VINTAGE
ROCK 'N' ROLL & ROCKABILLY
The
Paladins -> Dwight Pullen
THE PALADINS |
Alligator 4762 |
Years Since Yesterday |
● CD $16.98 |
10 tracks by 1988's roots rock rulers.
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THE PALADINS |
Alligator 4782 |
Let's Buzz |
● CD $16.98 |
1990 album from roots rockers - Follow Your Heart/ Let's
Buzz/ Mercy/ What Side Of The Door Am In On, etc.
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KENNY PARCHMAN |
Hydra 27125 |
I Feel Like Rockin' |
● CD $21.98 |
28 tracks from fine Tennessee rocker Kenny Parchman who
recorded quite a few titles for Sun without having any issued though two of
his best I Feel Like Rockin' and Love Crazy Baby were
originally planned to be issued as Sun 252. This set includes at least one
take of all his Sun recordings including Treat Me Right/ Get It Off You
Mind/ Don't You KNow/ You Call Everybody Darling, etc. along with his
obscure singles recorded for Jaxon, Lu and Spectrum. There are also four
songs from an unknown date featuring Kenny overdubbing all the
instrumetation and eight tracks from a live club date in 1975 at the
Pinridge Club in Jackson, Tennessee featuring Kenny with a smm group doing
songs like One Night/ Johnny B. Goode/ Brown Eyed Handsome Man/ Shake
Rattle & Roll and others. Includes 16 page booklet with notes, pictures
and discography.
KENNY PARCHMAN: Always Thinking/ Arkansas Twist/ Brown
Eyed Handsome Man/ Don't You Know/ Don't You Know (what's The Reason)/ Get
It Off Your Mind/ Get It Off Your Mind (alt. Vers. 1)/ Honky Tonk (instr.)/
I Feel Like Rockin' (vers. 1)/ I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday/ I'm Sorry I'm
Not Sorry/ In The Mood (instr.)/ Johnny B. Goode/ Love Crazy (vers. 1)/ Love
Crazy (vers. 2)/ Love Crazy (vers. 3)/ Memphis, Tennessee/ One Night/
Sattellite Hop (instr.)/ Shake, Rattle & Roll/ Tennessee Zip/ Treat Me
Right/ Treat Me Right (alt. Vers. 1)/ Treat Me Right (alt. Vers. 2)/ When
The Saints Go Marching In/ You Call Everybody Darlin' (vers. 1)/ You Call
Everybody Darlin' (vers. 2)/ Your Cheating Heart
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JIMMY PATTON |
Star Club 506009 |
Yah! I'm Movin |
● CD $21.98 |
25 rockabilly and country sides by this singer from
Oklahoma.
JIMMY PATTON: Apartment # 9/ April Fool's Day/ Big Blue
Diamonds/ Blue Darlin/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky/ Brush Me From Your Shoes/
Can't Bear The Thought Of Losin/ Careful/ Going Home With The Blues/ Guilty/
I'm Not Chuckin/ Let Me Slide/ Love Come Back To Me/ Make Room For The
Blues/ Okie's In The Pokie/ Out Of My Life/ Pick Me Up On Your Way Down/
Ragged But Right/ Red Necks White Sox Blue Ribbon Beer/ Sawmill/ Texas Are
Going Up Again/ What Will I Do/ White Lightning/ Worst Of Luck/ Yah I'm
Movin
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PAUL & PAULA |
Black Tulip 2636409 |
Hey Paula! |
● CD $17.98 |
31 tracks, 72 min., recommended
A generous slice of the hit
and post-hit work of this early 60's white duo, opening with their well
known solo hit from 1963, the title track here. Subsequent numbers are a mix
of covers of 50's hits and popish attempts to recreate the sound of that one
hit. Featured tracks, in addition to the aforementioned hit, include
Pledging My Love, My Happiness, Come Softly to Me, You
Send Me, Young Lovers, We Go Together, Blue Roller Rink,
So Fine, School is Thru, We'll Never Break Up For Good,
Stepping Stone, and Gee Baby. Nicely sung and produced music
throughout, most of it in the vein of the more polished and polite rock and
roll that had become the norm by the early 60's . Sound quality is above
reproach, and there are no notes at all. (DH)
PAUL & PAULA: A Perfect Pair/ All The Love/ Average Boy
And Average Girl/ Ba Hey Bee/ Blue Roller Rink/ Come Softly To Me/ Crazy
Little Things/ Dear Paula/ Don't Let It End/ First Day Back At School/ First
Quarrel/ Flipped Over You/ Gee Baby/ Hey Baby/ Hey Paula/ Love Comes Once/
My Happiness/ Oh What A Love/ Pleding My Love/ School Is Thru/ So Fine/
Something Old Something New/ Stepping Stone/ Sweet Baby/ The Beginning Of
Love/ Two People In The World/ We Go Together/ We Two Forever Shall Be One/
We'll Never Break Up For Good/ You Send Me/ Young Lovers
