VARIOUS ARTISTS
''THE COSIMO MATASSA STORY, DISC FOUR''
JUN 2007
SEP 1950-DEC 1956
PROPER BOX (UK)
290:32
DOWNLOAD
DISC ONE
1/Got a Brand New Baby/Little Mr Midnight/2:21
2/Four O'Clock Blues/Little Mr Midnight/2:43
3/Don't Jive Me/Lewis/2:22
4/Tra-La-La/Bartholomew/2:31
5/Teejim/Bartholomew/2:37
6/Agreeable Woman/Wayne/2:33
7/Two Faced Woman/Wayne/2:52
8/Rockin' with Fes/Byrd/2:03
9/Stormy Weather/Bartholomew/2:53
10/My Ding-A-Ling/Bartholomew/2:15
11/Reeling and Rocking/Domino/2:21
12/Lawdy Miss Clawdy/Price/2:33
13/Chee Koo Baby/Price/2:13
14/Sweethearts/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:30
15/I'm Gone/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:20
16/Teachin' and Preachin'/Royal Kings/2:02
17/Bouncin' the Boogie/Royal Kings/1:59
18/Early Sunday Morning/Sha-Weez/2:23
19/Who Drank My Beer While I Wasin the Rear /Bartholomew/2:51
20/Country Gal/Bartholomew/2:26
21/Baby/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:23
22/New Bon Ton Roulay/Garlow/2:55
23/Got No Use for You/Walker/2:40
24/Long Distance Blues/Walker/3:03
25/I'm Thankful/Matthews/2:27
26/Little School Girl/Domino/2:40
27/I-Yi/Hawks/2:39
28/Candy Girl/Hawks/2:16
29/Don't Leave Me Baby/Fulson/3:00
30/The Things That I Used to Do/Guitar Slim /3:01
DISC TWO
1/Well, I Done Got Over It/Guitar Slim /2:29
2/Tipitina/Professor Longhair…/2:39
3/Let's Have Some Fun (Honey)/Slim Saunders/2:17
4/Jock-A-Mo/Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters/2:27
5/I Didn't Want to Do It/Spiders/2:42
6/You're the One/Spiders/1:58
7/Blue Monday/Lewis/2:43
8/Baby's Gone/Mitchell, Mitchell, Toppers/2:07
9/Sister Lucy/Mitchell, Mitchell, Toppers/2:29
10/'Til I Say Well Done/Kings/2:05
11/Every Dog Has His Day/Crayton/2:22
12/Bluesy Me/Collins, Scrubs/2:34
13/Give It Up/Hawks/2:09
14/Nobody But You/Hawks/2:21
15/21 (3x7=21)/Spiders/2:21
16/That's Enough/Spiders/2:16
17/Jump Children/Fats & Dave, Hardesty/2:24
18/Cat Music/Fats & Dave, Hardesty/2:03
19/Drunk Drunk Drunk/Kidds /2:39
20/Ain't Gonna Do It/Pelicans/2:27
21/I Want to Be Loved/Bees/2:43
22/Toy Bell/Bees/2:22
23/You Know Yeah/Crayton/2:34
24/Runnin' Wild/Crayton/2:29
25/It's Too Late Now/Hawks/2:09
26/Real Gone Lover/Lewis/2:33
27/Low and Lonesome/Boo Breeding/2:54
28/Country Woman/Boo Breeding/2:24
29/Say Baby/Johnson/2:17
30/That Night/Johnson/2:39
DISC THREE
1/What's It All About/Little Leo, Price/2:47
2/Handwriting on the Wall/Little Leo, Price/2:35
3/Mardi Gras Mambo/Hawketts/2:13
4/Your Time's Up/Hawketts/2:35
5/Eternally Yours/Barons/2:18
6/Boom Boom/Barons/2:20
7/Feel So Good/Shirley & Lee/2:50
8/I Hear You Knocking/Lewis/2:45
9/Travelin' Mood/Wayne/2:29
10/I Remember/Wayne/2:12
11/Baby/Bo/2:45
12/So Glad/Bo/2:33
13/Why Fool Yourself/Barons, Williams/2:42
14/I'm Just a Lonely Guy/Little Richard/2:38
15/Tutti Frutti/Little Richard/2:24
16/Do Baby Do/Kador/2:11
17/Who's Been Fooling You?/Myles, Myles/1:52
18/That Girl I Married/Myles, Myles/2:10
19/Rich Woman/Lil Millet & His Creoles/2:38
20/I'm in Love Again/Domino/1:56
21/On Bended Knee/Charles/2:14
22/See You Later, Alligator/Charles/2:50
23/So Glad You're Mine/Charles 'Hungry' Williams, Williams/2:13
24/My Blue Heaven/Domino/2:08
25/Try Rock 'N' Roll/Mitchell/2:07
26/No No No/Mitchell/1:57
27/Long Tall Sally/Little Richard/2:08
28/Slippin' and Slidin'/Little Richard, Penniman/2:39
29/I'm Wise (Slippin' and Slidin')/Bo/2:14
30/Take It Easy, Greasy/Charles/2:12
DISC FOUR
1/Rip It Up/Little Richard/2:20
2/Ready Teddy/Little Richard/2:08
3/Let the Good Times Roll/Shirley & Lee/2:23
4/Everybody's Whalin'/Rhythm Aces, Smith, Smith/2:42
5/Little Liza Jane/Rhythm Aces, Smith, Smith/2:10
6/Teardrop Eyes/Dukes/2:43
7/Cotton Picking Hands/Dukes/2:37
8/Rock 'N' Roll Dance/Price/2:17
9/The Girl Can't Help It/Little Richard/2:32
10/Heebie Jeebies/Little Richard/2:15
11/Don't Blame It on Me/Domino/2:40
12/Don't Feel Sorry for Me/Beasley/2:14
13/Little Coquette/Beasley/2:13
14/Down Yonder (We Go Ballin')/Lewis/2:59
15/Shame Shame Shame/Lewis/1:58
16/Oooh-Wow/Montrell/2:31
17/(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone/Montrell/2:24
18/Rockin' at Cosimo's/Allen/2:50
19/Stepping High/Blanchard/1:53
20/I Feel Good/Shirley & Lee/2:18
21/I'm a Fool About Your Love/Fairburn/2:12
22/All the Time/Fairburn/2:25
23/I'm a Country Boy/Henry, Henry/1:54
24/Ain't Got No Home/Henry, Henry/2:22
25/Hickory Dickory Dock/Myles, Myles/1:48
26/Just to Hold My Hand/Myles, Myles/2:12
27/Oooh-Wee Baby/Neville/2:11
28/Back Home to Me/Neville/2:24
29/You Can Fly High/King/2:16
30/Those Lonely, Lonely Feelings/King/2:38
REVIEW
by Steve Leggett (ALLMUSIC)
Although he's far from a household name, it's hard to imagine the existence of New Orleans R&B without Cosimo Matassa. As owner and engineer at J&M Studios, housed in a reworked grocery store on Rampart Street, Matassa saw the birth of R&B, rock & roll, and soul pass through his doors between 1945 and 1956, and he was responsible for the early hits of Fats Domino, Little Richard, and many others during his tenure there. This amazing four-disc, 120-track box tells that story, and it is filled with marvelous recordings that burst with energy and vitality. There's so much to be astounded at here, and not just the steady rhythmic warmth of the Fats Domino sides or the ferocious energy that crackles from each and every Little Richard track ("Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Heebie Jeebies"). There's also Smiley Lewis' piano and horn rendition of "Don't Jive Me" (not to mention his original version of "I Hear You Knocking"), Lloyd Price's sturdy "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," Dave Bartholomew's wry treatise on barroom crime, "Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear," and Clarence Garlow's easy rolling "New Bon Ton Roulay." There's Professor Longhair's classic "Tipitina," Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters' timeless "Jock-A-Mo," the Hawks' bright and infectious "It's Too Late Now" and Wee Willie Wayne's whistle and percussion gem, "Travelin' Mood." Then there's Huey "Piano" Smith's delightfully clanging and steamrolling "Everybody's Whalin'," Clarence "Frogman" Henry's goofy and immortal "Ain't Got No Home" and Earl King's crisply rocking "You Can Fly High." It all adds up to a truly impressive legacy, and again, it's impossible to imagine New Orleans R&B without the hand of Cosimo Matassa upon it. Matassa eventually had three studios in New Orleans, including Jazz City Studio on Camp Street, as well as a record pressing plant called Superior Plastic, and the record label he started in the late '50s, Rex Records. Later still he helped set up Sea-Saint Studio. This impressive and exhaustive set tells his story, and it rocks like it means to change the world. Truth is, the sides that Matassa recorded and engineered some 50 odd years ago have already changed the world many times over. Most of us just didn't know it.
