Black Atlantik II
This episode of Jazz Roots & Branches auditions music of the 1940s to the 1960s that comprised the sound surround of “Louie Louie,” among the most popular hit songs of the early 1960s.
Track listing :
Title | Artist | Album | Date
* Na Baixa do Sapateiro | Carmen Miranda | single | 1938
* Tropical Moon | Willie “The Lion” Smith-Sidney Bechet Orchestra | single | 1939
* Rhapsody in Rhumba | Cab Calloway & His Orchestra | single | 1940
* Bakiff | Duke Ellington | The Blanton Webster Band | 1941
* The Rhumba Blues | Skeets Tolbert | single | 1941
* Cuban Rhumbarini | Slim Gaillard | 1945
* Los Chucos Suaves | Lalo Guerrero | single | 1949
* Rum and Coca-Cola | The Andrews Sisters | A Collection of Tropical Songs | 1945
* Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming) | Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | single | 1946
* Salée Dame | Nick & His Creole Serenaders | single | 1947
* Make It Do | Slim Gaillard & His Internationally Famous Orchestra | Wherever He May Be | 1952
* Calypso Blues | Nat King Cole | single | 1950
* Brown Skin Girl | Harry Belafonte | Calypso | 1956
* El Loco Cha Cha | René Touzet | single | 1957
* Havana Moon | Chuck Berry | single | 1956
* Louie Louie | Richard Berry & The Pharaohs | single | 1957
* Louie Louie | The Kingsmen | single | 1963
* Louie Louie | Toots & The Maytals | single | 1973