Blowing the Fuse - 1945: 26 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1945
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Release Date: 04/04/2025
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The annual committee of the German record review awards has awarded the CD series Nowadays, when journalists talk about '50 years of pop music' they are ignoring the fact that popular music existed prior to 1955. Pop music did not appear from nowhere but has a rich 'pre' history. Keywords like Big Band Sound, Gospel, Jump Blues, Vocal Groups and Boogie Woogie characterize this period. The first eleven compact discs in the 'Blowing The Fuse'-series are a compilation splendid in sound and detail, dealing with important years in the progress of pop music in the range of black r&b, imaginatively compiled by the Canadian collector and DJ Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth, and knowledgeably annotated by Hank Williams-biographer Colin Escott.
REVIEW
This series has been simply breathtaking. From records of black combos doing their night club numbers to commercial artifacts aimed at the teenage dollar, music had changed remarkable from 1945 to 1960, and this series documents it with startling clarity, both historically and sonically. These last five volumes will probably be of most interest to most, and I recommended all of them to you (and the other eleven). --Pete Bowen, Now Dig This, 5/2006
1: I Wonder - Private Cecil Gant
2: Somebody's Gotta Go - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra
3: S.K. Blues Pt. 1 - Joe Turner and Pete Johnson's All Stars
4: Tippin' In - Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra
5: Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
6: Rock Me Mama - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
7: V Day Stomp - The Four Clefs
8: Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well? - Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
9: Caldonia - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
10: Boogie Woogie On a Saturday Nite - The Five Red Caps
11: That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch - Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra
12: I Will Be Home Again - Golden Gate Quartet
13: The Honeydripper, Pt. 1 - Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
14: Jimmy's Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra
15: Swingin' the Boogie - Hadda Brooks
16: Sail On Boogie - T-Bone Walker with Marl Young and His Orchestra
17: Things Have Changed - Big Maceo
18: Left a Good Deal in Mobile - Herb Jeffries with Joe Liggins' Honeydrippers
19: I Ain't Mad at You Pretty Baby - Gatemouth Moore with Dallas Bartley and His Small Town Boys
20: Blues at Sunrise - Ivory Joe Hunter with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
21: Baby Look at You - Wynonie 'Blues' Harris with Jack McVea and His All Stars
22: Be-baba-leba - Helen Humes with The Bill Doggett Octet
23: Harlem Nocturne - Johnny Otis, His Drums & His Orchestra
24: Garfield Avenue Blues - Jay McShann and The Sextet
25: If It's Good - Julia Lee with The Tommy Douglas Orchestra
26: Beulah's Boogie - Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra