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  • An MVD Exclusive
  • SKU: BCD16099
  • Format: CD
  • UPC: 5397102160998
  • Street Date: 02/15/13
  • PreBook Date: 01/01/01
  • Label: Bear Family Records »
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Run Time: 460 mins
  • Number of Discs: 6
  • Year of Production: 2013
  • Box Lot: 25
  • Territory: NORTH AMERICA

 

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History Of Skiffle

6-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 88-page hardcover book, 174 tracks, total playing time approx. 7 hours 40 minutes.

History Of Skiffle
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WASHBOARDS ... KAZOOS ... BANJOS:
This six-CD set is a full, long overdue anthology of the music and musicians who created Skiffle. From the African American forebears of the 1920s and '30s like The Memphis Jug Band and Lead Belly to the fountainhead of Skiffle in the UK, Ken Colyer, this collection includes anthems like 'Down By The Riverside' and 'Midnight Special'. And then came Lonnie Donegan! The undisputed King of Skiffle is represented by hits like 'Cumberland Gap', 'Rock Island Line', 'Puttin' On The Style', and 'Gamblin' Man' as well as lesser known songs like 'Light From The Lighthouse' and 'The Goldrush Is Over'. - The popularity of Skiffle exploded with classics such as Johnny Duncan's 'Last Train To San Fernando', Chas McDevitt's worldwide hit 'Freight Train' and The Vipers 'Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O'.

This set also includes Continental groups like Roban's Skiffle Group and the Mozam Skiffle Group. - Skiffle wasn't rock 'n' roll, but it influenced a generation of '60s British beat artists. The Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, Jimmy Page, and many more began in Skiffle groups. An overlooked chapter in popular music history finally gets its due!

