Bobby Charles - What A Party: The Complete Recordings 1955-1966 (CD ON HOLD)

-Bear Family Records® provides the first comprehensive overview of the decisive years (1955-1966) in the career of a unique musician and songwriter: Bobby Charles.-Double CD featuring his early ballads from southern Louisiana and his Chess recordings of New Orleans rock & roll, plus additional tunes for Jewel, Paula, and Hub City.-Swamp Pop - created at a time when that term was not yet common.-He wrote Walking To New Orleans, Four Winds and What A Party for Fats Domino - we provide Bobby's own versions.-Detailed biography and session information by Bill Dahl.-Carefully processed recordings and an extensive illustrated booklet, as is customary with Bear Family releases.Long before the term 'swamp pop' was coined, Bobby Charles was one of the idiom's primary architects, writing and recording the prototypical mid-'50s South Louisiana ballads On Bended Knee, Why Did You Leave, and Why Can't You. He was also a dedicated New Orleans rock and roller whose sizable output for Chess Record