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THE PEANUT BUTTER
CONSPIRACY |
Sundazed 11144 |
Living Dream - The Best Of |
● CD $16.98 |
20 tracks, 66 min, recommended
The PBC was a LA-based group
that sounded a lot like very early Jefferson Airplane (think "Blues From An
Airplane") or Spanky & Our Gang, with folk-like harmony vocals, trippy
lyrics & some hot guitar. This has tracks from their two Columbia LPs, The
Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading from '67, produced by Gary Usher, &
The Great Conspiracy from '68 produced by Jerry Fuller, along with some
non-LP single sides & even a couple unreleased cuts. 12 pg booklet with an
excellent history of the band by Mike Staxx including current interviews
with band members, as well as pics & posters. In slip-covered cover. Titles
include Why Did I Get So High, Twice Is Life, Turn On A Friend (To The Good
Life), Captain Sandwich.. (GM)
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PAUL PEEK |
Eagle 90123 |
Rockin' Through The Teenage Years |
● CD $18.98 |
30 tracks by singer/ guitarist who spent a while as rhythm
guitarist with Gene Vincent's famed Blue Caps
PAUL PEEK: A Miss Is As Good As A Mile/ Be Bop A Lula
(television Vers.)/ Brother-in-law (he's A Moocher)/ Comin' Home In The
Morning/ Gee But I Miss That Girl/ Hurtin' Inside/ I'm A Happy Man/ I'm
Movin' Uptown/ I'm Not Your Fool Anymore/ If/ Lotta Lovin' (television Vers.)/
Olds-mo-william/ Olds-mo-william (television Vers.)/ Pin The Tail On The
Donkey/ Rockin' Pneumonia And Boogie Woogie Flu/ Roll Over Beethoven
(television Vers.)/ Short Shortnin'/ Sweet Skinny Jenny/ The Good Of Love/
The Riddle Of The Papahoos/ The Rock-a-round/ The Shadow Knows/ Through The
Teenage Years/ Waikiki Beach/ Walkin' The Floor Over You/ Watermelon/ When
You Hurt Me I Cry/ Where There's A Will (there's A Way)/ You're Just In
Love/ Young Hearts
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TRACY PENDARVIS |
Buffalo Bop 55054 |
A Thousand Guitars |
● CD $19.98 |
TRACEY PENDARVIS: A Thousand Guitars/ A Thousand Guitars
(alternate version)/ All You Gotta Do/ Beat It/ Belle Of The Suwannee
(alternate stereo ver.)/ Belle Of The Swannee/ Bop A Cha/ Cha Baby/ Crazy
Baby/ Drift In Dreams/ Eternally/ First Love/ Get It/ Girl In My Home Town/
Give Me Lovin'/ Hard Luck/ I Feel A Tear Drop/ I Need Somebody/ Is It Me/ Is
It Too Late/ It Don't Pay/ It's Too Late/ Just Call On Me/ My Girl
Josephine/ One Of These Days/ Philadelphia Filly/ Please Be Mine Hypnotized/
School Days/ So Tenderly/ South Bound Line/ South Bound Line (alternate
stereo version)/ Uh Huh, Oh Yeah/ Weird Feeling
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CARL PERKINS |
Bear Family BCD 15246 |
Up Through The Years, 1954-57 |
● CD $21.98 |
Rockabilly as it was meant to be heard - 24 Sun classics by
one of the fathers of rockabilly with tremendous punch, presence and clarity
which shows just what can be done with compact discs if you try. We can
really hear the vibrancy of Carl's vocals, the jangle of his guitar and the
thundering slapped bass of Clayton Perkins. Tracks are featured in
chronological order and include Honky Tonk Gal/ Turn Around/ Let The
Jukebox Keep On Playing/ Blue Suede Shoes/ Tennessee/ All Mama's Children/
Dixie Fried/ You Can Do No Wrong/ Your True Love/ Put Your Cat Clothes On
(with great piano by a certain Mr J. L. Lewis)/ Pink Pedal Pushers/ Lend
Me Your Comb/ Right String Baby and all the other gems. (FS)
CARL PERKINS: All Mama's Children/ Blue Suede Shoes/
Boppin' The Blues/ Dixie Fried/ Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/ Glad All
Over/ Gone, Gone, Gone/ Honey Don't/ Honky Tonk Gal/ I'm Sorry I'm Not
Sorry/ Lend Me Your Comb/ Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing/ Matchbox/ Movie
Magg/ Only You/ Pink Pedal Pushers/ Put Your Cat Clothes On/ Right String
Baby (wrong Yo-yo)/ Tennessee/ That's Right/ Turn Around/ You Can Do No
Wrong/ You Can't Make Love To Somebody/ Your True Love
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CARL PERKINS |
Bear Family BCD 15494 |
The Classic Carl Perkins |
● CD $99.98 |
5 CDs, 130 tracks, absolutely essential
With his beautiful, soulful honky tonk voice and jangly,
bluesy guitar Carl Perkins epitomized rockabilly like no other artists.
