Good Rocking Tonight (album)

Good Rocking Tonight is a compilation album by the blues musician Roy Brown.

Good Rocking Tonight
Portrait of Roy Brown taken in 1950. Provided by Roy Brown for use as the cover.
Compilation album by
Roy Brown
Released1978
Recorded1947 — 1954
GenreR&B Blues
LabelRoute 66 Records
ProducerRoy Brown
CompilerBengt Weine, Per Notini, and Roy Brown

Released by Route 66 Records in 1978 in mono as KIX-6, and is a follow-up to an earlier release titled Laughing But Crying (KIX-2). This album's subtitle is "Legendary Recordings, Vol 2 (1947–1954)". The cover features a portrait of Roy Brown, courtesy of Roy Brown, taken in 1950.

Some reviewers state that Brown's version of Good Rocking Tonight released in 1947, or Wynonie Harris' version from 1948, (depending on the source),[1] is one of the contenders for the title of "first rock'n'roll record".[2] The label of the 45 RPM record by Brown included the words "Rocking blues".[3]

The back cover includes extensive liner notes, and biographical and autobiographical information attributed to:

Track listing
# Song Name Time Location Date
1. "Good Rocking Tonight" 3:03 New Orleans 1947
2. "Long About Midnight" 3:09 New Orleans 1948
3. "Whose Hat Is That" 2:34 New Orleans October 1947
4. "Fore Day in the Morning" 3:00 New Orleans October 1948
5. "Butcher Pete, pt 2"
(Brown–Bernard)		 2:47 Cincinnati November 2, 1949
6. "Dreaming Blues" 3:11 Cincinnati June 15, 1950
7. "Old Age Boogie, pt 1 & 2" 4:35 New Orleans December 19, 1952
8. "Good Man Blues" 2:29 Cincinnati June 15?, 1950
9. "Miss Fanny Brown Returns" 2:39 New Orleans 1948
10. "Brown Angel" 3:01 Cincinnati September 27, 1951
11. "Grandpa Stole My Baby" 2:52 Unknown Unknown, early 1953?
12. "Teenage Jamobree" 3:01 Cincinnati June 22, 1950
13. "Black Diamond" 2:31 New Orleans September 2, 1954
14. "This Is My last Goodbye" 2:39 Cincinnati April 2, 1954
15. "Mighty, Mighty Man" 2:26 Unknown Unknown

All songs by Roy Brown except where noted.

Personnel
  • Placide Adams — drums [13)
  • Chuck Badie — bass [10]
  • Earl Barnes — tenor sax [1,3]
  • Edgar Blanchard — guitar [6,8?,12]
  • Frank Campbell — baritone sax [7]
  • Walter Daniels — piano [3]
  • Wallace Davenport — trumpet [3]
  • Salvador Doucette — piano [13]
  • Jimmy Davis — guitar [7,13,14]
  • Johnny Fontenette — tenor sax [5,6,7,8?,10,12,13]
  • Percy Gabriel — bass [3]
  • Albert "June" Gardner — drums [14]
  • James C. Harris — piano [14]
  • Wilbur Herden — trumpet [6,8?,12]
  • Ike Isaacs — bass [6,8?,12]
  • George Jenkins — drums [12]
  • Leonard Jefferson — bass [14]
  • Bill Jones — guitar [3]
  • Melvin Lastie — trumpet [13]
  • Ray Miller — drums [7]
  • Tony Moret — trumpet [1]
  • Alexander Nelson — baritone sax [10]
  • Charlie Nelson — piano [10]
  • Bob Ogden — drums [1]
  • Jerome O'Neill — alto sax [1]
  • Frank Parker — drums [5]
  • Sammy Parker — tenor sax [7,13,14]
  • LeRoy Rankins — baritone sax [5,6,8?,12]
  • Teddy Riley — trumpet [5,7,10,14]
  • Edward Santineo — piano [5,6,8?,12]
  • Louis Sargent — guitar [5]
  • Calvin Sheilds — drums [6,8?]
  • Tommy Shelvin — bass [5,7,13]
  • Wilbert Smith — bass [10]
  • Clement Tervalon — trombone [1,3]
  • Victor Thomas — tenor sax [7,14]
  • Jimmy Williams — piano [7]
  • Unknown — bass [1,2,4,9,11]
    — drums [2,3,4,9,11]
    — guitar [1,11]
    — piano [1,2,4,9,11]
    — tenor sax [2,4,9,11]
    — trombone [2,4,9]
    — trumpet [2,4,9]

References
  1. 5 Candidates for the First Rock 'n' Roll Song
  2. "The first rock'n'roll record is released". The Guardian. 12 June 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2020. the first rock record. In fact, that title is hotly disputed, with contenders including Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944) and
  3. "1st RECORDING OF: Good Rockin' Tonight - Roy Brown (1947)". Youtube.
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