Time: 59:48
Size: 136.9 MB
Styles: R&B
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[2:19] 1. Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew - Big Fat Lie
[1:42] 2. Dimples Harris & Her Combo - Long Lean Lanky Juke Box
[2:08] 3. Ducky Drake With Dimples Harris & Her Combo - Saint Or Sinner
[2:10] 4. Jimmy Shaw - Big Chief Hug-Um An' Kiss-Um
[2:22] 5. Harold Jackson & The Jackson Brothers - The Freedom Riders
[2:11] 6. Dimples Jackson - Love Came Tumbling Down
[2:44] 7. Johnny Gosey - Double Locks
[2:20] 8. The Phillips Sisters - I'm The Only One
[2:26] 9. The Francettes - He's So Sweet
[3:01] 10. The Lon-Genes - Show Me How To Shake Like That
[2:46] 11. The Valaquons - Diddy Bop
[1:45] 12. Rooty Poots - So Far Away
[2:31] 13. The Lon-Genes - Our Love Is Like The Sea
[2:08] 14. Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew - I'm In The Dog House Again
[2:29] 15. Donoman - Monday Is Too Late
[2:29] 16. The Phillips Sisters - Someday I Won't Be Blue
[2:06] 17. The Francettes - You Stayed Away Too Long
[2:19] 18. Kent Harris - Lover Supreme
[2:46] 19. Ty Karim - Take It Easy Baby
[2:48] 20. Cry Baby Curtis - Don't Just Stand There
[2:40] 21. Ray Agee - I Can't Work And Watch You
[3:28] 22. Eddie Bridges - Pay And Be On My Way
[3:21] 23. Adolph Jacobs - Recession Blues
[2:38] 24. Faye Ross - You Ain't Right
Kent Harris’ strong point was undoubtedly his witty and topical lyrics, allied to having his ear to the ground for the latest trends in black music. His most famous work – ‘Clothes Line’, recorded under his alias Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew – was plundered by Leiber and Stoller for the Coasters’ ‘Shoppin’ For Clothes’ and is already out on an Ace compilation. All four of his Crest sides are humorous, streetwise and down with the groove of the day. ‘Big Fat Lie’ concerns a visit to the pawnbrokers, which a lot of black audiences could relate to in the 50s. Other novelty songs include ‘Big Chief Hug-Um An’ Kiss-Um’ by James Shaw, later to be known more grandly as the Mighty Hannibal, and the newly-discovered Boogaloo recording ‘I’m In The Dog House Again’. He’s so late back his woman won’t let him into the house and he has to kip down with the dog. ‘Double Locks’, which Kent wrote for Johnny Gosey, deals with an angry landlady putting locks on the tenant’s crib until the back rent is paid. ~Ady Croasdell
Kent Harris' R&B Family mc
Kent Harris' R&B Family zippy
