The Sue label was started by Guy Stevens who was the disc-jockey at Ronan O'Rahilly's 'Scene' club in London. Many of these tracks were played on the pirates.

Track Listing

1. Mockingbird - Inez & Charlie Foxx
2. Land Of 1000 Dances - Chris Kenner
3. I Can't Believe What You Say - Ike & Tina Turner
4. A Little Piece Of Leather - Donnie Elbert
5. Do Anything You Wanna' Part 1 - Harold Betters
6. Do Anything You Wanna' Part 2 - Harold Betters
7. Oh Mom (Teach Me How To Uncle Willie) - The Daylighters
8. Let's Stick Together - Wilbert Harrison
9. Music City - The Pleasures
10. Keep An Eye On Love - Ernestine Anderson
11. All About My Girl - Jimmy Mcgriff
12. Spring - Birdlegs & Pauline
13. That's How Strong My Love Is - O.V. Wright
14. Daddy Rollin' Stone - Derek Martin
15. You Can't Sit Down - The Phil Upchurch Combo
16. That's How Heartaches Are Made - Baby Washington
17. I Wanna Be (Your Everything) - The Manhattans
18. Watch Your Step - Bobby Parker
19. I Done Woke Up - Louisiana Red
20. Hard Grind - Wild Jimmy Spruill
21. The Bounce - The Olympics
22. Too Many Drivers - Lowell Fulson
23. Yum Yum Yum - Joe Tex
24. I Sing ‘Um The Way I Feel - J.B. Lenoir
25. Dust My Blues - Elmore James
26. Billy's Bag (Instr) - Billy Preston

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67125 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-29
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
The first of three volumes which, between them, chronicle the six-year lifespan of the UK Sue label, probably the most beloved imprint of all among the many collectors of blues, rock‘n’roll and soul on UK labels. UK Sue was the R&B arm of Island Records, and – for most of its lifetime – the total responsibility of the late Guy Stevens. Almost every record that was released on Sue was personally selected by Stevens, many of them based on the reactions of the audience, when he DJ’d at the legendary London discotheque "The Scene". Stevens later went on to produce records by Mott The Hoople and the Clash in the 1970s, but it’s for the UK Sue label that he will always be remembered. The UK Sue Story is as much his story as it is that of the records he selected for release on its familiar red and yellow logo. Among the many artists who received their first UK exposure via a Sue Records release were Elmore James, Inez and Charlie Foxx, Donnie Elbert, Big Al Downing, Billy Preston, Bob and Earl, Homesick James and Jimmy McGriff. UK Sue also reissued many in-demand titles by such luminaries as Phil Upchurch, Bobby Parker, Huey "Piano" Smith, Frankie Ford and many more. Sue was, in many ways, the foundation on which today’s reissue market is built. Guaranteed appeal for all collectors of 50s and 60s R&B and soul music, with copious annotation, illustration and shots of original UK Sue labels to appeal to collectors everywhere!

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Customer Reviews

Pioneer label
The label took as its colors the red & yellow of Philles and in the 80s the same design was used for the Bomp label.
Though mainly a reissue label which named itself from the American label some of the records came from-which had been on London American-this was possibly the first label for collectors and was all about singles rather than albums.There were few chart entries but the point was that record companies were still far behind when it came to the "grass roots" movement.
The British Invasion became the reason why the Sue label set up-the first label for collectors and distributed by Island

From Sue to you
My big brother used to come home with the red and yellow Sue label records in the early 1960s and I think they may well have been the first 'grown-up' music I felt attached to (along with 2nd album Bob Dylan). This CD captures some of the excitement of those days and of hearing the tracks for the first time. I took it with me when I went to visit some friends in the English Lake District and they danced round their kitchen. So will you.

Difficult to find but worth it
Having been an avid record collector over the past fourty years a few of the 60's tracks have become unplayable. Trawling Amazon I found this gem. Anyone who likes modern music (whatever that means?) will understand that this cd is a slim slice of black music culture performed at the turn of the 50's to 60's and as such was an influence on the british beat explosion called the swinging 60's. Mockingbird, Land of 1000 dances, Billie's Bag; all these tracks filled dance floors (ex Mod) in the south of england during the 60's. the same tracks and the reaminder are/were also appreciated by the 'Northern Soul' buffs of the 70's to present day