Tracklist
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01. Stormy Weather - Phil Phillips
02. Let's Boogie - Juke Boy Bonner
03. Sugar Bee - Cleveland Crochet and Band
04. Let's Go Bopping Tonight - Al Ferrier
05. The Crawl - Guitar Junior
06. So What - Johnny Duhon and The Yellow Jackets
07. Cindy Lou - Gene Terry And The Down Beats
08. You're Lonesome Now - Charles Perrywell
09. Boogie In The Mud - Danny James
10. Goin' Crazy Baby - Guitar Junior
11. Rooster Strut - Ashton Savoy
12. No Future - Rockin' Sidney
13. You're So Fine - Pee Wee Kershaw
14. Frosty - Danny James
15. San Antonio - Big Walter Price
16. Please Accept My Love - Jimmy Wilson
17. Blue Bayou Shuffle - Cookie And The Cupcakes
18. Teenage Baby - Sticks Herman
19. Secret Of Love - Elton Anderson
20. Chicken Stuff - Hop Wilson and his Buddies
21. Teardrops In My Eyes - Gene Terry
22. Puppy Love - Dolly Parton
23. Don't Leave Me - Phil Phillips
Ace Records is proud to announce the addition of the legendary Goldband label to its catalogue and launches the relationship with this CD subtitled Eddie's House Of Hits, a retrospective album covering the immensely varied output of Eddie Shuler's Louisiana company. Operating out of Lake Charles, Shuler has been involved with the music business since 1940, initially running Eddie's Music House Store and playing in the hillbilly band The Reveliers. In 1949 he formed Folk Star Records and put out recording by the great cajun artist lry LeJune. In 1952 he set up Goldband Records which, to this day, continues to be a bastion for the musics of downhome Louisiana His biggest hits for Goldband are here - Cleveland Crochet's cajun-rocker Sugar Bee (it charted a No 80 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1961) and Elton Andersen's swamp-pop ballad Secret of Love (No 88 in 1960) - but, musically, of as much interest are the regional hits and near misses. Guitar Jnr's The Crawl (later remade by The Fabulous Thunderbirds), Paper In My Shoe by Boozoo Chavis and Boogie In The Mud by Danny James (who, elsewhere on the set, boldly tackles Albert Collins' Frosty). Jimmy Wilson's Please Accept My Love (later recorded by B B King) is also here, as is the 1959 outing Puppy Love by the very young Dolly Parton. Gene Terry tears it up on the wild rocker Cindy Lou and Rockin Sidney (of My Toot Toot fame) wails the blues on No Future. Cookie & The Cupcakes play swamp pop on the Blue Bayou Shuffle, Ashton Savoy do the Rooster Strut and Pee Wee Kershaw (sounds like Lancashire's answer to the blues but it is actually Doug Kershaw's brother) delivers You're So Fine in his own inimitable cajun-rock style. Cult blues names like Hop Wilson and Juke Boy Bonner belt out Chicken Stuff and Let's Boogie but special mention is reserved for Al Ferrier's rockabilly classic Lets Go Boppin' Tonight which was rescued from the original tape almost on the point of disintegration during the copying stage. The album closes with Phil Phillips' Don't Leave Me and that's just what you won't want to do with this excellent introductory "Story of Goldband Records".
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