LP-656

Various Artists - Fanfare Of Hits

Released 1959

Recording and Session Information

5287 M-3000 The Pastels Been So Long
5257 8225 Paul Gayten Music Goes Round and Round
5289 8569 Clifton Chenier My Soul
5309 8746 Eddie Fontaine Nothin’ Shakin’
5249 7964 The Daps When You’re Alone
5277 8540 Paul Gayten/Oscar Wills Flat Foot Sam
5276 8537 The Ravens That’ll Be The Day
8568 Clifton Chenier Bayou Drive
8132 Bobby Charles Time Will Tell
8252 5265 Earl Zeb Hooker Frog Hop
8071 5256 Billy Stewart Billy’s Blues
8773 5300 Paul Gayten Tickle Toe

Track Listing

Been So Long	The Pastels	Pastels
Music Goes Round and Round	Paul Gayten	Farley, Riley, Hodgson
My Soul	Clifton Chenier	Chenier, James
Nothin’ Shakin’	Eddie Fontaine	Colacrai, Lampert, Fontaine, Gluck
When You’re Alone	The Daps	Smith
Flat Foot Sam	Paul Gayten	Wills, Lewis
That’ll Be The Day	The Ravens	Holly, Allison, Petty
Bayou Drive	Clifton Chenier	Chenier
Time Will Tell	Bobby Charles	Guidry
Frog Hop	Earl Zeb Hooker	Hooker
Billy’s Blues	Billy Stewart	Stewart, Williams
Tickle Toe	Paul Gayten	Gayten

Liner Notes

SOME OF THE GREAT songs and recordings of recent years have been released on the Argo Aabel. Artists like The Pastels, The Ravens, Bobby Charles, and Paul Gayten have presented their best work in that time, and so many have been the requests from record-buyers the country over to assemble some of their recordings in LP form, this album is the result.

And there is a great variety of selections here, from The Pastels' haunting version of Been So Long to Paul Gayten's rocking treatment of Music Goes 'Round And 'Round, the sensational song hit of the mid-1930s brought up to date in Gayten's inimitable modern fashion; from Clifton Chenier's moving Bayou Drive to the rollicking Billy's Blues by Billy Stewart, also well-known as the pianist with the great Bo Diddley when this side was cut.

You'll hear the sensational stylings of two outstanding young singers — Eddie Fontaine and Bobby Charles. Eddie romps through Nothin' Shakin' in the style that opened his door to hitdom and Bobby tells his message on Time Will Tell.

Two more vocal groups come to the fore on That'll Be The Day and When You're Alone. The former is given a foot-patting arrangement by The Ravens, the long-established hit-makers, while Alone is given respectful and moody ballad treatment by The Daps.

Three other instrumentals played with a tremendous dance beat round out this collection of winners. One is Earl Zeb Hooker's Frog Hop, the others ale Flat Foot Sam and Tickle Toe, done by the old master pianist, Paul Gayten.

You'll have a ball hearing some of these chart-topping recordings again, all assembled on one rhythm-packed, ear-catching album. It's great listening!

Notes:

Eddie Fontaine - Nothin' Shakin'
From: https://www.discogs.com/master/666159-Eddie-Fontaine-Nothin-Shakin
Fontaine went into the studio at his own cost and cut a demo of a song he had written (or at least, he has always claimed that he was the sole writer), "Nothin' Shakin'", using guitarists George Barnes and Eddie O'Connor, drummer Cozy Cole and two others. He submitted the demo to publisher Gene Goodman in the hope that he would get the song placed with a record company, but there were no takers initially. Eddie then signed with Tommy Valando's Sunbeam label and rerecorded "Nothin' Shakin'" for them. Soon after the release of this new version he found out - to his dismay - that his original demo had been sold to Chess Records without his knowledge and had acquired three additional writing credits : by Diane Lampert, John Gluck, Jr (later co-writer of "It's My Party") and Cirino Colacral. This original (and superior) version came out on Argo 5309 in August 1958 and climbed to # 64 on Billboard's Hot 100, the only chart entry of Eddie's career. "Nothin' Shakin'" was also released in the UK (London HLM 8711) and was later recorded by the Beatles (for the BBC), Billy Fury and Craig Douglas, among others.