60 prime examples illustrating why New Orleans was the melting pot for music throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. This cosmopolitan city drew all its influences together and spawned a sound all of its own, producing the very finest examples of Rock 'n' Roll, R'n' B and Pop ever heard. CD 1: Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame / Little Richard - Tutti Frutti / Dave Bartholomew - Tra-La-La / Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Dave Bartholomew - My Ding-A-Ling / Clarence Garlow - New Bon Ton Roulay / Little Richard - Rip It Up / Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used To Do / Fats Domino - Blue Monday / Lloyd Price - Chee Koo Baby / Professor Longhair – Tipitina / Bobby Charles - See You Later, Alligator / Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking / Sugar Boy And His Cane Cutters - Jock-A-Mo / The Spiders - I Didn't Want To Do It / The Hawks - I-Yi / Pee Wee Crayton - You Know Yeah / The Hawketts - Mardi Gras Mambo / Smiley Lewis - Real Gone Lover / Bobby Mitchell - Try Rock 'n' Roll. CD 2: Little Richard - Long Tall Sally / Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill / Shirley And Lee - Let The Good Times Roll / Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - Ain't Got No Home / Smiley Lewis - One Night / Little Richard – Lucille / Huey 'Piano' Smith And The Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu / Allen Toussaint – Java / Roy Montrell - That Mellow Saxophone / Eddie Bo - I'm Wise (Slippin' And Slidin') / Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp And Gumbo / Art Neville - Oooh-Wee Baby / Bobby Charles - Laura Lee / Lee Allen - Walkin' With Mr. Lee / Jerry Byrne - Lights Out / Paul Gayten - Nervous Boogie / Huey 'Piano' Smith And The Clowns - Don't You Just Know It / Jimmy Clanton And His Rockets - Just A Dream / Paul Gayten – Windy / Art Neville - Arabian Love Call. CD 3: Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise / Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly / Fats Domino - Be My Guest / Ernie K. Doe - Mother-In-Law / Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya / Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That / Clarence 'Frogman' Henry - But I Do / Mac Rebennack - Storm Warning / Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras / Joe Jones - You Talk Too Much / Jessie Hill - Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Parts 1 & 2) / Aaron Neville - Over You / Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans / Irma Thomas - Cry On / Ernie K. Doe - Te-Ta-Te-Ta-Ta / Diamond Joe - Moanin' And Screamin' (Parts 1 &2) / The Showmen - It Will Stand / Lee Dorsey - Do-Re-Mi / Barbara George - I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) / Willie Harper - New Kind Of Love.