Bill Black'S Combo White Silver Sands: The Singles & Albums 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.

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 33. Royal Twist 34. Slippin' and Slidin' 35. Twist with Me, Baby 36. Twistin' White Silver Sands 37. My Babe 38. So What 39. Blues for the Red Boy 40. Joey's Song 41. Tuxedo Junction 42. Cyclone Bop 43. Dee J. Special 44. Crankcase 45. Deep Elem Blues 46. Accentuate the Positive (Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate) 47. Singin' the Blues 48. I Almost Lost My Mind 49. Cherry Pink 50. Honky Tonk 51. Tequila 52. Raunchy 53. Bo Diddley 54. What'd I Say 55. Witchcraft 56. Work with Me Annie 57. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby 58. The Walk 59. Torquay 60. Twisteroo 61. Castle Rock 62. Red Top 63. Tippin' in 64. Ain't That a Shame