Accompanied by the thumping bass and propulsive guitar of brothers Jay and
Clayton and the steady drumming of W.S. Holland they produced exciting
timeless music for Sam Phillips' Sun label between 1954 and '57. The first 2
1/2 CDs in this beautiful 5 CD set feature those recordings and although
many of these tracks have been reissued before this collection features
several previously unissued takes and in Carl's case the alternate versions
are frequently very different to the more familiar ones - the three
different versions of his most famous song Blue Suede Shoes are
particularly revealing. These recordings have never sounded better thanks to
the remastering wizardry of Bob Jones. The rest of this box is devoted to
his recordings made for Columbia and Decca between 1958 and 1964 are
generally less interesting, marred by assembly line Nashville production,
thin sound and often mediocre songs. Nevertheless Carl's beautiful vocals
often surmount the obstacles and he manages to get in a hot guitar solo here
and there. Interestingly the best of these recordings are from a 1964
session in England with English group The Nashville Teens where Carl sounds
more enthusiastic than he had in a long time. The set is
beautifully packaged in
a sturdy box with a beautiful full color photo and Carl and his band from
the late 50s or early 60s. There is a 24 page LP sized booklet with notes by
Colin Escott and Bill Millar, over 2 dozen photos and full discographical
details on all the recordings included. Another essential winner from Bear
Family. (FS)
CARL PERKINS: After Sundown/ All Mama's Children/ All
Mama's Children/ All Mama's Children (alt)/ Any Way The Wind Blows/ Be
Honest With Me/ Because You're Mine/ Big Bad Blues/ Blue Suede Shoes/ Blue
Suede Shoes (alt 1)/ Blue Suede Shoes (alt 2)/ Boppin' The Blues/ Boppin'
The Blues (alt)/ Caldonia/ Conversation With Bill Cantrell/ Dixie Bop (aka
Perkins Wiggle)/ Dixie Fried/ Dixie Fried (diff Session)/ Down By The
Riverside/ Drink Up And Go Home/ Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby/ Fool I
Used To Be/ For A Little While/ Forever Yours/ Forget Me (next Time Around)/
Glad All Over/ Gone Gone Gone/ Gone Gone Gone (alt/ Good Rockin' Tonight/
Hambone/ Help Me Find My Baby/ Her Love Rubbed Off/ Hey Good Lookin'/
Highway Of Love/ Hollywood City/ Honey 'cause I Love You/ Honey Don't/ Honey
Don't (alt 1)/ Honey Don't (alt 2)/ Honky Tonk Babe (gal)/ Honky Tonk Gal/ I
Care/ I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore/ I Don't See Me In Your Eyes
Anymore (alt)/ I Got A Woman/ I Wouldn't Have You/ I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry/
I've Just Got Back From There/ Instrumental #1/ Instrumental #2/ Jenny
Jenny/ Jive After Five/ Just For You/ Just Thought I'd Call/ Keeper Of The
Key/ L-o-v-e-v-i-l-l-e/ Lend Me Your Comb/ Lend Me Your Comb (alt)/ Let My
Baby Be/ Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing/ Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing
(alt)/ Levi Jacket (and A Longtail Shirt)/ Lonely Heart/ Lonely Street/ Long
Tall Sally/ Look At The Moon/ Look At The Moon (alt)/ Love I'll Never Win/
Mama Of My Song/ Matchbox/ Matchbox (alt)/ Monkey Shine/ Movie Magg/ Movie
Magg (alt)/ One Of These Days/ One Way Ticket To Lonliness/ Only You/ Pink
Pedal Pushers/ Pink Pedal Pushers (columbia)/ Pink Pedal Pushers (sun -
Alt)/ Pink Pedal Pushers (sun)/ Please Say You'll Be Mine/ Pointed Toe
Shoes/ Pop Let Me Have The Car/ Put Your Cat Clothes On/ Put Your Cat
Clothes On (diff Session - Alt)/ Put Your Cat Clothes On (diff Session)/
Ready Teddy/ Red Wing/ Right String Baby But The Wrong Yo Yo/ Rockin' Record
Hop/ Roll Over Beethoven/ Say When/ Shake Rattle And Roll/ Sister Twister/
Sittin' On Top Of The World/ Somebody Tell Me/ Someday Somewhere Someone
Waits For Me/ Sure To Fall/ Sweethearts Or Strangers/ Sweethearts Or
Strangers 9alt)/ Take Back My Love/ Tennessee/ That Don't Move Me/ That's
Alright/ That's Right/ That's Right (alt)/ The Drifter/ This Life I Live/
Too Much For A Man To Understand/ Too Much For A Man To Understand (alt)/
Try My Heart Out/ Turn Around/ Turn Around (alt)/ Tutti Frutti/ Unhappy
