Hop Skip & Jump - Collins Kids

THE COLLINS KIDS
HOP SKIP & JUMP CD Boxed Set.

Track listing:
Go Away Don't Bother Me ~ Rock 'n' Roll Polka ~ Move A Little Closer ~ My First Love ~ Hush Money ~ I Wish ~ Cuckoo Rock ~ Beetle Bug Bop ~ I'm In My Teens ~ Rockaway Rock ~ They're Still In Love ~ Make Him Behave ~ Hop Skip and Jump ~ Shortnin' Bread Rock ~ Just Because ~ Hoy Hoy ~ Hot Rod ~ Heartbeat ~ Mama Worries ~ Party ~ Walking The Floor Over You ~ Missouri Waltz ~ You Are My Sunshine ~ Soda Poppin' Around ~ Young Heart ~ Ain't You Ever ~ What'cha Gonna Do Now ~ Waitin' And Watchin' ~ Home Of The Blues ~ Lonesome Road ~ Early American ~ Rockin' Gypsy ~ Bye Bye ~ Hurricane ~ Mercy Mercy Mercy ~ Rock Boppin' Baby ~ Whistle Bait ~ Sweet Talk ~ Spur Of The Moment ~ Rebel Johnny Yuma ~ There'll Be Some Changes ~ Made ~ Fireball Mail ~ T-Bone ~ What About Tomorrow ~ Get Along Home Cindy ~ You've Been Gone Too Long ~ One Step Down ~ There Stands The One ~ Wild and Wicked Love ~ Hey Mama Moom A Lacka ~ More Than A Friend ~ Pied Piper Poodle ~ Blues In The Night ~ Another Man Done Gone ~ Sugar Plum ~ Kinda Like Love ~ Are You Certain ~ That's Your Affair.

The Collins Kids were a brother & sister act that got real good real young and made it out of their native Oklahoma, settling out in California where they landed a radio/TV hookup with Tex Ritter's Town Hall Party out of Compton. Older sister Lorrie handled the teenage-sensuality department with nylons rustling against cowgirl fringe, while little brother Larry was a hot-as-a-firecracker bundle of energy, boppin' all over the place while laying down excitable, twangy guitar breaks learned first-hand from another Town Hall Party regular, the King of the double-neck Mosrite, Joe Maphis. With all that in mind, what we have here is an excellent CD box set, two discs with booklet in an album-size format. Everything's here - from the great early sides like 'Beetle Bug Bop', 'The Cuckoo Rock', 'I'm in My Teens' and 'Rockaway Rock' to the rockabilly classics 'Just Because', 'Hoy Hoy', 'Mercy', 'Sweet Talk', and 'Party', through the Joe Maphis/Larry Collins guitar instrumentals to Larry and Lorrie's solo sides. Joe Maphis' great guitar is sprayed all over the place and the master tape transfer is as clear as you expect stuff out of the Columbia vaults produced by Don Law to be. A booklet crammed full of great live photos and excellent liner notes by Colin Escott round out the package.