Name: Bay Area Rockers 1957-1960
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SKU: 160650
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Bay Area Rockers 1957-1960

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Album: Bay Area Rockers 1957-1960
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Cave Man Hop - Various Artists
2)	Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes - Bobby Freeman
3)	Lobo Jones - Jackie Gotroe
4)	Doctor Doctor - Ben Joe Zeppa
5)	You're Left, I'm Gone - Tyrone Schmidling
6)	Rowena - Pat La Rocca
7)	Applesauce - The Jades
8)	Foolish Fool - Various Artists
9)	Frog Hop, The - Al & Nettie
10)	Raised on Rock 'N' Roll - Various Artists
11)	Rockin' Mary - The Treys
12)	Big Fat Woman - Bobby Freeman
13)	Louise - Various Artists
14)	Big Beach Party - Various Artists
15)	Rockin' Santa Claus - Various Artists
16)	Bon Bon Baby - Various Artists
17)	Move Baby Move - Various Artists
18)	Satisfied - Various Artists
19)	Hocus Pocus - Various Artists
20)	Mad Lovin' - Various Artists
21)	Rock It up to the Moon - Various Artists
22)	Betty Lou - Various Artists
23)	I Love My Baby - Various Artists
24)	Rock My Rockin' Chair - Various Artists

Album: Bay Area Rockers 1957-1960
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Cave Man Hop - Various Artists
2)	Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes - Bobby Freeman
3)	Lobo Jones - Jackie Gotroe
4)	Doctor Doctor - Ben Joe Zeppa
5)	You're Left, I'm Gone - Tyrone Schmidling
6)	Rowena - Pat La Rocca
7)	Applesauce - The Jades
8)	Foolish Fool - Various Artists
9)	Frog Hop, The - Al & Nettie
10)	Raised on Rock 'N' Roll - Various Artists
11)	Rockin' Mary - The Treys
12)	Big Fat Woman - Bobby Freeman
13)	Louise - Various Artists
14)	Big Beach Party - Various Artists
15)	Rockin' Santa Claus - Various Artists
16)	Bon Bon Baby - Various Artists
17)	Move Baby Move - Various Artists
18)	Satisfied - Various Artists
19)	Hocus Pocus - Various Artists
20)	Mad Lovin' - Various Artists
21)	Rock It up to the Moon - Various Artists
22)	Betty Lou - Various Artists
23)	I Love My Baby - Various Artists
24)	Rock My Rockin' Chair - Various Artists

Performer Notes

There was not much of a San Francisco area rock scene prior to the mid-'60s, although numerous rock records began to appear in the late '50s, most on tiny local labels. This has a couple dozen recordings from that era, most on small local labels like Christy and Bella, although a few were fortunate enough to land on bigger outfits like Specialty and Josie. When there is a compilation of material from a time and place not noted for stellar contributions to rock history, the results tend to be generic reflections of larger trends in the overall era, and primarily useful as evidence that some rock music existed there. That's what you get with this anthology, which might have been recorded in San Francisco, but could have been done in a lot of places throughout America for all its lack of qualitative distinction and regional style. It's energetic, middling rockabilly, doo wop, and uptempo R&B (Benn Joe Zeppa's "A Foolish Fool" is a transparent attempt to jump on Frankie Lymon's coattails). A few of the rockabilly cuts will appeal to specialists on the grounds of sheer over the top lunacy, particularly Tyrone Schmidling's "You're Gone, I'm Left" (made up on the spot in the studio and recorded in one take) and Jerry Coulston's "Cave Man Hop." The only performer that's either known or worth remembering, frankly, is Bobby Freeman, who had a big hit with "Do You Want to Dance" in 1958. That's not here, but its flipside, "Big Fat Woman," and follow-up, "Betty Lou Got a New Pair of Shoes," are, and slip into a cool groove that is the sound of R&B changing into rock & roll. ~ Richie Unterberger