NY Night Train just started uploading an original 45rpm vinyl record every day on YouTube – the NYNT Daily Party Platter Playlist Hit up NYNT YouTube channel every day to see what’s cookin’…

Outside of perhaps Rufus Thomas’ “Bear Cat”, “Mr. Hound Dog’s In Town” may well be the best “Hound Dog” answer song. I heard DJ Primo of San Francisco’s Oldies Night turn this one a few years ago and immediately started sniffin’ its trail! Its hard to miss with early period Roy Brown (late period Roy Brown ain’t that bad either!). Exploding on the scene with his own composition “Good Rockin’ Tonight” in 1947, which became huge for Wynonie Harris and later of course Elvis Presley, Roy Brown and his big bad Big Easy combo The Mighty, Mighty Men tore it up on track after track in the late 1940s and all the way up until 1957 when Brown went to jail for tax evasion. They were also relentless Chitlin Circuit road warriors the entire time and apparently one of its best live acts. I’m surprised Brown’s name isn’t cited as frequently in the first rock’n’roll song debate – his 1949 “Rockin’ at Midnight” is a lot more rockin’ than “Rocket 88”and a couple years earlier but whatever… Roy Brown isn’t just the author of an eternal classic, but a relentless rockin’ machine and nearly everything from this era holds up on today’s dance floor – loud punchy recordings with rhythm all over the place, Brown’s hair-raising vocals, and very straightforward but intense musicianship! This is modern art at its finest! Let’s get lost in it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)
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You’re listening to my daily addition to the New York Night Train Party Platter playlist. Each track here is recorded directly from the original 45 (no bootlegs, reproductions, etc) to give you an idea of what the real deal authentic vinyl sounds like. COME BACK EVERY DAY FOR A NEW FIX! Because the records pass so quickly at my dance parties, this channel is an attempt to stop and focus on one record at a time in hopes that it’ll turn you on to the artists, tracks, labels, etc. I’m just hipping myself to a lot of these records for the first time as well – so you can view this as a part of our journey to learning more about cool old records together! But mostly I hope this music moves you as much as it moves me.

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Jonathan Toubin
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