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VINTAGE
ROCK 'N' ROLL & ROCKABILLY
Bill
Haley -> Brian Hyland
| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
Bear Family BCD 15506 |
The Decca Years And More |
● CD $99.98 |
5 CDs, 132 tracks, 5 hours, 42 min., good
Haley left Essex
in 1954 and signed with Decca; his first release was Rock Around The
Clock and, as luck would have it, it failed miserably. It wasn't until
the movie Blackboard Jungle that the song became a massive hit. So did
Haley's neutered cover of Joe Turner's Shake, Rattle And Roll. For
the casual Haley fan this collection is overkill in the extreme, including
as it does an entire disc's worth of alternate takes (almost all
previously unreleased)--6 takes in a row of I Got A Woman is likely
to be a bit much. Likewise, Haley's instrumental sessions--he plays rhythm
guitar--may be of limited interest to many. But the first 2 discs are
chock full o' winners and sure to please even casual fans of fifties
R&R. And the diehard Haleyophile will glory in such unclassics as Wooden
Shoe Rock/ El Rocko/ Rockin' Rollin' Schnitzlebank/ Piccadilly Rock,
and other thematic musical experiments. It's all here and much more, his
decade or so at Decca. The man often credited with performing the first
rock and roll song deserves a box set this nice with a LP-sized, 32 page
booklet full of info and pics, but it is not for all markets. (JC)
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| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
Bear Family BCD 16157 |
The Warner Brothers Years & More |
● CD $147.98 |
Six CD box set with book featuring all of Bill's American
post-Decca recordings. In addition for his Warner Brothers sides it
includes recordings for Buddah, Gone, Guest Star, Apt, Cory and others.
Includes many previously unissued sides.
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| BILL HALEY & HIS
COMETS |
Collectables 7780 |
Bill Haley & His Comets |
● CD $11.98 |
12 tracks, recommended
Reissue of Bill's first Warner
Brothers album (#1378) from 1960 with original cover art and notes by
George Avakian and Haley himself. Haley was still in fine form with the
original Comets (Franny Beecher/ lead guitar, Billy Williamson/ steel
guitar, Rudy Pompilli/ tenor sax, etc). This album features Haley doing 12
hits from the 50s - two of his own (Crazy Man Crazy and Rock
Around The Clock) plus versions of Kansas City/ Shake, rattle &
Roll/ Stagger Lee/ I Almost Lost My Mind/ Blue Suede/ Blueberry Hill,
etc. (FS)
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| BILL HALEY & HIS
COMETS |
Collectables 7781 |
Haley's Juke Box |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of Bill's second Warner Brothers album (#1391)
from 1961. Bill returns to his country roots with a collection of 12
country hits of the 40s and 50s. Bill's no George Jones but does pleasing
versions of songs like Bouquet Of Roses/ Wild Side Of Life/ Candy
KIsses/ No Letter Today/ Cold Cold Heart/ Detour and others.
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| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
Hydra 27105 |
Rock 'n' Roll Show |
● CD $21.98 |
16 tracks, 44 mins, recommended
A fascinating document and
some good music too! A previously unissued recording of rock 'n' roll
pioneer Bill Haley and his Comets performing live on April 17, 1955 in
Cleveland, Ohio - just a month before he topped the charts for the first
and last time with Rock Around The Clock. That song is featured
twice along with other popular Decca tunes like Dim Dim The Lights/
Shake Rattle & Roll and Mambo Rock along with a couple of
his earlier Essex sides. Almost half the set features lead performances
from members of the Comets - often doing straight pop songs in a rocking
style. Bill and the boys are in good form though Bill was suffering from
laryngitis which reduced his already somewhat limited range. Sound quality
is satisfactory though on the first song Birth Of The Boogie Bill's
vocal mike was off. The 24 page booklet itself is almost worth the price
of the set with great photos from the 1955/56 tour by Haley & the
Comets, interesting notes and fascinating and revealing extracts from
Bill's personal diary. (FS)
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| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
Hydra 27107 |
On Screen |
● CD $21.98 |
A collection of 19 Haley rarities from the period 1954-1958
taken from movies, TV broadcasts and radio shows including performances
from the rare 1954 movie "Roundup Of Rhythm", the better known
"Rock Around The Clock" and "Don't Knock The Rock", Ed
Sullivan and Ray Bolger T.V. shows, Alan Freed radio show and more. Songs
include Crazy Man Crazy/ Shake, Rattle & Roll/ Huckleberry/ Rudy's
Rock/ The Saints Rock 'n' Roll/ Rip It Up/ Forty Cups Of Coffee/ Razzle
Dazzle, etc. Comes with 28 page booklet with detailed notes, rare
photos and discography of these recordings. (FS)
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| BILL HALEY & FRIENDS |
Hydra 27128 |
Vol. 3 - The Story Of Rock Around The
Clock |
● CD $34.98 |
Two CDs, 63 tracks, highly recommended
From the label that
loves Bill Haley comes a two CD set that will separate the men from the
boys - or perhaps the sane from the insane! This set features no less than
63 recordings of Haley's most famous song Rock Around The Clock.
The first disc features 31 versions by Bill himself or the Comets ranging
from the original recording by him from 1954 to a 2000 remix of a 1966
recording by him made in Mexico (where he recorded quite extensively in
the 60s). It includes studio recordings as well as live performances from
various T.V. appearances and elsewhere. The second disc features 32
different versions of the songs by artists from around the world including
a version by Swedish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen, British band
Bubblerock Is Here To Stay who are a bit like The Bonzo Dog Band, Adriano
Celentano, Eddie Cochran & Gary Lambert (a great duet guitar instrumental
version), The Deep River Boys, Nilsson & John Lennon, Ted Herold, Finnish
group Goran Odner & Matti I Viljasen Septetti, the great Yiddish parodist
Mickey Katz, Buddy Knox (one of my favorite versions), The Sex Pistols,
Puerto Rican band Los Hispanos, Renato Carosone, Sandy Nelson, Carl
Perkins, The Platters, Belgian techno band Telex, Mae West (who was 81
when she recorded her version and sounds like she could still rock Bill's
clock) and others including pre-Haley versions by Sonny Dae and
co-composer Jimmy DeKnight. Comes with 48 page booklet with a history of
the song, a discography of all the versions by Haley & The Comets and
notes on all the versions on the second disc, lots of photos, label shots
and other memorabilia plus a listing (probably incomplete) of 364
different recordings of the song. Rock Around The Clock fans (you
know who you are!) will love this and even if you're not this is an
ambitious and facsinating project. (FS)
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| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
MCA MCAD 11957 |
Best Of - The Millenium Collection |
● CD $11.98 |
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BILL HALEY: Burn That Candle/ Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some
Atmosphere)/ R-O-C-K/ Razzle-Dazzle/ Rock Around The Clock, (We're Gonna)/
Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie/ Rudy's Rock/ See You Later, Alligator/ Shake,
Rattle And Roll/ Skinny Minnie/ The Saints Rock 'N Roll, The/ Thirteen
Women (And Only One Man In Town)
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| BILL HALEY |
Proper BOX 118 |
From Western Swing To Rock |
● CD $26.98 |
Four CD retrospective of Haley's career from his earliest
years in 1948 as a western singer to his hits as rock' n' roll star in
1956. Includes live tracks as well performances by The Jodimars featuring
members of the Comets who had split from Bill in 1955 plus a one off
single by Franny Beecher and Billy Williamson as The Jumping Jaguars.
