Conny & The Bellhops - "Shot Rod"
Tyrone Schmidling - "You're Gone, I'm Left"
Pat Patterson - "Rat-A-Ma-Cue" (part 1)
The Accidentals - "Twangin Machine"
Dean Beard - "Rakin' & Scrapin'"
The Century Five - "Red Tiger Shoes"
Chuck & Gary - "Teenie Weenie Jeanie"
Pam Thum - "The Devil's Old Suitcase"
Lightning Junior & The Empires - "Somebody Changed The Lock"
Gene Hall - "Monkey On The Moon"
The Blasts - "Canaveral Rock"
Willows - "Trail Of Tears"
Bonnie Guitar - "Johnny Vagabond"
Linda Green - "Honey Buggie"
Silver Belles With Herb Silver's Orchestra - "Candy Kisses & Bubbly Gum"
The Raiders - "Hocus Pocus"
Mighty Joe Houston Orchestra - "Walk Baby Walk"
Ray Burden - "A Hot-Rodders Dream"
Tall Tonio & The Mello-Dees - "Hot-Rod-Car"
Charlie Ryan - "Hot Rod Race"
The Billy Williams Quartet - "Busy Lane"
Joyce Poynter - "Chilli Dippin' Baby"
The Sounds - "Charlie Chan"
The Huntsmen - "Big Bowl Of Soul"
Sweetie Jones - "I've Been Wrong"
Ronnie Pearson - "Hot Shot"
John Worthan - "The Cat's Were Jumping"
William Cobbs - "You Don't Love Me"
Chris Christian & The Chordaires - "Lover Boy"
Pat Patterson - "Rat-A-Ma-Cue" (part 2)
James Gallagher - "Ford 7 Shaker"
The Gamblers - "Teen Machine"
Sandy Nelson - "The City"
Ritchie Adams - "Pakistan"
Elisabeth Waldo - "Incan Festival Dance"
Grupo Afro-Cubano - "Bongosera"
Fred Katz - "Foggy, Foggy Dew"
John Reedy & His Stone Mountain Trio - "Oh Death"
Pearl Ravens & The Concords - "I'm Not Ashamed (Ugly Woman)"
Pepper Pots - "Leather Jacket Cowboy"
Doye O'Dell - "Diesel Smoke"
Mike Page - "Long Black Shiny Car"
The Nite Riders - "Women & Cadillacs"
Hank Blackman & The Killers - "Itchy Koo"
Vancie Flowers - "Wet Back"
Review: Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, of Cramps fame, team up to deliver Leather Jackets and Diesel Smoke, a whopping 50-track compilation that documents their utmost personal favourite rock recordings, in the micro-veins of acid folk, rockabilly and psychobilly. We'll doff and eat our hats if both said punk legends' rising signs aren't Scorpio. With madcap performances from Donnie James with the Mighty Joe Houston Orchestra, Tall Tonio And The Mello-Dees, Chris Christian And The Chordaires, Elisabeth Waldo, Fred Katz and John Reedy and His Stone Mountain Trio among many more, this is a cavalcade of no-hit wonders, every last one of them a gem. Amounting to a contemporaneous account of the music that The Cramps heard and loved during their rise to notoriety, not to mention the lesser-known music that would've graced the halls of New York's CBGB club, of which they were favourite performers.
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