Las Vegas Grind Part Two (1957-1969)

To my surprise, my posting of Las Vegas Grind Part One has been my most popular. According to Megaupload, it has been grabbed almost 600 times already! Unfortunately, I only own Part One on CD. Fortunately, I was able to find vinyl rips of the first five LP volumes using eMule. Ripped by "VinyLover" at 192kbps, these may not sound as good as a straight CD rip, but they sound very nice considering this series is sourced from not-always-mint low-fi 45s. Big thanks go out to "VinyLover" for taking the time and effort to create such nice clean vinyl rips!

As I mentioned in my earlier posting, the CD releases came after the vinyl LP releases. Part One CD was mostly compiled from vinyl Volumes One and Two (one track was pulled from Volume Three), with the CD of Part Two compiled from vinyl Volumes Three and Four. Now that I possessed rips of the first four vinyl volumes, I sorted them into two folders using track listings for the Part One and Part Two CDs. Once complete, I was surprised to discover that the last six tracks on the Part One CD are exclusive and aren't on any of the LP volumes. Fortunately, the Part Two CD doesn't contain any exclusive tracks.

Like Part One, this is another raucous, rowdy, raunchy and sometimes ridiculous collection of rockabilly, surf and straight up rock 'n' roll instrumentals. What an amazing group of party tunes Strip put together with this series! Like last time, I spent hours online researching the origins of these tracks. I wasn't able to find full track or release information for two of the original vinyl 45s or release year for five of the songs. On the other hand, I was able to correct nine mistakes in artist information and seven mistakes in song title information. I put what information I was able to gather about each original 45 vinyl release in the comment field, including a-side and b-side song titles, record company and catalog number.

Las Vegas Grind Part Two (1957-1969)
1. Jack "Happy Jose" Ross - Mumbles [1962] (2:19)
2. Willie Wright & His Sparklers - Gibble Gobble [1962] (2:18)
3. Andre Williams & His Orchestra - Sweet Little Pussycat [1966] (2:05)
4. Edgar Alan and the Po' Boys - Panic Button [1963] (1:45)
5. The Gee Cees - Buzz Saw Twist [1961] (2:02)
6. The Jaguars - Exit 6 [1959] (2:01)
7. The Earthworms - Mo' Taters [1962] (2:05)
8. The Charts - For the Birds [1959] (2:00)
9. The Fabulous Raiders - Handclapping Time (2:50)
10. Roger & the Gypsies - Pass the Hatchet Part 1 [1969] (2:48)
11. The Egyptians - The Party Stomp [1960] (2:28)
12. The Escorts - Wiped Out [1961] (1:55)
13. The Crescendos - Hawk Walk (1:59)
14. The Playboys - Whatizit? [1958] (2:17)
15. The Charts - Ooba Gooba [1959] (2:02)
16. The Instrumentals - Are You Nervous? [1958] (2:19)
17. Bud Grippah - Hold It Part 1 [1960] (1:43)
18. The Noblemen - Dragon Walk [1959] (1:51)
19. Bob Kornegy - Wowsville Part 1 [1962] (2:09)
20. Earl Palmer's Party Rockers - Johnny's House Party Part 1 [1957] (2:44)
21. The Fabulous Continentals - Breakin' Up [1962] (1:53)
22. The Bikinis - Crazy Vibrations [1960] (2:22)
23. The Originals - Sleepless Hours [1958] (1:42)
24. Bobby Summers - Pad [1959] (1:57)
25. Jim Doval and the Gauchos - Good and Bad [1962] (2:37)
26. The Axcents - Hold It, Mary [1961] (2:14)
27. The Majestics - Riding By (1:53)
28. Jack Hammer - The Wiggling Fool [1962] (1:37)
29. The Jesters - The Jesters Jump (1:52)
30. Fabulous Tempoes - Nut Sundae (2:12)
31. Bobby Bunny and the Jackrabbits - Scatty Cat [1957] (2:18)
32. The Capers - Iced Tea [1965] (2:39)

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