Girls/ Way You're Living Is Breaking My Heart/ What You Doin' When You're
Cryin'/ When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain/ When The Right Time Comes
Along/ Where The Rio De Rosa Flows/ Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On/ Y.o.u./
Y.o.u. (alt)/ You Can Do No Wrong/ You Can't Make Love To Somebody/ You
Can't Make Love To Somebody (diff Session)/ You Were There/ Your True Love
(issued Version)/ Your True Love (original Tempo)
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CARL PERKINS |
Bear Family BCD 15593 |
Country Boy's Dream - The Dollie Masters |
● CD $21.98 |
CARL PERKINS: All You'll Need To Know/ Almost Love/ Baby
I'm Hung Up On You/ Back To Tennessee/ Country Boy's Dream/ Dear Abby/
Detroit City/ Dream On Little Dreamer/ Home (that's Where The Heart Is)/
I'll Go Wrong Again/ If I Could Come Back/ It's You/ Just As Long (country)/
Just As Long (pop)/ Lake County Cotton Country/ Mama And Daddy/ My Old
Hometown/ Old Fashioned Sing-a-long/ Old Number One/ Poor Boy Blues/ Quite
Like You/ Shine Shine Shine/ Stateside/ Sweet Misery/ The Star Of The Show/
Tom And Mary Jane/ Unmitigated Gal/ Valda/ Without You/ You Can Take The Boy
Out Of The Country
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CARL PERKINS |
Bear Family BCD 16422 |
Back On Top |
● CD $99.98 |
A four CD set
with 36 page book features all of Carl's recordings from his second tenure
with Columbia (1968-1972), his Mercury recordings (1973-1975), his sessions
with NRBQ and more. Includes unissued studio cuts and a CD's worth of demos.
CARL PERKINS: 1143/ A Lion In The Jungle/ About All I Can
Give Is My Love/ All Mama's Children (& NRBQ)/ Allergic To Love (& NRBQ)/
Always Be Mine/ Always Be Mine/ Baby's Gone/ Baby, What You Want Me To Do?/
Big Bad Blues/ Bless The Children/ Blue Suede Shoes/ Boppin' The Blues/
Boppin' The Blues (& NRBQ)/ Born Equal/ Bottoms Up/ Brown Eyed Handsome Man/
C.c. Rider/ Champaign, Illinois/ Constantly/ Cotton Top/ Cotton Top/ Daddy
Sang Bass/ Dixiefried/ Folsom Prison Blues/ For Your Love/ For Your Love/
Four Letter Word/ Four Letter Word/ Goin' To Memphis/ Goin' To Memphis/ Good
Times Are Just Around The Corner/ Help Me Dream/ High On Love/ Honey Don't/
Honey Don't/ Honky Tonk Song/ I Ain't Mad/ I Still Miss Someone/ I Want To
Be Your Man/ I'll Fly Away/ I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down/ Just As Long/ Just
As Long/ Just Coastin'/ Let Me Be The One You Love/ Little Cowboy Suit/ Lord
I Sinned Again Last Night/ Love Sweet Love/ Low Class/ Match Box/ Me Without
You/ Mean Woman Blues/ Mean, Mean Martha/ My Son, My Sun/ Never Look Back/
One More Loser Going Home/ Poor Boy Blues/ Power Of My Soul/ Red Headed
Woman/ Restless/ Restless/ Restless/ Rise And Shine/ Rise And Shine/
Riverboat Annie/ Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town/ Sing My Song/ So Warm/
So Wrong/ Someday/ Sorry Charlie/ Sorry Charlie (& NRBQ)/ Soul Beat/ State
Of Confusion/ Step Aside (& NRBQ)/ Step It Up And Go/ Sunday Dinner/
Superfool/ Take A Good Look At Me/ Take It Or Leave It/ Take Me Back To
Memphis/ That's Right/ That's Right/ The Big City Sleeps/ The Big City
Sleeps/ The Bottom Of The Bottle/ The E.p. Express/ The Last Letter/ The
Lord's Fishing Hole/ The Trip/ True Love Is Greater Than Friendship/ Turn
Around/ Turn Around/ Turn Around (& NRBQ)/ Walk With Your Neighbor/ Walk
With Your Neighbor/ What Every Little Boy Ought To Know/ When You're A Man
On Your Own/ Wild Card/ You Tore My Heaven All To Hell/ You Won't Have To
Say You Love Me/ You'll Always Be A Lady To Me/ Your True Love
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CARL PERKINS |
Bear Family BCD 16752 |
Carl Rocks |
● CD $24.98 |
31 track career retrospective of this great rocker's
recordings including 15 of his classic Sun recordings from 1955-57 plus the
best of his Columbia, Decca Brunswick and Mercury sides recorded between
1958 and 1975 and as bonus two previously unissued side from 1990 prodiced
by Bill Lloyd with Carl accompanied by his sons and steel guitarist Jerry
Douglas. Includes 48 page illustrated booklet with notes by Colin Escott, a
heap of photos and full discographical information on the tracks on the CD.
