Description
Release Date: 2010
Label: Hoodoo Records
Track List
1 Try Rock ‘N’ Roll 2:08
2 Rack ‘Em Back 2:17
3 I Would Like To Know 2:08
4 I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Someday 2:23
5 I Fell For You 2:08
6 4 X 11=44 2:08
7 I’m Crying 2:29
8 Sister Lucy 2:27
9 I’m A Young Man 2:15
10 Goin’ Round In Circles 2:32
11 I Wish I Knew 2:07
12 You’re My Angel 1:56
13 The Wedding Bells Are Ringing 2:15
14 You Always Hurt The One You Love 2:47
15 I Try So Hard 2:11
16 No No No 1:54
17 I Love To Hold You (More And More) 2:04
18 Angel Child 2:31
19 She Couldn’t Be Found 2:34
20 I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed 2:27
21 Hearts Of Fire 2:06
22 You’re Going To Be Sorry 1:53
23 Schoolboy Blues 2:36
24 You Better Go Home 2:16
25 One Friday Morning 2:11
26 I’m In Love 2:19
Personnel
- Bobby Mitchell – vocals
- Dave Bartholomew – trumpet
- Clarence “Frogman” Henry – trombone
- Lee Allen – tenor sax
- Alvin “Red” Tyler – baritone sax
- Justin Adams – guitar
- Frank Fields, George Davis – bass
- Fats Domino, Gabriel Fleming, Paul Gayten – piano
- Earl Palmer, Charles “Hungry” Williams – drums
- Lloyd Bellaire, Frank Bocage, Joseph Butler, Willie Bridges – backing vocals as The Toppers
Notes
Mitchell was born in the Algiers section of New Orleans. He was a popular recording artist in the 1950s and early 1960s, making records for Imperial Records, Show Biz Records and Rip Records. He first recorded in his teens with the do-wop group “The Toppers”, which was broken up as most of the members were drafted. Mitchell’s single “Try Rock ‘n Roll,” hit the top 20 of the US Billboard R&B chart in 1956. Many of his sessions were arranged by Dave Bartholomew. His single “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday” was a hit, pre dating the more famous cover of the tune by Fats Domino and got Mitchell an appearance on American Bandstand.
In the early 1980s he did radio shows at WWOZ.
