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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns, Mastered by Bob Jones. Ray...more

Ray Campi: The Eager Beaver Boy - Rockabilly Lives (CD)

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 28 tracks. Playing time approx. 71 mns, Mastered by Bob Jones.

Ray Campi is unique in that he's old enough to remember what rockabilly was all about in its heyday, but young enough to make great new music that rocks in the old way. Everything here has Ray's inimitable sense of humour and Fifties style. Here's his personal tribute to the music he loves. Titles include Waffle Stompin' Mama, Let 'er Roll, Pinball Millionaire, Born To Be Wild, Dobro Daddio From Del Rio, Penal Farm,
and Major Label Blues.

Contains the two legendary original Albums 'Rockabilly Lives' (Rollin' Rock LP004) from 1974 and 'The Eager Beaver Boy' (Rollin' Rock LP008) from 1976. Recorded on 1/4 track tapemachine in Ronny Weiser's Living Room in California.

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  • Interpret: Ray Campi

  • Album titlle: The Eager Beaver Boy - Rockabilly Lives (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127155016

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Campi, Ray - The Eager Beaver Boy - Rockabilly Lives (CD) CD 1
01Hot Dog/All The TimeRay Campi
02Boogie Boogie BooRay Campi
03Rock ItRay Campi
04The Thought Of Losing YouRay Campi
05Waffle Stompin' MamaRay Campi
06Blue RangerRay Campi
07Ballin' KeenRay Campi
08Let 'Er RollRay Campi
09Dobro Daddio From Del RioRay Campi
10Born To Be WildRay Campi
11How Low Can You FeelRay Campi
12Where My Sweet Baby Goes (&Jimmie Skinner)Ray Campi
13Tribute To 'You Know Who'Ray Campi
14Eager B-B-Beaver BoyRay Campi
15Pretty MamaRay Campi
16One Parts Stops Where The Other BeginsRay Campi
17Pinball MillionaireRay Campi
18When Two Ends MeetRay Campi
19Good Time WomanRay Campi
20It Ain't Me (piano version)Ray Campi
21Chug-A-LugRay Campi
22Parts UnknownRay Campi
23Wicked Wicked WomanRay Campi
24Shelby Country Penal FarmRay Campi
25Don't Give Your Heart To A RamblerRay Campi
26Play AnythingRay Campi
27Major Label BluesRay Campi
RAY CAMPI   April 20, 1934 – March11, 2021   RAY CAMPI OBITUARY The... more
"Ray Campi"

RAY CAMPI 

April 20, 1934 – March11, 2021

 

RAY CAMPI OBITUARY

The story of Ray Campi commenced in a most unlikely place for a proud rockabilly warrior: Yonkers, New York, a suburb of New York City. That’s where Campi was born on April 20, 1934, and he lived there until his family relocated to Austin, Texas in 1943. Once he got down there, Campi was sufficiently seduced by country music to make performing his life’s calling.

Campi, who died March 11, 2021 at age 86, caught the music bug early from his cousin, Harold Layman. “Harold was playing accordion and the guitar, and I got a guitar,” said Campi. “He was six years older than me, and we were growing up together. The music started to come out because we met other guys that played. We started those Sunday afternoon sessions at Harold’s house, in Harold’s room. And we’d listen to records.

“I started to hear songs like Arthur ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith on M-G-M and Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. He had Jimmie Rodgers records he’d collected. He liked bluegrass too. Of course, Hank Snow was our favorite, so he had many of Hank Snow’s records. He brought some of them from Newfoundland, where he was from. So I first heard Hank Snow with Harold, and he became my favorite artist of all time.”

By 1949, Campi and his young pals were experimenting with home recording, using a disc cutter to lay down his earliest country performances (Richard Weize Archives collected them on a 10” LP, ‘Austin, Texas 1949-1950,’ in 2017). Ramblin’ Ray and The Ramblers held down a couple of radio programs on Austin’s KNOW and KTAE in Taylor, Texas, but they broke up in 1952 when he graduated from high school.

Campi had become a dedicated rockabilly disciple when he cut his first single in 1956 for Bob Tanner’s San Antonio-based TNT label. Catapillar and Play It Cool were truly wild rockers, Campi backed by dazzling lead guitarist Johnny Maddox and bassist Henry Hill. “I just tried to think of funny things that would be a cute title that somebody could remember,” he said of Catapillar. And Play It Cool? “It was just an expression that young people used a lot. I just came up with the idea about situations where you had to play it cool.” Drummers were in short supply in Austin, but Doc Shyrock made them superfluous by contributing unique percussion. “He did finger snapping,” said Ray. “He used to do it for fun. I was always looking for different sounds.” Campi would seal off some rockers by replicating the crash of a snare drum with his mouth for a unique ending.

