The Imperial label will be the subject of this week’s Deeper Roots show. Founded in 1947 by Lew Chudd, it’s early years featured some of the very best rhythm and blues and early rock you could find. Their lineup included some of the big names of early rock, not least of which was Roy Brown, Fats Domino, Frankie Ford and Ricky Nelson. They would dabble in country and jazz but also looked to strike while the iron was hot when Elvis hit with a blend of country and rhythm and blues in the mid-50s. They did so by looking for new names with ducktails and driving combos in the rockabilly era. This episode focuses primarily on the 1950s with a future episode taking us further into the label’s sale to Liberty Records in 1963 but not before Lew Chudd purchased Aladdin and Minit Records, bringing over even more of the R&B talent that they would be known for. It’s another Deeper Roots Friday morning on KOWS.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Fats Domino	The Fat Man	Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Piano Blues – A Film By Clint Eastwood
2	Smiley Lewis	Tee-Nah-Nah	I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 1
3	Guitar Slim and His Band	Bad Luck Is On Me [Woman Troubles]	Louisiana Swamp Blues
4	Big Jay McNeely	All That Wine Is Gone	Jumpin' Like Mad: Cool Cats & Hip Chicks Non-Stop Dancin' [Disc 1]
5	T-Bone Walker	Cold Cold Feeling	Best Of Black & White & Imperial Years
6	Fat Man Matthews & the Four Kittens	Later Baby	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 3
7	Fats Domino	Goin' Home	Rock And Rollin
8	Lil' Son Jackson	Get High Everybody	Vol. 2 1950-1952
9	Smiley Lewis	Big Mamou	I Hear You Knocking 1947-1962 Disc 2
10	Hawks	I-Yi	Money Honey – Rise of the Black Vocal Group 51-53
11	Pee Wee Crayton	Win-O	Pee Wee's Blues – The Complete Aladdin And Imperial Recordings
12	Joe Houston Orchestra	All Night Long	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 4
13	The Pelicans	Ain't Gonna Do It	Rhythm 'N' Blues: Early Doo Wop 1943-55, vol. 2
14	The Spiders	I Didn't Want To Do It	Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1
15	Dave Bartholomew	Another Mule	1952-1955
16	James "Sugar Boy" Crawford	She Gotta Wobble (When She Walks) (Imperial 5424)	R&B Humdingers Volume 12
17	Bobby Mitchell with Dave Bartholomew's Orch.'	Try Rock And Roll	Blowing The Fuse: 1956
18	Lew Williams	Cat Talk	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
19	Lew Williams	Gone Ape Man	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
20	Merle Kilgore	Ernie	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
21	The Strikes	Baby I'm Sorry	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
22	Bob Luman	Red Hot	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
23	Ricky Nelson	Stood Up	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
24	Ricky Nelson	Boppin' The Blues	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
25	Ricky Nelson	Waitin' In School	Legacy [Disc 1]
26	Dennis Herrold	Hip Hip Baby	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
27	Weldon Rogers	So Long, Good Luck & Goodbye	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
28	Dorsey & Johnny Burnette	My Honey	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
29	Dorsey & Johnny Burnette	Warm Love	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
30	Slick Slavin	Speed Crazy	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
31	Bill Allen	Please Give Me Something	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
32	Jackie Walker	Only Teenagers Allowed	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
33	Billy Eldridge	Let's Go	Essential Rockabilly The Imperial Story
34	Faye Adams	Keeper Of My Heart	Crescent City Soul
35	Roy Brown	Let the Four Winds Blow	The Complete Imperial Recordings
36	Ricky Nelson	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It	Legacy [Disc 1]