Bill Black's Combo - White Silver Sands: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62 (CD)

Bill Black's Combo - White Silver Sands: The Singles & Albums Collection 1959-62 - He represented a fascinating and very particular strand of pop during these years, which makes for fun listening. Bill Black was a Memphis-based bass player and entertainer, who worked with guitarist Scotty Moore and other local musicians in a hillbilly band with a humorous edge, playing in Memphis clubs and on radio In 1954 Sam Phillips of Sun Records asked them to play back-up on a session by a new artist of his called Elvis Presley. As a result Black and Moore became the resident band on Presley's sessions, and then became his touring band, indelibly associated with his early success. In 1959, he formed a five-piece group called Bill Black's Combo and signed to the Memphis label Hi Records, whose co-founders included former Sun producers. He gave the label it's first big hit with the two-sided instrumental "Smokie" and became Hi's major artist, specialising in grooving R&B-flavoured instrumentals, which embraced various styles along the way, including The Twist. This great-value 64-track 2-CD set comprises A&B sides of his singles on the Hi label during this era, plus selected titles from his albums for Hi, "Smokie", "Saxy Sax", "Solid And Raunchy", "That Wonderful Feeling", "Movin'", "Let's Twist Her" and The Untouchable Sound". It features his No. 1 R&B hits "Smokie" and "White Silver Sands", and his other hits from these years "Josephine", "Don't Be Cruel", "Blue Tango", "Hearts Of Stone", "Ole Buttermilk Sky", "Honky Train", "Movin'" and "Twist-Her". He represented a fascinating and very particular strand of pop during these years, which makes for fun listening.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Smokie - Part 1
2. Smokie - Part 2
3. White Silver Sands
4. The Wheel
5. Josephine
6. Dry Bones
7. Don't Be Cruel
8. Rollin'
9. Blue Tango
10. Willie
11. Hearts of Stone
12. Royal Blue
13. Old Time Religion
14. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
15. Do Lord
16. When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
17. Down By the Riverside
18. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
19. When the Saints Go Marching in
20. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
21. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
22. This Old House
23. Ole Buttermilk Sky
24. Yogi
25. Movin'
26. Honky Train
27. Twist-Her
28. My Girl Josephine
29. Night Train
30. The Hucklebuck
31. Corrina, Corrina
32. Johnny B. Goode

Disc: 2

1. Royal Twist
2. Slippin' and Slidin'
3. Twist with Me, Baby
4. Twistin' White Silver Sands
5. My Babe
6. So What
7. Blues for the Red Boy
8. Joey's Song
9. Tuxedo Junction
10. Cyclone Bop
11. Dee J. Special
12. Crankcase
13. Deep Elem Blues
14. Accentuate the Positive (Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate)
15. Singin' the Blues
16. I Almost Lost My Mind
17. Cherry Pink
18. Honky Tonk
19. Tequila
20. Raunchy
21. Bo Diddley
22. What'd I Say
23. Witchcraft
24. Work with Me Annie
25. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
26. The Walk
27. Torquay
28. Twisteroo
29. Castle Rock
30. Red Top
31. Tippin' in
32. Ain't That a Shame