Wilbert Harrison - The Best Of Wilbert Harrison

SUNSET BLVD RECORDS

£31.66

Cat. no: CDSBR7991LE
Format: CD3
Barcode: 708535799122
Release Date: 22nd January 2021
Genre: Rock

3 CDS / 70 Tracks includes 30 Previously Unavailable Songs. It’s extremely unlikely that any other 1950s R&B artist blended quite as many disparate idiomatic influences into an instantly identifiable whole as Wilbert Harrison.

Wilbert’s skill on a variety of instruments was a key factor in his uncommon versatility. He played rolling piano on ‘Kansas City’ and several of his followups for Bobby Robinson’s Harlem-based Fury Records, but he was just as likely to utilize a guitar/harmonica combination that sometimes expanded into a one-man-band setup with the addition of hi-hat.

Harrison wasn’t afraid to incorporate instrumentation on his recordings that registered well outside the R&B mainstream. The end result still sounded like nobody but Wilbert as he made a slew of platters over the course of a recording career that spanned more than two decades.

CD 1: Kansas City (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller) / Listen, My Darling (Wilbert Harrison) / Cheating Baby (Wilbert Harrison/Bobby Robinson/Clarence Lewis) / Don’t Wreck My Life (Wilbert Harrison) / Good Bye Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison) / 1960 (Wilbert Harrison) / C.C. Rider (Wilbert Harrison/Price) / Why Did You Leave (Bobby Charles) / Little School Girl (Wilbert Harrison) / Since I Fell For You (Buddy Johnson) / The Horse
(Wilbert Harrison/Bobby Robinson/Clarence Lewis) / Da-De-Ya-Da (Anything For You) (Rose Marie McCoy/Charles Singleton) / Happy In Love (Wilbert Harrison) / Calypso Dance (Wilbert Harrison) / Drafted (Wilbert Harrison) / My Heart Is Yours (Wilbert Harrison) / Let’s Stick Together (Wilbert Harrison) / Kansas City Twist (Bobby Robinson) / A Woman Is Trouble (Wilbert Harrison) / It’s Been A Long Time (Wilbert Harrison) / Messed Around (And Fell In Love) (Naomi Neville) / My Love (Wilbert Harrison/Marshall Sehorn) / Pretty Little Women (Wilbert Harrison)

CD 2: Off To Work Again (Wilbert Harrison) / After Graduation (Wilbert Harrison) / Off To School Again (Wilbert Harrison) / Broke (Wilbert Harrison) / You Don’t Know (Wilbert Harrison) / Near To You (Wilbert Harrison) / Say It Again (Emmitt Davis/Sid Wyche) / (It Will Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes Along (Sammy Cahn/Saul Chaplin/L.E. Freeman/Mann Holiner/Alberta Nichols) / Sadness And Sorrow (Dale Davidson/ Stan Randell) / New York World’s Fair (Wilbert Harrison) / Mama, Mama, Mama (J. Miller) / Poison Ivy (Mel London) / Please Forgive Me (Wilbert Harrison) / Baby Move On (David Parker) / You’re Still My Baby (Chuck Willis) / Sugar Lump (Wilbert Harrison) / Don’t Take It So Hard (Charles Singleton/Rose Marie McCoy) / Let’s Have Some Fun (Wilbert Harrison) / Clementine (Wilbert Harrison) / Sentimental Journey
(Bud Green/Les Brown/Ben Homer) / From The Bottom Of My Heart (Chuck Willis) / I Got To Know (Wilbert Harrison) / (Just Got To Have Some) Money Honey (Wilbert Harrison/Bobby Robinson) / Your Three Letters (Wilbert Harrison) / Get It While You Can (Wilbert Harrison/Marshall Sehorn) / Amen (Wilbert Harrison/Marshall Sehorn)

CD 3: My Babe (Willie Dixon) / Ain’t That A Shame (Fats Domino/Dave Bartholomew) / Honest I Do (Jimmy Reed) / Going To The River (Fats Domino/Dave Bartholomew) / Girls On Parade (Wilbert Harrison) / When The Saints Go Marching In (Traditional) / Blueberry Hill (Al Lewis/Larry Stock/Vincent Rose) / You Can Make It If You Try (Ted Jarrett) / My Dream (Wilbert Harrison) / Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams) / I Really Love You (Wilbert Harrison) / I Don’t Know (Willie Mabon) / Mary Ann (Roaring Lion) / Sweet Baby (Wilbert Harrison) / Just Because (Lloyd Price) / On Top Of Old Smokey (Traditional) / Loving Operator (Ronnie Arthurs) / Tell On Yourself (Wilbert Harrison) / Coming Down With Love (Wilbert Harrison) / Cheating Woman (Wilbert Harrison) / I Will Never Trust Another Woman (Wilbert Harrison)