Eddie Bond LP: Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm)

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Eddie Bond: Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm)

1-LP 10" vinyl with bonus CD, 14 tracks (LP), 25 tracks (CD). Total playing time 28 min. (LP), 48 min. (CD)

A rocking 14-track LP on Bear Family Records® from one of the original Memphis rockabillies, Eddie Bond, backed up by a 25-track CD featuring original and cover versions of some of Eddie's songs.
Mostly from the mid-1950s, these tracks sparkle with the life and excitement of the new rocking music.
Eddie started and finished as a country singer, but he embraced the new rockabilly music and he soon became the Rockin' Daddy described in his best-selling disc from 1956.
Eddie's backing bands include two of the best guitarists of all time – Reggie Young and Hank Garland – and they don't disappoint.
The ten-inch LP contains one song from Eddie's first label, Ekko, six from his rockabilly heyday on Mercury, two from his originally unissued sessions at Sun in 1958, and five tracks from local Memphis labels in the 1960s.
The bonus CD contains also a further 11 tracks by other artists, providing fascinating other versions of songs Eddie recorded. Artists include Sonny Fisher, Lattie Moore, Ray Charles, and Elvis Presley.

Back when Eddie Bond recorded Talkin' Off The Wall for his first ever disc in 1955, he was indeed caught up in a musical moment that was ‘off the wall’ – in other words seen as highly unusual, strange, eccentric, bizarre. It was the time of the emergence of rockabilly and white rock and roll.

Briefly, the ‘rockin daddy from ding dong Tennessee’ was hot stuff, playing shows with Presley, Perkins, Cash and all the other singers from Memphis whose music talked off the wall to a whole new generation. Today, it does so again.

The CD version of ‘Talking Off The Wall!’ contains all the 14 LP tracks plus another 11 recordings illustrating other ways of playing some of the songs Eddie recorded.

Two of the alternative tracks are by Eddie himself; a 1975 later version of his signature Mercury recording from 1956, Rockin' Daddy, and another take on Boo Bop Da Caa Caa, released on his Stompertime label in 1959 within a year of his rejected Sun version.

Eddie Bond's long career as a country disc jockey as well as a singer put him in a fine position to pick interesting songs to record, sometimes when they were new and other times when he thought they could be given new life. It was a rare thing when Eddie didn't match or improve on other versions.

Sonny Fisher wrote and first recorded Rockin' Daddy in 1956 and we include that along with an alternative version, also from the 1950s.

Lattie Moore had first made Juke Joint Johnny for Speed Records in Nashville in 1952 and then adapted it as Juke Box Johnnie in 1956. Red Sovine soon recorded it again as Juke Joint Johnnie, all well before Eddie Bond’s version.

Hank Penny had recorded a strange western-swing-pop version of the offensive song Look Like A Monkey in 1952 for RCA, again years before Eddie recorded it.

On the other hand, Eddie's recording of Slip Slip Slippin' In was made very soon after Lou Millet's version on Nashville's Republic label in 1956. Finally, we can see here that Eddie's version of I Got A Woman was made a year after Ray Charles's original but before Elvis Presley's take on the song in 1956. The comparisons are all fascinating stuff.

The compilation was done by Nico Feuerbach and the liner notes by Martin Hawkins, universally recognized music historian and expert on the music of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Interpret: Eddie Bond
Album titlle: Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode BAFX
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Geschwindigkeit 45 U/min
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
Artikelart LP
Vinyl weight 140
EAN: 4000127140340
weight in Kg 0.35

Bond, Eddie - Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm) LP 1
01	Rockin' Daddy	Eddie Bond
02	Here Comes The Train	Eddie Bond
03	Boppin' Bonnie	Eddie Bond
04	Running Drunk	Eddie Bond
05	Broke My Guitar (Boo Bop Da Caa Caa)	Eddie Bond
06	Juke Joint Johnny	Eddie Bond
07	Talking Off The Wall	Eddie Bond
08	Flip Flop Mama	Eddie Bond
09	Look Like A Monkey	Eddie Bond
10	Baby, Baby, Baby (What Am I Gonna Do)	Eddie Bond
11	This Old Heart Of Mine	Eddie Bond
12	Slip, Slip, Slippin' In	Eddie Bond
13	The Monkey And The Baboon	Eddie Bond
14	I've Got A Woman	Eddie Bond

Bond, Eddie - Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm) LP 2
01	Rockin' Daddy	Sonny Fisher
02	Rockin' Daddy (alt. take)	Sonny Fisher
03	Rockin' Daddy (1956)	Eddie Bond
04	Rockin' Daddy (1975)	Eddie Bond
05	Here Comes The Train	Eddie Bond
06	Boppin' Bonnie	Eddie Bond
07	Running Drunk	Eddie Bond
08	Broke My Guitar (Boo Bop Da Caa Caa)	Eddie Bond
09	Boo Bop Da Caa Caa	Eddie Bond
10	Juke Joint Johnnie	Lattie Moore
11	Juke Box Johnnie	Lattie Moore
12	Juke Joint Johnny	Red Sovine
13	Juke Joint Johnny	Eddie Bond
14	Talking Off The Wall	Eddie Bond
15	Flip Flop Mama	Eddie Bond
16	You're Bound To Look Like A Monkey	Hank Penny
17	Look Like A Monkey	Eddie Bond
18	Baby, Baby, Baby (What Am I Gonna Do)	Eddie Bond
19	This Old Heart Of Mine	Eddie Bond
20	Slip, Slip, Slippin' In	Lou Millet
21	Slip, Slip, Slippin' In	Eddie Bond
22	The Monkey And The Baboon	Eddie Bond
23	I Got A Woman	Ray Charles
24	I've Got A Woman	Eddie Bond
25	I Got A Woman	Elvis Presley