Includes 48 page booklet with extensive notes by Adam Komorowski, rare
photos and label shots and full discographical info.
RENO BROWNE & HER BUCKAROOS FEAT. BILL HALEY: My
Palamino And I/ My Sweet Little Girl From Nevada/ BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS:
(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock/ A Rocking Little Tune/ ABC Boogie/
Birth Of The Boogie/ Blue Comet Blues/ Burn That Candle/ Calling All
Comets/ Chattanooga Choo Choo/ Choo Choo Ch'Boogie/ Dim, Dim The Lights (I
Want Some Atmosphere)/ Don't Knock The Rock/ Goofin' Around/ Happy Baby/
Hey Then There Now/ Hide And Seek/ Hook, Line And Sinker/ Hot Dog Buddy
Buddy/ Hot Dog Buddy Buddy (Live)/ I'll Be True/ BILL HALEY & HIS
SADDLEMEN: I'm Gonna Dry Every Tear With A Kiss/ BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS:
Mambo Rock/ R-O-C-K/ Razzle Dazzle/ Rip It Up/ Rip It Up (Live)/ Rock
Around The Clock (Live)/ Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie/ Rockin' Through The Rye/
Rudy's Rock/ See You Later Alligator/ Shake, Rattle And Roll/ Straight
Jacket/ Teenager's Mother/ Ten Little Indians/ The Paper Boy (On Main
Street, USA)/ The Saint's Rock 'N' Roll/ The Saint's Rock'n'Roll (Live)/
Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)/ Tonight's The Night/ Two Hound
Dogs/ BILL HALEY & HIS SADDLEMEN: Why Do I Cry Over You?/ BILL HALEY & HIS
COMETS: Yes Indeed/ Yes Indeed/ BILL HALEY & THE FOUR ACES OF WESTERN
SWING: A Yodeller's Lullabye/ All I Need Is Some More Lovin'/ Behind The
Eight Ball/ Candy And Women/ Candy Kisses/ Cotton Haired Gal/ BILL HALEY &
THE SADDLEMEN: Down Deep In My Heart/ BILL HALEY & THE FOUR ACES OF
WESTERN SWING: Foolish Questions/ Four Leaf Clover Blues/ BILL HALEY & THE
SADDLEMEN: Green Tree Boogie/ BILL HALEY & THE FOUR ACES OF WESTERN SWING:
My Mom Heard Me Cry Over You/ BILL HALEY & THE SADDLEMEN: Rocket 88/ Rose
Of My Heart/ BILL HALEY & THE FOUR ACES OF WESTERN SWING: Rovin' Eyes/
BILL HALEY & THE SADDLEMEN: Tearstains On My Heart/ BILL HALEY & THE FOUR
ACES OF WESTERN SWING: Tennessee Border/ The Covered Wagon Rolled Right
Along/ The Wreck On The Highway/ Too Many Parties Too Many Pals/ BILL
HALEY & THE SADDLEMEN: Within This Broken Heart Of Mine/ BILL HALEY & THE
FOUR ACES OF WESTERN SWING: Yodel Your Blues Away/ BILL HALEY WITH HALEY'S
COMETS: Crazy Man Crazy/ BILL HALEY WITH THE SADDLEMEN: Dance With A Dolly
(With A Hole In Her Stocking)/ BILL HALEY WITH HALEY'S COMETS: Farewell,
So Long, Goodbye/ Fractured/ BILL HALEY WITH THE SADDLEMEN: Icy Heart/
Jukebox Cannonball/ BILL HALEY WITH HALEY'S COMETS: Live It Up/
Pat-A-Cake/ Real Rock Drive/ BILL HALEY WITH THE SADDLEMEN: Rock The
Joint/ Rockin' Chair On the Moon/ BILL HALEY WITH HALEY'S COMETS: Stop
Beatin' Around The Mulberry Bush/ BILL HALEY WITH THE SADDLEMEN: Sundown
Boogie/ BILL HALEY WITH HALEY'S COMETS: What'cha Gonna Do/ THE JAGUARS:
Knock-Kneed Nellie From Knoxville/ Shut The Door Baby/ THE JODIMARS: (Boom
Boom) My Bayou Baby/ Clarabella/ Cloud 99/ Dance The Bop/ Eat Your Heart
Out Annie/ Later/ Let's All Rock Together/ Lotsa Love/ Midnight/ Rattle My
Bones/ Rattle Shakin' Daddy/ Well Now Dig This
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| BILL HALEY &
HIS COMETS |
Rollercoaster RCCD 3001 |
Rock The Joint! |
● CD $21.98 |
22 tracks, 58 mins, recommended
Reissue featuring most of
the recordings Haley made for the Holiday and Essex labels in Philadelphia
between 1951 and 1953. Bill Haley may not have invented rock 'n roll or
even have been the most compelling performer but he was certainly among
the pioneers. His 1951 Rock The Joint has most of pieces in place
complete with slap bass and driving electric guitar - three years before
Elvis walked into the Sun studios. By 1953 Haley has changed his groups
name from The Saddlemen to The Comets and added a saxophone to the line up
and adopted the style that was to become his trademark and millstone for
the rest of his life. Some of his later Decca recordings sound desperately
formulaic but these recordings find him energetic and inspired. It
includes R&B covers (Rocket '88/ Yes Indeed), country
tearjerkers (Tearstains On My Heart
Down Deep In My Heart), upbeat country (Green Tree Boogie/ Jukebox
Cannonball) and, of course original rockers (Rockin' Chair On The
Moon/ Real Rock Drive/ Fractured, etc.). Haley's vocals are convincing
and the band is excellent including some exceptional guitar work from
Danny Cedrone. Booklet has detailed notes and a discography of the
Holiday/ Essex recordings. Sound quality is outstanding. (FS)
BILL HALEY: Chattanooga choo choo/ Crazy man crazy/ Dance with a dolly/
Farewell so long goodbye/ Fractured/ Green tree boogie/ I'll be true/ Icy
heart/ Jukebox cannonball/ Live it up/ Pat-a-cake/ Real rock drive/ Rock
the joint/ Rocket 88/ Rockin' chair on the moon/ Stop beatin' round the
mulberry bush/ Straight jacket/ Sundown boogie/ Tearstains on my heart/
Ten little indians/ Whatcha gonna do/ Yes indeed!
