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Bill Carter: Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD)

2-CD (Digisleeve, 6-plated), 36-page booklet, 67 tracks. Total playing time approx. 155 min.

On this double CD, Bear Family Records® is the first label to present all commercial recordings of the great Bill Carter released between 1953 and 1961, including recordings he made as a singer with Western Swing bandleader Big Jim DeNoone.
The Arkansas musician kicked off with country music and hillbilly and jumped on the rockabilly bandwagon in the mid-50s.
This compilation additionally includes his outstanding gospel recordings for the Rural Rhythm label and recordings with Western Swing bandleader Big Jim De Nonne for 4-Star., among others, with the Cooper Brothers.
A total of 67 recordings for 4-Star, Republic, Tally, Ozark, Rural Rhythm, Honey B and 'D' among ohers.
41 songs on CD for the first time and 14 of them are previously unreleased!
In the 1950s California, he and his band accompanied numerous big names in country music on tour on the West Coast.
Shortly after signing a promising contract with M-G-M and before his final breakthrough, Carter retired from the music business in 1961 and from then on devoted himself exclusively to Christian country music.
Extensive liner notes by Michael Hurtt in the comprehensive illustrated booklet.
Carefully restored and remastered recordings.

Bill Carter was born in 1929 in Eagleton, Arkansas, moved with his family to Oklahoma in 1937 and six years later to Indio, California. His family encouraged the teenager's interest in music and paid for his singing lessons. Before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1949, he had already performed on several local radio stations. During his military service in California, he formed his first C&W bands and performed in the San Francisco area and at a radio station in San Antonio, Texas.

After completing his military service in 1953, Carter joined Jim DeNoone's country band as a vocalist and performed at the 'California Hayride' in San Francisco and elsewhere. The band's recordings for Gilt-Edge Records, produced that same year, feature Bill Carter as a singer for the first time. He eventually formed his own trio, with whom he worked regularly over the next five years, aiming to become known beyond the local area. During the 1950s in California, he and his band accompanied numerous big names in country music such as Marvin Rainwater, Lefty Frizzell, Freddie Hart, T-Texas Tyler and Buck Owens on tour on the West Coast.

Between 1956 and 1961, Carter recorded under his own name for small and mid-sized labels such as 4-Star, Republic, Tally, Black Jack, Honey B, 'D', Rural Rhythm and Ozark. The 1957 up-tempo number I Wanna Feel Good, produced in Bakersfield, California for Tally, became his biggest hit and opened the doors to the 'Louisiana Hayride' and the 'Grand Ole Opry'. In the years after 1961 Carter followed a new personal orientation and produced Christian Country Music from then on.

With this double CD Bear Family Records® delivers the comprehensive work show on the career of the versatile Bill Carter. Of the total of 67 tunes, only the ten best rockers were previously released on Bear Family's 10"LP 'Cool Tom Cat' (BAF14010). So Carter's complete commercial recordings from the years 1953-61 are united on this double album!

The detailed liner notes are written by Michael Hurtt, who together with Billy Miller, deceased five years ago, wrote the great book 'Mind Over Matter' about the history of Detroit's Fortune label!

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Interpret: Bill Carter
Album titlle: Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102176500
weight in Kg 0.115

Carter, Bill - Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD) CD 1
01	A Woman's Way	Bill Carter
02	A Story Book Affair	Bill Carter
03	I Couldn't Keep From Crying	Bill Carter
04	That's Me Without You	Bill Carter
05	Mexican Joe	Bill Carter
06	Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship	Bill Carter
07	Big Jim Boogie	Big Jim De Noone
08	Honeycut Stomp	Big Jim De Noone
09	Wednesday Night Swing	Big Jim De Noone
10	Wild Strings	Big Jim De Noone
11	Long Lost Girl	Big Jim De Noone
12	Making Believe	Bill Carter
13	More Than A Man Can Stand	Bill Carter
14	You Ain't Got My Address	Bill Carter
15	By The Sweat Of My Brow	Bill Carter
16	Mama Loves Papa (And Papa Loves The Women)	Bill Carter
17	I Wanna Feel Good	Bill Carter
18	I Knew Her When	Bill Carter
19	I Used To Love Her	Bill Carter
20	Too Used To Being With You	Bill Carter
21	Baby Brother	Bill Carter
22	Ride Gunman, Ride	Black Jack Wayne & The Rovin' Gamblers
23	Ramblin' Fever	Bill Carter
24	Half Hour Til Sundown	Bill Carter
25	Stowaway	Bill Carter
26	Seven Years	Bill Carter
27	When God Dips His Love In My Heart	Bill Carter
28	Amazing Grace	Bill Carter
29	This World Is Not My Home	Bill Carter
30	Where We Never Grow Old	Bill Carter
31	Cool Tom Cat (unedited tape fragment)	Bill Carter
32	Secret Date (unedited version)	Bill Carter
33	Secret Date	Bill Carter

