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1-CD-Album with 36-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 65 mns. Tommy Blake 's rare... more

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Tommy Blake: Koolit - The Sun Years, Plus (CD)

1-CD-Album with 36-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 65 mns.

Tommy Blake's rare original Sun singles plus his equally rare recordings for Buddy, RCA, Recco, and unissued Sun recordings. Plus, Tommy Blake's ultra rare demos of Cool Alligator and I'll Be Free.
In all, Tommy Blake's complete recordings from the golden era, 1956-1959.

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Interpret: Tommy Blake
Album titlle: Koolit - The Sun Years, Plus (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127167972
weight in Kg 0.115

Blake, Tommy - Koolit - The Sun Years, Plus (CD) CD 1
01	Flat Foot Sam	Tommy Blake
02	Honky Tonk Mind (The Woman I Need)	Tommy Blake
03	Koolit	Tommy Blake
04	Freedom	Tommy Blake
05	All Night Long	Tommy Blake
06	Shake Around	Tommy Blake
07	I Dig You Baby	Tommy Blake
08	Ballad Of A Broken Heart	Tommy Blake
09	You Better Believe It	Tommy Blake
10	Mister Hoody	Tommy Blake
11	Sweetie Pie	Tommy Blake
12	Diesel Truck	Tommy Blake
13	Shake Around	Tommy Blake
14	I Dig You Baby	Tommy Blake
15	$ F--olding Money $	Tommy Blake
16	Window Of My Heart	Tommy Blake
17	You Better Believe It	Tommy Blake
18	Shake Around	Tommy Blake
19	Chuckie	Tommy Blake
20	If I'm A Fool	Tommy Blake
21	Lordy Hoody	Tommy Blake
22	You Better Believe It	Tommy Blake
23	Little Lovelight	Tommy Blake
24	Cool Alligator	Tommy Blake
25	I Still Love You	Tommy Blake
26	My Alice Faye	Tommy Blake
27	I'll Be Free	Tommy Blake
28	You Better Believe It	Tommy Blake
29	The Hanging Judge	Tommy Blake

Tommy Blake TOMMY BLAKE's life was a How-Not-To-Do-It manual. He angered Chet Atkins,... more

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"Tommy Blake"

Tommy Blake

TOMMY BLAKE's life was a How-Not-To-Do-It manual. He angered Chet Atkins, changed names and aliases as often as he changed his socks, sold songs, then sold them again, drank, pilled, and beat up his wives. Thomas LeVan Givens was born in Dallas on September 14, 1931. He was jailed for rape while still in his teens, worked as a dee-jay in Shreveport and Ruston, Louisiana, and then landed a spot on the Louisiana Hayride.

He got on RCA, but gave his best song, Honky Tonk Mind, to Johnny Horton a week before the session. Chet Atkins then threw him off the label, and Blake landed at Sun's doorstep. There were two Sun sessions in 1957 and 1958. You Better Believe It dates from March 16, 1958 and features Roland Janes and Sid Manker on guitars, Stan Kesler on bass, J.M. Van Eaton on drums, and Jimmy Wilson on piano. It might have been one side of Blake's third Sun single, had there been such a thing. Blake moved on, now often calling himself Van Givens. He hooked up with Bill McCall at 4-Star Records, and sold him songs. He hung around George Jones' cowriter, Darrell Edwards, and sold more songs (including Tender Years).

He and Carl Belew reportedly wrote Lonely Street and Am I That Easy To Forget, but Blake had sold his share by the time they appeared. He kept a little photo of himself and Elvis by his bedside wherever he went as a reminder of what should have been. His second wife, Samantha, shot him to death on Christmas Eve 1985, during a drunken brawl under the Christmas tree.

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