Roulette, over the years, tried just about anything. They started and stopped a number of series of
differing musical genre, and these are included here. The labels used for these series were similar to the
main labels at the time. For example, the SR-75000 Gold Classic Series of the early 1960s used a
variation of the multi-color bar label, except that the bars were all gold, and "ROULETTE GOLD
CLASSIC SERIES" was boldly around the label edge.
The 59000 series, released in 1982, was the umpteenth and final series of repackaged Roulette material
from the company. A few years later, they redid the series for compact disc, and put out a few greatest
hits packages, but that was about it. The compact discs are covered in Part 5.
We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications
is an information web page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have
no association with Roulette Records, which we believe is currently owned by Rhino and EMI. Should
you want to contact Rhino or EMI, or should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in this
discography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow the
instructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 1998, 1999 by Mike Callahan.
ROULETTE ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY, PART 4
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
Birdland 2-LP Series (1958-1961):
SRB-1 - The Count Basie Story - Count Basie [2/58] (2-LP set) Broadway/Down For
Double/Lester Leaps In/Topsy/Jumping At The Woodside/Shorty George/Taps Miller/Doggin'
Around/Avenue
C/Jive At Five/Rock-A-Bye Basie/Swinging The Blues/Sent For You Yesterday/Tickle Toes/Blue And
Sentimental/Time Out/920 Special Red Bank Boogie/Every Tub/Texas Shuffle/Dickie's Dream/Out Of
The
Window/Boogie Woogie
SRB-2 - The Birdland Story - Various Artists [1961] (2-LP set) With John Coltrane, T.
Jones,
Billy Mitchell, Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson, Dizzy
Gillespie,
Harry Bellefonte
10 Original Cast Series (1970):
SROC-11 - Billy Noname (Original Cast) - Sammy Benskin [1970]
100 Demo Series (1958):
SR-100 - Roulette Presents a Demonstration of the New Dimensional Sound of Dynamic Stereo -
Various Artists [1958] Sampler and demo record, included with half-price coupon for any
Roulette stereo
album. Has Anyone Here Seen Basie - Count Basie (S)/The Song From Moulin Rouge - Jimmie Rodgers
(S)/Kele
Kele - Johnny Richards (S)/I've Only Myself To Blame - Joe Williams (S)/Star Eyes - Joe Newman
(S)/Frenzy -
Machito & Orchestra (S)//Slide's Dearangement - Maynard Ferguson (S)/Long Gone - Pearl Bailey
(S)/Dear Old
Southland - Tyree Glenn & Orchestra (S)/Piruli - Tito Rodriguez & Orchestra (S)
100 Echoes Series (1973-?):
It is believed that all these are 2-LP sets.
RE-101 - Echoes of an Era: The Maynard Ferguson Years - Maynard Ferguson [1973]
RE-102 - Echoes of an Era: The Count Basie Years - Count Basie [1973]
RE-103 - Echoes of an Era: The Stan Getz Years - Stan Getz [1973]
RE-104 - Echoes of an Era: The Dinah Washington Years - Dinah Washington [1973]
RE-105 - Echoes of an Era: The Sarah Vaughan Years - Sarah Vaughan [1973]
RE-106 - Echoes of an Era: Diz and Bird - Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker [1973]
RE-107 - Echoes of an Era: Count Basie with Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan - Count
Basie with
Tony Bennett & Sarah Vaughan [1973]
RE-108 - Music to Keep Your Husband Happy - Sonny Lester [1973]
RE-108 - Echoes of an Era: The Louis Armstrong Years - Duke Ellington & Louis
Armstrong
[1973]
RE-109 - Echoes of an Era: The Maynard Ferguson and Herbie Mann Years - Maynard
Ferguson &
Herbie Mann [1973]
RE-110 - Echoes of an Era - Jack Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell & B. Taylor [1973]
RE-111 - Echoes of a Rock Era: The Early Years - Various Artists [1973] (2-LP set)
Disc 1: Crying In The Chapel - Sonny Til & Orioles (E)/Shake A Hand - Faye Adams (E)/Bo
Diddley - Bo Diddley (E)/Earth Angel - Penguins (E)/Maybellene - Chuck Berry (E)//Sincerely -
