I Love Beach Music, Vol. 1 & 2 (1996)

About this title: Beach music is such an open-ended genre that it essentially ends up being any music that is played in the seaboard dance clubs of the southeast, but the heart and soul of it tends to be a mixture of R&B, soul, and even doo wop from the 1960s, as this two-disc, 36-track set makes clear. A veritable dance party in a box, I Love Beach Music features such classics as Gene Chandler's enduring "Duke of Earl," the Swingin' Medallions' "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)," Betty Everett's "Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," and Little Anthony & the Imperials' "Goin' Out of My Head," among others. Fun ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Love Beach Music [Gore]
2. Build Me Up Buttercup [DAbo/Macaulay]
3. Ocean Boulevard [Johnson]
4. Rainy Day Bells [Greenfield/Sedaka]
5. Summertime's Calling Me [Barker]
6. With This Ring [Dixon/Hester/Wylie]
7. 39-21-46 [Johnson]
8. Stay [Williams]
9. Tams Medley [Cobb]
10. Hold Back the Night [Baker/Felder/Harris]
11. We're Gonna Hate Ourselves in the Morning [Alexander/Ward]
12. What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am?) [Whitley]
13. Duke of Earl [Dixon/Edwards/Willi]
14. Club Savoy [McCracklin]
15. He Will Break Your Heart [Butler/Carter/Mayfi]
16. Hello Stranger [Lewis]
17. Kidnapper [Douglas]
18. Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On [Cheatham]
19. Carolina Girls [Johnson]
20. I've Been Hurt [Whitley]
21. Gonna Move Across the River [McGhee/Terry]
22. Myrtle Beach Days [Reid]
23. Drive It Home [Paige]
24. Party Time Man [Marshall/Wortham]
25. Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) [Smith]
26. Washed Ashore (On a Lonely Island in the Sea) [Hester/Wylie]
27. It Will Stand [Johnson]
28. Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) [Neville]
29. Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird) [Bacharach/Hilliard]
30. May I [Williams]
31. I Got the Fever [Smith]
32. Soothe Me [Cooke]
33. Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) [Clark]
34. Backfield in Motion [Harden/McPherson]
35. Kansas City [Leiber/Stoller]
36. Goin' Out of My Head [Randazzo/Weinstein]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.