Unlike the syndicated sounds of today, at one time rock music was actually the voice of a generation and not one of a conglomerate.
School House Rock, Vol. 2 focuses on songs with school-based themes, and it’s a hoot! All the way back to 1949, Louis Jordan is boogie-ing to “School Days” while The Coasters bring in the classic delinquent “Charlie Brown” and Joe Tex answers with “Charlie Brown Got Expelled”. There are half a dozen different pieces with the title “School Is Out” with Gary US Bonds’ being the most calypso’d. Adam Faith shuffles through “High School Confidential” and Chuck Berry rocks out on “Vacation Time”. Can I stay after class and listen to this album?
Volume Five of the lugubrious Rock N Roll Floozy introduces “Fatty Patty’s” picks for rockabilly and early rock and the tasty lady has good taste, with a humorous “Stop Talkin’ Stop Lovin'” by Robert Lee Harshman, a roaring “Rooster Blues” from Charlie McCoy and an exhausting “Sixteen Chicks” from Joey Michaels. Sizzling sounds of the blackboard jungle