The Treniers

The Treniers - They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! The Best of the Treniers (1951-1955)

Led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier, the Treniers were a joyously crazed R&B group whose style suggested a middle ground between Louis Jordan's swingin' boogie and the more stylized approach of Ray Charles' early sides, but with less ballast and more frantic energy than both of those acts put together. While the Treniers released their first records through Mercury, the group's best recordings were cut for the Okeh label between 1951 and 1955, and They Rock! They Roll! They Swing!: The Best of the Treniers collects 15 classic sides from the Okeh vaults (among them their duet with baseball star Willie Mays, "Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)," and the gotta-hear-it-to-believe-it "Poontang") along with five equally potent unreleased cuts. Whether they were chasing women, getting drunk on patent medicine, or simply celebrating their own monumental coolness, the Treniers were one group who knew how to get the party started, and They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! is both a fine introduction to their fine sounds and a fitting soundtrack for your next bash. All 20 tunes have been expertly remastered and sound great, while Nick Toshes (who wrote a superb appreciation of the Treniers in his book Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll) contributes informative and entertaining liner notes. This disc was reissued in 2004 on the Collectables label featuring nine bonus tracks not available on the 1995 Epic/Legacy version.

Mark Deming, allmusic.com

01 - Go! Go! Go!
02 - It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings!
03 - Hadacol (That's All)
04 - This Is It
05 - Rocking On Saturday Night
06 - Poon-Tang!
07 - Rockin' Is Our Business
08 - Sugar-Doo
09 - Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
10 - Trapped (In The Web Of Love)
11 - Bald Head
12 - I Said No
13 - Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)
14 - (Uh-Oh) Get Out Of The Car
15 - Everything's Wild In Wildwood
16 - Ride, Man Ride
17 - Good Rockin' Tonight
18 - Peace Bond Blues
19 - Rock 'N' Roll Call
20 - Rock-A-Way

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