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1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 73 min. In...more

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Sanford Clark: Sanford Clark - Rocks (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 73 min.

In 1956 Sanford Clark landed one of the greatest hits in the fledgling history of rock 'n' roll with The Fool.
Bear Family Records® dedicates a CD album in our highly respected 'Rocks' series to one of the most successful rockers of his time.
The Fool gained Sanford Clark a contract with Dot Records, and he went on to record a number of stirring and moving songs for Ramco and Warner, among others.
Included are Usta Be My Baby, A Cheat, Ooo Baby, Love Charms, Lou Be Doo as well as the then unreleased Cross-Eyed Alley Cat.
As a bonus: the 1965 pre-Dean Martin version of Lee Hazlewood's Houston as well as his 1966 re-recording of The Fool and 1967's It's Nothing To Me.
Great performances directed by producer Lee Hazlewood, carefully remastered and accompanied by a 36-page illustrated booklet with bio, photos and discography.

Other than Elvis, Carl, and Gene Vincent, not many rockabillies could claim a genuine national hit during the genre’s mid-‘50s heyday—but Sanford Clark could. His low-key vocal on The Fool, supplied by Clark’s Phoenix, Arizona-based producer Lee Hazlewood, gave the deadpan lament precisely the feel that it required, Al Casey’s blistering lead guitar adding its snarling rockabilly edge.

Once Dot Records picked up the master and its Elvis-like flip Lonesome For A Letter for national consumption and it hit big in 1956, Sanford found himself a sudden star, touring with Perkins and Vincent and churning out more rocking product for Dot. The Fool put Lee on the map as a producer, well before he masterminded the rise of Duane Eddy.

Bear Family’s ‘Sanford Clark Rocks’ surveys the very best of Sanford’s Dot output—Usta Be My Baby, A Cheat (both the original Dot release and the snare drum overdub version), Ooo Baby, Love Charms, Lou Be Doo, an unissued-at-the-time Cross-Eyed Alley Cat.

There’s also a motherlode of rarities: one-off 1961 singles for the Project and Trey labels, three sides for Warner Bros. including his original 1965 pre-Dean Martin reading of Hazlewood’s Houston, and four tracks from later in the decade, notably his ’66 Ramco remake of The Fool and a 1967 rendition of the Leon Payne-penned offhandedly violent It’s Nothing To Me.

Sanford always made it all sound disarmingly easy and relaxed, Hazlewood doing the rest behind the board.

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Interpret: Sanford Clark
Album titlle: Sanford Clark - Rocks (CD)
Genre Rock
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127176646
weight in Kg 0.115

Clark, Sanford - Sanford Clark - Rocks (CD) CD 1
01	Ooo Baby	Sanford Clark
02	Modern Romance	Sanford Clark
03	Love Charms	Sanford Clark
04	Cross Eyed Alley Cat	Sanford Clark
05	The Fool (MCI/Dot version)	Sanford Clark
06	It's Nothing To Me	Sanford Clark
07	Nine Pound Hammer	Sanford Clark
08	Lonesome For A Letter	Sanford Clark
09	Houston	Sanford Clark
10	Usta Be My Baby	Sanford Clark
11	A Cheat (with snare overdub)	Sanford Clark
12	Don't Care	Sanford Clark
13	Lou Be Doo	Sanford Clark
14	Till My Baby Comes Home	Sanford Clark
15	Guess It's Love	Sanford Clark
16	Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens	Sanford Clark
17	Just Bluesin'	Sanford Clark
18	Every Minute Of The Day	Sanford Clark
19	Tennessee Walk	Sanford Clark
20	Travelin' Man	Sanford Clark
21	Give The Boy Love	Sanford Clark
22	That's The Way I Feel (Ooh Wee)	Sanford Clark
23	The Fool (Ramco version)	Sanford Clark
24	They Call Me Country	Sanford Clark
25	The Man Who Made An Angel Cry	Sanford Clark
26	Hard Feelings	Sanford Clark
27	Swanee River Rock	Sanford Clark
28	Don't Cry	Sanford Clark
29	Black Jack County Chain	Sanford Clark
30	It Hurts Me Too	Sanford Clark
31	A Cheat (without snare overdub)	Sanford Clark