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Eddie Bond

EDDIE BOND has never quite picked up the record company veneer. Sitting in his Memphis office, or an English pub, he still looks like the sort of heavy Southern lawman who'd bang you up for dropping a sweet wrapper. Eddie James Bond learned to rock in Memphis where he was born on July 1, 1933. He grew up with country music acquiring a taste for Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb. After a stint in the Navy, he formed his first band, the Stompers, during the early '50s choosing Reggie Young (lead guitar), John Hughey (steel guitar) and a blind pianist, Jimmy Smith. They were rejected by Sam Phillips who thought Bond's voice lacked character. In 1955 Bond made a couple of country records for Ekko and it's likely that these brought him to the attention of D.Kilpatrick who signed him to Mercury in 1956. We've chosen Rockin' Daddy (a cover of Sonny Fisher's Starday classic), Flip Flop Mama (a Bond original), Boppin' Bonnie (written by Charlie Feathers's associates, Jody Chastain and Jerry Huffman), and Slip, Slip, Slippin' In from the pen of Bob Belyeu who wrote Honey Stop for Faron Young and Lonesome Train for Johnny T. Talley. Belyeu's song was also recorded by Lou Millet, a C&W singer turned rockabilly whose ferocious version on the Republic label has been valued at $1000 plus. All four of Bond's tracks are blessed with the definitive hot rockabilly guitar playing of Reggie Young who competes with John Hughey's steel on Rockin' Daddy, contributes two sizzling breaks to the other titles and more than compensates for the characterless nature of Bond's voice. Scotty Moore referred to Young's prowess in an interview with Trevor Cajiao: "Reggie was playing real good and then he went into the army, and when he came out...Lord ! He was scalding! Just had a lot of time to practice I reckon". Sam Phillips turned Bond down again in 1958 but eventually relented. Bond's career took other surprising twists and turns. In 1973 he devoted an album to Buford Pusser, Tennessee's rugged symbol of law enforcement whose harrowing story was told in the movie,'Walking Tall'. Eventually, Bond became one of the rockabilly glitterati, feted in Britain and the rest of Europe. His Ekko, Mercury and Sun/Phillips International recordings have been gathered up on 'Rockin' Daddy' (Bear Family BCD 15708).

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Customer evaluation for "Talking Off The Wall! (LP & CD, 10inch, 45rpm)"

From: Promo Bear On:26 Nov 2023

Tolle Würdigung einer großartigen Künstlerin!

"Wieder eine echte Ausgrabung, wo sich die Anschaffung bestens lohnt! Die dem Vinyl beiliegende CD enthält zudem 11 zusätzliche Tracks in alternative Versionen."
Good Times 6/2023

From: Martin Hawkins On:25 Sep 2023

The Bond 10 inch LP turned out really well!

The Bond 10 inch LP turned out really well I think, sound and sleeve and booklet!

From: CB On:20 Sep 2023

... from Ding Dong Tennessee ...

The rockin' daddy from ding dong Tennessee gets a worthy reappraisal on this 14-track 10" that delivers
choice cuts from his back catalogue and a host of other extras.

From: Dusty Grooves On:15 Sep 2023

A great illustration of these early years from Memphis rocker Eddie Bond!

A small package, but one that's overflowing with gems – given that the 10" album includes 14 titles, and the bonus CD features a total of 25 numbers in all – a great illustration of these early years from Memphis rocker Eddie Bond! Bond's maybe best known for his work on Sun Records, but he also recorded for other small labels too – and this set brings together a good range of those cuts in a nicely short space – including a few surprises from the late 60s that show that the Memphis rockabilly of Bond is alive and well!

From: Promo Bear On:25 Aug 2023

fantastic release

This beautiful package contains a 14-track 10" vinyl LP, a CD and a 12-page booklet with notes by Memphis specialist, Martin Hawkins.
Concentrating on the 10inch we get one song from Eddie's first label, Ekko, six of his rockabilly monsters from Mercury, two from his originally unissued 1958 Sun sessions, and five tracks from local Memphis labels in the '60s. The songs themselves need no intro-duction here, suffice to say they are the very zenith of rockabilly music - the Mercury recordings, in particular, holding their own against anyone else's best.

I was particularly pleased to see the great honky-tonker 'Runnin' Drunk' included and although it was cut at Sam's Madison Avenue studio as late as '68, it slots in here perfectly -it's all Memphis music after all. I also loved hearing 'Here Comes That Train'. I've heard it hundreds of times on CD but the acoustic guitar and dobro sound so grand on this vinyl, sitting beautifully between `Rockin' Daddy' and `Boppin' Bonnie'. The Bond and Jack Clement song, 'Broke My Guitar' (Boo Bop Da Caa Caa)', and the Quinton Claunch and William Cantrell number, This Old Heart Of Mine, come from '58 and although neither saw release at the time, they have all the markings of Sun Records.

1969's Nashville recording, 'Juke Joint Johnny', maybe shows yh its vintage and doesn't sit so wells E in the collection, but it still rocks. The CD contains a further eleven tracks by other artists including Lattie Moore, Red Sovine, Hank Penny, Lou Millet, Ray Charles, Elvis and two vicious interpretations of •Rockin' Daddy' by Sonny Fisher. The shiny includes two alternatives by Eddie himself; a 1975 version of `Rockin' Daddy', and his 1959 Stompertime version of 'Boo Bop Da Caa Caa'. The great Memphis cat Eddie Bond was probably due a vinyl update, making this a fantastic release

Shaun Mather (Now Dig This #485, August 2023)

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