Got Them Hillbilly Blues
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £9.99

While it is not often documented, it stands to reason that of all the many black artists who were influenced by country music radio in their childhood, a percentage would grow into maturity with a real feeling for hillbilly music and incorporate the style it into their own musical heritage, just as the white rockabillies introduced an urban blues element into their country music.

This album has been compiled to showcase this inverted spin on the conception of rockabilly - got them Hill Billy Blues?

Beatles Beginnings - Quarrymen Two - Rock'n'Roll
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £6.75

Number 2 in this highly regarded, superbly packaged and mastered series. Highlighting the Rock'n'Roll songs that inspired the Beatles. Includes a 36 page booklet and 28 classic tracks from the likes of Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins and many more!!

Beatles Beginnings - Three - The Silver Beatles
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £6.75

Following on from their well-received compilations covering the roots of rhythm & blues, the R&B team shine a spotlight on the songs and styles that inspired the Beatles and which ultimately were responsible for shaping their sound. Jazz, rock’n’roll, blues, music hall, guitar instrumentals, tin pan alley, rockabilly, dance band, soul, bolero, skiffle, trad, R&B, country, old-time, Broadway, doo-wop, folk, high school pop, Motown - the Beatles early influences are so wide-ranging that this series of discs could quite easily pass for an introduction to the history of twentieth century popular music.

Walldorf Rock'n'Roll Weekender 2008
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £11.99

9 Years of Rock‘n‘Roll Weekender Walldorf...
Much variety, many great tracks, some brand new, some unreleased, some rockin, some jumpin, some smooth.... something for everybody!
All in all it is a great overview of the big variety „rockin“ music has. You will hear great bands & songs you never heard of before on this CD. That‘s the way I like it!

Walldorf Rock'n'Roll Weekender 2009
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £11.99

A year past by since our first CD-compilation with the bands which played at the Walldorf Weekender in 2008. I hope you enjoyed the first CD (I did!), and hope you like this second platter nearly as much as I do. Much variety, many great tracks, some brandnew, some unreleased, some rockin, some jumpin, some smooth.... something for everybody!
All in all it is a great overview of the big variety „rockin“ music has. You will hear great bands & songs you never heard of before on this CD. That‘s the way I like it.
So these are the bands which play(ed) at our 10th anniversary. Give them a good listen, they are worth it - and check out the longplayers they have. If you missed them at our show, mark 21.-24. May 2010 in your calender, check out our website and register for our newsletter.

Walldorf Rock'n'Roll Weekender 2010
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £11.99

The traditional 50’s “Walldorf Rock & Roll Weekender 2010” is rocking one more time: Like every year on the „Withsun“ Weekend this great 4-day-event in Walldorf (next to Heidelberg, Germany) presents a highclass festival soundtrack: 19 (!) great international live acts play at the festival from all over the world (USA, Brasil, UK, Germany, France and Italy) and have given tracks to this CD.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HOT ROCK & ROLL!!!
All in all it is a great overview of the big variety „rockin“ music has. You will hear great bands & songs you never heard of before on this CD.

Gravy Train - Hillbilly Meets R&B Before Elvis
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £9.99

When Elvis Presley mixed black blues and R&B with white country in the mid-'50s, essentially bringing a new genre called rock & roll to the attention of the whole world in what was the pop equivalent of the Big Bang, few realized how long this little musical chemistry experiment had been fermenting. Presley had the looks, skill and charisma to make the kinetic hybrid of rock & roll reverberate in the public consciousness, but countless artists had been working this same territory since at least a decade earlier, as this extremely interesting collection makes clear.

Lovin' Time Blues - Great Jump & R&B Duets
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £9.99

The boy/girl r&b duet reached its commercial zenith in the mid to late 1950s when acts such as Gene & Eunice, Shirley & Lee and Billy & Lillie enjoyed national chart hits, but the way had been paved by the earlier success of the likes of Esther & Mel with Johnny Otis' band and Little Willie & Little Lora. This CD explores those pioneering recordings which, with little likelihood of a national crossover hit, would often deal with the same subjects as their rock 'n' roll counterparts but in a much more gritty and honest way.

Rock With It - Rockin' With The Rhythm And Blues Vol. 2
Various Artists

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Due to popular demand, following the release of our debut release; “Rockin’ With The R&B” a few years ago. El Toro Records now presents a second helping of jumping R&B from the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, all of which exhort the listener to “Rock! Rock! Rock!” or, in a few instances, to “Roll Roll! Roll!” long before the official birth of Rock and Roll in 1954. From an obscurity like the misterious Manhattan Paul to the internationally renowned Sammy Davis Jr. taking in famous songwriters and session musicians alike. They can all lay claim to be rockers before uncle Bill and daddy Elvis...

Real Cool Cats - Texas Rockabilly 1955
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £9.99

"T for Texas - T for Tennessee" sang Jimmie Rodgers in 1928, setting the seal on two of the most important states involved in the growth of Country music in the years thereafter. By extension, the development of country rock 'n' roll - rockabilly - in the early and mid 1950s was strongest in those areas, but Memphis-based Sun Records blazed brightly early in the game, casting the exciting Cat Music of the Lone Star State in a deep shadow...
8 page booklet with interesting liner notes and pictures.

Rollin' The Rock - Texas Rockabilly Vol.2
Various Artists

CD PRICE: £9.99

Following on from our well-received Texas Rockabilly compilation “Real Cool Cats” (ETCD 1010) in 2006, El Toro Records now brings you another volume of Lone Star Bop.

This time spotlighting the obscure Texas-born or raised recording artists that were elevated to star status in the 1970s when their all-but-forgotten careers were revived by a tiny, home-based, Californian record company run by a rock’n’roll-crazy Italian called Rockin’ Ronny Weiser.

What's Your Name?
Various Artists

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A companion volume to the more egotistical I Love To Hear My Baby Call My Name! this compilation displays a fine set of jump blues and early R&B songs in which the singers express undying love, unquenchable lust or unqualified distain for their very different women. Whether the object of affection is short, tall, thin, fat, faithful, cheating, juicy, fragrant or smelly, you're sure to find her here!