CARL PERKINS: All Mama's Children/ Baby, Bye Bye/ Because
You're Mine/ Big Bad Blues/ Big Bad Blues/ Blue Suede Shoes (Take 2)/
Boppin' the Blues/ Caldonia/ Dixie Fried/ E.P. Express/ Everybody's Trying
to Be My Baby/ Glad All Over/ Gone, Gone, Gone/ Her Love Rubbed Off/ Honey
Don't (Take 3)/ Honey, 'Cause I Love You/ Honky Tonk Song/ I Wouldn't Have
You/ Jive After Five/ Lonely Heart/ Matchbox/ Memphis in the Meantime/ Put
Your Cat Clothes On/ Restless/ Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo/ Rockin' Record
Hop/ Sittin' on Top of the World/ That's All Right/ Where the Rio de Rosa
Flows/ You Can Do No Wrong/ Your True Love
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CARL PERKINS |
Collectables 6429 |
Blue Suede Shoes/ Original Golden Hits |
● CD $13.98 |
Two Sun LPs.
CARL PERKINS: All Mama's Children/ Blue Suede Shoes/
Boppin' The Blues/ Dixie Fried/ Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby/ Forever
Yours/ Glad All Over/ Gone, Gone, Gone/ Her Love Rubbed Off/ Honey Don't/
I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry/ Lend Me Your Comb/ Let The Juke Box Keep On
Playing/ Matchbox/ Movie Magg/ Only You/ Right String But The Wrong Yo-yo/
Tennessee/ Turn Around/ You Can't Make Love To Somebody/ Your True Love
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CARL PERKINS |
T-Bird 009 |
Whole Lotta Shakin'/ On Top |
● CD $19.98 |
22 tracks, 59 mins, recommended
This CD reissues two
LPs that Carl recorded for Columbia when he was under contract to
them at two different times. "Whole Lotta Shakin'" is from 1958 and
features mostly rock 'n' roll favorites like the title song,
Shake, Rattle & Roll/ Ready Teddy/ Good Rockin' Tonight, etc.
Carl's singing and guitar playing are great but the backing band
gives new meaning to the word "lame." Highlight is Carl's soulful
rendition of the old blues standard Sittin' On Top Of The World.
"On Top" is from 1969 and finds Carl in a more contemporary sounding
vein on a collection of mostly new material including several new
compositions by him including the hard driving Soul Beat and
Champaign, Illinois which was co-written with Bob Dylan. Carl
sounds fine with solid accompaniment from the band which is
contemporary but tasteful. He also does some older numbers including
fine versions of Buddy Holly's I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down and
the old blues standard C.C. Rider. Not classic Carl but
definitely worth a listen. (FS)
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RAY PETERSON |
Collectables 5876 |
Tell Laura I Love Her |
● CD $13.98 |
14 RCA & Dunes titles - many making their first appearance
on CD. Includes the big hit title song and Corrina, Corrina plus
The Wonder Of You/ Till Then/ Goodnight My Love/ Answer Me My Love/ Richer
Than I, etc.
