Freed's band could be heard on four albums that were issued on US Coral and Brunswick between 1956 and 1958 - one recorded under the name of The King's Henchmen. The first of them has been reissued several times but, incredibly, the contents of the other three have remained unavailable for almost half a century.

Ace's A Stompin' Good Time features the King's Henchmen albums in their entirety, along with the Alan Freed Big Band tracks from the two various artists albums that originally featured material from Jackie Wilson, Buddy Holly, Terry Noland and Billy Williams among others. You won't find Jackie, Buddy, Billy and Terry here, but what you will find is an hour's worth of uproarious instrumentalism that rocks like crazy and that will be manna from heaven for all lovers of 1950s big bland blastin'.

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