Rumba Blues: Mambo Blues / Various Rumba Blues: Mambo Blues / Various CD

Latin rhythms have infiltrated every branch of popular music, but none has had such a wide ranging influence as the rumba. It is this rhythm, combined with the New Orleans second line beat, that formed the basis of the Stax and Motown sound and the more complex rhythms of funk in the 1960s. But where would rock be without the cha-cha-cha? Think Respect, Satisfaction, Wild Thing... The mambo was born in Cuba in 1938, of African and European parentage but 1954 was the year of the mambo dance craze as record companies encouraged their R&B artists to come up with songs in a Latin vein and to include the word mambo in the title. The samba was next. It is the spring in the beat and the almost imperceptible skip at the end of each measure that differentiate it from Cuban rhythms. The repetitive riff making over a groove so beloved of 60's and 70's rock springs not from the blues but from Latin song-form and the vamps and montunos found in samba and mambo. What we present here in this collection are 150 songs from artists such as T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Chuck Berry and Ray Charles, all recorded between 1948 and 1962 spread over 5 CDs with 72 pages of illustrations, annotated notes and discographical details.

1. Annie's Mambo - T.N.T. Tribble 2. Cozy's Mambo - Cozy Cole 3. Mambo Blues - Cherokee ; Band 4. The Crazy Mambo - Classie Ballou 5. Early Morning Mambo - Billy Taylor Trio 6. Hamp?s Mambo - Lionel Hampton 7. I Just Wanna Mambo - Linda Hayes 8. Night Train Mambo - Jimmy Forrest 9. Night Train Mambo - J.J. Jones 10. Mambo Train - The Miracletones 11. Perdido Mambo - Larry Liggett 12. Showboat Mambo - Tiny Grimes 13. Peter Gunn Mambo - Jack Costanzo 14. Robin's Mambo - Tony Martinez 15. We Want to See Santa Mambo - Big John Greer 16. Mambo Blues - Buddy Lucas 17. Guitar Mambo - Mickey Baker 18. Mambo Baby - Edna McGriff 19. Mambo Indio - Shake Keane 20. Johnny Comes Marching Mambo - Manny Duran 21. Real Gone Mambo - Bill Doggett 22. Mambo Beat - Walter Ward 23. Blues 'n' Mambo - Chuck Higgins 24. Mambo With Moody - James Moody 25. Bo Mambo - Yma Sumac 26. South Parkway Mambo - The Bop-A-Loos 27. Goza Mi Mambo û Arcano 28. Cuban Mambo - P?rez Prado 29. Mambo Blues - Nat Brooks 30. Jackie Mambo - Choker Campbell 31. Big Joe Mambo - Fay Simmons 32. Helena Mambo - Rollee McGill 33. Hi-Beam Mambo - Charlie Ferguson 34. After Hours Mambo - J.J. Jones 35. Mambo Jungle - Mel Gray 36. Blues King Mambo - Harmonica æHarris 37. Mambo Baby - Dolly Wade 38. Guitarambo - Mickey Baker 39. Filatone's Mambo - Lawrence Peel 40. Mambo - Classie Ballou 41. Mambo Blues - Robert Banks 42. Mamboogie - Sonny Burke 43. Mambino - Kid King 44. Sandman Mambo - Chris Powell 45. Clock Mambo - Esther Sutherland 46. Mambo's Got the Blues - Vin Strong 47. Mambo Twist - Chaz + 2 48. Don't Teach Me To Mambo - Paul Williams 49. Slide's Mambo - Buddy Johnson 50. T-Town Mambo - Ernie Fields 51. Mambo Arribique - Otis Freeman 52. Mambo Daddy - The Celebrities 53. St Louis Blues Mambo - Ellie Russell 54. Mambo Baby - The Five Tinos 55. Junior's Mambo - Larry Liggett 56. Avalon Mambo - Gene Casey 57. Dragnet Mambo - Carlos Molina 58. Lucky Mambo - Juan Toradez 59. Judo Mambo - Jimmy Smith 60. Mambo Holiday - Joe Holiday 61. That's Your Last Boogie - Joe Swift 62. T-Bone Blues - T-Bone Walker 63. Rhumba Blues - Skeets Tolbert 64. Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton 65. Fat Meat 'n' Greens - Edgar Hayes 66. Mambo Boogie - Johnny Otis Orchestra 67. Back Home Blues - Lowell Fulson 68. Cuba Doll - Lloyd Glenn 69. Heartbreaker - Ray Charles 70. Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton 71. Woke Up This Morning - B.B. King 72. Hey Now Baby - Professor Longhair 73. Country Boy - Dave Bartholomew 74. Bon Ton Roula - Clarence Garlow 75. Jock-O-Mo - Sugar Boy Crawford 76. Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Fats Domino 77. Tell Me Pretty Baby - Lloyd Price 78. Hey Little Girl - Billy Wright 79. Banana Split - Kid KingÆs Combo 80. Early In The Morning - Louis Jordan 81. I Come From Jamaica - Chris PowellÆs Five Blue Flames 82. Blues Mambo - Sonny Thompson 83. My Baby's Gone - The Ray-O-Vacs 84. Roll And Rumba - Jimmy Reed 85. I CanÆt Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters 86. Mexican Reminiscences - Champion Jack Dupree 87. Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter 88. Slim Harpo - Got Love If You Want It 89. Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working 90. Dale Hawkins - Susie Q 91. Wynona Carr - Jump Jack, Jump! 92. Guitar Junior - The Crawl 93. Big "T" Tyler - King Kong 94. Andr? Williams - The Greasy Chicken 95. Art Neville - Arabian Love Call 96. Bobby Freeman - Do You Wanna Dance 97. B.B. King - Ruby Lee 98. Tommy Ridgley - When I Meet My Girl 99. Fats Domino - I'm Walking 100. Paul Gayten - For You My Love 101. Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues 102. Richard Berry - Louie, Louie 103. Charles Sheffield - Wicked Old Fever 104. Bill Doggett - Ram Bunk Shush 105. Smokey Hogg - Good Mornin' Baby 106. Otis Rush - All Your Love 107. Champion Jack Dupree - The Wrong Woman 108. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy 109. Bo Diddley - Hush Your Mouth 110. Larry Williams - Bad Boy 111. Leonard Carbo - Pig Tails And Ribbons 112. Eddie Lang - She's Mine All Mine 113. Screamin' Joe Neal - Tell Me Pretty Baby 114. The Champs - Tequila 115. Lavern Baker - It's So Fine 116. Albert Collins - The Freeze 117. Memphis Slim - Guitar Cha Cha Cha 118. Harry Belafonte - Star û O 119. Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Pt 1) 120. Texas Ray - Mary Ann 121. Arthur Alexander - Girl That Radiates Charm 122. Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid 123. Willie Jones - Where's My Money 124. Little Willie John - Heartbreak 125. Link Wray - Raw - Hide 126. James Brown - And I Do Just What I Want 127. Davey Cortez - Hurricane 128. Ruth Brown - I Don't Know 129. The Coasters - Poison Ivy 130. Teddy Randazzo - Let The Sunshine In 131. Curtis Knight - Voodoo Woman 132. Tal Miller - Only Sixteen 133. Renaldo Jackson - Congolese Tip 134. The Orioles - Hey Little Woman 135. Barrett Strong - You Know What To Do 136. Charles Brown - Educated Fool 137. The Isley Brothers - St Louis Blues 138. Cozy Cole - Topsy Pt 2 139. Bobby Hebb - Night Train To Memphis 140. Andre Williams - Shoo - Doo 141. Phil Upchurch - Cha Cha Cha Blues 142. Buddy Guy - Gully Hully 143. Louis Brooks - Frisco 144. The Olympics - Well 145. Ford Eaglin - Yours Truly 146. Chuck Berry - Mad Lad 147. Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler 148. Huey Piano Smith - We Like Birdland