RAY PETERSON: Answer Me My Love/ Come And Get It/ Corrina,
Corrina/ Fever/ Goodnight My Love (Pleasant Dreams)/ I'm Gone/ Missing You/
My Blue Angel/ Richer Than I/ Suddenly/ Tell Laura I Love Her/ Till Then/
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?/ Wonder Of You
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GENE PITNEY |
Bear Family BCD 15724 |
Hits & Misses |
● CD $21.98 |
26 tracks, 65 min., recommended
While this collection
includes a handsome helping of Gene's Top 40 better knowns from the early
'60s (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/ Town Without Pity/ Twenty Four
Hours From Tulsa/ Only Love Can Break A Heart/ Half Heaven, Half Heartache),
the reason to pick it up is the misses. All 4 of his Decca duets with Teresa
Brewer sound alike Ginny Mazarro the label pushed them as Jamie & Jane from
1959 are here, as are his singles issued as by Billy Bryan, including an
unreleased demo of Make Believe Lover. Phil Spector fans should
appreciate Pitney's impressive take on the Goffin/King song Every Breathe
I Take, an early brick in the "wall of sound." Did I mention the version
of Town Without Pity called Bleibe Bei Mir, in which Gene
sings his hit with new lyrics and in German? That's here. (JC)
JAMIE & JANE: Classical Rock And Roll/ Faithful Our Love/
Snuggle Up Baby/ Strolling (through The Park)/ GENE PITNEY: (I Wanna) Love
My Life Away/ Bleibe Bei Mir (town Without Pity) (german)/ Cradle Of My
Arms/ Donna Means Heartbreak/ Dream For Sale/ Every Breath I Take/ Half
Heaven, Half Heartache/ Hello Mary Lou/ I'll Find You/ I'm Going Back To My
Love/ If I Didn't Have A Dime/ Make Believe Lover (demo)/ Mecca/ Only Love
Can Break A Heart/ Please Come Back, Baby/ Sure Fire Bet/ Teardrop By
Teardrop/ The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance/ Today's Teardrops/ Town Without
Pity/ True Love Never Runs Smooth/ Twenty-four Hours From Tulsa
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BARBARA PITTMAN |
Charly SNAP 223 |
Getting Better All The Time |
● CD $13.98 |
27 tracks 69 mins, recommended
Repackaging of Charly 8319 in
digipack with picture label on disc. It's stretching it a bit to fill up a
whole CD so there's some fairly pedestrian outings included, as well as
several alternate takes. Nothing else here is as rocking as her famed I
Need A Man but I'm Getting Better All The Time (four takes - one
totally different, with just Jack Clement on acoustic guitar),
Everlasting Love and Sentimental Fool (3 takes) rock like crazy
with that good ol' Sun rhythm. It's funny how she sounds so amateurish at
times and at other times, like on Two Young Fools In Love and
Handsome Man, she sounds mature and forceful. (AE)
BARBARA PITTMAN: Cold, Cold, Heart/ Cold, Cold, Heart
(alt.1)/ Eleventh Commandment/ Everlasting Love/ Everlasting Love (alt.1)/
Handsome Man/ I Forgot To Remember To Forget/ I Need A Man/ I'm Getting
Better All The Time/ I'm Getting Better All The Time (alt.1)/ I'm Getting
Better All The Time (alt.2)/ I'm Getting Better All The Time (alt.3)/ I'm
Getting Better All The Time (demo)/ Just One Day/ Love Is A Stranger
(sunrays)/ No Matter Who's To Blame/ No Matter Who's To Blame (alt.1)/ No
Matter Who's To Blame (alt.2)/ Sentimental Fool (alt.1)/ Sentimental Fool
(alt.2)/ Sentimental Fool (alt.3)/ Take My Sympathy (alt.1)/ Take My
Sympathy (demo)/ The Lonely Hours (sunrays)/ Two Young Fools In Love/ Two
Young Fools In Love (demo)/ Voice Of A Fool
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THE PIXIES THREE |
Crystal Ball 1033 |
Our History - From The Beginning |
● CD $17.98 |
30 tracks by girl group from Hanover, Pennsylvania who had
several minor hits in the mid 60s. This compilation features issued
recordings, unreleased songs, demos with piano only and an acapella track.
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THE PLAYBOYS |
Dee-Jay Jamboree 55107 |
Over The Weekend & Other Hits, 1956-1962 |
● CD $18.98 |
27 tracks from Philadelphia based lounge act who had a minor
hit with the title tune. A mix of rock 'n' roll, R&B, doo-wop and pop
performed in a non threatening manner.
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THE PLAYMATES |
Collectables 5418 |
At Play With The Playmates - Golden Classics |
● CD $13.98 |
The Playmates Trio hail from Waterbury, CT., and came
together when all were U. Of Conn. undergraduates. Donny Conn, Chic Hetti,
and Morey Carr cut a slew of mindless jingo-ey pop tunes in the late 50's.
Formerly The Nitwits, the group's harmonies resembled a crazed version of
the 4 Lads. The guy's most bearable side Darling, their first for
Roulette, is sadly excluded from this collection. Jo Ann, their third
effort, hit the charts in 1958, followed by the dumb Beep Beep, for
which a multitude of sub-humans shelled out good coin. In fairness though,
Your Love, a ballad, is pleasing to the ear as is Jo Ann.
