{{More citations needed|date=January 2010}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Good Rocking Tonight | type = compilation | artist = Roy Brown | cover = RoyBrown_GoodRockin.jpg | alt = | caption = Portrait of Roy Brown taken in 1950. Provided by Roy Brown for use as the cover. | released = 1978 | recorded = 1947–1954 | venue = | studio = | genre = R&B, blues | length = | label = Route 66 Records | producer = Roy Brown | compiler = Bengt Weine, Per Notini, and Roy Brown | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Good Rocking Tonight''''' is a compilation album by the blues musician Roy Brown.
Released by Route 66 Records in 1978 in mono as KIX-6, and is a follow-up to an earlier release titled ''Laughing But Crying'' (KIX-2). This album's subtitle is "Legendary Recordings, Vol 2 (1947–1954)". The cover features a portrait of Roy Brown, courtesy of Roy Brown, taken in 1950.
Some reviewers state that Brown's version of "Good Rocking Tonight" released in 1947, or Wynonie Harris' version from 1948, (depending on the source),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30288/5-candidates-first-rock-n-roll-song|title=5 Candidates for the First Rock 'n' Roll Song|date=23 March 2012|website=Mentalfloss.com|access-date=20 May 2021}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> is one of the contenders for the title of "first rock and roll recording".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/12/rock-n-roll-record |title=The first rock'n'roll record is released |date=12 June 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 August 2020 |quote=the first rock record. In fact, that title is hotly disputed, with contenders including Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944) and}}</ref> The label of the 45 RPM record by Brown included the words "Rocking blues".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkBTo6u8CNg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/dkBTo6u8CNg |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=1st RECORDING OF: Good Rockin’ Tonight - Roy Brown (1947) |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
The back cover includes extensive liner notes, and biographical and autobiographical information attributed to: * John Broven: "Roy Brown", ''Blues Unlimited'' 123–124 * Jonas Bernholm: unpublished interview * Staffan Solding: Swedish Radio Broadcast, 1978
==Track listing== {| class="wikitable" ! # ! Song name ! Time ! Location ! Date |- | 1. | "Good Rocking Tonight" | 3:03 | New Orleans | 1947 |- | 2. | "Long About Midnight" | 3:09 | New Orleans | 1948 |- | 3. | "Whose Hat Is That" | 2:34 | New Orleans | October 1947 |- | 4. | "Fore Day in the Morning" | 3:00 | New Orleans | October 1948 |- | 5. | "Butcher Pete, pt 2"<br>(Brown–Bernard) | 2:47 | Cincinnati | November 2, 1949 |- | 6. | "Dreaming Blues" | 3:11 | Cincinnati | June 15, 1950 |- | 7. | "Old Age Boogie, pt 1 & 2" | 4:35 | New Orleans | December 19, 1952 |- | 8. | "Good Man Blues" | 2:29 | Cincinnati | June 15?, 1950 |- | 9. | "Miss Fanny Brown Returns" | 2:39 | New Orleans | 1948 |- | 10. | "Brown Angel" | 3:01 | Cincinnati | September 27, 1951 |- | 11. | "Grandpa Stole My Baby" | 2:52 | ''Unknown'' | ''Unknown'', early 1953? |- | 12. | "Teenage Jamobree" | 3:01 | Cincinnati | June 22, 1950 |- | 13. | "Black Diamond" | 2:31 | New Orleans | September 2, 1954 |- | 14. | "This Is My last Goodbye" | 2:39 | Cincinnati | April 2, 1954 |- | 15. | "Mighty, Mighty Man" |2:26 | ''Unknown'' | ''Unknown'' |}
All songs by Roy Brown except where noted.
== Personnel == * Placide Adams — drums [13] * Chuck Badie — bass [10] * Earl Barnes — tenor sax [1, 3] * Edgar Blanchard — guitar [6, 8?, 12] * Frank Campbell — baritone saxophone [7] * Walter Daniels — piano [3] * Wallace Davenport — trumpet [3] * Salvador Doucette — piano [13] * Jimmy Davis — guitar [7, 13, 14] * Johnny Fontenette — tenor saxophone [5, 6, 7, 8?, 10, 12, 13] * Percy Gabriel — bass [3] * Albert "June" Gardner — drums [14] * James C. Harris — piano [14] * Wilbur Herden — trumpet [6, 8?, 12] * Ike Isaacs — bass [6, 8?, 12] * George Jenkins — drums [12] * Leonard Jefferson — bass [14] * Bill Jones — guitar [3] * Melvin Lastie — trumpet [13] * Ray Miller — drums [7] * Tony Moret — trumpet [1] * Alexander Nelson — baritone saxophone [10] * Charlie Nelson — piano [10] * Bob Ogden — drums [1] * Jerome O'Neill — alto saxophone [1] * Frank Parker — drums [5] * Sammy Parker — tenor saxophone [7, 13, 14] * LeRoy Rankins — baritone saxophone [5, 6, 8?, 12] * Teddy Riley — trumpet [5, 7, 10, 14] * Edward Santineo — piano [5, 6, 8?, 12] * Louis Sargent — guitar [5] * Calvin Sheilds — drums [6, 8?] * Tommy Shelvin — bass [5, 7, 13] * Wilbert Smith — bass [10] * Clement Tervalon — trombone [1, 3] * Victor Thomas — tenor saxophone [7, 14] * Jimmy Williams — piano [7] * ''Unknown'' — bass [1, 2, 4, 9, 11]<br> — drums [2, 3, 4, 9, 11]<br> — guitar [1, 11]<br> — piano [1, 2, 4, 9, 11]<br> — tenor saxophone [2, 4, 9, 11]<br> — trombone [2, 4, 9]<br> — trumpet [2, 4, 9]
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