Rock 'n' Roll With Scatman
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Release Date: 31 May 2019
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 604988101027
Genres: Easy Listening  
Release Date: 31 May 2019
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 604988101027
Genres: Easy Listening  
Description
This compilation features Scatman Crothers' collectable 1956 LP 'Rock 'n' Roll with Scat Man', plus seventeen 'bonus tracks'. This is the first in-depth overview of Crothers' singing career and many of these sides have never previously appeared on CD.
Although he is chiefly remembered as an actor and voice-over specialist, Scatman Crothers also enjoyed a parallel career in music, which actually predated his acting career by a couple of decades.
An experienced singer/drummer/guitarist, he'd been working since the early 1930s and was famously one of the first vocalists to improvise nonsense syllables to jazz tunes, hence the nickname "Scat Man".
Included among the bonus sides are 'Dead Man's Blues' and 'Riff's Blues' (both recorded with Riff Charles), '(I Want To) Rock 'n' Roll' (with Wild Bill Moore), 'Beale Street On A Saturday Night' (with Calvin Boze) and 'Papa (I Don't Treat That Little Girl Mean)'.
However, the standout among these bonus sides is the controversial, collectable "The Death of Emmett Till (parts 1 & 2)", which Crothers released under the pseudonym The Ramparts, and has never previously appeared on CD.
Tracklisting
Thelma Carpenter
Jimmy "Baby Face" Lewis
Muddy Waters
Ike Cole
Bobby Vee
The McCormick Brothers
The Kingston Trio
Connie Hall
Thelma Carpenter
Ike Cole
Bing Crosby
Tutti Camarata
The Goofers
Ferrante & Teicher
Max Bygraves
Andy Williams