Various Artists: The Songs That Shaped The Cramps

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Various Artists - The Songs That Shaped The Cramps

CD: £9.99

Label: Jasmine

Release date: 12.02.2026

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THE CRAMPS - inventors of “Psychobilly” - were, in essence, an anarchic, turbocharged, oldies tribute act. • Memorably fronted by singer Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy Rorschach, they represented the point at which Hasil Adkins, The Stray Cats, Showaddywaddy, Johnny Cash & June Carter, Atlas Comics and Mad Magazine may have collided, heads-on, in a 1950s Roger Corman B-movie. • Deranged live performers, they were once described as “Rockabilly on steroids” (probably in either NME or Sounds), which fitted them perfectly. • This compilation presents thirty-four weird, wonderful and wildly out-there greasy Rockabilly and R&R 45s, records which were major contributors to their musical journey. • The Cramps cut straight revivals of many of these sides or featured them in their live sets, while they stole elements of others, incorporating them into new, original songs.

Track Listing

1. WILLIE JOE & HIS UNITAR - UNITAR ROCK

2. VERN PULLENS - BOP CRAZY BABY

3. CHARLIE FEATHERS - CAN'T HARDLY STAND IT

4. ANDY STARR - GIVE ME A WOMAN

5. DAVE 'DIDDLIE' DAY - BLUE MOON BABY

6. GLEN GLENN - EVERYBODY'S MOVIN'

7. WALTER BROWN - JELLY ROLL ROCK

8. BILL ALLEN & THE BACKBEATS - PLEASE GIVE ME SOMETHING

9. JIMMY LLOYD - I GOT A ROCKET IN MY POCKET

10. DWIGHT PULLEN - SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK

11. KEITH COURVALE - TRAPPED LOVE

12. DALE HAWKINS - TORNADO

13. HERBIE DUNCAN WITH RED WELLS & HIS CARAVANS FROM ST. LOUIS - HOT LIPS BABY

14. JETT POWERS - GO GIRL GO

15. THE TUNE ROCKERS - THE GREEN MOSQUITO

16. JODY REYNOLDS - FIRE OF LOVE

17. ALLEN PAGE - SHE'S THE ONE THAT'S GOT IT

18. KIP TYLER - SHE'S MY WITCH

19. TOMMY "JIM" BEAM & THE FOUR FIFTHS - GOLDEN BOY

20. JIMMY STEWART - ROCK ON THE MOON

21. MEL SMITH & THE NIGHT RIDERS - PRETTY PLAID SKIRT (And Long Black Sox)

22. MAC REBENNACK - STORM WARNING

23. RONNIE DAWSON - ROCKIN' BONES

24. THE RIPTIDES - MACHINE GUN

25. THE SHADES FEATURING LEE COOK - STROLLIN' AFTER DARK

26. THE FRANTICS - WEREWOLF

27. THE PHANTOM - LOVE ME

28. JERRY WARREN - ROMPIN'

29. DUANE EDDY & HIS ORCH, LEE HAZLEWOOD VOCAL - THE GIRL ON DEATH ROW

30. THREE ACES & A JOKER - BOOZE PARTY

31. FREDDIE & THE HITCH-HIKERS - SINNERS

32. THE RUNABOUTS - WHEN I GET THE BLUES

33. HASIL ADKINS - CHICKEN WALK

34. RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS - GOO GOO MUCK

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