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| BILL HALEY & HIS
COMETS |
Liberty Bell 3011 |
Bill Haley's Chicks/ Rockin' Around The
World |
● CD $17.98 |
Two Haley LPs from 1959 and '58 respectively. The first is
devoted to songs about girls - mostly rocked up versions of standards (Whoah
Mabel/ Ida Sweet As Apple Cider/ Dinah, etc) along with some more recent
compositions including the great Skinny Minnie. The other LP features
rock 'n' roll songs with an International flavor - some of them reworkings
of standards and most of them fairly lame. Includes Picadilly Rock/
Rockin' Rollin' Schnitzelbank/ Wooden Shoe Rock/ Oriental Rock, etc.
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| BILL HALEY'S COMETS |
Hydra 27100 |
We're Gonna Dig This |
● CD $21.98 |
Recent recordings featuring original members
of Bill's band.
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| LARRY HALL |
Collectables 5582 |
Sandy - A Golden Classics Edition |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BEN HALL & THE
RAMBLERS |
Rollercoaster RCCD 3004 |
Country Ways And Rockin' Days |
● CD $21.98 |
28 tracks, 68 min., recommended
Hall's clearest claim to
rock 'n' roll fame is the fact that he wrote Blue Days Black Nights,
one side of Buddy Holly's first Decca single. Nonetheless, even though his
friends Holly and Sonny Curtis accompany him on two other numbers here, on
this disc Ben Hall is much more a country artist than he is a rocker. And
these late 40's to early 60's tracks here show him to be an effective one.
The title list includes Even Tho'/ Crying on My Shoulder/ Gunfighter's
Fame/ Drifting Along with the Wind/ You Were on My Mind, and a 1960
version of Blue Days Black Nights. Fewer than half of these numbers
were issued near their time of recording; those that were issued were on
the Gaylo or Talent labels. Production values and sound quality are solid,
and packaging is cardboard. (DH)
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| DALE HAWKINS |
Ace CDCHD 693 |
Rock 'n Roll Tornado |
● CD $18.98 |
30 track collection of Dale's Checker sides, 8 previously
unissued (mostly for good reasons).
DALE HAWKINS: Back to School Blues/ Boogie Woogie Teenage Girl/ Boy Meets
Girl/ Caldonia/ Convicted/ Cross-Ties/ Don't Treat Me This Way/ Four
Letter Word (Rock)/ Grandma's House/ Heaven/ Hot Dog/ I Want To Love You/
La-Do-Dada/ Lifeguard Man/ Little Pig/ Liza Jane/ Lonely Nights/ Lovin'
Bug/ Mrs Merguitory's Daughter/ My Babe/ One Dozen Roses/ See You Soon
Baboon/ Someday, One Day/ Superman/ Susie-Q/ Sweetie Pie/ Teenage Dolly/
Tornado/ Wild Wild World/ Yea-Yea (Class Cutter)
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| DALE HAWKINS |
Bear Family BCD 16826 |
Dale Rocks! |
● CD $23.98 |
34 tracks, 79 mins, highly
recommended
Dale Hawkins had
one great big, massively influential song-Suzy Q,-but he also had
dozens of other really good/great tracks, a couple of white hot guitarists
in James Burton and Roy Buchanan, and a huge talent for entertaining. This
compiles all of the best of his earlier material, Suzy Q/ See You Soon
Baboon/ Sweetie Pie/ Mrs. Mergritory's Daughter/ Ain't That Lovin' You
Baby, and my favorite: Tornado. Dale was and is a great rock `n
` roller and this collection is chock full of great stuff that any good
R&R collection would be incomplete without, pick this up for all the
classics, but also check his new stuff out; he's one of the few still
making great original music and tearing it up live. This comes in a
beautiful gatefold digi-pack with a fantastic thick booklet that tells
Dale's story with lots of cool pics as well. (JM)
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| DALE HAWKINS |
Mystic Music 54322 |
Wildcat Tamer |
● CD $15.98 |
First album of new recordings in 30 years by this Louisiana
rockabilly legend cuts at Dale's own Hawk's Nest studio. Many new songs by
Dale himself, a few covers and, of course, a remake of Susie Q.
Some good stuff here though some of the performances are a bit
overindulgent.
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| DALE HAWKINS |
Norton CED 256 |
Daredevil |
● CD $14.98 |
12 tracks, 26 mins, recommended
Don't let the "high
fidelity" on the cover fool ya - these are pretty rough sounding. A
dozen unreleased treasures from Dale's personal archives, recorded
'56-'64. The most important is the original demo, Susie Q/ If You
Please Me, which not only kickstarted a career & presented a
classic but are also the very 1st recordings of the then 15 year old James
Burton! Most of the tunes are raw but VERY rockin', & even includes an
impromptu number recorded by Dale (gtr) & Roger Miller (vcl) called Wish
I Hadn't Called Home, done while both were smashed on little yellow
pills, a couple tunes backing Danny Ray White (Hey Pretty Baby/ I Can't
Stand Your Ways Anymore), & Dale's band backing Maylon Humphries (Weep
No More). Booklet has photos & great liner note recollections from
Dale. Number Nine Train/ Everglades/ Mumbly Peg/ Superman. (GM)
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| DALE HAWKINS |
Rev-Ola 188 |
L.A., Memphis & Tyler, Texas |
● CD $15.98 |
10 tracks, 31 min., highly recommended
Best known for his
song Suzie Q (covered notably by Creedence Clearwater Revival) when
he was recording for Chess, Hawkins second LP, reissued here, stands as a
swamp rock mini-masterpiece, even though it all but evaporated when Bell
released it in 1969. Named for the three recording locations, this album,
which wears a disctinctly southern garb, features an amazing line up of
"session" musicians, including James Burton, Ry Cooder, Wayne Jackson
(Memphis Horns), Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Taj Mahal, among others.
