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Tracklist

1. IT’S LOVE BABY (24 Hours A Day) - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
2. CAN’T KEEP FROM CRYIN’ - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
3. BABY BABY WHAT’S WRONG - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
4. PLEASE UNDERSTAND - Earl Gaines with Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
5. I DON’T NEED YOU NOW - Earl Gaines with Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
6. GONNA STOP FOOLIN’ MYSELF - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
7. DON’T YOU KNOW - Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers
8. NOW DO YOU HEAR - Earl Gaines
9. BEST OF LUCK BABY - Earl Gaines
10. WHITE ROSE - Earl Gaines
11. WHITE ROSE (Theme) - Earl Gaines
12. SITTING HERE DRINKING - Earl Gaines
13. LOVE YOU SO - Earl Gaines
14. HOLD BACK MY TEARS - Earl Gaines
15. THREE TIMES SEVEN - Earl Gaines
16. LET ME DOWN EASY - Earl Gaines
17. SHOW ME SOMETHING - Earl Gaines
18. IT’S LOVE BABY (24 Hours A Day) - Earl Gaines
19. PLEASE LOVE ME - Earl Gaines
20. YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE - Leroy Jones
21. DETROIT ARROW - Shy Guy Douglas
22. NEW MEMPHIS BLUES - Shy Guy Douglas
23. I’M YOUR COUNTRY MAN - Shy Guy Douglas
24. WASTED TIME - Shy Guy Douglas
25. NO PLACE LIKE HOME - Shy Guy Douglas
26. SHE’S MY KINDA GIRL - Shy Guy Douglas
27. YANKEE DOODLE (I Lost My Noodle) - Shy Guy Douglas
28. HARVEST MOON (Bring Her Back To Me) - Shy Guy Douglas
29. LET’S ROCK AND ROLL - Little Shy Guy and the Hot Rods
30. MY LITTLE BABY - Little Shy Guy and the Hot Rods

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24 Hours A Day - Complete Recordings 1953-1962 CD

24 Hours A Day - Complete Recordings 1953-1962 CD

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Earl Gaines and Shy Guy Douglas
24 Hours A Day - Complete Recordings 1953-1962 CD

This 30 track collection presents the work of Earl Gaines and Thomas ‘Shy Guy’ Douglas.
The smooth voice of Earl Gaines set the standard for Nashville Rhythm & Blues.
He hit the jackpot with his first release, the much-recorded (It’s Love Baby) 24 Hours A Day.
Although he never had another hit of similar magnitude, it gave him the foundation on which to build a career that sustained into the 21st century.
Earl’s recordings for the Excello label offer a small but perfectly formed body of work, fully representative of what made Nashville such an important centre for black American music in the 1950s.
Earl is paired here with his fellow Music City resident, the far less well known Thomas ‘Shy Guy’ Douglas, whose recording career was coming to its end about the same time that Earl’s was taking off.
Earl’s discoverer and long-time mentor Ted Jarrett also produced Shy Guy on many of the tracks featured here, but they are of a different, more down home-y nature in comparison with those of his CD companion here - albeit no less essential!
These two great artists have long been overdue an anthology like this, full of tough, uncompromising rhythm & blues that never goes out of style.

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