Criminal Records
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Various Artists
Criminal Records
[ Ace Records U.K. / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 26 March 2012
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Themes of crime and punishment have always featured strongly in music. This CD is not so much celebration, but as documentation of heroes, villains, cops and robbers and their role in rock 'n' roll.
Inebriation, incarceration, stick-ups, showdowns, failure to support, and all manner of other non-law abiding activities are on Ace's rockin' docket.
'Criminal Records' also heralds the work of hard-bitten cops from the mean streets of New York and Los Angeles, and those notable heroes and villains of the old Wild West that came into our living rooms on a weekly basis during TV's golden era. The featured suspects are all guilty of being entertaining in the extreme. Almost all of the tracks on this arresting set are new to Ace, and several have never been reissued before.
Tracks:
Dragnet - Ray Anthony And His Orchestra
Cops And Robbers - Boogaloo And His Gallant Crew
Good Morning Judge - Wynonie Harris
Jailhouse Rock - Dean Carter
Private Eye - Bob Luman
But Officer - Cliff "king' Solomon And His Orchestra (Vocal: Gigi Gryce)
Dick Tracy - The Chants
Riot In Cell Block #9 - Vicki Young (With Big Dave's Music)
Folsom Prison Blues - Jumpin' Gene Simmons
Bad Detective - The Coasters
Life To Go - George Jones
Mr Dillon - The Delacardos
Twenty One Days In Jail - Magic Sam
The Prisoner's Song - Hylo Brown
Those Private Eyes (Are Watching Me) - Chubby Checker
Prisoner's Plea - Billy Boy
Next Time (Take 1) - Richard Berry
Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon - Ray Stevens
Jail Bird - Sonny Knight
Bad Dan Mcgoon - The Cadillacs
Framed - The Robins
Birmingham Jail - Warren Storm
Have You Got The Gumption - Scatman Crothers
St George And The Dragonet - Stan Freberg