Moonglows (E)/Story Untold - Nutmegs (E)/Goodnight My Love - Jesse Belvin (E)/Roll Over Beethoven -
Chuck Berry (E)/Speedoo - Cadillacs (E); Disc 2: A Thousand Miles Away - Heartbeats (E)/Why
Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & Teenagers (E)/Gee - Crows (E)/School Day - Chuck Berry
(E)/C.C. Rider - Chuck Willis (E)//Happy Happy Birthday Baby - Tune Weavers (E)/Honeycomb - Jimmie
Rodgers (E)/Silhouettes - Rays (E)/Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Jimmie Rodgers (E)/Party Doll - Buddy
Knox (E)
RE-112 - Echoes of a Rock Era: The Middle Years - Various Artists [1973] (2-LP set)
Disc 1: Book Of Love - Monotones (E)/Get A Job - Silhouettes (E)/Maybe - Chantels
(E)/Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers (E)/Tears On My Pillow - Little Anthony & Imperials (E)//Ten
Commandments Of Love - Moonglows (E)/Charlie Brown - Coasters (E)/Hey Little Girl - Dee Clark (E)/I
Only Have Eyes For You - Flamingos (E)/Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison (E); Disc 2: Poison Ivy
- Coasters (E)/Red River Rock - Johnny & Hurricanes (E)/Sixteen Candles - Crests (E)/So Fine - Fiestas
(E)/Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy Bland (E)//Stay - Maurice Williams & Zodiacs (E)/You Talk Too Much
- Joe Jones (E)/Funny - Maxine Brown (E)/Bristol Stomp - Dovells (E)/Peppermint Twist, Part 1 - Joey
Dee & Starliters (E)
RE-113 - Echoes of a Rock Era: The Later Years - Various Artists [1973] (2-LP set)
Disc
1: All In My Mind - Maxine Brown (E)/Dedicated To The One I Love - Shirelles (E)/The Fly - Chubby
Checker (E)/Gee Whiz - Carla Thomas (E)/Heart And Soul - Cleftones (E)//Look In My Eyes - Chantels
(E)/Tossin'
And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis (E)/Wheels - String-A-Longs (E)/When We Get Married - Dreamlovers (E)/Ya
Ya -
Lee Dorsey (E); Disc 2: Soul Twist - King Curtis (E)/Baby It's You - Spaniels (E)/Don't Play That
Song
(I Lied) - Ben E. King (E)/The Loco-Motion - Little Eva (E)/Rinky Dink - Dave "Baby" Cortez (E)//Shout -
Joey
Dee & Starliters (E)/Snap Your Fingers - Joe Henderson (E)/Two faces Have I - Lou Christie (E)/Easier
Said Than
Done - Essex (E)/My Guy - Mary Wells (E)
RE-114 - Echoes of a Rock Era: The Groups - Various Artists [1973] (2-LP set) Disc
1, The
Crows: Perfidia (E)/Seven Lonely Days (E)/I Love You So (E)/Gee (E)/Heartbreaker (E)/Call A
Doctor
(E)//Untrue (E)/Baby (E)/Miss You (E)/I Really Really Love You (E)/Mambo Shevitz (E)/Sweet Sue Just
You (E);
Disc 2, The Harptones: Sunday Kind Of Love (E)/My Memories Of You (E)/Life Is But A Dream
(E)/Three Wishes (E)/That's The Way It Goes (E)/On Sunday Afternoon (E)//The Masquerade Is Over
(E)/Shrine
Of St. Cecilia (E)/Cry Like I Cried (E)/So Good So Fine You're Mine (E)/Until The Real Thing Comes
Along
(E)/What Did I Do Wrong (E)
RE-115 - Echoes of a Rock Era - Various Artists [1973]
RE-116 - Echoes of an Era: Message From Newport/Newport Suite - Maynard Ferguson
[1973]
RE-117 - Echoes of an Era: Queen of the Blues - Dinah Washington [1973]
RE-118 - Echoes of an Era: The Best of Count Basie - Count Basie [1973]
RE-119 - Echoes of an Era: The Best of Stan Getz - Stan Getz [1973]
RE-120 - Echoes of an Era: The Best of Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker [1973]
RE-121 - Echoes of an Era - Johnny Dankworth & Billy Strayhorn
RE-122 - Echoes of an Era: Maynard Ferguson '61/Si! Si! M.F. - Maynard Ferguson
RE-123 - Echoes of an Era - Stan Getz & Sonny Stitt
RE-124 - Echoes of an Era: Kansas City Suite/Easin' It - Count Basie
RE-125 - Echoes of an Era: The Immortal Dinah Washington - Dinah Washington
RE-126 - Echoes of an Era - Count Basie, Stan Getz & Sarah Vaughan
RE-127 - Echoes of an Era: Birdland Live at Carnegie Hall - Various Artists
RE-128 - Echoes of an Era - Newman/Simms/Draper/Coltraine
RE-129 - Echoes of an Era - J. McLean Sextet/Quintet
RE-130 - Echoes of an Era: Bantu Afrika - Randy Weston
RE-131 - Echoes of an Era - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
RE-132 - Echoes of an Era: Vernacular - John Handy
500 Comedy Series:
?R-501 - Saloon Society - Bill Manville [196?]