''THE COSIMO MATASSA STORY, DISC FOUR''
JUN 2007
SEP 1950-DEC 1956
PROPER BOX (UK)
290:32
DOWNLOAD
DISC ONE
1/Got a Brand New Baby/Little Mr Midnight/2:21
2/Four O'Clock Blues/Little Mr Midnight/2:43
3/Don't Jive Me/Lewis/2:22
4/Tra-La-La/Bartholomew/2:31
5/Teejim/Bartholomew/2:37
6/Agreeable Woman/Wayne/2:33
7/Two Faced Woman/Wayne/2:52
8/Rockin' with Fes/Byrd/2:03
9/Stormy Weather/Bartholomew/2:53
10/My Ding-A-Ling/Bartholomew/2:15
11/Reeling and Rocking/Domino/2:21
12/Lawdy Miss Clawdy/Price/2:33
13/Chee Koo Baby/Price/2:13
14/Sweethearts/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:30
15/I'm Gone/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:20
16/Teachin' and Preachin'/Royal Kings/2:02
17/Bouncin' the Boogie/Royal Kings/1:59
18/Early Sunday Morning/Sha-Weez/2:23
19/Who Drank My Beer While I Wasin the Rear /Bartholomew/2:51
20/Country Gal/Bartholomew/2:26
21/Baby/Bartholomew, Shirley & Lee/2:23
22/New Bon Ton Roulay/Garlow/2:55
23/Got No Use for You/Walker/2:40
24/Long Distance Blues/Walker/3:03
25/I'm Thankful/Matthews/2:27
26/Little School Girl/Domino/2:40
27/I-Yi/Hawks/2:39
28/Candy Girl/Hawks/2:16
29/Don't Leave Me Baby/Fulson/3:00
30/The Things That I Used to Do/Guitar Slim /3:01
DISC TWO
1/Well, I Done Got Over It/Guitar Slim /2:29
2/Tipitina/Professor Longhair…/2:39
3/Let's Have Some Fun (Honey)/Slim Saunders/2:17
4/Jock-A-Mo/Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters/2:27
5/I Didn't Want to Do It/Spiders/2:42
6/You're the One/Spiders/1:58
7/Blue Monday/Lewis/2:43
8/Baby's Gone/Mitchell, Mitchell, Toppers/2:07
9/Sister Lucy/Mitchell, Mitchell, Toppers/2:29
10/'Til I Say Well Done/Kings/2:05
11/Every Dog Has His Day/Crayton/2:22
12/Bluesy Me/Collins, Scrubs/2:34
13/Give It Up/Hawks/2:09
14/Nobody But You/Hawks/2:21
15/21 (3x7=21)/Spiders/2:21
16/That's Enough/Spiders/2:16
17/Jump Children/Fats & Dave, Hardesty/2:24
18/Cat Music/Fats & Dave, Hardesty/2:03
19/Drunk Drunk Drunk/Kidds /2:39
20/Ain't Gonna Do It/Pelicans/2:27
21/I Want to Be Loved/Bees/2:43
22/Toy Bell/Bees/2:22
23/You Know Yeah/Crayton/2:34
24/Runnin' Wild/Crayton/2:29
25/It's Too Late Now/Hawks/2:09
26/Real Gone Lover/Lewis/2:33
27/Low and Lonesome/Boo Breeding/2:54
28/Country Woman/Boo Breeding/2:24
29/Say Baby/Johnson/2:17
30/That Night/Johnson/2:39
DISC THREE
1/What's It All About/Little Leo, Price/2:47
2/Handwriting on the Wall/Little Leo, Price/2:35
3/Mardi Gras Mambo/Hawketts/2:13
4/Your Time's Up/Hawketts/2:35
5/Eternally Yours/Barons/2:18
6/Boom Boom/Barons/2:20
7/Feel So Good/Shirley & Lee/2:50
8/I Hear You Knocking/Lewis/2:45
9/Travelin' Mood/Wayne/2:29
10/I Remember/Wayne/2:12
11/Baby/Bo/2:45
12/So Glad/Bo/2:33
13/Why Fool Yourself/Barons, Williams/2:42
14/I'm Just a Lonely Guy/Little Richard/2:38
15/Tutti Frutti/Little Richard/2:24
16/Do Baby Do/Kador/2:11
17/Who's Been Fooling You?/Myles, Myles/1:52
18/That Girl I Married/Myles, Myles/2:10
19/Rich Woman/Lil Millet & His Creoles/2:38
20/I'm in Love Again/Domino/1:56
21/On Bended Knee/Charles/2:14
22/See You Later, Alligator/Charles/2:50
23/So Glad You're Mine/Charles 'Hungry' Williams, Williams/2:13
24/My Blue Heaven/Domino/2:08
25/Try Rock 'N' Roll/Mitchell/2:07
26/No No No/Mitchell/1:57
27/Long Tall Sally/Little Richard/2:08
28/Slippin' and Slidin'/Little Richard, Penniman/2:39
29/I'm Wise (Slippin' and Slidin')/Bo/2:14
30/Take It Easy, Greasy/Charles/2:12
DISC FOUR
1/Rip It Up/Little Richard/2:20
2/Ready Teddy/Little Richard/2:08
3/Let the Good Times Roll/Shirley & Lee/2:23
