You Heard It Here First / Various You Heard It Here First / Various CD

2008 collection containing 26 original versions of some of the most enduring classics of the '50s and '60s. These tracks embrace some of the greatest Country, Soul, Pop, Rock 'N' Roll and R&B tunes ever recorded. 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 'I 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 modeled on these originals, and wonder how come they weren't hits in their own right. Ace Records. 2008.

1. Tainted Love - Gloria Jones 2. Suspicious Minds - Mark James 3. Wild Thing - the Wild Ones 4. I Fought the Law - the Crickets 5. The Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf 6. Hanky Panky - the Raindrops 7. Go Now - Bessie Banks 8. A Rockin' Good Way - Priscilla Bowman ; the Spaniels 9. This Diamond Ring - Sammy Ambrose 10. Tobacco Road - John D. Loudermilk 11. I Found You - Yvonne Fair 12. Ain't That Loving You Baby - Eddie Riff 13. Louie Louie - Richard Berry ; the Pharaohs 14. My Boy Lollipop - Barbie Gaye 15. Little Bit O'Soul - the Little Darlings 16. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Johnny Darrell 17. Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand - Hoagy Lands 18. You Need Love - Muddy Waters 19. A Groovy Kind of Love - Diane and Annita 20. You Were on My Mind - Ian ; Sylvia 21. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself - Tommy Hunt 22. Let's Get Together (Live) - the Kingston Trio 23. California Sun - Joe Jones 24. Something Stupid - Carson ; Gaile 25. Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go - the Leaves 26. Rock Around the Clock - Sunny Dae ; the Knights