The Crickets A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD)

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(Rollercoaster Records) 52 Tracks - 36 page booklet This long-awaited compilation contains... more

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The Crickets: A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD)

(Rollercoaster Records) 52 Tracks - 36 page booklet

This long-awaited compilation contains the three vinyl albums released by The Crickets (featuring Jerry Allison, Sonny Curtis, Steve Krikorian, Nick van Maarth, Ric Grech and Albert Lee) as well as unreleased Crickets tracks from the 1970s and many other previously unreleased recordings from the 1980s and 1990s, all digitally remastered. A 36-page brochure containing many photos... and the story behind the recordings by Crickets File Magazine editor, John Firminger.

CD 1
1 Can I Make You Feel It 2 Hayride 3 Wasn’t It Nice In New York City 4 Rockin’ Pneumonia 5 Lovesick Blues 6 My Rockin’ Days 7 I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby 8 On The Outside Lookin’ In 9 Keep A Knockin’ 10 Day Gig 11 Destiny’s Child 12 Find Out What’s Happening 13 Lay Lady, Lay Down 14 Rock & Roll Man 15 I’m Gonna Ruin Your Health 16 Rhyme & Time 17 Decoy Baker 18 Losin’ Streak 19 Atmore 20 The Truth Is Still The Same 21 Hitchhike Out To Venus 22 Ooh Las Vegas 23 Draggin’ Chains 24 That Is Not What I Need* 25 Rhyme And Time (single version) Producer: Bob Montgomery; Digital re-mastering and editing: John Beecher * Previously unissued
CD 2
1 An American Love Affair 2 He’s Got A Way With Women 3 You Make It Way Too Hard 4 Ain’t Protestin’ 5 Bony Moronie 6 I Like Your Music 7 Now & Then It’s Gonna Rain 8 The Breeze* 9 Cruise In It 10 Rock Around With Ollie Vee 11 Sonny Curtis: Carolyn Walking Away* 12 Mulholland Drive* 13 It’s Only Rock’n’Roll* 14 Sonny Curtis: Rock’n’Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) 15 Sonny Curtis: My Momma Sure Left Me Some Good Old Days 16 Jigger, Crank & Jive: I Got A Woman* 17 Jigger, Crank & Jive: She’s Got A Right To Cry* 18 Jigger, Crank & Jive Do You Ever Think Of Me* 19 Back Home In Tennessee 20 Blackmail 21 I Can’t Hold On Any Longer 22 For A While We Helped Each Other Out 23 Rain On The Roof* 24 Well ...All Right* 25 So What* 26 I Had A Dream* 27 Ivan Ain’t Protestin’*

Article properties: The Crickets: A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD)

Interpret: The Crickets
Album titlle: A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label ROLLERCOASTER
Price code VCD6
Artikelart CD
Year of publication 2020
EAN: 5012814030758
weight in Kg 0.1

Crickets, The - A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD) CD 1
01	Can I Make You Feel It	The Crickets
02	Hayride	The Crickets
03	Wasn’t It Nice In New York City	The Crickets
04	Rockin’ Pneumonia	The Crickets
05	Lovesick Blues	The Crickets
06	My Rockin’ Days	The Crickets
07	I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby	The Crickets
08	On The Outside Lookin’ In	The Crickets
09	Keep A Knockin’	The Crickets
10	Day Gig	The Crickets
11	Destiny’s Child	The Crickets
12	Find Out What’s Happening	The Crickets
13	Lay Lady, Lay Down	The Crickets
14	Rock & Roll Man	The Crickets
15	I’m Gonna Ruin Your Health	The Crickets
16	Rhyme & Time	The Crickets
17	Decoy Baker	The Crickets
18	Losin’ Streak	The Crickets
19	Atmore	The Crickets
20	The Truth Is Still The Same	The Crickets
21	Hitchhike Out To Venus	The Crickets
22	Ooh Las Vegas	The Crickets
23	Draggin’ Chains	The Crickets
24	That Is Not What I Need	The Crickets
25	Rhyme And Time (single version)	The Crickets