Reissue of long out of print Roulette LP - 12 selections. Good average
sound. (OLN)
THE PLAYMATES: Beep Beep/ Day I Died/ Don't Go Home/ First
Love/ Jo Ann/ Let's Be Lovers/ Little Miss Stuck Up/ Star Love/ Wait For Me/
What Is Love?/ While The Record Goes Around And Around/ Your Love
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BOBBY POE & THE
POEKATS |
Eagle 90114 |
Let's Have A Ball |
● CD $18.98 |
23 tracks, 54 min., recommended
Perhaps best known to
rockabilly fans for his White Rock single (#1112) Rock 'n' Roll Record
Girl/Rock And Roll Boogie, Bobby Poe and his band also recorded all of
the other previously unreleased tracks here during that same fateful year,
1958. Backed in part by group pianist Big Al Downing who would later find
fame on his own, Poe sings lead here on such numbers as Let's Have a
Ball/ Love My Peggy/ Rebel Without a Cause/ I'm a Fool, and Flying
Saucers Jig. The sound quality on all of these original recordings is a
bit thin, with the balance between the singer and the band often uneven.
Nonetheless, the sound of late 50's rockabilly is undeniably here. And,
besides, the greatest joy in this issue is probably the great group photo on
the cover. It says more about the spirit of rock 'n' roll and the racial
harmony that it implied than the music itself does. (DH)
BOBBY POE: Be My Love (final Version)/ Be My Love (take
1)/ Drink To A Fool (final Version)/ Drink To A Fool (take 1)/ Drink To A
Fool (take 2)/ Flying Saucers Jig/ Goin' To The River/ I'm A Fool/ I'm A
Fool (final Version)/ I'm Having A Ball/ Let's Have A Ball/ Little Darlin'/
Love Me Peggy (take 1)/ Love My Peggy (take 1)/ My Baby She Left Me (take
1)/ My Baby She Left Me (take 2)/ Please Be My Love/ Please By My Love (take
2)/ Rebel Without A Cause/ Rock & Roll Boogie/ Rock 'n' Roll Record Girl/
Rock The Bop Tonight/ Well, I Love You
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THE POE-KATS
FEATURING BIG AL DOWNING |
Eagle 90125 |
Rocking Down The Farm |
● CD $18.98 |
31 track collection featuring the group performing mostly
rock 'n roll standards. There are very few details, other than that much of
this material was "recorded with one mice" but I assume these are live or
demo tapes from the late 50s or early 60s.
THE POE-KATS: Bonie Maronie/ Break Up/ Don't Ever Leave
Me/ Great Balls Of Fire/ I Got A Feeling/ I Got A Woman/ I Was The One/ I'm
A Fool (vers. 1)/ I'm A Fool (vers. 2)/ Just Because/ Keep-a-knockin'/ Let
The Four Winds Blow/ Let's Have A Ball/ Little Coquette/ Love My Baby/ Love
You So/ Lucille/ Miss Lucy (alt. Vers. 1)/ Miss Lucy (alt. Vers. 2)/ One
Night/ Piano Nellie (alt. Vers.)/ Poor Me/ Rebel Without A Cause/ Right
Around The Corner/ Rock & Roll Boogie (alt. Vers.)/ Stagger Lee/ Summertime
Blues/ Things Were Done Again/ Woman's Love/ You Win Again
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THE PONI-TAILS |
Famous Groove 971035 |
Born Too Late |
● CD $18.98 |
The ultimate collection of recordings from this polite pop
rock trio from Cleveland. Lavern, Toni and Patti hit it big in 1958 with the
charming Born Too Late and followed it up with minor hits Seven
MInutes In Heaven and I'll Be Seeing You. These are all here
along with lots more including alternate versions, demos and an original
radio promo version of Born Too Late. Includes Moody/ Close
Friends/ Que La Bozena/ Come On Joe - Dance With Me/ Father Time/ I'll Keep
On Trying, etc.