 

Doc’s percussive proclivities explained the name of Campi’s combo on his ‘57 single for Dot, pairing the self-penned rockers Give That Love To Me and It Ain’t Me. “I didn’t have a name for the band,” said Campi. “Dot Records, somebody down there figured out, ‘Hey, they’re snapping! Just call ‘em the Snappers!’” 1957 also brought a trip back Ea

 

st, where Ray spent some time at music publisher Hal Fein’s Roosevelt Music. “I stayed there a few weeks in New York, and I went to Roosevelt every day,” said Ray. “I wasn’t able to stay in New York. I had no money, and I didn’t have a job. He wasn’t paying me anything. But Jesse Stone was sort of my mentor.”

My Screamin’ Screamin’ Mimi, Campi’s next blistering rocker in 1958, was issued on the Austin-based Domino logo. “I wrote that thinking of Little Richard, who I met a couple of times,” said Campi. “A really nice fellow. I saw him play at The Brooklyn Paramount, a big Alan Freed show, and Richard was the headliner.” In the wake of the tragic plane crash that ended the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper in February of ’59, Austin deejay Jerry Green recruited Campi to cut a quick two-sided tribute to the fallen stars on ‘Pappy’ Daily’s D label, with Ballad Of Donna And Peggy Sue (A Tribute To Ritchie Valens And Buddy Holly) on one side and The Man I Met (A Tribute To The Big Bopper) on the other.

‘The Man I Met,’ I wrote that with Jerry, and the whole idea was to do something that sounded like the Big Bopper, like if a fellow met the Big Bopper and saw his show and was impressed and liked it,” said Campi. ‘The Ballad Of Donna And Peggy Sue,’ two girls lost their loves. See, I told Jerry, ‘I don’t want to write songs with angels flying around in heaven. It’s too corny.’ So it was about the two girls, Donna and Peggy Sue. They’re reflecting on their relationships with these two boys that aren’t there.”

Campi relocated to Los Angeles in September of 1959. He joined Perry Botkin, Jr. and Gil Garfield as The McCoy Boys on the 1960 Verve single Our Man In Havana and sang the flip, another novelty about habitual criminal Caryl Chessman called Reprieve Of Love, on his own. “As soon as the record came out, they executed Chessman,” said Campi. “The reprieve only lasted about two weeks.” His next single under his own name later that year for Colpix, pairing Hear What I Wanna Hear and French Fries, ostensibly had a slightly longer shelf life (Botkin arranged both).

Apart from an early ‘60s stint in New York, Campi planted deep roots in L.A., working a series of day jobs prior to embarking on a half century of teaching school and rocking up a storm on the side. He got in on the ground floor of the ‘70s rockabilly revival, recording prolifically for Ronny Weiser’s Rollin’ Rock label (Bear Family reissued two of his best albums for the label on its 1990 CD ‘The Eager Beaver Boy/Rockabilly Lives’) and perfecting the art of slapping some of the meanest upright bass in the genre.

Campi was a particularly potent draw in Europe over the decades, regularly touring Great Britain from 1977 on. Bear Family released several CDs of his contemporary work, notably tributes to too-often overlooked Texas country music pioneers Jimmy Heap (‘Taylor, Texas 1988’) and Jesse James and All The Boys (‘The Memory Lingers On’). A music historian when he wasn’t busy making music himself, Campi maintained a vast archive dedicated to his own recording legacy—a real rarity among musicians.

His was a dedicated rockabilly legacy well worth celebrating.
--Bill Dahl

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Tracklist
Campi, Ray - The Eager Beaver Boy - Rockabilly Lives (CD) CD 1
01 Hot Dog/All The Time
02 Boogie Boogie Boo
03 Rock It
04 The Thought Of Losing You
05 Waffle Stompin' Mama
06 Blue Ranger
07 Ballin' Keen
08 Let 'Er Roll
09 Dobro Daddio From Del Rio
10 Born To Be Wild
11 How Low Can You Feel
12 Where My Sweet Baby Goes (&Jimmie Skinner)
13 Tribute To 'You Know Who'
14 Eager B-B-Beaver Boy
15 Pretty Mama
16 One Parts Stops Where The Other Begins
17 Pinball Millionaire
18 When Two Ends Meet
19 Good Time Woman
20 It Ain't Me (piano version)
21 Chug-A-Lug
22 Parts Unknown
23 Wicked Wicked Woman
24 Shelby Country Penal Farm
25 Don't Give Your Heart To A Rambler
26 Play Anything
27 Major Label Blues