Artist	Song
Ruth Brown	(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Malcolm Yelvington	Yakety Yak
Eddie Cochran	Boll Weevil
Arthur Gunter	You Are Doing Me Wrong
Kings of Rhythm	Rocket 88
Cannibal & the Headhunters	Land of 1,000 Dances
Professor Longhair	Willie Mae
Arthur Crudup	My Baby Left Me
Nellie Lutcher	Fine Brown Frame
Junior Parker	Feelin' Good
Warren Smith	Rock & Roll Ruby
Little Richard	Long Tall Sally
Stick McGhee	Let's Do It
Johnny Burnette	Tear It Up
Elvis Presley	Tomorrow Night
Fats Domino	I'm in Love Again
Bill Haley	Rock Around the Clock
Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Rock Me
Maurice Williams	Stay
Jazz Gillum	Key to the Highway
James Ray	If You've Got to Make a Fool of Somebody
Elvis Presley	I'll Never Stand in Your Way
Stick McGhee	Six to Eight
Levon and the Hawks	He Don't Love You
Billy the Kid Emerson	When It Rains It Pours
Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Clarence Frogman Henry	Lonely Tramp
The Rebels	Wild Weekend
Elmore James	She Done Move Me
Eddie Cochran	Something Else

Comment:

When U.S. media talks about the great rock and roll of the 1950s they'll mention Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson.

They'll mention Elvis Presley, but they won't refer to his best work. They'll give Little Richard and Buddy Holly their due, but gloss over their raw sexual heat. Sure you know about Bill Haley and Chuck Berry, but what about all the other amazing early rocknroll that turned Liverpool on its heels in the 1950s? What about all the amazing early rocknroll that influenced Elvis and Chuck Berry and Motown? And what about all the amazing early rocknroll that stands on its own as awesome entertainment?

Here are twenty-nine tracks made before Brian Epstein met the Beatles (and one track from the mid-1960s, Levon and the Hawks' "He Don't Love You" just because somehow it fits.)

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