Rock•It•88

[JSngry]

because he doesn't pimp his own work, here's a GREAT mix of vintage (and non-cliched) R&B by Rod Stasick:

https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/random-radio-075-rockit88/?utm_campaign=notification_new_upload&utm_medium=email&utm_source=notification&utm_content=html

Chubby Newsom - Toodle Luddle Baby
Beverly Ann Gibson - Wait and See
Pigmeat Markham - Your Wire's Been Tapped
L.C. McKinley - Nit Wit
Bee Bee Queen - Queen Bee
Oscar McLollie & Jeanette Baker - Hey Girl, Hey Boy
Rockin' Roy Thomas - Manslaughter
Jimmy Milner & His Blue Ribbon Band - Nobles Shuffle
Baby Dee - He Ain't Mine No More
Rosetta Perry - Farewell Blues
Jimmy Lewis - Let's Get Together
Joe Lutcher - No Name Boogie
Four Tees - Funky Duck
The Crawford Brothers - I Ain't Guilty
Hank Ballard - Broadway
Al King - It's Getting Late
Jackie Kelso & His Orchestra - Blue Moon
Jack McVea - Wine-O
Mamie Bradley & Group with Andy Gibson's Orch. - The Patty Cake
Sam Meyers - You Don't Have to Go
Booker T. Washington - St. Louis Boogie
J.L. Smith - If It's Too Late
Little Mummy - Where You at Jack
Aaron Neville - Wrong Number
Al Savage & Joe Morris Orchestra - Be Seein' You in My Dreams
Finey Mo - Shake That Thing
Betty James - I'm a Little Mixed Up
Anita Tucker - Ring-Aling-Aling (Let the Wedding Bells Ring)
Carmen Davis with Ernie Freeman's Combo - No, No Baby
June Bateman - Come on Little Boy
Marylin Scott (Mary Deloatch) - Rumors of War
Gene & Gary - Baby Without You
Bea Booker - Comfort in My Heart
Ford Nelson Quintet - Little Annie
Melvin Smith - I'm Out of My Mind
Bobby Long & His Satelites - Mojo Workout
Albert Washington - Ramble
Louis Payne Orchestra - That's Allright with Me
Fats Witherspoon - Hook Line and Sinker
Carl Matthews - Big Man
Willie King (Billy Gayles) with the Ike Turner Orchestra - Big Leg Woman
Wailin' Bill Dell - You Gotta Be Loose
Nellie Lutcher - Hurry on Down
Irvin "Big Boy" Groves - I Got a New Car
Eva Foster - You'll Never Know
Louis Jordan - Jack, You're Dead
Bernie Hardison - Love Me Baby
Larry Davis - Whole World Down on You
Bobbie James - Baby I'm Tired
Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Working
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom - Dead Cat on the Line
Kip Anderson - I Wanna Be the Only One
Arthur K Adams - I Need You
Julia Lee - Snatch and Grab It
Piney Brown - Talkin' About You
Lord Tennyson - The Dance
Marie Adams with Chuck Dillon Orch. - Ain't Car Crazy
Marie Adams & Junior Ryder with Johnny Otis Orch. - Boom Diddy WA WA
Barbara Lynn - Oh Baby
Carmen Taylor - Teen-Age Ball
Lemmy Johnson - Eatin' and Sleepin' Blues
Jimmy Preston & Burnetta Evans - Oh Babe
Elmo Nixon - Forgive Me Baby
Richard Lewis & His Orchestra - Richard's Bounce
Sam Price - The Dirty Dozens
Team Mates - Crazy Baby
Hop Wilson - Chicken Stuff
Johnny Copeland & His Soul Agents - Ghetto Child
Johnny Griffin and the Joe Morris Orchestra - Chuck-A-Boogie
Danny "Run Joe" Taylor - You Look Bad
Pee Wee Barnum - Rockin' Rhythm
King Coleman - Alley Rat
Eddie Kirk - Hog Killin' Time
Floyd Tumbam Orchestra - Bashful and Blue
Eunice Davis - Get Your Enjoys
Bobby Robinson - Pour the Corn
Drivers - Mr. Astronaut
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Lee Barnes - Blues for What I Never Had
Big Joe Turner - I Love My Baby
Freddie Clark - Beggin' Papa Blues
Dave Bartholomew - Good Jax Boogie
Katie Webster & Ashton Conroy - Baby Baby
Charlie Singleton Orchestra - Earthquake
Fletcher Smith - Brand New Neighborhood
The Three Riffs - Hard Ridin' Mama
Morris Lane - Bobby's Boogie
Lowell Fulson - Baby Won't You Jump with Me
Tarheel Slim - Wildcat Tamer

[Dan Gould]

That Betty James track is awesome.

I've always wondered about her, a grand total of six singles (I think)? On the basis of her first two she should have been such a star.

[ghost of miles]

Great playlist and some deep dives to be sure. Happy to see Nellie Lutcher and Tampa Red (among others) putting in appearances.

[Big Beat Steve]

Re- Nellie, I'd just as much hail the appearance of bro' JOE Lutcher.

Nice set indeed - a lot is and sounds familiar, but quite a few aren't. And he did indeed dig deep.
Regardless of all the "grey market" CDs that flooded the reissue scene in the late 90s and early 2000s ("Stompin'", anyone?) and the not quite so grey-marketish on Blue Moon and Classics, for example, this shows that you can dig even deeper and find there still is a LOT of never-reissued R&B out there. And you're not scraping the barrel yet.

[Dave Garrett]

That is a damn fine playlist. Been listening to it for the past couple of days. Thanks for pointing it out. 

[JSngry]

Rod does an extended playlist like this every week for a radio station in Silver City, NM. Each week has a different theme, so you're pretty much guaranteed to hear music you never knew existed every time out. The guy has probably heard - and knows - more music, cumulatively, than anybody I've ever known. And I don't say that casually.

Here's all of them: https://www.mixcloud.com/rostasi/

[Big Beat Steve]

So this is Rostasi the forum member, then?

[JSngry]

Yep.