Hawkins' cover of the Jimmy Reed classic Baby What You Want Me To Do,
is nothing like the original but every bit as compelling. The swamp rock
is swampiest on Hawkins originals, such as Back Street and the
seemingly tossed-off title cut that opens the album. For fans of soulful
southern rock who appreciate an edge to their music and origianlity in
their musicians. (JC)
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| RONNIE HAWKINS |
Bear Family BCD 16873 |
Rocks! |
● CD $24.98 |
32 tracks, 77 mins, highly recommended
Here's another one
that we can blame old infamous Morris Levy for what coulda, shoulda
happened. If Levy had actually paid Ronnie Hawkins for the records he sold
or invested a little time-and, dare I say, money-into his career, put him
in front of a T.V. camera and in the fan magazines, the story would be a
whole lot different (at least here in America; in Canada, he was and is a
big star). Instead, by the early 1960's when Ronnie & the Hawks were at
the peak of their powers, going into the studio to record records meant
taking time away from the lucrative live circuit. Seeing as how they tore
the house down on so many of these recordings, imagine what it would have
been like if they wanted to be in the studio! Legend has it that Ronnie
Hawkins was one of the most incredibly live acts of his day, but
unfortunately I have seen very little footage and his recoded work tends
to only hint at it (You Tube alert: there's a 'scope of Ronnie and the
Hawks from 1959 doing I Need Your Lovin' that's definitely worth
checking out that just popped up recently). Hawkins is a perfect choice
for this series because he is at his best when he "rocks," and there are a
whole bunch of songs collected here that help prove that he was one of the
best. While his repertoire consisted mainly of covers, he was definitely
an artist that could take a song and make it his own and when it comes
down to it, he wrote more original material than Elvis did! It was just
that Elvis' covers weren't as well known before he did them. This
collection starts with his first and only pre-Roulette Records recording.
These summer of 1958 recordings for Quality shred, with great versions of
Hey Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry's 30 Days, and Hawkins' insane
original Horace (previously unissued). Then you get the best of his
recorded output up until 1963,which includes his hits Forty Days
and Mary Lou, a large portion of his Mr. Dynamo record up to a few
recordings with what would be the nucleus of "The Band" minus Garth
Hudson. Not to underestimate his early players at all, some great
Rockabilly cats went through his band, guitarist Fred Carter Jr.
especially shines on a lot of tracks. Comprised of a handful of quality
originals and choice covers of the likes of Huey Smith, Dave Bartholomew,
Dale Hawkins, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Perkins etc., this collection is a
solid gas throughout, with one fantastic cut after another. In digipack
with 48 page booklet. (JM)
RONNIE HAWKINS: Baby Jean/ Bo Diddley/ Clara/ Come Love/
Dizzy Miss Lizzy/ Forty Days/ Hay Ride/ Hey Bo Diddley/ Hey Boba Lou/ High
Blood Pressure/ Honey Don't/ Horace/ Horace/ I Feel Good/ Mary Lou/
Matchbox/ Mojo Man/ My Gal Is Red Hot/ Need Your Lovin' (Oh So Bad)/
Odessa/ Oh Sugar/ One Of These Days/ Ruby Baby/ Sexy Ways/ Sick & Tired/
Southern Love/ Suzie Q/ Thirty Days/ Whatcha Gonna Do (When The Creek Runs
Dry)/ Who Do You Love/ Wild Little Willy/ You Know I Love You
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| RONNIE HAWKINS |
Rhino 70966 |
The Best Of Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks |
● CD $13.98 |
17 Roulette sides recorded between 1959 and '63, plus one
Cotillion single from 1970 (Down In The Alley with Duane Allman). Forty
Days/ Mary Lou/ Come Love/ Bo Diddley/ Wild Little Willy and more from
the Canadian Elvis, with backup by Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Richard
Manuel and other soon-to-be members of The Band.
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| RON HAYDOCK &
THE BOPPERS |
Norton CED 247 |
99 Chicks |
● CD $14.98 |
29 Tracks, 66 min., recommended Ever heard of Ron Haydock?
Neither had I, but after listening to this CD and reading Miriam Linna's
26 page booklet (it was difficult to get the booklet back into the
jewel-box cover because it was so thick) you'll realize that he was one of
rock n' roll's true characters. He did everything from leading a band that
did a pretty good copy of Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps (music by this
band makes up the bulk of the CD), to editing monster fanzines, writing
adult novels and appearing in low-budget rock n' roll horror flicks.
Included in those movies is Rat Pfink a Boo Boo. Are you getting
all of this? Among the songs are some outtakes from movies and some surf
tunes that were music for those movies. It's all wild, man. The music is
good, but the value of the CD is learning about one crazy cat. (RS)
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| BEN HEWITT |
Bear Family BCD 16199 |
You Got Me Shook |
● CD $21.98 |
This features all the Mercury recordings cut by this fine
rocker for Mercury between 1958 and 1960 plus seven previously unissued
demos that he made for Elvis and the rare Mercury single cut by his
guitarist Ray Ethier.
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| BEN HEWITT |
Bear Family BCD 16200 |
The Spirit Of Rock 'n' Roll |
● CD $21.98 |
New recordings by this 50s rocker.
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| ERSEL HICKEY |
Bear Family BCD 15676 |
Bluebirds Over The Mountain |
● CD $21.98 |
25 tracks, 51 min., recommended
If you don't recognize
rockabilly icon Ersel Hickey from his best known song, Bluebirds Over
The Mountains, you'd surely recognize his image from the famous Gene
LaVerne photo of him pointing his guitar in the direction of anonymity.
Either way, this compilation collects all of his Epic and Kapp sides and
throws in some extras. So you not only get "Bluebird," you get
the (vastly inferior) Canadian version as well. Epic session notables
include the unreleased Roll On Little River, as well as the
incomplete Due Time/ Shame On Me/Stardust Brought Me You, unissued
cuts all. The two unissued tracks from Kapp are Magical Love/ A Mighty
Square Love Affair. Typically great packaging from Bear, including a
wealth of cool pix, bio by Colin Escott, and discography by Richard Weize.
