1. Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go 2. Work With Me Annie 3. That Woman 4. Stingy Little Thing 5. Broadway 6. Ring-A-Ling-A-Ling 7. Are You Forgetting? 8. Switchie Witchie Titchie 9. Shaky Mae 10. Sugaree 11. Sexy Ways 12. I Feel That-A-Way 13. Annie Had A Baby 14. Tore Up Over You 15. Don't Ever Change Your Pretty Ways 16. Finger Poppin' Time 17. Don't Let Temptation (Turn You Round) 18. Henry's Got A Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More) 19. That House On The Hill 20. Annie's Aunt Fannie 21. I'm Crying Mercy, Mercy 22. The Hoochi Coochi Coo 23. The Switch-A-Roo 24. I'm Young 25. The Twist 26. Rock, Granny, Roll 27. The Float 28. We'll Never Meet Again 29. Looka Here 30. Big Red Sunset
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Hank Ballard Rocks CD
All the rockingest sides from the great Hank Ballard and his high-stepping Midnighters, bringing together 30 essential cuts of hard-driving Rhythm & Blues and early Rock 'n' Roll. Early in their long recording career, Ballard and his Detroit-based crew specialised in risqué, double-entendre dance grinders such as Work With Me Annie, Annie Had A Baby and Sexy Ways, records that pushed the bounds of propriety while sailing up the mid-'50s R&B charts like rockets.
As the tumultuous decade drew towards its conclusion, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters came up with the greatest dance theme of them all: The Twist. Ballard followed it with a succession of further dancefloor workouts, with this collection also featuring the hugely popular Finger Poppin' Time, Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go and The Hoochi Coochi Coo. This is the raw, rocking sound behind the dance craze, before Chubby Checker took The Twist into an entirely new stratosphere.
From the outrageous early material through to the infectious late-'50s and early-'60s dance records, Hank Ballard and The Midnighters deliver the kind of irresistible, high-energy Rhythm & Blues that had dance floors jumping across America. **30 tracks of essential Hank Ballard rocking**, packed with big beats, memorable hooks and some of the wildest dance music of the era. Get out your dancing shoes!
