Muziek - Flash Records Story

Flash Records Story

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Even by the standards of small indie labels that had just one or two hits in the early days of rock & roll, the Los Angeles-based Flash label was something of a flash in the pan. Its one hit was the Jayhawks' ''Stranded in the Jungle'' (which made the Top 20 in 1956), and even though that's one of the funniest doo wop smashes, its thunder was stolen when a better cover by the Cadets outpaced it on the charts. That didn't stop Flash from continuing to try, however, and it put out 30 other singles from 1955 to 1959. Many of them are on this two-CD, 60-track compilation, which also includes a few previously unreleased cuts, along with a few others that didn't see the light until decades later. Flash neither developed a consistent hitmaker nor stuck to any one or two styles in its short lifespan, churning out doo wop, raucous electric blues, basic '50s rock & roll, instrumentals, jump blues -- you name it, most forms of R&B-based Los Angeles 1950s music are here. Most of the tracks, it has to be said, are average exponents of these genres and no more, and challenging listening 60 songs at a time if you're not an avid devotee of those sounds. Nothing else stands out on the level of ''Stranded in the Jungle,'' but there are things here and there that catch the ear more than most of the package. Judge Davis offers a credible emulation of early New Orleans Fats Domino school R&B/rock & roll crossover with ''Can't Sleep at Night''; Mamie Perry plays effective downbeat minor-key blues on ''I'm Hurted'' (sic), even if the other side, ''My Baby Waited Too Long,'' seems obviously derivative of Howlin' Wolf's ''Who's Been Talking?''; and Gus Jenkins' ''Drift On'' is smoldering brassy urban blues, while his more upbeat ''Slow Down'' (not the same as the Larry Williams classic) is one of the few things on here that sounds like a genuine chart contender. The earliest 1955 sides the label cut are real raw and swampy blues for Los Angeles-cut sessions; the Jayhawks' sorrowful ballad ''Counting My Teardrops'' sounds like precisely the sort of doo wop the Mothers of Invention parodied/paid homage to on their early albums; and future jazz star Roy Ayers appears as part of the Poets on their otherwise unremarkable vocal group single. Yes, on one level this is collector fanaticism at its extreme, since an in-depth anthology of this nature will interest only a small niche audience. These are the kinds of niche comps in which Ace specializes, however, and as usual it pulls out all the stops, complete with a bountifully illustrated 40-page booklet with liner notes by early rock & roll historian Jim Dawson. ~ Richie Unterberger

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