- 26 original versions of some of the most enduring classics
of the 1950s and 1960s.
These tracks
embrace some of the greatest country, soul, pop, rock`n'roll and R&B tunes
ever recorded. We may never know why these songs did not become hits first time
around, but musical inferiority is certainly not among the reasons why they
didn't. Some of these originals are well known, others are hardly known at all.
Most people with a passion for rock`n'roll will know that Richard Berry wrote
and recorded the original "Louie Louie", but hardly anyone will know
that the Kingston Trio and Mark James did "Get Together" and
"Suspicious Minds" before the Youngbloods and Elvis Presley did. Hear
how "Rock Around The Clock" sounded three years before Bill Haley and
the Comets got to it, or how the Crickets "Fought The Law" almost
half a decade before the Bobby Fuller Four and 15 years before the Clash did. Find
out where Led Zeppelin acquired the source material for "Whole Lotta
Love" and the Animals got "Baby let Me take You Home" from. Marvel
at how closely the later hit versions were often modelled on these originals,
and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right.
(in Amazon)
