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1	Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this by Lloyd Price As part of the Specialty Profiles series, New Orleans R&B belter Lloyd Price is spotlighted on several tracks he recorded for the Los Angeles-based label between 1952 and 1959. This is raucous R&B, not to be confused with Price's pop hits recorded for ABC-Paramount in the early '60s. The 14 cuts on this compilation combine lesser-heard gems like ... see all copies from $10.35! new only from $10.35!
2	The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll: 1946-1954 (2004) more music like this by Various Artists Of the numerous various-artist compilation CDs that have attempted to anthologize the recordings of the late '40s and early '50s most crucial to planting the seeds for rock & roll, this three-CD, 60-song set is probably the most definitive. Most prior collections along these lines have failed to present a truly comprehensive picture of rock & roll ... see all copies from $35.08! new only from $35.08!
3	Roy Milton & His Solid Senders [Specialty] (1990) more music like this by Roy Milton & His Solid Senders This is more great stuff from the "Legends Of Specialty" series. Drummer and vocalist Roy Milton was one of the first artists signed to Juke Box Records, the label that became Specialty, and his "R.M. Blues" was a factor in getting the label capitalized. The Solid Senders came about, in part, because of the growing economic unfeasibility of the ... see all copies from $11.26! new only from $11.26!
4	Specialty Profiles [2 Disc] (2006) more music like this by Roy Milton As part of the Specialty Profiles series, New Orleans vocalist, bandleader, and drummer Roy Milton & His Solid Senders are highlighted with 14 tunes recorded for the label between 1945 and 1953. Not as raucous as future rock & roll pioneers on the Specialty roster like Little Richard and Lloyd Price, Roy Milton & His Solid Senders specialized in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.06!
5	Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this by John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker's brief association with the Specialty label doesn't immediately come to mind as do his recordings for, say, Modern, Chess, Vee Jay, or ABC/Bluesway. In 1954 the founder of Los Angeles-based Specialty Records, Art Rupe, bought 35 Hooker tunes, several of which had been cut in Detroit four years earlier. Rupe issued one single to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.56!
6	Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this by Sam Cooke/The Soul Stirrers When Art Rupe of Specialty Records first heard the master tape of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" in 1957, he declared that the track sounded "too white" for his label's R&B and gospel audience, and he passed on it, letting Cooke take the master tape out the door and over to Keen Records, who subsequently released it, and the rest, as they say, is ... see all copies from $6.16! new only from $9.92!
7	Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this by Larry Williams Larry Williams is one of the great figures of early rock & roll. He didn't have the world's greatest voice, more of a raucous shout, but he put it to electrifying use behind his original compositions, some of which became standards. The Beatles covered "Dizzy, Miss Lizzy," "Bad Boy" and "Slow Down," the Stones ripped up "She Said Yeah," hundreds ... see all copies from $9.78! new only from $9.78!
8	Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles 1921-1956 (1999) more music like this by Various Artists Los Angeles is not usually seen as a hotbed of African-American musical creativity in the first half of the 20th century, but this deluxe box set deflates that misconception in a hurry. From 1921 to 1956 -- the time frame covered by the four discs of Central Avenue Sounds -- jazz of all kinds flourished on Central Avenue, L.A.'s main stem of sepia ... see all copies from $33.80! new only from $45.99!
9	Live in Los Angeles 1970 (1998) more music like this by Johnny Otis see all copies from $14.72! new only from $14.72!
10	Specialty Profiles (2006) more music like this by Percy Mayfield Percy Mayfield was blessed with an emotive Louisiana baritone and a poet's sensibility to sadness and pain, and few songwriters in the history of pop or R&B have written a body of work so drenched in beautiful suffering. This set features Mayfield's major hits for Art Rupe's Specialty Records, a label that Mayfield recorded for from 1950 until ... see all copies from $10.06! new only from $10.06!
11 view cover	Brown Gal (1992) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $10.73! new only from $10.73!
12 view cover	The Walk: Jimmy McCracklin at His Best (1997) more music like this by Jimmy McCracklin McCracklin has always been one of those artists whose currency always ran higher in the black blues community than it has in the subsequent years of white historical revision. But decent career retrospectives of McCracklin -- who had sides issued on almost a dozen labels in as many years -- on compact disc are somewhere between few and far between ... see all copies from $5.00!
13 view cover	Birth of Rhythm & Blues (2001) more music like this by Various Artists While rhythm & blues has a pedigree stretching back to the dawn of the 20th century, it was only in the late '30s that smaller groups began jumping with the energy of swing and the spirit of the blues. The Birth of Rhythm & Blues, a three-disc box from Golden Stars, trawls through the subsequent decade and casts a wide net over the jazz, blues, ... see all copies from $8.37! new only from $8.37!
14 view cover	Specialty Records Greatest Hits (2001) more music like this by Various Artists The Specialty label was one of the leading companies of both postwar rhythm & blues and early rock & roll. This 20-song anthology is a concise and well-selected survey of their biggest hits and most important performers, including cuts by Little Richard, Larry Williams, Sam Cooke (the early solo performance "I'll Come Running Back to You"), Percy ... see all copies from $5.44!
15 view cover	Special Road (1989) more music like this by Fenton Robinson An import CD, it was recorded April 1989 in the Netherlands. Niles J. Frantz, All Music Guide see all copies from $10.68! new only from $10.68!
16 view cover	Indigo Blues, Vol. 3 (1998) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $8.15! new only from $8.15!
17 view cover	The R&B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues (1994) more music like this by Various Artists Encapsulating the history of R&B in a box set, even one that spans six discs, is a ridiculous task. Inevitably, there will be important artists and songs that are missing, no matter how comprehensive the set is. Rhino's R&B Box -- 30 Years of Rhythm and Blues suffers from that very problem. While it contains some of the classic tracks, it lacks ... see all copies from $131.58! new only from $131.58!
18 view cover	1946: The R&B Hits (1997) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $14.92! new only from $14.92!
19	R.M. Blues (1985) more music like this by Roy Milton Specialty's R.M. Blues is a fine collection that features 15 highlights from Roy Milton's jumping Specialty recordings. While his time at Specialty was unquestionably the finest period of his career, and there are some timeless performances here ("R.M. Blues," "Night and Day," "Wakin' Up Baby," "Milton's Boogie," "Information Blues"), these same ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
20 view cover	Roy Milton & His Solid Senders (1978) more music like this by Roy Milton Certainly this is the place to go for Milton's most popular and influential material -- a whopping 18 of the 25 cuts made the R&B Top Ten in the late '40s and early '50s. These include such classics as "R.M. Blues," "The Hucklebuck," and "Hop, Skip & Jump" (given a great rockabilly treatment in the 1950s by the Collins Kids). All of the tracks are ... see all copies from $12.49!
21 view cover	Shake for Me (2002) more music like this by Lefty Dizz see all copies from $16.32! new only from $16.32!
22 view cover	1945-1946 (2002) more music like this by Roy Milton Drummer, vocalist, and bandleader Roy Milton was born of Chickasaw Native and African-American parents on a reservation near Wynnewood, OK, in 1907. He grew up in Tulsa, got involved in the music scene there, migrated to California, and put together his first working band, the Solid Senders, in 1938. This first volume in the Classics Roy Milton ... see all copies from $12.97! new only from $12.97!
23 view cover	Jukebox Hits (2008) more music like this by Roy Milton see all copies from $22.87! new only from $22.87!
24 view cover	Blues Hits [Columbia River Box] (1998) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $36.11! new only from $36.11!

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