Track Listing

Disc 1:
  • Memphis Jug Band,The - The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud â€" Part 4
  • Alabama Washboard Stompers - It Won't Act Right
  • Leadbelly - Pigmeat Stomp
  • Colyer, Ken - There's A Man Going Round Taking Names
  • Colyer, Ken - Midnight Special
  • Colyer, Ken - Casey Jones
  • Colyer, Ken - K.C. Moan
  • Colyer, Ken - Take This Hammer
  • Colyer, Ken - Down By The Riverside
  • Colyer, Ken - Go Down Old Hannah
  • Colyer, Ken - Streamline Train
  • Colyer, Ken - Old Riley
  • Colyer, Ken - Down Bound Train
  • Colyer, Ken - Stack-O-Lee Blues
  • Colyer, Ken - Muleskinner Blues
  • Colyer, Ken - The Grey Goose
  • Colyer, Ken - Sporting Life
  • Colyer, Ken - House Rent Stomp
  • Colyer, Ken - I Can't Sleep
  • Colyer, Ken - This Train
  • Colyer, Ken - Midnight Hour Blues
  • Colyer, Ken - Go Down Sunshine
  • Colyer, Ken - Ella Speed
  • Colyer, Ken - Ham'n Eggs
  • Colyer, Ken - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
  • Colyer, Ken - Hard Time Blues
  • Colyer, Ken - Nobody's Child
  • Colyer, Ken - You Don't Know My Mind
  • Disc 2:
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Rock Island Line
    • Donegan, Lonnie - John Henry
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Wabash Cannonball
    • Donegan, Lonnie - When The Sun Goes Down
    • Donegan, Lonnie - New Buryin' Ground
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Worried Man Blues
    • Donegan, Lonnie - The Ballad Of Jesse James
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Railroad Bill
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Stewball
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Dead Or Alive
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Wreck Of The Old 97
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Cumberland Gap
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Gamblin' Man
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Puttin' On The Style
    • Donegan, Lonnie - My Dixie Darling
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Jack O'Diamonds
    • Donegan, Lonnie - The Grand Coulee Dam
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Lonesome Traveller
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Light From The Lighthouse
    • Donegan, Lonnie - The Goldrush Is Over
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Jimmy Brown, The Newsboy
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Diggin' My Potatoes
    • Donegan, Lonnie - On A Monday
    • Donegan, Lonnie - Brother Moses Smote The Water
    • Disc 3:
      • Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Glory
      • Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Gypsy Davy
      • Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Can't You Line Em
      • Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Where Could I Go
      • Bishop, Dickie & His Sidekicks - Doin' My Time
      • Bishop, Dickie & His Sidekicks - No Other Baby
      • Johnny Duncan - Last Train To San Fernando
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Rock-A-Billy Baby
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Ain't You Glad
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Pick A Bale Of Cotton
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - It Takes A Worried Man To Sing A Worried Song
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - 10 000 Years Ago
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Hey Liley, Liley Lo
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Jim Dandy
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - The Cumberland Gap
      • Vipers Skiffle Group - Maggie May
      • Chas MCDevitt Skiffle Group - Freight Train
      • Chas MCDevitt Skiffle Group - It Takes A Worried Man
      • Chas MCDevitt Skiffle Group - Greenback Dollar
      • Bob Cort Skiffle Group - I'm Satisfied
      • Bob Cort Skiffle Group - Ain't That A Shame
      • Les Hobeaux - Six-Five-Special
      • Les Hobeaux - Mama Don't Allow
      • Les Hobeaux - Hey, Hey, Daddy Blues
      • Les Hobeaux - Toll The Bell Easy
      • Disc 4:
        • Barnstormers Spasm Band - Oh, Mary Don't You Weep
        • Barnstormers Spasm Band - Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - Whistling Rufus
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - 900 Miles
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - Picket Line
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - I Shall Not Be Moved
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - When The Saints
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - Keep Your Pistol Good And Loaded
        • City Ramblers Skiffle Group - I Want A Girl
        • Lomax, Alan And The Ramblers - 2:19 Blues
        • Lomax, Alan And The Ramblers - Hard Case
        • Lomax, Alan And The Ramblers - Railroad Man
        • Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skiffl - Oh Lula
        • Beryl Bryden's Backroom Skiffl - Kansas City Blues
        • Alexis Korner Skiffle Group - I Ain't Gonna Worry No More
        • Alexis Korner Skiffle Group - Sail On
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - Death Letter
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - Green Corn
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - This Little Light Of Mine
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - Fisherman's Blues
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - Hey Hey Daddy Blues
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - Lonesome Day Blues
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - I Don't Know
        • Bush, Ray & The Avon Cities' S - How Long
        • Bob Wallis' Washboard Beaters - Julian Johnson
        • Bob Wallis' Washboard Beaters - Meeting At The Building
        • Bob Wallis' Washboard Beaters - Tight Like That
        • Bob Wallis' Washboard Beaters - Julia Johnson
        • Disc 5:
          • 2:19 Skiffle Group - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
          • Station Skiffle Group - Trouble In Mind
          • Station Skiffle Group - Steamboat Bill
          • Delta Skiffle Group - Titanic
          • Delta Skiffle Group - John Brown's Body
          • Lea Valley Skiffle Group - Skip To My Lou
          • Christmas, Johnny & The Sunspo - I'm Gonna Walk And Talk
          • Christmas, Johnny & The Sunspo - Mister And Mississippi
          • Blue Jeans Skiffle Group - (I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing
          • Jackson, Jimmy - I Shall Not Be Moved (featured in the film 'B
          • Roban's Skiffle Group - Good Morning Blues
          • Roban's Skiffle Group - Sometimes
          • Mosam Skiffle Group - John B.
          • Mosam Skiffle Group - Midnite Special
          • Lighttown Skiffle Group - Jim Crawl
          • Lighttown Skiffle Group - Trula, O!, Trula
          • Lighttown Skiffle Group - He Marie druk toch niet op die Bel
          • Lighttown Skiffle Group - Doe je Ruimtepakkie aan
          • Havel City Ramblers - Komm doch Zurück (Sloop John B.)
          • Havel City Ramblers - Swing Low
          • Havel City Ramblers - Bei mir bist du schön
          • Havel City Ramblers - Yes Sir that's my Baby
          • Wende, Horst & Die Skiffle Boy - Fräulein Helene
          • Disc 6:
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - You Are My Sunshine
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - This Land Is Your Land
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Pay Me My Money Down
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Hey Liley Liley Lo
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - 10,000 Years Ago
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Liza Jane
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - I Wanna Go Home
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Get Along Home Cindy
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Do Lord Remember Me
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Man Taking Names
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Mary, Don't You Weep
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Gloryland
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Judy Drowned
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Black Girl
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Old Smokey
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Raise The Ruckus Tonight
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Heaven
            • Eden Street Skiffle Group - Easy Rider
            • Soho Skiffle Group - Frankie & Johnny
  

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