Crickets, The - A Long Way From Lubbock (2-CD) CD 2
01	An American Love Affair	The Crickets
02	He’s Got A Way With Women	The Crickets
03	You Make It Way Too Hard	The Crickets
04	Ain’t Protestin’	The Crickets
05	Bony Moronie	The Crickets
06	I Like Your Music	The Crickets
07	Now & Then It’s Gonna Rain	The Crickets
08	The Breeze	The Crickets
09	Cruise In It	The Crickets
10	Rock Around With Ollie Vee	The Crickets
11	Carolyn Walking Away	The Crickets
12	Mulholland Drive	The Crickets
13	It’s Only Rock’n’Roll	The Crickets
14	Rock’n’Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life)	The Crickets
15	My Momma Sure Left Me Some Good Old Days	The Crickets
16	I Got A Woman	The Crickets
17	She’s Got A Right To Cry	The Crickets
18	Do You Ever Think Of Me	The Crickets
19	Back Home In Tennessee	The Crickets
20	Blackmail	The Crickets
21	I Can’t Hold On Any Longer	The Crickets
22	For A While We Helped Each Other Out	The Crickets
23	Rain On The Roof	The Crickets
24	Well All Right	The Crickets
25	So What	The Crickets
26	I Had A Dream	The Crickets
27	Ivan Ain’t Protestin’	The Crickets

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So what would Buddy Holly have sounded like if he was still recording in 1963? The Crickets provide a possible answer. By 1962, former dee-jay Jerry Naylor was taking the lead vocals, and the group was rounded out by drummer Jerry Allison, lead guitarist Sonny Curtis, and pianist Glen D. Hardin (although researcher John Ingman figures that Leon Russell plays piano here). Jerry Naylor took the lead on most of the Liberty recordings until he went solo in 1965. The Crickets were astonishingly successful in the UK during the early 1960s, racking up several hits, including Carol King's Don't Ever Change, Sonny Curtis's My Little Girl, as well as Don't Try To Change Me and a revival of La Bamba. They even landed a movie role, singing My Little Girl and Teardrops Fall Like Rain in the 1962 British rock music movie, 'Just For Fun.' Here they tackle a song by their Liberty Records stablemate Jackie DeShannon and Sharon Sheeley, the girlfriend of former Liberty Records star, Eddie Cochran. It first appeared as a single, then on the UK-only LP, 'A Collection,' in 1965.

At the time this was issued in the UK, first on a single and then on a UK-only album, 'A Collection,' the Crickets were a hot item in Europe, as indeed was their former lead singer, Buddy Holly. In the USA, Lonely Avenue was issued as a single in January 1964 coupled with You Can't Be In-Between, but in the UK Lonely Avenue was released two months later, coupled with the just-recorded Playboy. The latter was an early effort by David Gates, who became the founder and chief composer for the '70s soft rock group, Bread. The son of a band director and piano teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gates grew up with classical music, and was reading music at age Five. By high school, he was proficient on piano, guitar and bass, and was soon making rockabilly records for East-West, Mala, and other labels. Just weeks before Playboy was recorded, Gates had his first hit as a songwriter when The Murmaids took his Popsicles And Icicles into the US Top 10.

Recorded on June 14, 1963 and released just over one month later, hopes must have been high for April Avenue, but the song has been curiously neglected through the years, and rarely reissued until now. Sonny Curtis took the lead vocal on what amounts to a complete short story related in under two-and-a-half minutes. He was becoming an ace songwriter. "When I was a kid,” he says, "I wanted to be a big country star. A local promoter put me on a show with Hank Snow. I went on right before Hank, and to impress him, I sang a lot of his hits. I was so dumb, I didn't realize that was not the thing to do. Hank's road manager told me that if I wanted to make it, I would have to find my own songs, and if I didn't know any songwriters, I would have to write them myself. I never became a big country star, but I did learn to write songs.” He wrote Walk Right Back for the Everly Brothers, and in 1964 the Bobby Fuller Four revived his Crickets song, I Fought The Law. In 1980 Leo Sayer revived another old Crickets song, More Than I Can Say, and later that decade Sonny walked away with several awards for Keith Whitley's big country hit, I'm No Stranger To The Rain, but his biggest payday probably came when he wrote and recorded the theme song to 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show.'

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