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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 68 mns. In 1959 Carl Dobkins broke... more

Carl Dobkins Jr: My Heart Is An Open Book

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 68 mns.

In 1959 Carl Dobkins broke through with his classic Top 3 hit My Heart Is An Open Book. He never had another hit as big, but he made a total of 30 recordings for U.S. Decca between 1958 and 1961 and they're all here. Other sides include his great debut disc, If You Don't Want My Lovin', as well as Lucky Devil, covered by Frank Ifield for his first hit.

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Dobkins Jr, Carl - My Heart Is An Open Book CD 1
01 My Heart Is An Open Book Carl Dobkins Jr
02 If You Don't Want My Lovin' Carl Dobkins Jr
03 Love Is Everything Carl Dobkins Jr
04 My Pledge To You Carl Dobkins Jr
05 Lucky Devil Carl Dobkins Jr
06 A Fool Such As I Carl Dobkins Jr
07 Promise Me Carl Dobkins Jr
08 Take Time Out Carl Dobkins Jr
09 A Chance To Belong Carl Dobkins Jr
10 In My Heart Carl Dobkins Jr
11 Ask Me No Question Carl Dobkins Jr
12 Sawdust Dolly Carl Dobkins Jr
13 Pretty Little Girl In The Yellow Dress Carl Dobkins Jr
14 Open Us Your Arms Carl Dobkins Jr
15 I'm Sorry Carl Dobkins Jr
16 Three Little Peggies Carl Dobkins Jr
17 Class Ring Carl Dobkins Jr
18 Exclusively Yours Carl Dobkins Jr
19 For Your Love Carl Dobkins Jr
20 True Love Carl Dobkins Jr
21 Raining In My Heart Carl Dobkins Jr
22 Sue Carl Dobkins Jr
23 That's What I Call True Love Carl Dobkins Jr
24 One Little Girl Carl Dobkins Jr
25 Genie Carl Dobkins Jr
26 A Different Kind Of Love Carl Dobkins Jr
27 Lovelight Carl Dobkins Jr
28 That's All I Need To Know Carl Dobkins Jr
29 Sawdust Dolly Carl Dobkins Jr
30 Class Ring Carl Dobkins Jr
Carl Dobkins Jr. - My Heart Is An Open Book "Those songs represented my fantasies, hopes,... more
"Carl Dobkins Jr"

Carl Dobkins Jr.

- My Heart Is An Open Book

"Those songs represented my fantasies, hopes, problems," reflected Carl Dobkins recently. "Weren't we so innocent? If a girl smiled at you, you were happy. Now kids are wrapped up in live-in relationships, illegitimate children and so on. It's all so different" It was perhaps innocence more than anything else that Carl Dobkins Jr. projected during his recording career – and hardly surprising in a view of the fact that Carl Dobkins recorded his biggest hit when Carl Dobkins was seventeen years old.

Unfortunately Carl Dobkins couldn't translate that hit into a sustained career, but Carl Dobkins is the first to acknowledge that the record business is a crap shoot, and that Carl Dobkins bucked some long odds getting as far as Carl Dobkins did. Carl Dobkins was born January 13, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of a trucker. Carl Dobkins grew up listening to all the music you might expect. Patti Page in particular made an impact upon his vocal style with her phrasing, and the way in which she sang pop with a country favour. Later, and Inevitably, Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly turned Dobkins’ head around.

It was with rock ‘n roll on his mind that Carl Dobkins and his group made their first stab at recording with Fraternity Records, a Cincinnati-based independent record label. They cut two songs: That’s Why I’m Asking and Take Hold Of My Hand. Harry Carlson, the owner of Fraternity, slid Dobkins in the end of a Cathy Carr session being held at Owen Bradley’s studio in Nashville. “The Jordanaires were there, and my eyes were big as half-dollars,” remembered Dobkins. After the Fraternity record failed to set the world alight, Dobkins went to the King studio in Cincinnati with a vocal group, the Seniors, and a backing group who dubbed themselves the Orbits. They cut If You Don’t Want My Lovin’ and Love Is Everything, and told King, “If we sell this thing, you get paid, if we don’t, well…” As it happened, they did sell it. Dobkins took the masters to a local dee-jay, Gil Sheppard, who was acting as his manager, and Sheppard pitched them to Harry Silverstein at Decca Records in New York.