(JC)
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| ERSEL HICKEY |
Hydra 27119 |
Hangin' Around Heartbreak Hotel |
● CD $22.98 |
29 tracks, 62 min., recommended
Despite the release of a
few Ersel Hickey CDs over the years, including one by Bear Family, this
may be worth picking up. Of course such Hickey classics as Bluebirds
Over The Mountains and You Threw A Dart appear here, but this
album also offers both sides of his first single for Fine Records in 1957
(Then I'll Be Happy b/w You're No Good as well as two
previously unissued tracks cut during the Fine session I'm Walkin'
and Street Car Of Desire. This release includes six other unreleased
recordings, including a version of Heartbreak Hotel and a pair of
instrumentals. And by spanning Hickey's recording career from 1957-1984,
this album follows Hickey's developing sound from the rockabilly-
flavored, Buddy Holly- and Elvis Presley-influenced early sides to a more
straight-ahead country approach. The cover and booklet will not win any
design awards, but the notes are relatively informative and the music is a
rockin' good time. (JC)
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| EDDIE HODGES |
Teenager 604 |
I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door |
● CD $18.98 |
21 tracks, 48 min, very good
Eddie was a child star who got
his start singing in the Broadway version of The "Music Man" - what would've
happened if he ended up in the movie instead of Ron "Opie" Howard? He later
was in "A Hole In The Head" with Frank Sinatra & can be heard on the hit
High Hopes. From here, we get the beginnings of a singing career, with
kid themes like I Ain't Gonna Wash For A Week/ Mugmates/ Just A Kid In
Love, even a remake of High Hopes. His 2 biggest hits are here,
of course - (Girls Girls Girls) Made To Love & the title tune. More
interestingly, there's some later pop tunes after his voice changed a bit,
with tunes written by Randy Newman (She Doesn't Love Me), Gene Pitney
(Across The Street), Jackie DeShannon & Sharon Sheeley (Would You
Come Back) & Al Kooper (The Water Is Over My Head). The most
interesting is a version of Dylan's Love Minus Zero, with backing by
future members of Neil Young's Crazy Horse, Danny Whitten, Billy Talbot &
Ralph Molina. (GM)
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
BGO BGOCD 564 |
That'll Be The Day/ Remember |
● CD $18.98 |
Reissue of two LPs by the great Buddy Holly. "That'll Be The
Day" is the album Decca issued in 1958 after Buddy & The Crickets hit it big
on Brunswick with "That'll Be The Day" and includes the original Decca
version of that song as well as other early sides, mostly with Nashville
sidemen, including Blue Days, Black Nights/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee/
Ting-A-Ling/ Love Me and others. "Remember" was a 1971 British album
featuring a mixture of material including several by Buddy & The Crickets,
an undubbed version of That Makes It Tough, overdubbed versions of
some of the other "Apartment Tapes", the wonderful Reminiscing with
King Curtis on sax and Jerry "Ivan" Allison doing his idiosyncratic real
Wild Child with superb guitar from Buddy.
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
El Toro 1012 |
Hollybilly - Buddy Holly 1956: The
Complete Recordings |
● CD $24.98 |
Two CDs, 41 racks, essential
Absolutely indispensable
collection featuring all the recordings made by the great Buddy Holly
during 1956. This includes his first commercial sessions for Decca that
only yielded a couple of released singles that went nowhere, demos
recorded at Norman Petty's state of the art studios in Clovis, New Mexico,
demos cut at radio station KDAV in Lubbock and a wonderful raucous home
session with Buddy accompanied only by Jerry Allison as they run through
rock 'n' roll and R&B hits of the day like Honky Tonk/ Good Rockin'
Tonight/Blue Monday/ Blue Suede Shoes and others. Many of the demos
and home recordings were later issued with overdubbed backings by The
Fireballs but these are the raw originals which demonstrate the
excitement, charisma and amazing talent that Holly had. There are rumored
to be other recordings from this period in the hands of various Holly
family but legal hassles (i.e. not enough money) has prevented them making
an appearance. In the meantime let's be grateful for this brief insight
into the early years of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll artists of all
time who would have had an even greater impact on the future of the music
had he not been killed in that tragic accident in 1959. (FS)
BUDDY HOLLY: Ain't Got No Home (Lubbock home recording)/
Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight? (Clovis Demo)/ Because I Love You
(Clovis demo)/ Blue Days, Black Nights/ Blue Monday (Lubbock home
recording)/ Blue Suede Shoes (Lubbock home recording)/ Bo Diddley (Lubbock
home recording)/ Bo Diddley (Undubbed Clovis Demo)/ Brown-Eyed Handsome
Man (Lubbock home recording)/ Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Undubbed Clovis
Demo)/ Changing All Those Changes (Clovis demo)/ Don't Come Back Knockin'/
Girl On My Mind/ Gone #1 (Undubbed Lubbock Demo)/ Gone #2 (Undubbed
Lubbock Demo)/ Gone (Fragment)/ Good Rockin' Tonight (Lubbock home
recording)/ Have You Ever Been Lonely? #1 (Undubbed Lubbock Demo)/ Have
You Ever Been Lonely? #2 (Undubbed Lubbock Demo)/ Have You Ever Been
Lonely? (Fragment)/ Have You Ever Been Lonely? (Fragment)/ Holly Hop
(Lubbock home recording)/ Honky Tonk (Lubbock home recording)/ I Guess I
Was Just A Fool (Clovis demo)/ I'm Changin' All Those Changes (Fragment)/
I'm Changin' All Those Changes (Nashville Version)/ I'm Gonna Set My Foot
Down (Clovis demo)/ It's Not My Fault (Clovis demo)/ Love Me (With Studio
Chat)/ Midnight Shift/ Modern Don Juan/ Rip It Up (Lubbock home
recording)/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee (Fragment, July 1956)/ Rock Around
With Ollie Vee (July 1956 Version)/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee (November
1956 Version)/ Rock-A-Bye Rock (Clovis demo)/ Shake, Rattle & Roll
(Lubbock home recording)/ That'll Be The Day (July 1956 version)/
Ting-A-Ling/ You Are My One Desire/ You Are My One Desire (False Start)
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
El Toro 1016 |
Not Fade Away - 1957: The Complete
Recordings |
● CD $31.98 |
On the heels of last year's El Toro and Rollercoaster
releases of all of Buddy's 1956 recordings comes this incredible three CD
set featuring all of his 1957 recordings. This was the year that Buddy hit
it big with The Crickets and under his own name and this set includes all
his issued recordings, alternate takes including an alternate of Peggy
Sue which is alone worth the price of this set, versions of songs like
Words Of Love/ Last Night and Oh Boy without the Picks vocal
group overdubs, promotional recordings, live performances and a whole heap
of session work behind artists like Gary Dale, Jim Robinson, Carolyn
Hester, Charlie Phillips and others plus an incredible rehearsal session
where Buddy and The Crickets work on a version of Bo Diddley's Mona.
