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Johnny Burnette 20 Rock & Roll Hits - Vinyl LP (New Zealand)

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Johnny Burnette was born on the 25th of March 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee. He went to school... more

Johnny Burnette: 20 Rock & Roll Hits - Vinyl LP (New Zealand)

Johnny Burnette was born on the 25th of March 1934 in Memphis, Tennessee. He went to school with Elvis, and worked in the same firm as him in 1953. Johnny Burnette wanted to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Dorsey, who earned his money by boxing. But he had little success. So he established, together with his brother and a friend, a Trio in 1955 as Elvis did with Scotty Moore and Bill Black. They called themselves the "Johnny Burnette Trio" and tried, through Sam Phillips of Sun-Records, to get into the record business. But they seemed too Elvis-like, so he refused. They then moved to New York. where where, after their introduction in a talent quest , they were appreciated, and contracted for recording.


Their first single "Tear It Up”, appeared in May 1956. They went on tour with Gene Vincent, played in the movie, "Rock Rock Rock.., and produced further records, which never appeared in hit parades. Late in 1957 the trio fell apart. Johnny Burnette and his brother went to California and wrote titles for Ricky Nelson. ”Waitin' In School " and ”Believe What You Say" were 1957 hits for Ricky Ne/son, written by the Burnette Brothers.


Johnny then went solo and made the record, "Me and the Bear" at that time. Then came ”Settin’ the World On Fire” and in mid 1960 ”Dreamin’ ” with b-side ”Cincinnati Fireball". The following recording "You're 16" was also a success, achieving November 1960, 8th place in the U.S. charts. In the same year brother Dorsey . Johnny Burnette also appeared in the hit parade with another record company. Johnny Burnette was the teenage idol for 2 years. After several changes of record companys, he established his own company: Magic Lamp Unfortunately further success was denied him. On August 14th 1964 he lost his life in a accident.

Article properties: Johnny Burnette: 20 Rock & Roll Hits - Vinyl LP (New Zealand)

  • Interpret: Johnny Burnette

  • Album titlle: 20 Rock & Roll Hits - Vinyl LP (New Zealand)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
  • Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
  • Record Grading Mint (M)
  • Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
  • Label EMI NEW ZEALAND

  • Artikelart LP

  • EAN: 4000127765147

  • weight in Kg 0.21
Burnette, Johnny - 20 Rock & Roll Hits - Vinyl LP (New Zealand) LP 1
01 You're Sixteen Johnny Burnette
02 Dreamin' Johnny Burnette
03 Little Boy Sad Johnny Burnette
04 You're The Reason Johnny Burnette
05 Settin' The Woods On Fire Johnny Burnette
06 Walk On By Johnny Burnette
07 The Fool Johnny Burnette
08 Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me Johnny Burnette
09 Me And The Bear Johnny Burnette
10 Clown Shoes Johnny Burnette
11 Cincinnati Fireball Johnny Burnette
12 Lovesick Blues Johnny Burnette
13 Finders Keepers Johnny Burnette
14 Mona Lisa Johnny Burnette
15 The Fool Of The Year Johnny Burnette
16 Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms) Johnny Burnette
17 The Poorest Boy In Town Johnny Burnette
18 Boody River Johnny Burnette
19 Girl Of My Best Friend Johnny Burnette
20 In The Chapel In The Moonlight Johnny Burnette
Johnny Burnette The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood : The Complete Recordings... more
"Johnny Burnette"

Johnny Burnette The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Memphis to Hollywood :
The Complete Recordings 1955-1964

It's strange, the tricks that history plays. Johnny Burnette, now dead almost forty years, would never have guessed that his legendary status would not be rooted in the handful of hits he scored in the early Sixties, not even in the songs he crafted for Ricky Nelson, but for a handful of sessions he cut in 1956 and 1957. Those sessions resulted in no hits, yet generation after generation turns to them in search of rockabilly's primal yawp. The scorching vocals, stunning lead guitar, even the youthful infighting and jealousies heralded the dawn of a new era. When musicologists deconstruct rockabilly and when revivalists reconstruct it, they're usually trying to unravel the magic of Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio. This, though, is the complete arc of Johnny Burnette's career. So much happened in just nine years. The earliest recordings, dating from the last gasp of the hillbilly jamborees, gave way to the fury of the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, which in turn led to the Ricky Nelson era. Johnny tamed rockabilly's fire, but kept enough of the passion intact to make the songs he wrote for Ricky Nelson among the era's most listenable.

