Darling, It's Wonderful: Music From the Fifties - Volumes Four and Five

  I was almost done with putting these 50's collections together when I remembered how ubiquitous those advertisements for 50's box sets were on late night tv in the 1980's and 1990's.  I hope my collections are more diverse than those collections (kind of defeats the purpose of making them), but I realized kind of late into making it that Volume Four seems to be significantly heavier on the well known acts than the other volumes.  Anyway, hope the choices aren't too obvious.  Also, in case you were wondering, the artists on the pictures above are Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant (Volume Four) and The Famous Ward Singers (Volume Five)

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Volume Four

Jeep's Blues Duke Ellington & his Orchestra Aguiti Lord Invader Jericho Sister Rosetta Tharpe Jammin' With Jimmy Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant Feelin' Low Ernie Chaffin Pork Chop Stomp Grady Martin Mean Mean Man Wanda Jackson All Day, All Night Bill Parker featuring Jesse Palmer En Guantánamo Abelardo Barroso & Orquesta Sensación Prayer Changes Things The Gate City Singers Luyah! The Glorious Step Cecil Taylor Try Me James Brown & The Famous Flames Stars Fell On Alabama Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong I'll Never Deceive You Jimmy Scott Weary Blues From Waitin' Hank Williams There I've Said It Again Big Maybelle Smokestack Lightnin' Howlin' Wolf Wishful Thinking Wynn Stewart London Is the Place for Me Edmundo Ros Slim's Thing Memphis Slim,Willie Dixon For All We Know Billie Holiday Drown In My Own Tears Ray Charles

Volume Five

Since I Met You Baby	Ivory Joe Hunter
Je Cherche Un Homme	Eartha Kitt
Where Shall I Go	Irving Fields Trio
I'm An Old, Old Man (Tryin' To Live While I Can)	Lefty Frizzell
I Can't See Them Now	Edna Gallmon Cooke
Mood Indigo	Nina Simone
Hey Hey Hey Hey	Little Richard
Mambo Caliente	Bebo Valdes
Crazy Rythm	Django Reinhardt
Wild Child	Donnie Elbert
Good Googa Mooga	The Magic Tones
W.O.M.A.N.	Etta James
I Love You	John Coltrane
Ten Long Fingers	Groovey Joe Poovey
West Indian Drums	Russ Henderson
I'm So Glad	The Famous Ward Singers
I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World	Bill Monroe
Act Like a Married Man	Jean Shepard
Mystery Train	Little Junior's Blue Flames
Are You Real	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
The Walkin' Blues	Jessie Powell Orchestra
It's A Great Life (If You Don't Weaken)	Faron Young