Along with tracks from the first three albums, Briefcase Full of Blues, The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack and Made in America, it includes unreleased live versions of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", "Rubber Biscuit" and "Expressway to Your Heart."
When Josie Records heard the tune they signed the group and the record was issued in September 1956.
Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957.
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The group's first recording is their most enduring; "Rubber Biscuit" started life as Johnson's answer to the marching rhythms of the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers while he was an intern there.
Half Man Half Biscuit | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company | Yokohama Rubber Company | Dunlop Rubber | Rubber City Rebels | Rubber Biscuit | King Biscuit Flower Hour | Cooper Tire & Rubber Company | United States Rubber Company | The Rubber Band | Rubber band | biscuit | Rubber's Lover | Rubber Jungle Records | Red Rubber Ball | Nitrile rubber | natural rubber | Latex (rubber) | King Biscuit Time | Combat Rubber Raiding Craft | Tough rubber-sheathed cable | ship's biscuit | Rubber bullet | rubber bullet | 'Round the World with the Rubber Duck | Republic Biscuit Corporation | Natural rubber | Monte Carlo (biscuit) | Marie biscuit |