Then came his own hits, few in number but perfect encapsulations of the era. Finally, we encounter him in search of something new during the first rumblings of the British Invasion. Johnny Burnette's life was short. He not only lived through an amazing transition, but played a pivotal role in it. The Burnettes were well placed to be in the vanguard of the rock 'n' roll explosion. Johnny and his older brother Dorsey were two of the very few Memphis rockabillies actually from Memphis. Dorsey was born on December 28, 1932 and Johnny (or John Joseph to give him his full name) on March 28, 1934 (although when Johnny filled out his application for a Social Security card in 1951, he gave his birthdate as March 25, 1934…and when he became successful on Liberty, he gave his birthdate as 1938). Their parents were Willie May and Dorsey Burnett, Sr. (the 'e' was added later).

Dorsey was a distant relative of frontiersman Andy Burnette, who never achieved the legendary status of Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett, but was nevertheless the subject of a Disney TV movie in the 1950s. Dorsey, Sr. and Willie May were from Birmingham, Alabama. Both were stories in themselves. Willie was born on August 11, 1898, but her parents died before she was two years old, and she was fostered out to an aunt who married her off to a traveling evangelist named Sparks when she was thirteen. They had four children, but Johnny and Dorsey barely knew their half-siblings. Sparks took them to California, and they remained estranged from Willie. Apparently, Sparks died insane. When Willie was thirty years old, she met Dorsey Sr., then recuperating from a mining accident.

He had been trying to push a fellow worker from the path of an oncoming coal car and had lost part of one hand, leaving just his thumb and index finger, like a lobster claw. Willie nursed him back to health and they married. During the late years of the Depression, they hitchhiked across the country, and, at one point, were picked up by the gangster Pretty Boy Floyd. They spent several days with Floyd in a motel court in Oklahoma or Arkansas. When he left, he gave them fifty dollars, which they had to explain away to the police when they arrived. At some point, Dorsey and Willie moved to Memphis and started a little business selling sandwiches. When Johnny first remembered, they lived in the north end of Memphis. The house was small. "Dad built it hisself," said Johnny. "It looked like a matchbox. You could throw a cat through it." It's possible that the Burnettes actually lived outside the city limits because they don't figure into the city directories from the 1930s. Dorsey Sr. gave Johnny and Dorsey a pair of Gene Autry guitars in 1939. In an unerring foretaste of things to come, they broke the guitars over each others' heads. "Dad went out and bought us two more guitars," Dorsey said later.

"He said, 'Learn to play those guitars, you can be like those folks on the Grand Ole Opry.' We started playing parties, little dances, and weddings. We made little or no money, but we had a blast doing it." The Burnettes' hearts were in athletics. Johnny was a linebacker in his high school football team and a guard in their basketball team. "The football team was the lowest class football team in Memphis, but a determined one," Johnny said later. Johnny and Elvis' future bodyguard, Red West, engaged in several knock-down, drag-out conflicts on the football field. Dorsey and Johnny took up boxing on an amateur basis and Dorsey apparently reached the Golden Gloves championships.

In 1946-1947, though, Dorsey's career was derailed by a stint in the state training school. He and two others were apprehended and his accomplices went to jail, although Dorsey never told anyone what he'd done. He left school in 1949 and began working joe-jobs to help out the family. Johnny left Blessed Sacrament parochial school in 1948, and went to Catholic High.

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