BUDDY HOLLY/ THE CRICKETS : I'm Lookin' For Someone To
Love/ That'll Be The Day/ Last Night (Undubbed Original Version)/ Maybe
Baby (First Version)/ Last Night/ Words Of Love (Demo)/ Words Of Love/
Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues/ Not Fade Away (Incomplete Alternative
Take)/ Not Fade Away/ Everyday/ Ready Teddy/ Valley Of Tears/ Tell Me How/
Buddy's Phone Call To Paul Cohen Of Decca Records (28/02/57)/ GARY DALE:
Go Boy Go (KDAV Demo)/ Gone (KDAV Demo)/ Go Boy Go (Norman Petty Demo)/
The Golden Rocket (Norman Petty Demo)/ Gone (Norman Petty Demo)/ I
Overlooked An Orchid/ BILLY WALKER: On My Mind Again/ Viva La Matador/ JIM
ROBINSON: A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (Take 1)/ A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (Take 2)/
A Whole Lot Of Lovin' (Take 3)/ A Whole Lot Of Lovin'/ It's A Wonderful
Feeling/ JACK HUDDLE: Starlight (Original Without Echo)/ Believe Me
(Original Without Echo)/ Starlight/ Believe Me/ BUDDY HOLLY/ THE CRICKETS:
Peggy Sue (Alternative Take)/ Peggy Sue/ Listen To Me/ That'll Be The Day
(Promotional Recording For Bob Thiele)/ That'll Be The Day (Promotional
Recording For Murray Deutch)/ Oh, Boy! (Undubbed Original Version)/ Oh,
Boy!/ That'll Be The Day (Promotional Recording For Bill Randle Of WERE
Radio, Ohio)/ I'm Gonna Love You Too/ Send Me Some Lovin' (Original
Undubbed Demo)/ It's Too Late (Original Undubbed Demo)/ Send Me Some
Lovin'/ It's Too Late/ JIM ROBINSON: Man From Texas (Brill 2)/ GARY DALE:
Honey, Honey/ Look To The Future/ FRED CRAWFORD: By The Mission Wall/
CAROLYN HESTER: Wreck Of The Old '97/ Scarlet Ribbons/ CHARLIE PHILLIPS:
Sugartime (Take 1)/ One Faded Rose (Take 1)/ Sugartime/ One Faded Rose/
SHERRY DAVIS: Humble Heart/ Broken Promises/ NORMAN PETTY TRIO:
Moondreams-With The Picks/ Moondreams (Instrumental)/ Moondreams-With The
Roses/ BUDDY HOLLY/ THE CRICKETS: You've Got Love/ Maybe Baby/ An Empty
Cup (And A Broken Date)/ Rock Me, My Baby/ That'll Be The Day
(Unidentified Live Fragment)/ That'll Be The Day (Live On The Ed Sullivan
CBS TV Show)/ Peggy Sue (Live On The Ed Sullivan CBS TV Show)/ Interview
With Ed Sullivan/ Little Baby/ You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)/ Look
At Me/ Mona (Rehearsal)/ Mona (Take 1)/ Mona (Take 2)/ Mona (Take 3)/
Peggy Sue (Live On The Arthur Murray TV Show)/ RICK TUCKER: Don't Do Me
This Way!(First Version)/ Patty Baby (With The Picks)/ Don't Do Me This
Way! (with The Picks)/ BUDDY HOLLY/ CRICKETS : Six radio promotional
spots/ Interview With Red Robinson Of CKWX Radio, Canada/ Promotional Spot
For Red Robinson Of CKWX Radio, Canada/ Interview With Freeman Hoover Of
KCSR Radio, Nebraska/ Promotional Spot For Freeman Hoover Of KCSR Radio,
Nebraska/ Interview With Dale Lowery Of KTOP Radio, Kansas
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
Geffen 11337-02 |
Memorial Collection |
● CD $29.98 |
Three CD set, 60 tracks, highly recommended unless you
plan to get the box set
Complementing the rarities collection this
collection mostly features single and LP recordings that were issued
during Buddy's lifetime along with a handful of rare and undubbed sides
that overlap with the rarities collection. If you don't have very much
Buddy Holly material than this would be an ideal place to start with lots
of great songs like Midnight Shift/ Blue Days, Black Nights/ That'll Be
The Day/ Words Of Love/ Tell Me How/ Ho Boy/ Peggy Sue/ Maybe baby/ Rock
Me My Baby/ Rave On/ Think It Over/ Early In The Morning/ True Love Ways/
Raining In My Heart, etc. (FS)
* = undubbed BUDDY HOLLY: Down The Line*/ Soft Place In
My Heart*/ You And I Are Through*/ Midnight Shift/ Love Me/ Don't Come
Back Knockin'/ Blue Days, Black Nights/ Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight
(1983 Overdubbed Version)/ I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down (1983 Overdubbed
Version)/ Changing All Those Changes (1983 Overdubbed Version)/ Rock-A-Bye
Rock (1983 Overdubbed Version)/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee/ Girl On My
Mind/ Ting-A-Ling/ Modern Don Juan/ Holly Hop*/ Brown Eyed Handsome Man
(1983 Overdubbed Version)/ That'll Be The Day/ I'm Lookin' For Someone To
Love/ Mailman Bring Me No More Blues/ Words Of Love/ Not Fade Away/
Everyday/ Ready Teddy/ Tell Me How/ Oh Boy!/ Listen To Me/ Peggy Sue/ I'm
Gonna Love You Too/ It's Too Late/ Maybe Baby/ You've Got Love/ Rock Me My
Baby/ Look At Me/ You're So Square (Baby, I Don't Care)/ Little Baby/ Rave
On/ Well...All Right/ Take Your Time/ Fool's Paradise/ Think It Over/
Heartbeat/ It's So Easy/ Lonesome Tears/ Love's Made A Fool Of You/
Wishing/ Early In The Morning/ Now We're One/ Reminiscing/ True Love Ways/
It Doesn't Matter Anymore/ Raining In My Heart/ What To Do*/ Peggy Sue Got
Married*/ That Makes It Tough/ Crying, Waiting, Hoping*/ Learning The
Game*/ You're The One*/ Smokey Joe's Cafe*/ Dearest
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
Geffen 11675-02 |
Down The Line - Rarities |
● CD $29.98 |
Two CDs, 59 tracks, essential if you don't plan on getting
the box set
This two CD set with 59 songs features some of Buddy's most
obscure recordings - mostly previously known only to diehard Holly
collectors. Many of the songs have appeared before but usually with
overdubs by The Fireballs but all the recordings here are in their
original undubbed versions. It opens with a 1949 home recording of 13 year
old Buddy doing Hank Snow's My Two Timin' Woman - his voice is
unbroken but he already shows asruredness in his guitar playing and it
ends with a version of The Coasters' Smokey Joe's Cafe with Buddy
accompanying himself on electric guitar with lots of tremelo recorded at
his New York appartment only a month before his tragic death. Along the
way we hear early country duets with Bob Montgomery (some appearing in
undubbed form for the first time ever), the four cuts recorded in Fort
Wichita in December 1955 that were used as demos that led to his signing
with Decca. We also have the session held in the Holley family garage in
late 1956 where he and Jerry Allison work their way through a selection of
some of the big rock 'n' roll and R&B hits of the day. From his hit making
period we have magnificent undubbed versions of several songs that had
vocal choruses added for their original release like Last Night/ Oh
Boy! and Think It Over, the incredible alternate take of
Peggy Sue and all the recordings made by Buddy with acoustic or
electric guitar in his appartment in December 1958 and January 1959
including the six original songs by Buddy that might have made it to a
future release had he lived and show to me that he had not abandoned rock
'n' roll as some have suggested. It also includes his call outs to Bob
Thiele and Murray Deutsch of Decca done to the tune of That'll Be The
Day with Buddy and The Crickets cracking up at the absurdity. Even if
you have the European releases of much of this material the sound quality
here from original sources is superior - in some cases, significantly so.
