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1-CD with 48-page booklet, 35 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 mns. A ten-year retrospective... more

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Hayden Thompson: Rock-A-Billy Gal - The Sun Years, Plus (CD)

1-CD with 48-page booklet, 35 tracks. Playing time approx. 82 mns.

A ten-year retrospective of one of the unsung Sun Records heroes! Previously unissued Sun recordings! He was there at the beginning... watching Elvis in Mississippi in 1955... and he's still wowing crowds at revival shows! This collection covers Hayden Thompson's first decade of recording: Here are both sides of all five singles issued between 1954 and 1962... all of them fabulously rare, along with most of the songs unissued at the time, plus eight previously unissued versions of the much-admired and much-emulated classic rockabilly sides Hayden cut at Sun in 1956 and '57.

Hayden Thompson is one of the last of the surviving original rock 'n' rollers, and he's still a mighty impressive performer on the rockabilly revival circuit. He might not have had any hits, but he had credentials and style to spare. He was there at the epicentre of rockabilly back when nobody knew quite what it was or what to call it. He was born within a few miles of Elvis Presley, he saw Elvis at the dawn of his career, he made his first record within a few months of Elvis, and he was on the legendary Sun Records. His 1956 recording of ‘Love My Baby’ is acknowledged as classic rockabilly. It comes no finer

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Interpret: Hayden Thompson
Album titlle: Rock-A-Billy Gal - The Sun Years, Plus (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127161314
weight in Kg 0.115

Thompson, Hayden - Rock-A-Billy Gal - The Sun Years, Plus (CD) CD 1
01	Love My Baby	Hayden Thompson
02	Rock-A-Billy Gal	Hayden Thompson
03	Fairlane Rock	Hayden Thompson
04	One Broken Heart	Hayden Thompson
05	Blues Blues Blues	Hayden Thompson
06	Oh Mama (Mama Mama Mama)	Hayden Thompson
07	You Are My Sunshine	Hayden Thompson
08	Don't You Worry	Hayden Thompson
09	Congratulations To You, Joe	Hayden Thompson
10	Call Me Shorty	Hayden Thompson
11	I'll Hold You In My Heart	Hayden Thompson
12	Goin' Steady	Hayden Thompson
13	Kansas City	Hayden Thompson
14	Frankie And Johnny	Hayden Thompson
15	Brown Eyed Handsome Man	Hayden Thompson
16	The Key To My Kingdom	Hayden Thompson
17	Your True Love	Hayden Thompson
18	Kansas City	Hayden Thompson
19	I Guess I'd Better Be Moving Along	Hayden Thompson
20	This Old Windy City	Hayden Thompson
21	Lonely For My Baby	Hayden Thompson
22	I Wanna Get Home	Hayden Thompson
23	Train From Chicago (16:88)	Hayden Thompson
24	Act Like You Love Me	Hayden Thompson
25	I Feel The Blues Coming On	Hayden Thompson
26	Love My Baby	Hayden Thompson
27	One Broken Heart	Hayden Thompson
28	Dream Love	Hayden Thompson
29	Tom Thumb	Hayden Thompson
30	Whatcha Gonna Do	Hayden Thompson
31	Summers Almost Over	Hayden Thompson
32	Queen Bee	Hayden Thompson
33	Pardon Me	Hayden Thompson
34	Love My Baby	Hayden Thompson
35	Rock-A-Billy Gal	Hayden Thompson

Hayden Thompson Today, Hayden Thompson is one of the last active performers from the first... more

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"Hayden Thompson"

Hayden Thompson

Today, Hayden Thompson is one of the last active performers from the first wave of white rock and rollers, those mid-South movers and shakers dubbed 'rockabillies' by 'Billboard,' the music trade paper, in 1955. He has also been among the most impressive of the American artists on the European rockabilly revival tours since he first signed up for them in 1984. "People had been telling me to get on a revival show," he jokes,"but I never even had a hit to revive."

What he did have were credentials and style. He had been there at the epicentre of rockabilly back when nobody knew quite what it was or what to call it. He was born within a few miles of Elvis Presley, he made his first record within a few months of Presley, and he was on the legendary Sun Records, or at least the subsidiary Phillips International, where he recorded one of the acknowledged classics of rock 'n' roll, Love My Baby.

"Elvis played in Booneville when he just had a couple of records out on Sun," Hayden remembers, probably describing a show that has been traced to January 17 1955. "I stood out back and chatted with him a while. I was a sixteen year old talking to a nineteen year old. There wasn't a single person in that alleyway except him and me and he had that pink Cadillac which just knocked me out. I'd been playing on radio and little dances, but this was somebody I could really relate to. Earlier, he had played a thirty-minute set at the radio station with Scotty and Bill, and I stood right there in the studio, which was maybe twenty by twenty, while this happened." A life-changing experience, or what?

Like Presley, Hayden had a good voice that, crucially, was adaptable. He was billed on his first record as 'the South's most versatile singer' and if that was a little optimistic a claim for a sixteen year old, the analysis was headed in the right direction. He was capable of a good Elvis imitation – in fact he and Johnny Cash were probably the first two to feature such an imitation in their early acts – but he came out of a pure country band, he listened to R&B radio at night, and he could turn his hand to popular-style ballads, folksy sagas or post-Nashville Sound country as the sounds of the 1950s gave way to those of the 1960s.

It was that vital three-year age difference behind Presley that accounted for Hayden's initial lack of chart success – the reason he didn't have that hit to revive – because by the time he got to Memphis the pure rockabilly sound he was so smitten with was already giving way to smoother, more produced, rock 'n' roll. But it was the versatility, trumpeted on his first disc, that enabled him to adapt over the years and to fight on and on for the hit that unfortunately – and probably it does just come down to fortune - never came.

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