The Sun Records collection

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Los Angeles, CA : Rhino Records : BMG Music : RCA Special Products, p1994.
Description:3 sound discs (188 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
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Format: CD Audio Music recording
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4221882
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Other authors / contributors:Sun Records.
Notes:Selections previously released between 1950 and 1988.
Compact discs.
Program notes (32 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.) inserted in container.
Original recordings produced by Sam Phillips; compilation produced by James Austin & Jimmy Guterman.
Various performers.
Recorded between 1950 and 1959 at Sun Records in Memphis, Tenn.
Standard no.:8122717802
Publisher's no.:R2 71780 Rhino
DRC3-1211 RCA Special Products
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1: Gotta let you go ; She may be yours (but she comes to see me sometime) (Joe Hill Louis)
  • Rocket '88' (Jackie Brenston, Delta Cats)
  • B.B. blues (B.B. King)
  • Swamp root (Harmonica Frank Floyd)
  • Moanin' at midnight ; How many more years (Howlin' Wolf)
  • There's a man in Jerusalem (Southern Jubilees)
  • Rats in my kitchen ('Sleepy' John Estes)
  • Baker shop boogie (Willie Nix (Memphis Blues Boy))
  • Easy (Jimmy & Walter)
  • Bear cat (the answer to Hound dog) ; Tiger man (King of the jungle) (Rufus 'Hound Dog' Thomas, Jr.)
  • Take a little chance (Jimmy DeBerry)
  • Just walkin' in the rain (Prisonaires)
  • Make room in the lifeboat for me (Howard Seratt)
  • Feelin' good ; Mystery train (Little Junior's Blue Flames)
  • Come back baby (Doctor Ross)
  • Gospel train (Jones Brothers)
  • My kind of carryin' on (Doug Poindexter, Starlite Wranglers)
  • I'm gonna murder my baby (Pat Hare)
  • Cotton crop blues (James Cotton).
  • Disc 2: That's all right ; Good rockin' tonight ; Baby let's play house ; Mystery train (Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill)
  • Drinkin' wine spo-dee-o-dee (Malcolm Yelvington, Star Rhythm boys)
  • Turn around ; Let the jukebox keep on playing ; Blue suede shoes ; Honey, don't! ; Everybody's trying to be my baby ; Dixie fried (Carl Perkins)
  • Someday you will pay (Miller Sisters)
  • Red hot (Billy 'The Kid' Emerson)
  • Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton)
  • Cry! Cry! Cry! ; Folsom Prison blues ; I walk the line ; Get rhythm (Johnny Cash, Tennessee Two)
  • Sitting by my window (Five Tinos)
  • Defrost your heart (Charlie Feathers)
  • Let's get high (Rosco Gordon)
  • Rock 'n' roll Ruby ; Ubangi stomp (Warren Smith)
  • Ooby dooby (Roy Orbison, Teen Kings)
  • Red headed woman (Sonny Burgess).
  • Disc 3: Crazy arms ; End of the road ; Whole lot of shakin' going on ; You win again ; Great balls of fire ; Breathless ; High school confidential ; Lovin' up a storm (Jerry Lee Lewis)
  • Flying saucer rock and roll ; Red hot (Billy Riley, Little Green Men)
  • Matchbox (Carl Perkins)
  • Down by the riverside (Million Dollar Quartet)
  • Devil doll (Roy Orbison, Roses)
  • So long I'm gone ; Red Cadillac and a black moustache (Warren Smith)
  • Raunchy (Bill Justis Orchestra)
  • Claudette (Roy Orbison)
  • Guess things happen that way (Johnny Cash, Tennessee Two)
  • Right behind you baby (Ray Smith)
  • Jump right out of this jukebox (Onie Wheeler)
  • Mona Lisa (Carl Mann)
  • Lonely weekends ; Who will the next fool be ; Don't put no headstone on my grave (Charlie Rich)
  • Jack's jump (Frank Frost, Night Hawks)
  • Cadillac man (The Jesters).