Apples and Peaches for You: It's NRBQ Jukebox 2!

This set of songs that NRBQ taught us starts in 1958 with I Got A Rocket In My Pocket, a single that took Terry Adams over a decade to find after he heard it on the radio as a kid.  Scroll down past Terry's mugshot in this interview for the details.

It's loaded with Q fan favorites: C'mon If You're Coming, Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie, Wild Weekend, 12 Bar Blues and more (31 songs in all!)

Thanks to blog reader Robert -- who identified Daddy-O as a private press single from a Massachusetts band called The Checkmates -- I finally got my hands on a copy to share with you. It took awhile to find, but nowhere near as long as Terry had to search for Jimmy Lloyd's single!

My Daddy-O 45 isn't in great shape, but Al Santos (seen on the cover of his LP Gaiety Polkas) was in fine form when he cut the tune. The b-side (I Love My Babciu And Dziadziu) is more sentimental. You can get a taste of it in this video of Richie Kendra performing his composition.

There's one more NRBQ Jukebox to come, and it's devoted to the jazz side of NRBQ's repertoire.  But this one's got country music, rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, and a little bit of soul.