Mod Rhythm & Blues

Mods (originally ‘modernists’) emerged in Britain in the early 1960s: they were mostly smartly turned out young men who loved European fashion, R&B, motor scooters and late nights. They spent most of their wages on clothes, frequenting the new breed of shops sprouting up in London’s Carnaby Street. Though some pop groups of the day, like the Who and the Small Faces, came out of the Mod scene, the music that Mods chose to dance to in the Marquee and mod clubs like the Goldhawk was American soul and R&B. Here’s a fine selection of that music in this two-disc collection of R&B from the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.

Tracklist

CD 1
1-1.   Richard Berry - Have Love Will Travel
1-2.   Betty James - I'm A Little Mixed Up
1-3.   Ike & Tina Turner - A Fool In Love
1-4.   Etta James - Seven Day Fool
1-5.   LaVern Baker - Love Me Right
1-6.   Jimmy McCracklin - He Knows The Rules
1-7.   Charles Sheffield - It's Your Voodoo Working
1-8.   Big Maybelle - That’s A Pretty Good Love
1-9.   Bobby King - Thanks Mr Postman
1-10.   Barrett Strong - Misery
1-11.   Bobby Bland - You Got Me (Where You Want Me)
1-12.   Lula Reed - I'm A Woman (But I Don't Talk Too Much)
1-13.   Mel Tormé - Comin' Home Baby
1-14.   The 5 Royales - It Hurts Inside
1-15.   Patience Valentine - I'm On My Way
1-16.   Marie Knight - To Be Loved By You
1-17.   Wilson Pickett - Let Me Be Your Boy
1-18.   Muddy Waters - Messin' With The Man

CD 2
2-1.   Irma Thomas - Don't Mess With My Man
2-2.   Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
2-3.   Big Maybelle - Jinny Mule
2-4.   LaVern Baker & Ben E. King - A Help-Each-Other Romance
2-5.   Patience Valentine - If You Don't Come (You Better Call)
2-6.   Solomon Burke - Cry To Me
2-7.   B.B. King - Blues For Me
2-8.   Freddy King - I'm Tore Down
2-9.   Lena Calhoun - First Love Baby
2-10.   Ronnie Love - Chills And Fever
2-11.   Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone
2-12.   Baby Jean - Oh Johnny
2-13.   Eugene Church - Pretty Girls Everywhere
2-14.   Lula Reed & Freddy King - It's Easy Child
2-15.   The 5 Royales - Catch That Teardrop
2-16.   Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson - Broke and Lonely
2-17.   Philip Upchurch Combo - You Can't Sit Down Pt.1
2-18.   Philip Upchurch Combo - You Can't Sit Down Pt.2