R-502 - Prose from the Cons - Jackie Kannon & Convicts of Southern Michigan Prison
[1960] Original pressing has white label with color stripes. Introduction - Jackie Kannon/Running The
"Ups" Down - Duke McKinney/Jackie Kannon - Jackie Kannon/The Complainers - Herb Wilson, Buzz
Dillon, Duke McKinney & Jackie Kannon/Inside The License Plate Factory - Buzz Dillon & Jackie
Kannon//Rehabilitation - Herb Wilson/Happy Inmate - Jackie Kannon & Eli Basse/Hip Musician - Buzz
Dillon & Jackie Kannon/Insurance - Marvin Noth
?R-503 -
?R-504 -
SR-505 - Live! - Jackie Kannon [196?]
?R-506 - Let's Play Strike! - Transit Strike Interviews [196?]
?R-507 - Truth About the Green Hornet - Marty Allen & Steve Rossi [1965]
800 Soundtrack Series (1966):
OSS-801 - A Study in Terror (Soundtrack) - John Scott [1966]
OSS-802 - The Russian Adventure (Soundtrack) - Aleksandr Lokshin & Orchestras
[1966]
OSS-803 - Sleeping Beauty (Soundtrack) - Boris Khaikin [1966]
OSS-804 - Peach Thief (Soundtrack) - Simeon Pirankov [1966]
OSS-805 - Four in the Morning (Soundtrack) - John Barry [1966]
9000 African Recorded Series:
SR-9001 - Songs of New Nations - The De Paur Chorus [1972] Ose Yie!/Ake/Ye Ke
Omo Mi/Kufidi M'Pala Bituta/Obi Ji La Kwelegi//Alexander/Kro Kro, Hinh Hinh!/Kowe, Kyere Meni No/Eh
Onchiri, Oya Eh!/Kwagyansa Menna Bio
SR-9002 - Life in the Bush - Various Artists [1972] Ele Ele Mamiami/Male
Kulipopo/Mwana Nkento/Imbie Imbie/Ya Ngo, Ya Ngo/Ukwenda-Tukwenda/Eh Mbisis Eto/Nkanda
Ukambulula/Nguba zi Mama/Ankak-Ankak Petsom/Tata Mitondue//Mama Butidi Bana Bole/Ngudi
Tsimba/Tutu-Tutu/Ayi Komema/Mono Kivonga/Meli Bamutoba/Tse-Tse Kadinga/O Matika/E
Yambole/Nzeka Nzenzele
SR-9003 - Music of West Africa - Various Artists [1972]
SR-9004 - Dahomey Guinee - Various Artists [1972] Musique du Roi de Porto-
Novo/Zangbeto, Musique Des Veilleurs De Nuit/Flute Et Choeur Des Dossou-Yovo/Chant Satirique
Accompagne De Cifhare//Deux Tambours, Rythme de Mosso Bara/Tambour d'eau Et Choeur, Danse de
Femmes/Moriba Niansa, Nusique Votive/Chant De Chasseurs/Berceuse, Chantee/Solo De Harpe-
Luth/Chanson de Siraba
32000 Spoken Word Series:
R-32001 - Nuremberg War Criminal Trials - Documentary
59000 Original Rock N' Roll Hits Series (1982):
59001 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 1 - Various Artists [1982] At The
Hop - Danny & Juniors/I Only Have Eyes For You - Flamingos/Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck
Berry/Happy Happy Birthday baby - Tune Weavers/Stay - Maurice Williams & Zodiacs/Little Girl Of Mine
- Cleftones/Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & Teenagers/Gee-Crows/Little Star -
Elegants/Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop - Little Anthony & Imperials/He's Gone - Chantels
59002 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 2 - Various Artists [1982]
Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers/I'm Stickin' With You - Jimmy Bowen/You Can't Catch Me - Chuck
Berry/Short Shorts - Royal Teens/I'll Be Home - Flamingos/Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland/Party Doll
- Buddy Knox/Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann/Black Slacks - Joe Bennett & Sparkletones/Walkin' With
Mr. Lee - Lee Allen/And That Reminds Me - Della Reese
59003 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 3 - Various Artists [1982] Johnny
B. Goode - Chuck Berry/I Want You To Be My Girl - Frankie Lymon & Teenagers/Do You Want To
Dance - Bobby Freeman/So Far Away - Pastels/Sincerely - Moonglows/Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley/Dance
With Me Henry [Wallflower] - Etta James/I'm Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price/Book Of Love -
