Various – A Hard Row To Hoe Volume 1 Dark & Moody Rhythm And Blues Popcorn-Style 50’s 60’s Pop Music Album Compilation

Various – A Hard Row To Hoe Volume 1 Dark & Moody Rhythm And Blues Popcorn-Style 50’s 60’s Pop Music Album Compilation

Label: Stag-O-Lee – STAG-O-134
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Germany
Released: 2019
Genre: Blues, Pop
Style: Rhythm & Blues

Tracklist

A1 Big Daddy – Daniel Webster And The Devil
A2 Lou Johnson– It Ain’t No Use
A3 Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks– Sothern Love
A4 Roy Brown And His Mighty-Mighty Men – She’s Gone Too Long
A5 Sam Fletcher– I’d Think It Over
A6 Ivory Joe Hunter– I’m Cuttin’ Out
A7 The Sims Twins – It’s A Sad Thing
B1 Roy Gaines– Black Gal
B2 The Pilgrim Travelers feat. Lou Rawls– Motherless Child
B3 Otis Lee– A Hard Row To Hoe
B4 Jack Grayson And The So And So’s– Go Ahead On
B5 Landy McNeil– Move It (Move On)
B6 Maylon Humphries And The Tri-Seniors– Weep No More
B7 Louis Jordan– 65 Bars

Mastered At – GS Mastering & Post
Designed At – Retrograph

Artwork – Sven T. Uhrmann
Compiled By, Liner Notes – Prince Koolski
Technician [Audio Restoration], Mastered By – Anders Peterson

Popcorn is a style of music and dancing first established in Belgium in the 1970s and 1980s. The style includes a wide variety of mostly American and British recordings of R&B and pop music made between the late 1950s and mid 1960s, often relatively obscure, and characterised by a slow or medium, rather than fast, tempo. The Popcorn music scene first developed from dances held at the Groove discotheque in Ostend, where mid-tempo soul and ska music played by DJ Freddy Cousaert became popular in the late 1960s. In September 1969, a cafe, De Oude Hoeve, opened in a converted farm barn at Vrasene near Antwerp, and began holding dance competitions on Sunday afternoons. Soon up to 3,000 people began attending each week, dancing in a “slow swing” style. De Oude Hoeve was later renamed Popcorn and the special genre had it’s name. Later on the DJ’s messed up a perfectly fine recipe by adding all kinds of pop tunes as long as the groove was right. The typical Popcorn tempo was usually reached by pitching the record up or down, sometimes massively. This record features 14 pure Popcorn groovers from the “golden era”.

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