4/Everybody's Whalin'/Rhythm Aces, Smith, Smith/2:42
5/Little Liza Jane/Rhythm Aces, Smith, Smith/2:10
6/Teardrop Eyes/Dukes/2:43
7/Cotton Picking Hands/Dukes/2:37
8/Rock 'N' Roll Dance/Price/2:17
9/The Girl Can't Help It/Little Richard/2:32
10/Heebie Jeebies/Little Richard/2:15
11/Don't Blame It on Me/Domino/2:40
12/Don't Feel Sorry for Me/Beasley/2:14
13/Little Coquette/Beasley/2:13
14/Down Yonder (We Go Ballin')/Lewis/2:59
15/Shame Shame Shame/Lewis/1:58
16/Oooh-Wow/Montrell/2:31
17/(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone/Montrell/2:24
18/Rockin' at Cosimo's/Allen/2:50
19/Stepping High/Blanchard/1:53
20/I Feel Good/Shirley & Lee/2:18
21/I'm a Fool About Your Love/Fairburn/2:12
22/All the Time/Fairburn/2:25
23/I'm a Country Boy/Henry, Henry/1:54
24/Ain't Got No Home/Henry, Henry/2:22
25/Hickory Dickory Dock/Myles, Myles/1:48
26/Just to Hold My Hand/Myles, Myles/2:12
27/Oooh-Wee Baby/Neville/2:11
28/Back Home to Me/Neville/2:24
29/You Can Fly High/King/2:16
30/Those Lonely, Lonely Feelings/King/2:38
REVIEW
by Steve Leggett (ALLMUSIC)
Although he's far from a household name, it's hard to imagine the existence of New Orleans R&B without Cosimo Matassa. As owner and engineer at J&M Studios, housed in a reworked grocery store on Rampart Street, Matassa saw the birth of R&B, rock & roll, and soul pass through his doors between 1945 and 1956, and he was responsible for the early hits of Fats Domino, Little Richard, and many others during his tenure there. This amazing four-disc, 120-track box tells that story, and it is filled with marvelous recordings that burst with energy and vitality. There's so much to be astounded at here, and not just the steady rhythmic warmth of the Fats Domino sides or the ferocious energy that crackles from each and every Little Richard track ("Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally," "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy," "The Girl Can't Help It," "Heebie Jeebies"). There's also Smiley Lewis' piano and horn rendition of "Don't Jive Me" (not to mention his original version of "I Hear You Knocking"), Lloyd Price's sturdy "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," Dave Bartholomew's wry treatise on barroom crime, "Who Drank My Beer While I Was in the Rear," and Clarence Garlow's easy rolling "New Bon Ton Roulay." There's Professor Longhair's classic "Tipitina," Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters' timeless "Jock-A-Mo," the Hawks' bright and infectious "It's Too Late Now" and Wee Willie Wayne's whistle and percussion gem, "Travelin' Mood." Then there's Huey "Piano" Smith's delightfully clanging and steamrolling "Everybody's Whalin'," Clarence "Frogman" Henry's goofy and immortal "Ain't Got No Home" and Earl King's crisply rocking "You Can Fly High." It all adds up to a truly impressive legacy, and again, it's impossible to imagine New Orleans R&B without the hand of Cosimo Matassa upon it. Matassa eventually had three studios in New Orleans, including Jazz City Studio on Camp Street, as well as a record pressing plant called Superior Plastic, and the record label he started in the late '50s, Rex Records. Later still he helped set up Sea-Saint Studio. This impressive and exhaustive set tells his story, and it rocks like it means to change the world. Truth is, the sides that Matassa recorded and engineered some 50 odd years ago have already changed the world many times over. Most of us just didn't know it.