Monotones/Stranded In The Jungle - Cadets/Goodnight My Love - Jesse Belvin
59004 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 4 - Various Artists [1982] Crying In
The Chapel - Sonny Til & Orioles/Speedoo - Cadillacs/Get A Job - Silhouettes/For Sentimental Reasons
- Cleftones/So Fine - Fiestas/Poor Boy - Royaltones/Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay - Danny &
Juniors/Maybellene - Chuck Berry/Shrine Of St. Cecelia - Harptones/Why Don't You Write Me - Jacks/A
Thousand Miles Away - Heartbeats
59005 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 5 - Various Artists [1982] Kisses
Sweeter Than Wine - Jimmie Rodgers/Forty days - Ronnie Hawkins/Goody Goody - Frankie
Lymon/Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison/See Saw - Moonglows/A Rose And A Baby Ruth - George
Hamilton IV/Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price/Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry/A Sunday Kind Of Love -
Harptones/Let's Start All Over Again - Paragons/Swingin' Shepherd Blues - Moe Koffman
59006 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 6 - Various Artists [1982] School
Day - Chuck Berry/To The Aisle - Five Satins/Chapel Of Dreams - Dubs/Daddy's Home - Shep &
Limelights/I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent - Frankie Lymon & Teenagers/Life Is But A Dream -
Harptones/Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite - Spaniels/Most Of All - Moonglows/Darling Listen To The
Words Of This Song - Ruth McFadden/Five Hundred Miles To Go - Heartbeats/Maybe - Chantels
59007 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 7 - Various Artists [1982] Ten
Commandments Of Love - Harvey & Moonglows/Mary Lou - Ronnie Hawkins/It's Too Soon To Know -
Orioles/Never Let Go - Chantels/Tonight Kathleen - Valentines/Rock And Roll Music - Chuck Berry/Beep
Beep - Playmates/Secretly - Jimmie Rodgers/Story Untold - Nutmegs/The Closer You Are -
Channels/Just Because - Lloyd Price
59008 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 8 - Various Artists [1982] Oh Oh
I'm Falling In Love Again - Jimmie Rodgers/In The Still Of The Nite - Five Satins/Let's Pony Again -
Vibrations/Priscilla - Eddie Cooley/Could This Be Magic - Dubs/Personality - Lloyd Price/We Go
Together - Moonglows/Rama Lama Ding Dong - Edsels/Ship Of Love - Nutmegs/Been So Long -
Pastels/Congratulations - Chantels
59009 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 50's, Volume 9 - Various Artists [1982] Tears
On My Pillow - Little Anthony & Imperials/When You Dance - Turbans/Rip Van Winkle -
Devotions/Darling How Long - Heartbeats/Don't Say Goodnight - Valentines/Wedding Bells - Tiny Tim &
Hits/Long Lonely Nights - Lee Andrews & Hearts/Out In The Cold Again - Frankie Lymon &
Teenagers/The Masquerade Is Over - Harptones/My Girlfriend - Cadillacs/There's Our Song Again -
Chantels
59010 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 10 - Various Artists [1982] Are
You Really Mine - Jimmie Rodgers/Lovers Never Say Goodbye - Flamingos/Zoom - Cadillacs/Two
People In The World - Little Anthony & Imperials/Altar Of Love - Channels/People Are Talking -
Heartbeats/Ram-Bunk-Shush - Joey Dee & Starliters/In My Diary - Moonglows/Cry Like I Cried -
Harptones/I'm Confessin' - Chantels/Don't Ask Me To Be Lonely - Dubs
59011 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 11 - Various Artists [1982] Will
You Love Me Tomorrow - Shirelles/Any Day Now - Chuck Jackson/No Particular Place To Go - Chuck
Berry/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - B.J. Thomas & Triumphs/Amen - Impressions/There's A Moon Out
Tonight - Capris/Walk On By - Dionne Warwick/Lady Luck - Lloyd Price/Hanky Panky - Tommy James &
