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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Wade In The WaterSunset Four Jubilee Singers 2:34£0.69
Listen  2. Night Time Is The Right TimeRoosevelt Sykes 2:56£0.69
Listen  3. Moody's Mood For LoveJames Moody 2:47£0.69
Listen  4. Pink ChampagneJoe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 3:02£0.69
Listen  5. Night TrainBuddy Morrow 3:07£0.69
Listen  6. Je Suis Comme Je SuisJuliette Greco 2:35£0.69
Listen  7. FlamingoEarl Bostic 2:40£0.69
Listen  8. Daddy Rolling StoneOtis Blackwell 2:43£0.69
Listen  9. Get On The Right TrackRay Charles 2:19£0.69
Listen10. Walkin' ShoesGerry Mulligan Quartet 4:46£0.69
Listen11. I'm A ManBo Diddley 2:46£0.69
Listen12. DjangoThe Modern Jazz Quartet 5:26£0.69
Listen13. Please Please Pleasejames brown 2:45£0.69
Listen14. Let The Good Times RollShirley & Lee 2:25£0.69
Listen15. My Boy LollipopBarbie Gaye 2:17£0.69
Listen16. I Love The Life I LiveMuddy Waters 2:50£0.69
Listen17. Parchman FarmMose Allison 3:16£0.69
Listen18. NebuchadnezzarLaurel Aitken 2:23£0.69
Listen19. Everybody Loves A LoverDoris Day 2:43£0.69
Listen20. Don't You Just Know ItHuey 'Piano' Smith 2:29£0.69
Listen21. House Of BambooAndy Williams 2:08£0.69
Listen22. She Made My Blood Run ColdIke Turner's Kings Of Rhythm 2:19£0.69
Listen23. Just A Little BitRosco Gordon 2:05£0.69
Listen24. Gimme That WineLambert, Hendricks & Ross 2:59£0.69
Listen25. Sister SadieHorace Silver 6:17£0.69
Listen26. Mashed PotatoesNat Kendrick & The Swans 1:47£0.69
Listen27. For Your Precious LoveJerry Butler & the Impressions 2:41£0.69


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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Blue Rondo A La TurkDave Brubeck 6:44£0.69
Listen  2. What'd I SayRay Charles 5:06£0.69
Listen  3. Caesar's PadGoogie Rene 2:53£0.69
Listen  4. Work SongNat Adderley 4:14£0.69
Listen  5. Shop AroundThe Miracles 2:50£0.69
Listen  6. RespectableThe Isley Brothers 2:11£0.69
Listen  7. Twist & ShoutThe Top Notes 2:05£0.69
Listen  8. Cutest Little WomanOwen Gray 2:19£0.69
Listen  9. My Girl JosephineBill Black's Combo 2:17£0.69
Listen10. Plain As The Nose On Your FaceAnn Cole 1:56£0.69
Listen11. Humpty DumptyEric Morris and His Drumbago All-Stars 2:55£0.69
Listen12. I Don't Mindjames brown 2:45£0.69
Listen13. Watch Your StepBobby Parker 2:44£0.69
Listen14. You Can't Sit Down (Parts 1 & 2)Phil Upchurch Combo 4:15£0.69
Listen15. It's Gonna Work Out FineIke And Tina Turner 3:03£0.69
Listen16. Let The Sunshine InTeddy Randazzo 3:04£0.69
Listen17. Little EgyptThe Coasters 2:51£0.69
Listen18. Turn On Your Love LightBobby "Blue" Bland 2:37£0.69
Listen19. Pony TimeDon Covay 2:18£0.69
Listen20. I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)Barbara George 2:23£0.69
Listen21. ChaquitaThe Dave Clark Five 2:09£0.69
Listen22. Baby Its YouThe Shirelles 2:41£0.69
Listen23. Buttered PopcornThe Supremes 2:58£0.69
Listen24. VolcanoBilly Preston 2:12£0.69
Listen25. Duke Of EarlGene Chandler 2:23£0.69
Listen26. Nite OwlThe Dukays 2:27£0.69
Listen27. GonzoJames Booker 2:22£0.69


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Long before Mod reached the masses, circa 1964, there existed 'Modernists', a central London cult that pre-empted the dress sense in constant flux. Everything had to be just so: back vents precisely seven inches once week, exactly five the next. At Soho's open-all-night Flamingo one Saturday, you had to be electric-blue Italian. Go back the following Thursday, and it'd be Parisian. It was these same early harbingers of sartorial elegance who drew-up the blueprint for the sonic delights that continue to dominate mod-culture half a decade after it emerged. The charts - then known as 'the hit parade' - was snobbishly dismissed in favour of modern jazz, early soul cuts, brutish R'n'B, and even the odd 'girl-group', the earliest examples of which (at least under any hip leaning of the term) were just emerging when the pioneers of this new-movement were still on target practice. This compilation - augmented with extensive sleevenotes - brings together an impressive 54 tracks that illustrate perfectly what got the younger siblings of the first rock & roll generation onto the dance floors. With classics of the genre rubbing shoulders with obscure gems and old school ties co-existing with the future sounds of London, a finer collection of the roots of the most enduring of all British youth cults can barely be envisaged.

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Intriguing anthology, inferior sound 27 Feb 2012
By Comment Man - Published on Amazon.com
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This anthology is mis-named--it is simply various songs the anthologist associates with the "Mod" faddism of the early 1960s, a trend more or less forgotten in America, which apparently involved British youth who dressed sharply, listened to jazz, drove scooters and dated attractive young women who had funny ideas about dancing. This unpromising premise for an anthology is actually a wildly unpredictable grouping of songs, many of which are relatively rare and pretty cool.

Unfortunately, the mastering of the CD is poor. The tracks actually sound like MP3s I download from Amazon and then use my computer to burn to a CD. The sound quality is, in my opinion, not acceptable for a commercial CD, and I am so disappointed I will probably avoid Chrome CDs in the future as a consequence.

If the sound quality of the CD was better, the oddball nature of this anthology, and the excitement of discovering new songs would have caused me to rate it 4 or even 5 stars.

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