Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll Volume Four - Smack Dab In The Middle - Atomicat (ACCD104) is the penultimate album in the series containing twenty-eight songs and ends like Rock ‘n’ Roll evenings of the past, with a love song. The music is sourced from the golden years of 1954 through to 1963, from labels large and small.
The album is stuffed full of American, Australian, and Argentinian Rockers, and it is noticeable that crooners and country music performers needed to make some coin and jumped onto the Rock ‘n’ Roll bandwagon, often using a made-up identity. Many artists in the series are too many are mostly unknown, but not they are not lacking in star quality and the songs have danceability
01 Ronnie Hawkins Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Hawkins, Magill) Roulette 1958
02 Lonnie Lee and The Eddie Cash Jr., Orchestra Shame On You Miss Johnson (Freeman) Lee Gordon 1960
03 The Keil Isles vocal Herma Keil Country Boy (Domino, Bartholomew) Zodiac Icon 1960
04 Ray Pennington Boogie Woogie Country Girl (Pomus, Ashby) Lee 1956
05 Bobby Davis with The Dazzlers Money Honey (Stone) Peak 1959
06 Los Pick Ups Josefina (Domino, Bartholomew) Music Hall 1962
07 Carl Mann I Ain't Got No Home (Guthrie) Phillips International 1961
08 The Hilltoppers featuring Chuck Schrouder Ka-Ding-Dong (McDermott, Jordan) Dot 1956
09 Bill Haley and His Comets Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (Horton, Darling, Gabler) Decca 1957
10 Johnny Newton and The Tags Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) (Giosasi, Zwirn) Bell 1959
11 Dion Can't We Be Sweethearts (Goldner, Cox) CBS 1963
12 Helen Grayco Oop-Shoop (Gunter, Taylor) X 1954
13 Boyd Bennett and His Rockets vocal Big Moe Boogie At Midnight (Brown, Bernard) King 1955
14 Tommy Sands Hey Miss Fannie (Nugetre ) Capitol LP 1958
15 Ric Cartey Mellow Down Easy (Dixon) RCA Victor 1958
16 Jimmy Elledge Bo Diddley (McDaniels) RCA Victor 1962
17 The Spades vocal by Sara Lee Jim Dandy (no writer credit) Rebel 1961
18 Link Wray and His Wraymen Mary Anne (Charles) Epic 1960
19 Eddie Hill Smack Dab In The Middle (Calhoun) RCA Victor 1955
20 Jerry Duane Rock-in' Robin' (no writer credit) Ariola 1958
21 Johnny Bell Flip Flop and Fly (Calhoun, Turner) Brunswick 1959
22 Boyd Bennett Poison Ivy (London) King 1955
23 The Keil Isles vocal Herma Keil Don't Come Knockin' (Domino) Zodiac Icon 1960
24 Joe Clay Cracker Jack (Rockingham, Otis) Vik 1956
25 Marty Robbins Maybelline (Berry) Columbia 1955
26 Rex Masters Too Much (no writer credit) Big 4 Hits 1957
27 Ricky Nelson I'm in Love Again (Domino, Bartholomew) Imperial 1958
28 The Fontane Sisters Eddie My Love (Collins, Davis, Ling) Dot 1956