Maerz 2025

After the great success of Koko-Mojo's Boss Black Rockers and the follow-up More Boss Black Rockers, we've added Boss Black Instrumental Rockers to the series. The musical content encapsulates; wailing organs, screaming saxophones, maniac drumming and scorching guitar licks. Get rhythm and go wild with the snappy and peppy tempos that make you move your feet and other body parts! Koko Mojo Records endeavours to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its "killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers.

Koko Mojo Records showcases twenty-eight rousing rhythm & blues rockers with a dash of doo-wop music with the emphasis of jive dancing and added stroll tempos for a stylistic variety on Hi-Strung R&B Volume 08 Oh Yeah. The exhilarating R&B dance-fest sounds are sourced from the years 1949 through to 1962 “Dance kids go crazy” is the message the music carries. The eighth album in the series of ten maintains the constant dance rhythm and will provide something unexpected. The album has songs from the lesser-known and the internationally famous performers. The well-known performers include; Little Richard who from his formative years hollers his way through Taxi Blues, LaVern Baker changes Nellie Lutcher's He's a Real Gone from Jazz into R&B, and Chuck Berry's Come On and Larry Williams's Oh Baby are often over-looked but oh so good. The should be well-known names had lack of sales not decreed otherwise are; René Hall's Orchestra featuring Willie Joe (on Unitar) performing the marvellous instrumental Twitchy, and Bill Pinky and The Turks, After The Hop, and these are two must-have recordings. Kitty (Lanier) and Clay (Robbins) duet perfectly during Whoa-Ho (Let's Get Together), and blues legends (Earl) Hooker & (Junior) Wells work perfectly together on Universal Rock . The lesser-known artists who have that rhythm which moves your feet include; Cledus Harrison, Broke, Billy Lamont, I Got A Rock And Roll Gal, Del Thorne and Her Trio, I Let Him Move Me, and Pat Flowers and His Piano Rock Sock The Boogie all of which are Grade A performances. It is guaranteed that there is so much more to discover within the album. Koko Mojo Records endeavours to use some lesser-known and for some people, perhaps more obscure titles, and our philosophy is to compile songs of quality, with every album, its “killer and no filler” ideology! You are listening to music from the past with a remastered sound that will shake the speakers. Dee Jay Mark Armstrong, Bühl, Germany

Chuck Norris VOL.2 1946-1962 Norris originates from the Midwest, born in Kansas City, Missouri on August 11, 1921, and raised in Chicago, where he studied under the fabled music instructor Captain Walter Dyett at Chicago's DuSable High School. Here, he learned to read music, and his versatility and keeping up with the trends kept him in constant demand, resulting in a career that spanned four decades. In the mid-40s, Norris relocated to Los Angeles where his performances in local clubs caught the attention of independent labels and producers, particularly saxophonist, songwriter, and producer Maxwell Davis, whose connections across labels like Aladdin, Modern, and Specialty provided Norris with plenty of opportunities for session work. In the 40s and early 50s, the West Coast served as the cradle of R&B, blending diverse musical genres. It amalgamated small, almost pop-styled combos with the blues of Texas and the big band influences of the Midwest. Throughout his career, he released just 16 solo tracks. These releases primarily served to fill gaps in the company's catalog rather than being seen as long-term investments, and as so they had limited distribution and were pressed in small quantities, making many of them nearly impossible to find today. Not many realize that they have heard Chuck’s guitar or bass on countless recording sessions by everybody from Charles Brown and Dinah Washington to Percy Mayfield and Jesse Belvin and on bestselling records by Bobby Day, The Robins, The Platters, and The Rivingtons. His resume also includes a session for an X-rated movie, and a soundtrack for the movie "The Great White Hope". He even did a month-long stint playing the banjo behind Louis Armstrong and Barbara Streisand on "Hello Dolly”. Other than a great interview on the back of Swedish LP "Los Angeles Flash" recorded in 1982, there is limited documentation of his career, and no official collection of his work exists. Until now. Norris’ earliest recordings lean more towards jazz and later the refined urban blues stylings of Floyd Dixon and Charles Brown whose styles owed a lot to the smooth velvety pop of Nat King Cole. When Charles Brown departed from the Three Blazers in 1948, he established his own trio The Smarties with Eddie Williams on bass and Norris on guitar. For Vol. 2 we have featured more Chuck Norris solo sides, and outstanding tracks recorded between 1946 and 1962 with artists such as Pearl Traylor, Percy Mayfield, Johnny Guitar Watson, Linda Hopkins, and Larry Williams!