Carter, Bill - Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD) CD 2
01	Cool Tom Cat	Bill Carter
02	Jailer Man (unedited)	Bill Carter
03	Jailer Man	Bill Carter
04	Jailer Man (alt. take with guitar overdub)	Bill Carter
05	Legend Of Billy The Kid (unedited)	Bill Carter
06	Legend Of Billy The Kid	Bill Carter
07	Cross Road	Bill Carter
08	Good Lord To Keep Me Happy	Bill Carter
09	Won't You Go There With Me	Bill Carter
10	Full Time Religion	Bill Carter
11	Thank You Dear Lord	Bill Carter
12	Only A Tramp On The Street	Bill Carter
13	Your Last Day On Earth	Bill Carter
14	God's Mansion In The Sky	Bill Carter
15	Ain't You Gonna Change	Bill Carter
16	The Gates Of Glory	Bill Carter
17	Where You Gonna Hide	Bill Carter
18	Glory In Your Soul	Bill Carter
19	Pony Express	Bill Carter
20	You'll Never Know	Bill Carter
21	Dreambowl Commercial with Black Jack Wayne	Bill Carter
22	Colt 45 -part I	Bill Carter
23	Colt 45 -part II	Bill Carter
24	Shot Four Times And Dyin'	Bill Carter
25	Stranger Shake Hands With A Fool	Bill Carter
26	The 12th Man	Bill Carter
27	From Time To Time	Bill Carter
28	I'll Be Still Loving You	Bill Carter
29	Steamboat's A-Comin'	Bill Carter
30	Climb That Scaffold, Jimmy	Bill Carter
31	Stranger Shake Hands With A Fool (uptempo version)	Bill Carter
32	Looking Through The Bars	Bill Carter
33	I've Missed You	Bill Carter
34	Better Times Are Coming	Bill Carter

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Bill Carter

I Wanna Feel Good

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I Wanna Feel Good

After he started recording for Lewis Talley and Fuzzy Owen's label in the mid-1950s, Cliff Crofford began lending his songwriting talents to other singers on the roster, such as the San Francisco Bay area's Bill Carter. The Crofford-penned I Wanna Feel Good was Bill's first recording for Tally. The heavily percussive teen anthem features tastefully sparse Jordanaires-style vocal accents reminiscent of Elvis' recordings in this era. "Billy Mize and Bonnie Owens and Fuzzy Owen did the background singing," Carter remembered. "Roy Nichols played lead, and Henry Shropshire – who went by Henry Sharpe - played drums.

Henry was really good to me on that session. He really took me under his arm and encouraged me a lot." Owen and Talley were eagerly pursuing national recognition for their tiny outfit, and traveled extensively to promote their rockabilly sounds. "We took a promotional tour, Fuzzy and Louie and myself, to the South," Carter remembered, "and I sang on the Louisiana Hayride as a result of that. Buck went with us. Me and Buck sat in the backseat of the Cadillac. Buck had a spot and I had a spot, too, on the Hayride 'cause of Tally Records. That really opened up a lot of doors for me in country music." Curiously, Bill Carter never met Cliff Crofford in the 1950s, though the two struck up a friendship later in life.

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Customer evaluation for "Ramblin' Fever - The Complete Recordings 1953-61 (2-CD)"

From: Promo Bear On: 4 Jul 2023

Ganz heisse Mucke!

"Neben dem Single-Material wurden auch unveröffentlichte Fassungen berücksichtigt, was diese Ausgabe noch attraktiver macht!"
Eclipsed Juli 2023

From: Stefan On: 17 Aug 2022

From: Bo On: 1 Aug 2022

I give it both thumbs up and recommend a purchase

The good Bill has had a number of tracks released in recent years which has created an interest in his name. Last year, the Bear League released a ten-inch LP entitled "Cool Tom Cat" (BAF-14010) and now the same label is issuing a double CD covering his recordings from 1953-61. The recordings were issued on the Blue Ribbon (1953), 4-Star (1953-54), Republic (1956), Tally (1957), Black Jack (1959), Rural Rhythm (1959), Ozark (1959), Honee B (1959), Showboat (1960), Check (1960) and D (1961) labels. The two albums also feature 14 unreleased songs. I have been hunting for a long time for several of these but they are hard to come by and if you find any they leave a hole in your wallet. I can't find a track that doesn't hold up and I am impressed with his productions and quality. But there are always favorites, and among them I count "By The Sweet Of My Brow", "You Ain't Got My Address", "I Wanna Feel Good", "Too Used To Being With You", "I Used To Love You", "Baby Brother", "Ramblin' Fever", "Cool Tom Cat", "Secret Date" and "Colt 45" to name the absolute toppers. But there's much more to discover and browse. The thick booklet is reminiscent of old times and is very well done with nice pictures and of course as complete a session discography as you can get. I give it both thumbs up and recommend a purchase.
Bo Berglind

From: Dusty Grooves On: 22 Jul 2022

The lost legacy of the great Bill Carter!

The lost legacy of the great Bill Carter – one of the more obscure figures on the California scene of the postwar years – and an artist who was every bit as much an early rocker as he was a country singer! Like so many of his Cali contemporaries, Carter had roots in the south, but headed west when the time was right – sometimes sporting western cowboy wear, but often sounding a lot more different than that guise might make you think! And different than some of his California contemporaries, Bill didn't record just in Bakersfield and LA – as much of the work here was done up north in the Bay Area, where Carter was a big figure in the clubs providing entertainment for new arrivals from points east. This 2CD set is almost a box set sort of introduction to Bill's work – as it features all his rare recordings, and also a number of early 60s tracks that never made it to vinyl – served up in a massive 67 track package, with cuts that include "Jailer Man", "Cool Tom Cat", "I Knew Her When", "Mama Loves Papa", "Long Lost Girl"- "Wild Strings", "Honeymoon On A Rocket Ship", "Seven Years", "Stowaway", "Secret Date", "Lookin Through The Bars", "Colt 45", and lots lots more!

From: Lambert Smith On: 9 Jun 2022

Excellent!

This double CD gives a nice overview of Bill Carter's talent. Whether it was country, hillbilly, rockabilly, rock 'n' roll or gospel, Bill always managed to present these genres with enormous empathy and craftsmanship. If you didn't know Bill Carter, then you are doing a good thing with the purchase of this double album, which offers a very complete overview.

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