Description
Release Date: 2021
Label: Acrobat
Track List
Disc: 1
- Later Alligator
- On Bended Knee
- Don’t You Know I Love You
- Why Did You Leave
- Only Time Will Tell
- Take It Easy, Greasy
- No Use Knocking
- Laura Lee
- Put Your Arms Around Me Honey
- Why Can’t You
- You Can Suit Yourself
- No More (I Ain’t Gonna Do It)
- One Eyed Jack
- Yea Yea Baby (Yeah Yeah)
- Hey Good Lookin’
- Watch It Sprocket
- Ain’t Got No Home
- Lonely Street
- Mr Moon
- I’m A Fool To Care
- Over Yonder
- I’ll Turn Square For You
- Good Lovin’
- Your Picture
- Since She’s Gone
- At The Jamboree
- Oh! Yeah
Disc: 2
- Since I Lost You
- The Town Is Talking
- What Can I Do
- Bye Bye Baby
- Those Eyes
- What A Party
- I Just Want You
- Four Winds
- Nothing As Sweet As You
- Teenagers
- Tell Me Baby
- I’d Like To Know
- Lovesick Blues
- See You Later Alligator
- See You
- Later Alligator
- Yea Yea Baby (Yeah Yeah)
- Before I Grow Too Old
- Good Lovin’
- Walking To New Orleans
- But I Do
- It Keeps Raining
- Why Can’t You
- Dog House
- Little Suzy
- Your Picture
- On Bended Knees
- A Little Too Much
Notes
Born Robert Guidry in Abbeville, Louisiana, in 1938, he became famous as songwriter under his birth name, but also had success as a recording artist under the name Bobby Charles, beginning his career as an 18-year-old with an R&B hit with his composition “Later Alligator”, which Bill Haley covered to have a No. 6 pop hit early in the rock ‘n’ roll era. He was very much a pioneer of the Louisiana-based Swamp Pop style alongside Jimmy Clanton, characterised by recordings emanating from Cosimo Matassa’s studio in New Orleans, where Fats Domino, a noted beneficiary of Guidry’s songs, made his records. This 55-track 2-CD set comprises A & B sides and other recordings for the Chess and Imperial labels, including his R&B hits “Later Alligator” and “Only Time Will Tell”. As a bonus, it also features recordings of his songs recorded by other artists, including the hits “See You Later Alligator” by Bill Haley, “Walkin’ To New Orleans”, “Before I Grow Too Old” and “It Keeps Raining” by Fats Domino, and “But I Do”, “On Bended Knees” and “A Little Too Much” by Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry. As such, it provides a fascinating showcase for his talents as both songwriter and artist, underlining the significant contribution he made to the pop music of the rock ‘n’ roll years.
