For those unaware, the bottomless vaults of Columbia Records have contributed spectacularly to the ‘That’ll Flat…Git It!’ series from the Bear Family.

This latest deep dive into Columbia’s voluminous rockabilly and rock and roll archive That’ll Flat Git It! Vol. 50: Rockabilly & Rock ’n’ Roll From The Vaults Of Columbia & Epic Records uncovers another 30 savage sides (a handful pulled from its Epic and OKeh sister labels), including revered classics from Johnny Horton (Lover’s Rock, The Wild One), The Collins Kids (The Rockaway Rock, Heartbeat), Marty Robbins (Long Tall Sally), Carl Perkins (Pointed Toe Shoes), and Link Wray (Raw-Hide as well as a rare vocal turn on Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby).

But there are plenty of lesser-known gems aboard this viciously rocking disc too - Dick Lory’s Wild-Blooded Woman, Larry Hart’s A Looka-A-Looka, Dick Glasser’s Crazy Alligator, and Bernie Nee’s Lend Me Your Comb (the same charmer Carl Perkins cut for Sun) just for starters.

Charlie Adams, Johnny Bond, Little Jimmy Dickens, Lefty Frizzell, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Carl Butler illustrate the indelible impact that country music had on the fast-developing rockabilly idiom during the mid-50’s (Mel Tillis and Bill Phillips were about to embrace country stardom), while Commonwealth Jones (actually Ronnie Dawson), Bobby Lord, and Rick Tucker and The Picks (their Patty Baby was a product of Norman Petty’s Clovis, N.M. facility) represent the younger generation.

Under the savvy stewardship of A&R chief Don Law, Columbia’s massive country catalog contained plenty of vicious rockabilly. Like its storied predecessors, this Columbia compilation really delivers the goods!

Perhaps New York-based old school mainstay Columbia couldn’t quite claim the cachet of Sun Records, but without question its huge rockabilly battalion boasted the same level of star power!

The fifth CD dedicated to the much-loved Columbia label, the set opens on the rambunctious Raw-Hide, the pure music sound of Do, Do, Do, the rocking What A Night, the Everly Brothers-esque Lend Me Your Comb and both the bad ass The Wild One and the rhythmically fun Stinky Pass The Hat Around, before we are then brought forth the harmonic Let Me Love You, the coolness of Cattin’ Around, the low slung countrified blues of Case Of The Blues, one of the finest love songs ever written What Do I Care, the perky Baby I’m Ready, the sheer coolness of the melodic A Looka-A-Looka, and both the gentle, veritable Hawaiian hipsway of From An Angel To Devil and the foot-tapper There’s A Change In Me.

Complete with detailed liner notes, discographical information, illustrations and photos in the four-colored booklet, along next is the rockabilly of Pointed Toe Shoes, the upbeat and joyful swing of Party Pooper, the reply song to Battle of New Orleans (?) Crazy Alligator, and then come the cartoonish The Rockaway Rock, the formidable harmonica/piano-driven The Little Rock Roll and the smooth country sounds of Patty Baby, before next unleashed is the young Mick Jagger/Howlin’ Wolf-imbibed Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby, the quietly-structured rockabilly of Lover’s Rock, the rhythmically-paced Hook, Line And Sinker, the brilliant Don Winters-written Baby I’m A-Waitin’, the music rounding out on the pop-rock sound of Wild-Blooded Woman, the fun Sugar Diet, the fingerpicking classic Lay It On The Line, the cordial Heartbeat, closing on a rarely heard version of Long Tall Sally and another rockabilly cut in Let’s Take The Long Way Home.

Tracklisting:
1. Link Wray and The Wraymen - Raw-Hide 2. Commonwealth Jones - Do, Do, Do 3. Lee Emerson - What A Night 4. Bernie Nee - Lend Me Your Comb 5. Johnny Horton - The Wild One 6. Little Jimmy Dickens - Stinky Pass The Hat Around 7. The Maddox Brothers & Rose - Let Me Love You 8. Charlie Adams - Cattin’ Around 9. Mel Tillis - Case Of The Blues 10. Johnny Cash - What Do I Care 11. The Tunesmiths - Baby I’m Ready 12. Larry Hart - A Looka-A-Looka 13. Lefty Frizzell - From An Angel To Devil 14. Bill Phillips - There’s A Change In Me 15. Carl Perkins - Pointed Toe Shoes 16. Bobby Lord - Party Pooper 17. Dick Glasser - Crazy Alligator 18. The Collins Kids - The Rockaway Rock 19. Johnny Bond - The Little Rock Roll 20. Rick Tucker & The Picks - Patty Baby 21. Link Wray and The Wraymen - Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby 22. Johnny Horton - Lover’s Rock 23. Gordon Terry - Hook, Line And Sinker 24. Carl Butler - Baby I’m A-Waitin’ 25. Dick Lory - Wild-Blooded Woman 26. Charlie Adams - Sugar Diet 27. Johnny Bond - Lay It On The Line 28. The Collins Kids - Heartbeat 29. Marty Robbins - Long Tall Sally 30. Johnny Horton - Let’s Take The Long Way Home

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