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Crown Records, an offshoot budget LP line founded by Modern Records owners, the Bihari brothers, in 1958, offered no details as to the ‘groups’ who played on the albums. Similarly no writer credits were given, so when Ticket To Ride appeared re-named as Sunset Strip on a Jerry Cole & The Stingers disc we can probably conjecture that publishing royalties may not have reached Lennon & McCartney’s coffers. Plenty of shortcuts were made in the packaging to make the whole thing viable, but the one, most important, detail was done correctly: they got decent players in to cut the tracks. For Jerry Cole and his sidekicks, making albums like these were quick and easy, but the actual playing was never compromised.
The tracks collected here on HOT ROD TWANGIN’ cover the years 1960 to 1966, and as such reflect the growth of guitar technology and musical changes of the time. The earliest ones, sold under the name Billy Boyd, still retain the distinct R&B feel of the late 50s, whilst the Ventures’ influence is evident on several from the 1963/4 period. By 1965 the arrival of the fuzz effect pedal gave us the menacing Mustang from the Stingers, and by 1966 Cole was utilising a more multi-layered sound evident on Twelve A Go Go or Hip Hugger. Here and there we get suitable hot rod and cycle rev-ups leaping from one speaker to the other, and with the 1964 cut Oil Burner these sounds almost become part of the musical introduction.
With the continued growth of surf and hot rod collecting, the albums represented here have attracted much more interest than their original paymasters would have ever envisaged, but with their undoubted musical worth, they do deserve attention. The CD re-issue notes tell the whole wonderful story, complete with input from Jerry himself. One of the original LPs I bought from Ted had a whole set of posed hot rod and woodie photos lurking inside the cover, and while this compilation doesn’t quite run to that, you do get a great set of instrumentals from the golden era. "
01 HIP HUGGER 02 PEALIN' OUT 03 MUSTANG 04 MAMBO BOOGIE 05 TWIN SCRAMBLERS 06 BOSS HAIR 07 VENTURES VENTURE 08 SUPER CHARGED 09 TICKET TO RIDE (ISSUED AS 'SUNSET STRIP') 10 SHUFFLE BOOGIE 11 THE PURSUIT 12 SOUL TWIST (ISSUED AS 'HEY LITTLE GIRL') 13 BAD RUBBER 14 NIGHT ROCK 15 TWELVE A GO GO 16 COPS AND RODDERS 17 MOJO 18 DIGGIN' THE BLUES 19 GEORGE PLAYED 20 LONG GONE 21 DUCK WALK 22 THE GREEN MONSTER 23 AROUND THE OVAL 24 ALONG CAME MARY"