Set is in a fold out digipack with rare photos, notes by Bill Dahl and
full discographical information. (FS)
* = undubbed version BUDDY HOLLY: My Two Timin' Woman*/
Footprints In The Snow*/ Flower Of My Heart*/ Door To My Heart*/ Soft
Place In My Heart*/ Gotta Get You Near Me Blues*/ I Gambled My Heart*/ You
And I Are Through*/ Down The Line*/ Baby Let's Play House*/ Moonlight
Baby*/ I Guess I Was Just A Fool*/ Don't Come Back Knockin'*/ Love Me*/
Gone*/ Gone (Undubbed Version Alternate Take)/ Have You Ever Been Lonely
(Have You Ever Been Blue) (Undubbed Version Alternate Take)/ Have You Ever
Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)*/ Brown Eyed Handsome Man*/ Good
Rockin' Tonight*/ Rip It Up*/ Blue Monday*/ Honky Tonk*/ Blue Suede
Shoes*/ Shake Rattle And Roll(Partial)*/ Bo Diddley*/ Ain't Got No Home*/
Holly Hop*/ Last Night*/ Not Fade Away (Partial Alternate Overdub)/ Peggy
Sue (Alternate)/ Oh Boy!*/ That's My Desire (Two False Starts Plus
Undubbed Master)/ Take Your Time (False Start & Partially Undubbed Take)/
Fool's Paradise (Alternate Take)*/ Fool's Paradise (Master)*/ Fool's
Paradise (Aternate Take #2)*/ Think It Over (False Start & Rehearsal Take
- Take 1)/ Think It Over (Undubbed Alternate Take 2)/ Think It Over
(Undubbed Master Take 3)/ Love's Made A Fool Of You*/ That'll Be The Day
[Greetings To Bob Thiele]/ That'll Be The Day [Greetings To Murray
Deutsch]/ That's What They Say (Undubbed Version With Fragment)/ What To
Do*/ Peggy Sue Got Married*/ That Makes It Tough*/ Crying, Waiting,
Hoping*/ Learning The Game [undubbed]/ Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie*/
Slippin' And Slidin' (Slow Version #1)*/ Slippin' And Slidin' (Album
Version(/ Slippin' And Slidin' (Fast Version)*/ Buddy & Maria Elena
Talking In Apartment*/ Dearest (Fragment)*/ Dearest/ Untitled Instrumental
(aka: Buddy's Guitar/listed as "Tremolo Instrumental")*/ Love Is Strange*/
Smokey Joe's Cafe*
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
Hip-O Select 12875-02 |
Not Fade Away - The Complete Studio
Recordings Plus |
● CD $119.98 |
Six CDs, 203 tracks, essential
I make no secret of
the fact that Buddy Holly is my favorite 50s rocker - I love Elvis,
Carl, Little Richard and the others but Buddy is the one that
affects me the most. I can still remember saving money when I was 14
years old to buy That'll Be The Day which I'd been hearing on
the radio and when I finally got it I played it time after time and
then when I turned it over I found that the flip I'm Looking For
Someone To Love was almost as good and it had not one, but two
guitar solos. When Peggy Sue appeared a few months later it
rapidly became my favorite record of the year and when I got to see
Buddy perform the following year at the Gaumont in Hammersmith with
the Crickets he was even better than I had hoped for. Then a year
later he was dead, and I was crushed.
Now finally 50 years after his
premature death we finally get a collection of all his extant
recordings. Well, almost all - it doesn't include the handful of
live recordings that exist, his interviews or his accompaniments to
other artists but it does include everything else including undubbed
versions of demos and home recordings that were overdubbed by Norman
Petty after Buddy's death as well as undubbed versions of songs that
appeared originally on singles sweetened by vocal backup by The
Picks. Sure, most of this material has appeared on "unauthorized"
issues over the years but this does feature several undubbed
versions of songs appearing for the first time and having access to
the original tapes and discs and state of the art remastering means
that the sound quality is vastly superior to previous issues. The
first four discs and part of the fifth present all his recordings
(undubbed versions where they exist) in chronological order from his
first tentative version of Hank Snow's My Two Timin' Woman
recorded when he was only 13 years old to the final recordings made
in his and Maria Elena's apartment in December 1958 and January
1959 where he performed some new original compositions as well as
versions of some of his favorite R&B, rock 'n' roll and pop songs.
Throughout we hear an artist who loved and was dedicated to his
music who excelled as a singer, as a songwriter and as a guitarist
and while it's useless to speculate what direction his music would
have taken if he had lived I'm pretty convinced that his impact
would have been significant. Those who have not kept up with the
unauthorized reissues are in some real treats like the undubbed and
more exciting version of Oh Boy, the alternate take of
Peggy Sue with it's subtly different guitar break and a 10
minute session at Norman Petty's studio sometime in 1957 where he
and Jerry Allison work on the Bo Diddley song Mona which
would have been a killer if it had been completed. The balance of
disc five and disc six feature the overdubbed versions of songs that
were overdubbed after his death - mostly by The Fireballs under the
direction of Norman Petty. Curiously the only appearance of the song
Wishing is here. The undubbed version could not be found but
it would have made more sense to include one of the overdubbed
versions in the chronological sequence.
Considering the importance
of the music here it's a shame that the documentation couldn't be
better - Billy Altman's appreciation is brief but fine but Bill
Dahl's discussion of the music is pretty redundant. A more in depth
look at Buddy's life and music would have been appropriate. The set
is packaged in a handsome yearbook type book with 80 pages which
includes the notes and a selection of rare and common photos and the
CDs slip into slots in pages in the back. In spite of my minor
reservations this is an utterly indispensable collection -
particularly for the Buddy Holly fan but will appeal to everyone who
loves 50s rock 'n' roll. (FS) Note: because of the size of the book
this counts as eight CDs for shipping purposes.
(FS)
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
MCA MCAD 11956 |
Best Of - The Millenium Collection |
● CD $11.98 |
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
MCA (UK) 112 099 |
Reminiscing |
● CD $11.98 |
18 tracks, 40 mins, highly recommended
This is a reissue of
Coral 75450 with 7 bonus tracks, This was the first album to feature "new"
material by this great artist who died in 1959. The first track - the title
tune is the only finished studio track where Buddy joined forces with the
great tenor sax player King Curtis on a title that could have been a sure
fire hit if it had been released when recorded and reached the charts in
England when it was released as a single. The remaining tracks are demos,
rehearsal tapes, and Buddy's acoustic demos recorded at his home in New York
a couple of months before his death. These were "sweetened" in Norman Petty's studios - edited and re-arranged and with the Fireballs overdubbed.
