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Rock Me Baby: The Mercury & Peacock Sides 1950-55
Johnny Otis
Rock Me Baby: The Mercury & Peacock Sides 1950-55
Genres: Blues, Pop, R&B
 
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Johnny Otis was something of an iconoclast. While it is common nowadays for young white people to emulate the style and speech of young African-Americans, during the first half of the 20th century the opposite was true. Ot...  more »

     
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All Artists: Johnny Otis
Title: Rock Me Baby: The Mercury & Peacock Sides 1950-55
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand
Release Date: 2/5/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Blues, Pop, R&B
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5013929480926

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Johnny Otis was something of an iconoclast. While it is common nowadays for young white people to emulate the style and speech of young African-Americans, during the first half of the 20th century the opposite was true. Otis was considered strange that he, a man born white, would forego all the racial privileges that that birth-right entailed to buck the trend and pass for a black man. He had black friends, lived in the black neighborhood and married a black woman, and his reward was the support of the black community during his record-making years making him the most successful white act of the 1950s on the Billboard R&B chart. This CD represents the early 1950s recordings of Johnny Otis, which are the rarest and least-reissued of his career. We kick off with a short blast from his radio and TV show signature theme to introduce proceedings and allow Johnny himself to describe what will follow: Rockin' R'n'B, greasy Doo-Wop, mighty Jump Blues and Swing sides give us Johnny Otis in full effect!! 29 tracks total. Rev-Ola Bandstand. 2007.