Cat. No. BCD 17580: HANK BALLARD ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17580.
HANK BALLARD (BORN JOHN HENRY KENDRICKS) WAS THE LEAD VOCALIST OF THE MIDNIGHTERS AND ONE OF THE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL ARTISTS TO EMERGE IN THE EARLY 1950s. HANK PLAYED AN INTEGRAL PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROCK'N'ROLL, RELEASING THE HIT SINGLES "WORK WITH ME ANNIE" AND ANSWER SONGS "ANNIE HAD A BABY" AND "ANNIE'S AUNT FANNIE" WITH HIS MIDNIGHTERS. HE LATER WROTE AND RECORDED (IN 1959), "THE TWIST" WHICH WAS COVERED A YEAR LATER BY CHUBBY CHECKER. THIS SECOND VERSION SPREADING THE POPULARITY OF THE DANCE. HANK WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 1990.
BEAR FAMILY HAVE GATHERED TOGETHER ON THIS RELEASE 30 OF HANK'S (AND THE MIDNIGHTERS) ROCKINEST AND BEST TUNES FROM 1953 THROUGH TO 1964. ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL R&B AND ROCK'N'ROLL.
TRACK LISTING: Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go / Work With Me Annie / That Woman / Stingy Little Thing / Broadway / Ring-A-Ling-A-Ling / Are You Forgetting? / Switchie, Twitchie Titchie / Shaky Mae / Sugaree / Sexy Ways / I Feel That-A-Way / Annie Had A Baby / Tore Up Over You / Don't Ever Change Your Pretty Ways / Finger Poppin' Time / Don't Let Temptation (Turn You Around) / Henry's Got A Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More) / The House On The Hill / Annie's Aunt Fannie / I'm Crying Mercy, Mercy / The Hoochi Coochi Coo / The Switch-A-Roo / I'm Young / The Twist / Rock, Granny, Roll / The Float / We'll Never Meet Again / Looka Here / Big Red Sunset.
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