SANFORD CLARK, #born Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1935, moved to Phoenix, Arizona at nine or... more

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"Sanford Clark"

SANFORD CLARK,

#born Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1935, moved to Phoenix, Arizona at nine or ten. Childhood pal, Al Casey, persuaded Clark to get on-stage at the Arizona Hayride and the crowd went for his Elvis impersonation. Casey, who played guitar with the Arizona Hayriders, brought along Lee Hazlewood, a 27-year old dee-jay from KTYL who was looking for someone to sing a song he'd written. Hazlewood liked Clark's style, and the three men pooled $215 to cut The Fool at a local studio owned by Floyd Ramsey.

1500 copies were pressed on MCI, a label owned by Ramsey and the other musicians on the record. Bill Randle, famed Cleveland dee-jay, liked his copy well enough to contact Randy Wood, and, with Dot behind it, The Fool reached the Top 10 in August 1956, the same month that Dot relocated from Tennessee to Hollywood. This anthology features the flipside, Lonesome For A Letter, Clark's finest rockabilly number on which all concerned looked towards Elvis's Sun sound for inspiration.

Unlike Elvis, Clark wasn't teen idol material. He'd spent three years in the Air Force and by February 1957 he was a husband and father. Worst of all, he lacked confidence. Clark had no more hits to speak of, but most of his records for Dot, Jamie, 3-Trey, Project, Warner Brothers, Ramco, LHI and Desert Sun were every bit as interesting. Clark's Dot and Jamie recordings can be found on Bear Family (BCD 15549). Lee Hazlewood also produced the records of Jimmy Spellman, Ray Sharpe and, of course, Duane Eddy.

By 1967, when he was playing Sonny to Nancy Sinatra's Cher, this son of an Oklahoma oil-driller had seen his independent productions sell 36 million records in ten years.

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From: Dusty Grooves On:15 Sep 2023

Sanford Clark was one of the coolest early figures in rock and roll!

Sanford Clark was one of the coolest early figures in rock and roll – never as big as Elvis and some other contemporaries, but working at the start with great help from Lee Hazlewood – who really brings a lot to the spirit of these recordings! In some ways, Sanford was an early foil for the sorts of themes that Lee would later bring to his own solo recordings – and he's also got plenty of the echo and twangy guitar on his cuts, of the sort that Hazlewood was also recording with Duane Eddy! Yet this package also offers a lot more than just the basic Sanford Clark sound as well – as it includes some small label tracks next to his Dot Records material, and some cool later cuts as well – all packaged with the care and detailed notes we love from Bear Family!

From: Promo Bear On:9 Aug 2023

Sorgfältige Aufarbeitung!

"Geboten werden durchweg überzeugende Produktionen unter der Regie von Lee Hazlewood, sorgfältig remastered, dazu ein 36seitiges Booklet mit vielen Illustrationen!!
Concerto August/September 2023

From: Bo Berglind (American Music Magazine) On:3 Jul 2023

This is a long-awaited release that we recommend!

Now it's the turn of Sanford Clark to get his Bear Family package. In 1956, he gets one of the biggest hits of the year with "The Fool". The song was first recorded for the local MCA label, but Dot saw the opportunity and picked up the song for distribution in the US and worldwide, Dot tied Sanford to the label and all tracks are produced by the duo Lee Hazlewood and Lester Sill. His second and final chart entry came the same year with "A Cheat" which reached a modest 74th position. His musicians at this time include Al Casey on guitar, Corky Casey (acoustic guitar) and bassist Jimmy Wilcox. The first recordings are made at Audio Records Studio in Phoenix, Arizona. From February 1957 they use Radio Recorders in Hollywood. In the 1960s they return to Phoenix. When "The Fool" hits, Sanford goes on tour with Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen to name a few. In 1958 he leaves Dot and joins Jamie to go on to Project (1961), Trey (1961), Warner Brothers (1964-65) and Ramco (1966-97), LHI (1967-69) and Desert Sun (1982). For Ramco he made a re-recording of "The Fool" which prompted Dot to reissue his original single.

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