Info:
Artist: Various
Album:  '50s R&B Essentials
Year: 2021
Genre: Pop / Reggae / Dance
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

Quote:

In the first half of the 20th century, African Americans poured out of the rural South and flooded the country's urban centers in search of economic opportunity. They brought their music with them, imbuing their dance-friendly jazz and wailing blues with the latest technology. By the ‘50s, Black artists in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles would conform the spirited sounds of Memphis and New Orleans to compact, Top-40 songwriting, with the first R&B stars—Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke—laying the foundation for what would soon become rock 'n' roll.

Tracklist:
01. Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame?
02. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
03. The Platters - The Great Pretender
04. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pt. 1 & 2
05. Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog
06. The Monotones - The Book of Love
07. The Dell-Vikings - Come Go with Me
08. The Five Satins - In The Still of the Night
09. Little Willie John - Fever
10. Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
11. Otis Blackwell - Daddy Rollin' Stone
12. Dave Bartholomew - Country Boy
13. Big Maybelle - Gabbin' Blues (Don't Run My Business) (Album Version)
14. James Brown - Try Me
15. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Tears On My Pillow
16. The Turbans - When You Dance
17. Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
18. The Drifters| - Money Honey (with Clyde McPhatter)
19. Joe Turner - Corrine Corrina
20. Jackie Wilson - Lonely Teardrops
21. Billy Ward & His Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man
22. The Platters - Twilight Time
23. Roy Brown - Hard Luck Blues
24. Roy Hamilton - You'll Never Walk Alone
25. Chuck Willis - C.C. Rider
26. Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise
27. Laverne Baker - Roll With Me Henry
28. Brook Benton - It's Just a Matter of Time
29. Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers - Pink Champagne
30. Eddie Boyd - Third Degree
31. Joe Morris - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere (Remastered)
32. Ruth Brown - 5-10-15 Hours
33. Bill Doggett - Honky Tonk (Part 1)
34. The Coasters - Searchin'
35. The Cadets - Stranded In The Jungle
36. Sam Cooke - Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
37. The Diamonds - The Stroll
38. Bo Diddley - I'm A Man
39. Ella Fitzgerald| - Smooth Sailing
40. Johnnie & Joe - Over The Mountain, Across The Sea
41. LaVern Baker - Play It Fair
42. Roy Brown - Love Don't Love Nobody
43. The Platters - Only You
44. Ray Charles - Drown in My Own Tears
45. Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns - Don't You Just Know It
46. Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'
47. Little Willie John - All Around The World
48. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
49. Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes