From the Book - First Da Capo Press edition.
Jesse Stone: He Who Controls Rhythm 12 --
Big Joe Turner: Steak for Breakfast, Gal Meat on a Rainy Day 22 --
Nat King Cole: Beyond Pink Cadillacs 30 --
Louis Jordan: Hep and the Art of Alto-Sax Repair 39 --
Wynonie Harris: The Man Who Shook Down the Devil 45 --
Charles Brown: From the School of Cool, Endlessly Drifting 54 --
Ella Mae Morse: The Cow-Cow Girl 64 --
Cecil Gant: Owl Stew, and All That 69 --
Amos Milburn: The Chicken-Shack Factor 72 --
Roy Brown: Good Rockin' Tonight 77 --
Louis Prima: Gleeby Rhythm Is Born 82 --
Ming and Ling: The Chinese Hillbillies 89 --
The Treniers: Their God Wore Shades 92 --
Stick McGhee: Spo-Dee-O-Dee: How to Get It, How to Use It 99 --
Young Bill Haley: The Lounge Act That Transcendeth All Knowing 103 --
Roy Hall: See, We Was All Drunk 109 --
Hardrock Gunter: The Mysterious Pig-Iron Man 114 --
Merrill Moore: The Saddle, Rock & Rhythm Man 119 --
Skeets McDonald: Whom in the End the Tattooed Lady Slew 123 --
The Clovers: Absalom, Absalom! Doo-Wah, Doo-Wah! 127 --
The Dominoes: The Glory of Bubbonia 133 --
Jackie Brenston: To the Package Store in Style 139 --
The Midnighters: From the Sins of Annie to the Twist 145 --
Jimmie Logsdon: The Man Without a Subtitle 150 --
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Horror and the Foot-Shaped Ashtray 155 --
Wanda Jackson: Laced by Satan, Unlaced by the Lord 165 --
Johnny Ace: Number One with a Bullet 170 --
Esau Smith: The Hairy and the Smooth 176 --
What That Was: A Chronology of the Coming of Rock 'n' Roll 185 --
Archaeologia Rockola 201 --
Old Noise, New Plastic: Unsung Heroes on Compact Disc 259.