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"GROOVEY" JOE
POOVEY |
Dragon Street 70199 |
Greatest Grooves |
● CD $14.98 |
24 tracks, 61 mins, recommended
Another high quality
production from Dragon Street - this time featuring Dallas rockabilly legend
Joe Poovey. The set covers the period 1954 through 1997 and, except for the
two very forgettable earliest sides, reveal a very talented performer. Joe
was an exceptionally fine vocalist who was equally at home with rockabilly,
rock ballads, honky tonk country or bluegrass. It includes his Dixie
classics Ten Long Fingers/ Careful Baby/ Move Around (including an
alternate take of the latter), pre-Dixie demos previously issued by Rollin'
Rock in the 70s, live recordings from the Big_D Jamboree in 1958, sides
recorded for various labels in the 70s and 80s and some excellent tracks
from 1997 including a remake of Ten Long Fingers showing Joe still
had the rockabilly fire in him. Like previous Dragon Street titles the sound
is excellent and there is fine documentation from Dave Dennard. One tragic
footnote - Joe died in his sleep shortly after approving the liner notes. So
this set, which was hoped would reintroduce him to the music world, ends up
being a memorial. (FS)
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JOHNNY POWERS |
Norton CED 229 |
Long Blond Hair |
● CD $14.98 |
Johnny Powers, who took his name from a candy bar, was one
of the original rockabilly wild ones, even though he had to learn his
thumpin' an' yellin' from the radio instead of in the cottonfields where his
Southern brethren did - he was from Detroit. Johnny's great Fortune 45 is
here, Honey Let's Go (To A Rock And Roll Show)/ Your Love,
along with the classic Fox 45, Long Blond Hair/ Rock Rock. You get
some great demos like Mean Mistreater and
Someone's Gonna Hurt You as well as Mama Rock and Indeed I
Do, a couple of tunes that were ripped off and released in Australia as
by Johnny 'Scat' Brown. (AE)
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JOHNNY PRESTON |
Bear Family BCD 15473 |
Running Bear |
● CD $19.98 |
JOHNNY PRESTON: A New Baby For Christmas/ Broken Heart
Anonymous/ Charming Billy/ Chief Heartbreak/ Chosen Few/ City Of Tears/
Cradle Of Love/ Danny Boy/ Do What You Did/ Dream/ Feel So Good/ Four Letter
Word/ Hearts Of Stone/ I Played Around With My Love/ I Want A Rock And Roll
Guitar/ I'm Startin' To Go Steady With The Blues/ Just Little Boy Blue/
Kissin' Tree/ Leave My Kitten Alone/ Madre De Dios/ My Heart Knows/ Running
Bear/ She Once Belonged To Me/ Sitting Here Crying/ That's All I Want/ Up In
The Air/ You'll Never Walk Alone
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JOHNNY PRESTON |
Bear Family BCD 16234 |
Charming Billy - The Stereo Recordings |
● CD $19.98 |
34 tracks recorded for Mercury, 1960-61. It includes stereo
versions of many of the songs on Bear Family 15473 "Running Bear" plus other
sides not previously issued or reissued.
JOHNNY PRESTON: (i Want A) Rock And Roll Guitar/ A New
Baby For Christmas/ Charming Billy/ Chief Heartbreak/ Chosen Few/ Danny Boy/
Do What You Did/ Dream/ Earth Angel/ Feel So Good/ Four Letter Word/
Guardian Angel/ Hearts Of Stone/ I Feel Good/ I Played Around With My Love/
I'm Startin' To Get Steady With The Blues/ Just Little Boy Blue/ Leave My
Kitten Alone/ Let Them Talk/ Lucky In Love/ Madre De Dios (mother Of God)/
My Imagination/ Over And Over/ Please Believe Me/ Pretend/ She Once Belonged
To Me/ Sitting Here Cryin'/ That's All I Want/ The Angels Gave You To Me/
The Twist/ Token Of Love/ Up In The Air/ What Am I Living For/ You'll Never
Walk Alone
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DWIGHT
"WHITEY" PULLEN |
Hydra 27127 |
Sunglasses After Dark |
● CD $21.98 |
26 tracks, recommended
The complete recordings of rockabilly
and country singer from Alabama who died at a young age in 1961. The 25
tracks here by him were recorded between 1956 and 1960 for several labels,
most notably the Los Angeles based Sage label and are a mix of rockabilly
and straight country. The country performances are pleasant but
undistinguished but the rockers are hot, often with fine guitar including
the well known title song plus other goodies like Everybody's Rockin'/
Moonshine Liquor/ Tuscaloosa Lucy/ Drinkin' Wine Spo De O Dee and
others. The 26th bonus track is a recording by Sunglasses composer
Jim Noble with Rod Weston and a couple of members of The Champs. 16 page
booklet has notes, photos, label shots and other memorabilia. (FS).
DWIGHT PULLEN: Broke Waitin' For A Break/ By You, By The
Bayou/ Crazy In Love/ Don't Make Me Cry/ Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee/
Everybody's Rockin'/ Gently/ I Lived A Lifetime Last Night/ I Won The Day I
Lost You/ I'm Beggin' Your Pardon/ I'm Beggin' Your Pardon./ It's Over With/
Let Your Left Hand Know/ Let's All Go Wild/ Moonshine Liquor/ So Much To
Remember/ Sunglasses After Dark/ Teenage Bug/ Tight Slacks/ Tuscaloosa Lucy/
Walk My Way Back Home/ Waltz Of The Blues/ Waltz Of The Steel Guitar/ What
Are Going To Do/ You'll Get Yours Someday
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