tracks: Let's Roll (v), Dardanella, Take These Chains From My Heart (v), Runaway, We All Get Lucky Sometimes (v), Moon Of Manakoora, Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room (v), Honky Tonk, Jealous Heart (v), Morgen, Just Call Me Lonesome (v), Al Capone, Excuse Me (v), Once, Someday (v), Ram-Bunk-Shush, Rock Little Baby (v), Mr. Sandman, Now's The Time To Fall In Love (v), Hurricane Beat, Shackles & Chains (v), Wheels, Sea Cruise (v), Terang Boelan, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down & Write Myself A Letter (v)

(from PIPELINE #44 - Summer 1999)

With 25 tracks alternating vocals and instrumentals we get a full dozen guitar pieces to savour. While the vocals are in a rockabilly / rock & roll style, the instros mix Dutch Indo with American RI. The one oddity is a jog-along version of Mr. Sandman. The Indo hits are all competently delivered, the American numbers being more distinctive as the band are coming at them from a slightly different angle. Only very slight mind you, as The Desperates slip quite comfortably into standard RI mode just as they move smoothly from rockin' to flowing Indo instro guise. Morgen sounds great, Moon of Manakoora too, but best is their feisty Runaway with an echoey metallic edge to the guitar. (Alan Taylor)

(from NEW GANDY DANCER #56 - June 1999)

Hunters' style twangy guitar on a dozen goodly instrumentals of Indo Rock style plus a dozen more poppy vocals from an experienced band. Strong production values and playing from The Desperates who excel when playing either pop rock like Runaway or meaningful ballads like the lush Moon Of Manakoora or Morgen. Honky Tonk and Ram Bunk Shush swing and are worth listening to. Al Capone is a muted guitar-led 12 bar at almost four minutes. Congratulations to Rarity by the way - this is theit 135th album in their catalogue. Not many labels can rival that especially when most of them are in instrumental terms. (Davy Peckett)

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CD 192486 THE DIXIE ACES

Tracks: Let's Have A Party, Stuck On You, Twenty Flight Rock, Right Or wrong, Shoppin' Around, Love Bug Crawl, Telephone Baby, La Golondrina (instr.), Gotta Lot Of Rhythm In My Soul, Crazy Arms, Don't Worry, Many Tears Ago, Don't Mess With Mama, Honky Tonk Man, save The Last Dance For Me, Barcarolle (instr.), No Particular Place To Go, You're Welcome, Willy And The Handjive, All Alone Am I, Seven Letters, Till I Found You, Kansas City, Geronimo (instr.)

CD 192495 THE DIXIE ACES vol. 2

Tracks: Is It Wrong, Please Don't Stop Loving Me, Guitars And Cadillacs, Stupid Cupid, The Ways Of A Woman In Love, Honky Tonky Walkin', Cryin' Time, Sari Nande (instr.), Queen For Tonight, Little Sister, Hippy Hippy Shake, Lipstick On Your Collar, Dream Baby, Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie, In The Mood (instr.), That'll Be The Day, Smoke Along The Track, Mean Woman Blues, Seven Lonely Days, Running Scared, Devil Woman, Wheels (instr.), Great Balls Of Fire, Big Boss Man

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CD 192740 THINGS A-COOKIN´

Tracks: Crazy Man Crazy / Booger Red / Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle´s Gidle / Boppin´ Rosalie / Do Baby Do / Morse Code / If You Want It Enough / Can´t Find The Doorknob / Sag, Drag And Fall / Wait A Minute Baby / Lend Me Your Comb / Hoy Hoy / Dixie Fried / Lover Boy / Goodbye, Goodbye / I´m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes 

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CD 192459 LIVE '76

Tracks: Stardust, My Girl Josephine, The Fat Man, I'm In Love Again, I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday, I Want To Walk You Home, Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Blue Monday, Blueberry Hill, When The Saints Go Marching In/Deep In The Heart Of Texas, Sentimental Journey, I'm Walking

CD 192506 AN EVENING WITH ...

Tracks: My Girl Josephine / The Fat Man / I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday / Blue Monday / Jambalaya (On The Bayou) / Blueberry Hill / Going To The River / I'm Ready / I Want To Walk You Home / Whole Lotta Loving / I Almost Lost My Mind / Ain't It A Shame / Medley: I'm In Love Again - Honey Chile / I'm Walkin' / Walking To New Orleans / Poor Me / Let The Four Winds Blow / Shake, Rattle And Roll / When The Saints Go Marching In / Sentimental Journey / Fats Boogie (Domino Stomp) / My Toot Toot / I Can't Go On (Rosalie) / Medley: So Long - Stormy Weather / Fats Domino Interview / I'm Walkin' (duet with Ricky Nelson)

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CD 192442 THE DYNAMIC ROCKERS (feat. John Spencer) vol. 1

Tracks: The Razmataz Polka, Pretend (v), Move It (v), Joey's Song, My Maria (v), Woo Hoo, Just One Time (v), Anna, Dear One (v), Breakfast Polka, Fall In Love (v), Once, Lonesome Old House (v), Italian Love Song, I Love You So (v), 18th Century Rock

(from PIPELINE #19 - Summer 1993)

The Dynamic Rockers date back to the Dutch scene of 1961 and feature John Spencer, aka Henk van Broekhoven. These recordings date from some 20 years later when interest in the old music promted their reunion, the results originally appearing on CNR and Dureco Records. Unlike many such acts, their vocals are remarkably successful with John in fine voice and also in total command of the English lyrics. There's a sensitive reading of Cliff's Fall In Love and an excellent Move It, the best cover version of this classic that I can recall. Instrumentally they steer clear of Shads material (do I hear sighs of relief out there?), poaching a couple from The Spotnicks, two from the States, and looking the traditional/classical inspired pieces like Italian Love Song and 18th Century Rock. They go for a little more bite on The Spotnicks pieces Anna and Joey's Song with a similar sound on the two polkas. Perhaps the most surprising selection is Woo Hoo, even more a surprise is that it sounds so good! This 50:50 mix of instrumentals and vocals is recommended to those with a penchant for a hint of country in their rock (Alan Taylor)

CD 192452 THE DYNAMIC ROCKERS (feat. John Spencer) vol. 2

Tracks: The Shape I'm In, Dear One, 18 Yellow Roses, Dream Lover, Huppel Polka (instr.), Bring Back Rock 'N' Roll, Hey Little Girl, I Wanna Fall In Love Again, Walk On By, Echo Polka (instr.), Keep On Keepin' On, Rockin' Mood (instr.), Billboard Boogie (instr.), The Young Ones (demo '62), My Maria (demo '62), Pretend (demo '62)

Tracks: Als Ik Voorgoed Bij Jou Zou Zijn, Dans Nog Eenmaal Met Mij (Save The Last Dance For Me), Mexico (instr.), Afscheidslied (La Paloma), Tennessee Waltz, Orange Blossom Special (instr.), Stap In M'n Bootje (South Of The Border), Mona Lisa, Jenny Kom Bij Me (Ginny Come Lately), Back Home (instr.), Crazy Love, Speel Die Dans, The Darktown Strutters' Ball (instr.), Zeg Eens Waarom Geef Je Mij Steeds 'n Knipoog (What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For), Honky-Tonk Man, Do You Wanna Dance ? (demo '62)

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