The overdubs are well done but unnecessarry and dilute the power of the
original recordings as can be heard on the bonus material which includes
five tracks in their undubbed form. In addition there is another song from
the King Curtis session - the fine Come Back Baby plus an early
recording of Maybe Baby with different arrangements. Other songs
include Bo Diddley/ Baby, Won't You Come Out Tonight/ Because I Love You/
I'm Gonna Set My Foot Right Down and others. Includes reproduction of
the original artwork and booklet with new notes by Colin Escott.
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
Rev-Ola 174 |
Gotta Roll - The Early Recordings,
1949-1955 |
● CD $15.98 |
26 tracks, 56 mins, highly recommended
While the bulk of
Buddy Holly's unissued recordings is tied up in litigation this CD allows
us to hear some of Buddy's early recordings made before he commenced
recording commercially for Decca in 1956. It includes his earliest home
recording from 1949 when he was 13 years old doing Hank Snow's Two
Timin' Woman and showing his already impressive guitar skills. It also
includes early 50s bluegrass flavored recordings with Bob Montgomery along
with studio demos from 1954 and '55 many which were later overdubbed by
The Fireballs - the versions here are undubbed - the earliest of these
demos are straight country but by 1955 he'd seen and heard Elvis and from
then on most of his material was rockabilly including a cover of Elvis's
hit Baby Let's Play House as well as a bunch of original songs
culminating with four songs Moonlight Baby/ I Guess I Was A Fool/ Don't
Come Back Knockin' and Love Me which were sent to Decca and
were followed shortly by his being signed by the label. While his singing
hadn't fully matured his guitar playing on the rockabilly numbers is
superb. This set also includes performances by associates Sonny Curtis,
Jack Neal and Ben Hall with Buddy on guitar - interesting but not
particularly compelling. Sound quality on some of these tracks is very
rough and there is no discographical information though most of the
relevant information is in Dave Penny's notes. The booklet features a
number of photos including pictures of some of the acetates. This release
is not for the casual listner but if you're a Holly fan it's indispensable
unless you already have it on one of the many bootlegs out there. (FS)
BUDDY & BOB: Down The Line (#1)/ Down The Line (#2)/
Footprints In The Snow/ Gotta Get You Near Me Blues/ Let's Pretend (Aka
"I'll Just Pretend")/ Memories/ Take These Shackles From My Heart/ You And
I Are Through/ You And I Are Through (#1)/ SONNY CURTIS: Because You Love
Me/ Dallas Boogie/ I'll Miss My Heart/ One In A Million/ Queen Of The
Ballroom/ This Bottle/ BEN HALL: All From Loving You/ Rose Of Monterey/
BUDDY HOLLY: Don't Come Back Knockin'/ I Guess I Was A Fool/ I Wanna Play
House With You (Aka "Baby, Let's Play House")/ Love Me/ Moonlight Baby
(Aka "Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight")/ My Two-Timin' Woman (Edited
Version)/ My Two-Timin' Woman (Unedited Version)/ JACK NEAL: I Hear The
Lord Callin' For Me/ I Saw The Moon Cry Last Night
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| BUDDY HOLLY |
Roller Coaster 3056 |
With The Three Tunes - Ohh! Annie! |
● CD $28.98 |
Two CDs, 43 tracks, essential
This is very similar to El
Toro 1012 that was issued at the beginning of 2007 featuring all the
available recordings made by the great rock 'n' roll pioneer Budddy Holly
in 1956 with several exceptions that will be notable for diehard Holly
fans (like myself) but perhaps not so significant to casual fans. Firstly,
this set includes several never before issued alternate takes that were
not even known about before this release including a particularly fine
alternate of Midnight Shift (which is where the album title comes
from). There are also additional fragments of studio chatter. Further,
most of these tracks were sourced from the original master tapes so sound
quality is superior to the El Toro though not always dramatically so. The
set is housed in a three panel digipac with a 36 page booklet with
extensive notes on these recordings by Holly expert John Ingman including
an interview with Bobby Peeples who was responsible for some of the home
recordings here plus a bunch of great photos - some previously
unpublished. It's too bad this didn't come out sooner so that one wouldn't
have to buy the same material twice but the first generation tapes used
here didn't turn up until August of 2007. If you're dedicated Holly fan or
don't have the El Toro this release is a must. Ohh! Annie! (FS)
BUDDY HOLLY: Love Me/ Don't Come Back
Knockin' (previously unissued)/ Don't Come Back Knockin'/ Midnight Shift
(previously unissued false start)/ Midnight Shift (previously unissued)/
Midnight Shift/ Blue Days, Black Nights/ Baby Won't You Come Out Tonight/
I Guess I Was Just A Fool/ It's Not My Fault/ I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down/
I'm Changin' All Those Changes/ Rock-A-Bye Rock/ Because I Love You/ Rock
Around With Ollie Vee (fragment)/ Rock Around With Ollie Vee/ I'm Changin'
All Those Changes/ That'll Be The Day/ Girl On My Mind/ Ting-A-Ling/ Rock
Around With Ollie Vee/ Modern Don Juan/ You Are My One Desire (false
start)/ You Are My One Desire/ Have You Ever Been Lonely/ Bo Diddley/
Ain't Got No Home/ Holly Hop/ Gone/ Gone/ Gone (previously unissued)/ Have
You Ever Been Lonely/ Have You Ever Been Lonely/ Have You Ever Been Lonely
(previously unissued complete)/ Brown-Eyed Handsome Man/ Good Rockin'
Tonight/ Rip It Up Blue Monday/ Honky Tonk/ Blue Suede Shoes/ Shake,
Rattle & Roll/ Bo Diddley/ Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
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| BRIAN HYLAND |
MCA 11034 |
Greatest Hits |
● CD $9.98 |
18 tracks, 47 min., good A few months back MCA of France
produced a retrospective of this gentle-voiced teen idol. Not to be
outdone presumably, that company's domestic branch now offers this
slightly shorter (by two tracks) and less expensive variant, with fine
stereo sound on most cuts, worthwhile notes, discographical information,
and photos from various stages of the artist's career. Featured tracks
include Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini/ Ginny Come
Lately/ Sealed With a Kiss/ Warmed Over Kisses, and his surprise 1970
hit version of Gypsy Woman. Pleasant pop music from the 60's,
nicely packaged. (DH)
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