[bomp] Little Boy Blue and the Blueboys

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'It cracles into life with the coarse swagger of an electric guitar, pounding

out a Chuck Berry riff with note-perfect pride. Then there's a voice, a thin,

nasal twang, teasing out the lascivious sexual implications of a raucous R&B 
song about a go-go dancer called 'Little Queenie'. Harsh, trebly but utterly 
compelling, it's the earliest existing record of the sound that 
revolutionised sixties rock ...' 
This quote comes from Record Collector 189/May 1995, when the tape was 
auctioned off at Christie's on May 25. Up until now only a few snippets were 
available on CD. I always wondered if these would become available and today
I got 
a CD called 'How Britain Got The Blues' (Bad Wizard BW 6134), by The Rolling 
Stones, and (finally) four complete tracks are on this CD: 'Little Queenie', 
'Beautiful Delilah', 'Down the road Apiece' and 'I Ain't Got You'. 
The quality is rough, like the Beatles' Starclub recordings but it's clear 
that this really is Mick and the boys, with Dick Taylor (pre Pretty Things)
on 
guitar and drums, one Allen Etherington on maracas and Bob Beckwith on 
guitar. The group was called Little Boy Blue and the Blueboys,  and was
recorded 
at two rehearsals at the end of 1961 by the guy who sold the tape. 
This is the complete Little Boy list:
1. AROUND AND AROUND (Berry)
2. LITTLE QUEENIE (Berry)
3. BEAUTIFUL DELILAH (Berry)
4. LA BAMBA (Ritchie Valens)
5. ON YOUR WAY TO SCHOOL (unidentified Chicago-style blues tune, which is a 
close lyrical cousin to 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl')
6. I AIN'T GOT YOU (Billy Boy Arnold)
7. YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M LEFT, SHE'S GONE (Presley)
8. DOWN THE ROAD APIECE (Berry)
9. DON'T WANT NO WOMAN (not the Bobby Bland song but a similar theme 
performed in Sonny Boy Williamson style)
10. I AIN'T GOT YOU #2
11. JOHNNY B. GOODE (Berry)
12. LITTLE QUEENIE #2
13. BEAUTIFUL DELILAH  #2
There are 28 Stones tracks on the CD, of which I did not recognize 'Leave me 
Alone' a Jagger/Richard song from Nov. 1963 and 'Goodbye Girl (Wyman), from 
Nov. 1964. The rest are all upgrades to previously available stuff from BBC 
Saturday Club, Top Gear, and Joe Loss. A very good start of 2003 and let me 
know when other stuff turns up. I was just lucky this time ...
Dave

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