Shondells/We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton/Sweet Pea - Tommy Roe
59012 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 12 - Various Artists [1982]
Tonight's The Night - Shirelles/Don't Make Me Over - Dionne Warwick/Let The Little Girl Dance - Billy
Bland/Heart And Soul - Cleftones/Mony Mony - Tommy James & Shondells/Jam Up & Jelly Tight -
Tommy Roe/Hooked On A Feeling - B.J. Thomas/Jolly Green Giant - Kingsmen/Barbara Ann -
Regents/California Dreamin' - Mamas & Papas/It's All Right - Impressions
59013 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 13 - Various Artists [1982] Louie
Louie - Kingsmen/Mama Said - Shirelles/You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry/Message To Michael -
Dionne Warwick/Keep On Pushing - Impressions/Remember Then - Earls/Dizzy - Tommy Roe/Crystal
Blue Persuasion - Tommy James & Shondells/Peppermint Twist, Part 1 - Joey Dee & Starliters/Easier
Said Than Done - Essex/The Gypsy Cried - Lou Christie
59014 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 14 - Various Artists [1982] Soldier
Boy - Shirelles/Blue Moon - Marcels/I Say A Little Prayer - Dionne Warwick/Hooray For hazel - Tommy
Roe/People Get Ready - Impressions/You Don't Know What You've Got (Until You Lose It) - Ral
Donner/Sweet Cherry Wine - Tommy James & Shondells/Don't Say Nothin' Bad - Cookies/Mama - B.J.
Thomas/A Walking Miracle - Essex/Shout - Joey Dee & Starliters
59015 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 15 - Various Artists [1982]
Crimson & Clover - Tommy James & Shondells/Two Faces Have I - Lou Christie/The Loco-Motion - Little
Eva/Girl Of My Best Friend - Ral Donner/Everybody - Tommy Roe/What Kind Of Fool (Do You Think I
Am) - Tams/Baby It's You - Shirelles/Sock It To Me Baby - Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels/Gypsy Woman
- Impressions/Dedicated To The One I Love - Mamas & Papas/You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones
59016 - Original Rock 'N Roll Hits of the 60's, Volume 16 - Various Artists [1982]
Monday Monday - Mamas & Papas/Reach Out For Me - Dionne Warwick/I Think We're Alone Now -
Tommy James & Shondells/Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf/Midnight Confessions - Grass
Roots/Everybody Loves A Lover - Shirelles/Jenny Take A Ride - Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels/Sheila -
Tommy Roe/Girl Watcher - O'Kaysions/We're A Winner - Impressions/Chains - Cookies
65000 International Series (1961-1962):
SR-65001 - Uhuru Afrika - Randy Weston [1961] Introduction/Uhuru Kwanza/African
Lady/Bantu/Kucheza Blues
SR-65002 - Around the World in Percussion - Louis Bellson [1962] Oriental
Sppice/Toreadors/Frere Jacques/Brazil/Bar Mitzvah Special/Night Train/African Dance/Sabre
Dance/Liebestraum/Loch Lomond/Jazz Dance/O Sole Mio
75000 Classical Series (1960-?):
SR-75001 - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 1 & 2 - Harry Newstone & Hamburger
Kammerorchester [1960]
SR-75002 - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 & 4 - Harry Newstone & Hamburger
Kammerorchester [1960]
SR-75003 - J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 5 & 6 - Harry Newstone & Hamburger
Kammerorchester [1960]
80000Original Cast Series (1961):
SR-80001 - Showgirl: Carol Channing Live (Original Cast) - Carol Channing [1961]
Back to the Roulette Story
Back to the Roulette Album Discography, Part 3 52000 and 5000
Jazz Series (1958-1977)
On to Roulette Album Discography, Part 5 Related
Issues
On to Forum/Forum Circle Album Discography Budget Issues
(1960-1964)
Back to the Discography Listings Page
Back to the Both Sides Now Home Page
Roulette Album Discography, Part 4