Decca offered a six-month recording contract and released the two cuts.” For a follow-up, Dobkins was brought back to the Bradley studio in Nashville. “They had all song pluggers hanging around the studio in those days, remembered Dobkins, and they had a lot of material waiting for me to go through with Owen Bradley. They played me My Heart Is An Open Book but I really didn’t think much of it. Jimmy Dean had already released the song, but it hadn’t done anything. We cut it, though, using maybe five or six pieces on the session. We did it in the key of F, and they tuned the flat-top guitar a half-step up. After we’d finished, they overdubbed the girls’ voices one more time – and that was it. "After they released it, Decca had some initial problems getting airplay. Some dee-jays saw it as a country record and wouldn't touch it.

Some local promo men said they couldn't do anything with hillbilly artists, so there was no use working the record. Then my manager got me on some record hops, and there were up to six thousand kids at some of these hops. Then a dee-jay in Detroit, Tom Clay, believed in the record and really got it moving. They called me back up north to do some more record hops. I remember doing twelve in one night. The record had been out about six months before it finally broke. Decca had to re-service dee-jays because they'd already tossed the first copy." Shortly after My Heart Is An Open Book started to break, Dobkins graduated from high school. Carl Dobkins worked the Dick Clark Show the day after graduation, and went on a bus tour with Johnny and the Hurricanes.

Then Carl Dobkins had to serve a six month hitch in the Army just as My Heart Is An Open Book was peaking. Unable to find a strong cut from a follow-up session held in June 1959, Decca re-released If You Don't Want My Lovin', which reached number 67 in the Hot 100 on its second go-round. In August 1959, shortly before his induction into the Army, Dobkins went back to Nashville for album sessions, and stockpile some new masters for release. "Owen Bradley had accumulated demos since the last time I was there," recalled Dobkins, "and we listened to stack after stack of dubs. There were no arrangements written out – they did all that in the studio.

The Anita Kerr Singers were there, and ironically, they were still here – without Anita – When I re-cut 'My Heart Is An Open Book' a few years back. We'd figure out what sounded good, and cut it." The first single drawn from those August 1959 sessions was Lucky Devil, a song easily as strong as My Heart Is An Open Book. It did well too, peaking at number 25 late in 1959. It would be Dobkins' last Top 30 hit, though. Among the album tracks were Class Ring, an early entry from Rick Hall (later the owner of Fame studios in Muscle Shoals) and Billy Sherrill (later a hugely successful producer for Epic), then working together an a band called the Fairlanes. Dobkins also cut a version of A Fool Such As I, then a hit for Elvis Presley.

Dobkins remembers that during the sessions, Hank Garland taught him the guitar lick that they had used on the Presley version of the song. The sole gesture towards R & B was a version of the Platters' 1957 hit I'm Sorry. "I think," said Dobkins looking back, "some of these songs were a little ahead of their time. They mixed country and pop, just like Johnny Tillotson did a few years later." To an extent, he's right. There is a similarity between some of Dobkins' recordings and Tillotson's country-pop hits like It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'. The difference is that Dobkins drew almost all of his material from New York tunesmiths who didn't use country chord patterns and melodies, whereas Tillotson gave country songs a pop flavour. Dobkins approached the country-pop mix from a different angle: pop music recorded in Nashville.

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Tracklist
Dobkins Jr, Carl - My Heart Is An Open Book CD 1
01 My Heart Is An Open Book
02 If You Don't Want My Lovin'
03 Love Is Everything
04 My Pledge To You
05 Lucky Devil
06 A Fool Such As I
07 Promise Me
08 Take Time Out
09 A Chance To Belong
10 In My Heart
11 Ask Me No Question
12 Sawdust Dolly
13 Pretty Little Girl In The Yellow Dress
14 Open Us Your Arms
15 I'm Sorry
16 Three Little Peggies
17 Class Ring
18 Exclusively Yours
19 For Your Love
20 True Love
21 Raining In My Heart
22 Sue
23 That's What I Call True Love
24 One Little Girl
25 Genie
26 A Different Kind Of Love
27 Lovelight
28 That's All I Need To Know
29 Sawdust Dolly
30 Class Ring