78 RPM - Amos Milburn - Down The Road Apiece / Don't Beg Me - Aladdin - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Amos Milburn
Label:	Aladdin
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	161
Date:	May 1947
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 2 Want
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Amos Milburn	Down The Road Apiece	Don Raye	8.0 Rate
B	Amos Milburn	Don't Beg Me	A. Milburn, A. Cullum	Rate

Notes

Singing and accompanying himself on piano with rhythm background.
A: Recorded Sep 12, 1946, Los Angeles, CA, mx: 18-1.
B: Recorded Dec 13, 1946, Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, mx: 79-3.

BB May 31, 1947, p. 31 (Aladdin ad - Customers' Choice!)
BB June 21, 1947, p. 119 (Advance Record Releases)

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Comments and Reviews


slholzer 8th Sep 2016		Amos Milburn was a great boogie woogie pianist. He is very comfortable playing this piece at twice the tempo that Freddie Slack did. I think the operative factor is that Milburn spent most of his time on this tune playing it, whereas the McKinley crowd used it far more as a vocal platform and barely gave Slack any space at all. The only moments of difficulty in the track are when Milburn tries to sing it at the same tempo he's been playing it! Ray McKinley probably would have asked him "What's your hurry, kid?" It's really a great piece though, especially for a debut recording.



fixbutte 30th Aug 2016		The boogie woogie craze belonged to the best things in music in the early 1940s, and the teenaged Amos Milburn, like the same-aged Chuck Berry, was a huge fan of its protagonists, the Will Bradley/Ray McKinley Orchestra. Thus it was quite natural that on his first session he insisted to record one of their most popular songs, "Down The Road A Piece". Milburn reproduced some lines of the original dialog and garbled some others, but above all he nearly doubled the tempo of the rather mid-paced trio number, creating one of the rock and roll prototypes hereby. This jumping boogie tune gave Milburn a first taste of fame as it found a receptive audience among the R&B fans of the Los Angeles area. It was also an additional inspiration for Chuck Berry, who did not record "Down the Road Apiece" before 1960 but apparently based one of his most important compositions on it, "Johnny B. Goode" in fact. (copied from a my own review from 2010)



Job Lowe 28th Aug 2016