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(1-CD DigiPac - four panel - mit 36-page booklet. 30 tracks. Playing time: 72:48) The softer... more

Johnny Burnette: The Ballads of Johnny Burnette (CD)

(1-CD DigiPac - four panel - mit 36-page booklet. 30 tracks. Playing time: 72:48)

The softer side of the rock 'n' roll god Johnny Burnette! Includes two early '60s classics, 'You're Sixteen' (later revived by Ringo Starr) and 'Dreamin''. Fabulous early '60s Los Angeles pop, produced by the legendary Snuff Garrett.

These days, Johnny Burnette is justly renowned as one of the all-time wildest rockabillies, who made maybe the greatest-ever rockabilly recordings. But there was another side to Johnny Burnette. After his rockabilly singles failed, he moved to Los Angeles, wrote songs for Ricky Nelson, and soon became a teen idol in his own right.

This CD-Album (compact disc) includes his five Hot 100 entries from the early '60s, all produced by the legendary Snuff Garrett with the cream of the Los Angeles session men, plus rarities, obscurities, and simply great performances. In addition to his own fine songs and big hits, this compilation includes classic songs like 'My Special Angel', 'Please Help Me I'm Falling', 'Roses Are Red', 'Moody River', and many others.

There's a bonus in the shape of 'Clown Shoes', a neglected classic written by James Marcus Smith, who would later find fame in England as P. J. Proby. -- Johnny Burnette died in a boating accident in 1964. He'd led a short, often wild, life, but this is the other side of his considerable legacy.

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  • Interpret: Johnny Burnette

  • Album titlle: The Ballads of Johnny Burnette (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127172112

  • weight in Kg 0.2
Burnette, Johnny - The Ballads of Johnny Burnette (CD) CD 1
01 Dreamin' Johnny Burnette
02 Clown Shoes Johnny Burnette
03 My Special Angel Johnny Burnette
04 Please Help Me I'm Falling Johnny Burnette
05 Shattered Dreams Johnny Burnette
06 I'll Never Love Again Johnny Burnette
07 Love Me Johnny Burnette
08 You're Sixteen Johnny Burnette
09 I Just Found Out Johnny Burnette
10 Settin' The Woods On Fire Johnny Burnette
11 Don't Do It Johnny Burnette
12 It's Only Make Believe Johnny Burnette
13 I Love You So Johnny Burnette
14 Dream Lover Johnny Burnette
15 You're So Fine Johnny Burnette
16 Pledge Of Love Johnny Burnette
17 I Beg Your Pardon Johnny Burnette
18 Big Big World Johnny Burnette
19 The Fool Johnny Burnette
20 Walk On By Johnny Burnette
21 You're The Reason Johnny Burnette
22 Hello Walls Johnny Burnette
23 God, Country And My Baby Johnny Burnette
24 Just Out Of Reach Johnny Burnette
25 Moody River Johnny Burnette
26 It's My Way Johnny Burnette
27 Roses Are Red Johnny Burnette
28 Bigger Man Johnny Burnette
29 Less Than A Heartbeat Johnny Burnette
30 Little Boy Sad 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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The Ballads of Johnny Burnette

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ich bin wie immer sehr begeistert, eine spitzenmäßig, glasklare und audiophile \remastered\" Produktion - informatives booklet... die ganze CD macht Lust auf mehr das Gesamtwerk des Künstlers..."

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Tracklist
Burnette, Johnny - The Ballads of Johnny Burnette (CD) CD 1
01 Dreamin'
02 Clown Shoes
03 My Special Angel
04 Please Help Me I'm Falling
05 Shattered Dreams
06 I'll Never Love Again
07 Love Me
08 You're Sixteen
09 I Just Found Out
10 Settin' The Woods On Fire
11 Don't Do It
12 It's Only Make Believe
13 I Love You So
14 Dream Lover
15 You're So Fine
16 Pledge Of Love
17 I Beg Your Pardon
18 Big Big World
19 The Fool
20 Walk On By
21 You're The Reason
22 Hello Walls
23 God, Country And My Baby
24 Just Out Of Reach
25 Moody River
26 It's My Way
27 Roses Are Red
28 Bigger Man
29 Less Than A Heartbeat
30 Little Boy Sad