Good Rocking Tonight is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

  by the blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 musician Roy Brown

Roy Brown (blues musician)

Roy James Brown was an American R&B singer, songwriter and musician, who had an influence on the early development of rock and roll music. His "Good Rocking Tonight" was covered by Wynonie Harris, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Pat Boone, and the rock group Montrose. In addition,...

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Released by Route 66 Records

Route 66 Records

Route 66 Records is a record production company that reissues forgotten Rhythm & Blues recordings. Their motto: "The Highway To R&B". They are known to have produced the following compilation albums:*KIX-1: Floyd Dixon: Opportunity Blues...

 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.

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

• John Broven: "Roy Brown", Blues Unlimited
  Blues Unlimited
  Blues Unlimited was a British monthly music magazine dealing with all aspects of blues music. Co-founded in 1963 by Simon A...
  
  123–124
• Jonas Bernholm: unpublished interview
• Staffan Solding: Swedish Radio
  Sveriges Radio
  Sveriges Radio AB – Swedish Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with...
  
   Broadcast, 1978

Track listing

#	Song Name	Time	Location	Date
1.	"Good Rocking Tonight Good Rocking Tonight "Good Rocking Tonight" was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the memorable refrain, "Well I heard the news, there's 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
  Wallace Davenport
  Wallace Foster Davenport was a United States jazz trumpeter. Davenport has been one of the few traditional jazz musicians of the 1930s who later branched out into swing and bop styles, as well as backing gospel and R&B vocalists during an extensive career in eight different decades.Davenport was...
  
   — 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
  Ike Isaacs (bassist)
  Ike Isaacs was an American jazz bassist from Ohio.Isaacs played trumpet and tuba as a child before settling on bass. He served in the Army during World War II, where he took lessons from Wendell Marshall. Following this he played with Tiny Grimes , Earl Bostic , Paul Quinichette , and Bennie Green...
  
   — 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
  Teddy Riley (jazz)
  Theodore Riley, better known as Teddy Riley was a jazz trumpet player and bandleader. On occasion he also sang and played flugelhorn....
  
  — 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]