Cool and the Crazy (1993)

About this title: Anyone who thinks that doo wop music had a corner on obscure releases should check out the Buffalo Bop catalog: 500+ rockabilly songs and counting. This 30 song compilation has more than the usual number of slow songs ("Bon Bon Baby" by Jerry Coulston, "Cool Cool Baby" by Lafayette Yarborough, "Rock and Roll Fever" by Graham B) amid its frantic rockabilly classics. It opens with its strongest number, the self-penned "Kool Kat" by Bill Sherrell, originally issued on the Tyme label; he also contributes the second-best number here, "Rock on Baby," with its rippling virtuoso piano solo leading ... read more

Tracks:

1. Kool Kat [Sherrill]
2. Rock Crazy Baby [Jones]
3. Imogene [Ray/Wilson]
4. Cool Cat [Montgomery]
5. Woodpecker Rock [Couty/Cour]
6. Dancing Doll [Adams]
7. Bon Bon Baby [Jaros/McArthur/Mari]
8. Littel Rocker [Gibson]
9. Marlene [Ruth/Sheridan]
10. Cool Cool Baby [Gibbs/Rollins]
11. Rock and Roll Fever [Busbice]
12. Cool Baby [Cole]
13. Rock on Baby [Sherrell]
14. Short Fat Ben [Jones]
15. Come Along with Me [Whitman]
16. Servant of Love [Winkle/Walton]
17. Cool Cats [Hufton]
18. Those Rock 'N' Roll Blues [Wilson/Sharp]
19. Livin' Doll [Gibbs/Rollins]
20. Minus One - Blast Off [Sheridan/Ruth]
21. Get Hot or Go Home [Kerby]
22. Pizza Pie [Young/Helzner]
23. Little Bitty Boy [Thibodeaux/Webb]
24. Cool, Baby, Cool [Coan/Dennis/Davis]
25. Rock and Roll Teenager [Sherrell]
26. Won't You Come Along With Me [Couty/Cour]
27. Ricky Tic [Davis]
28. I Love 'Em All [Jones]
29. Yes, No, or Maybe [Sherrell]
30. She's Cool [King]

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