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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 mns. Here are Narvel's early...more

Narvel Felts: Memphis Days (CD)

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 26 tracks. Playing time approx. 61 mns.

Here are Narvel's early Sixties recordings for Roland Janes' labels. Times were changing but Narvel and Roland were still intent on making good ol' Memphis rock 'n' roll. The 26 titles include rock 'n' roll classics like Your True Love, Night Creature, Lola Did A Dance, Lovelight Man, Slippin' And Slidin', Get On The Right Track Baby, Private Detective and Mountain Of Love, as well country ballads like Blue Darlin and
Welcome Home Mr. Blues. All are delivered with Narvel's heartstopping sense of drama. It's classic Memphis small group rock 'n' roll and country, and until now all these titles were hidden on unreleased tapes or on rare singles.

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  • Interpret: Narvel Felts

  • Album titlle: Memphis Days (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AH
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127155153

  • weight in Kg 0.115
Felts, Narvel - Memphis Days (CD) CD 1
01Night CreatureNarvel Felts
02Your True LoveNarvel Felts
03Blue Darlin'Narvel Felts
04What You're Doing To MeNarvel Felts
05Sad And BlueNarvel Felts
06She's In Your Heart To StayNarvel Felts
07ReturnNarvel Felts
08Welcome Home, Mister BluesNarvel Felts
09Love Is GoneNarvel Felts
10Tear Down The WallNarvel Felts
11The Four Seasons Of LifeNarvel Felts
12Come What MayNarvel Felts
13Lola Did A DanceNarvel Felts
14Lovelight ManNarvel Felts
15Mr. Pawnshop BrokerNarvel Felts
16Tongue Tied JillNarvel Felts
17All That Heaven SentNarvel Felts
18I Had A GirlNarvel Felts
19Slippin' And Slidin'Narvel Felts
20Larry And JoellenNarvel Felts
21You Were MineNarvel Felts
22Get On The Right Track, BabyNarvel Felts
23Sweet, Sweet LovingNarvel Felts
24Mountain Of LoveNarvel Felts
25Private DetectiveNarvel Felts
26One Man At A TableNarvel Felts
NARVEL FELTS DID YOU TELL ME When I was thirteen years old we still lived in Arkansas and... more
"Narvel Felts"

NARVEL FELTS

DID YOU TELL ME

When I was thirteen years old we still lived in Arkansas and I traded my BB gun for a beat up Gene Autry guitar that was held together with a Prince Albert tobacco can and some bailing wire. A year later, when I was fourteen, we had moved to Missouri and I picked cotton and ordered a new one from Sears & Roebuck for $15.98. Then in early 1956, I was seventeen at the time, I entered a high school talent contest at Bernie, Missouri. I sang Baby Let's Play House and when they wanted an encore there was a new song I had heard a few times by Carl Perkins, called Blue Suede Shoes. By chance there was a disk jockey in the audience that night from KDEX radio in Dexter, Missouri - his name was Weldon Grimsley, and the next day I was sitting at home listening to the radio, and they said "if Narvel Felts is listening please contact KDEX immediately". I ran outside and told my daddy what they had said on the radio. It was cold winter time and he had the water drained out of the radiator of his 1946 International truck. He put water in the truck and drove me eight miles up the gravel road to Bernie to the nearest phone, and I called KDEX an they said"bring your guitar and come on." I took J. W. Grubbs with me and they gave us a little Saturday afternoon radio show, live.

A little while after that, on March 24, 1956, I ran across Jerry Mercer one night at the Fourway Inn in Dudley, Missouri. He got me up to sing and invited me to come to Pop Schmitzer's, near Malden, the next night and sit in with him some more and this led to a regular job in Jerry Mercer's band along about the spring of 1956. We played a lot of the local clubs in south-east Missouri, north-east Arkansas and some in Illinois and played a package show that summer with Roy Orbison when  Ooby Dooby  was his current record and Go Go Go  the  B-side of it. Eddie Bond and The Stompers were also on the show and Eddie 's record on Mercury at the time was I Got A Woman and Rockin ' Daddy.

During 1956 from the spring until about mid December I worked with Jerry Mercer and I would play the slap bass when he was singing and he would play it when I was singing. We would trade and both of us played. I would play rhythm guitar when I sang and he would play rhythm guitar when he sang. During this period of time we did that show with Roy Orbison and Eddie Bond at Dexter, Missouri, and within a couple of weeks after that show I wound up with an audition with Sun Records. Calvin Richardson, who was my manager and a Dexter music store owner at the time, told me that Roy was going to help him get an appointment at Sun for me, so Leon Barnett and I drove down in my Chevrolet to Sun. It was very hot summer-time, probably August or early September, when we auditioned for Jack Clement. Jack told us to write some more songs, bring the whole band back. However, we did not wind up doing that until early 1957. In the meantime, in December of 1956, Jerry Mercer got married and decided to quit the music business. The band now became 'Narvel Felts and the Rockets'.


#On my Sun recordings Jack Clement was the producer. We went in with the band, the first time was in January 1957 when we did five songs, then we came back for an

other session i

n April. I had felt like there were three sessions but the Sun session book doesn't confirm that. They say that the following session was in early April of 1957 and it would probably have been the one that produced My Babe. I remember at the first session Roy Orbison was in the control room with Jack Clement. Conway Twitty was still Harold Jenkins and had a chair pulled up by my microphone in the studio, listening to me. I had met Jerry Lee Lewis at Taylor's cafe next door that morning, and Johnny Cash came in at the front office and watched us for a little while that day. I remember that at the session when I recorded My Babe, I said the line, "when she's hot, there ain't no coolin,'“ I remember Jack Clement and Roy Orbison had their heads popping around, looking at each other kind of in surprise when I said that, like it was a sort of shocking line at that time.

After I'd finished the last session at Sun, Jack Clement said  "well think we've got a record here. It may take about a year to get around to releasing it because we've got so many in front of you." At the session when Conway Twitty was also there, Roy Orbison called Conway and myself off in a corner, and said, "Boys, if I were you, I would look elsewhere for a label. That's what I'm going to do when my contract's up, because Sam's not interested in me, he's not interested in you, he's not even interested in Perkins. He's only interested in Cash and this new kid, Jerry Lee Lewis."

In early March of 1957, I was playing the Fox Theatre in St. Louis and Fred Varney, who had some connections with Mercury Records in Chicago, wanted to take us to Chicago to audition for Mercury. At that time I still was recording for Sun. We were at the Fox Theatre playing, I believe it was probably three shows a day, possibly more, with the movie 'Rock Pretty Baby'. We did not go to Chicago at that time, but a little later, after we had done the other session for Sun and Jack had said, it would be a year before they could release anything. I was doing another tour of theatres in Illinois and we were playing in Lichfield, Illinois, I believe two nights off in between, Fred Varney came by again. He had had a man named Cliff Mantle book those theatres and they were kind of partners in the business. Fred had a printing company in St. Louis. He offered again to take us to Chicago and this time we took him up on it.

He took us to 35 East Wacker Drive, just walked in the Mercury offices with us and the band, so the people were saying "what are you doin', bringing a band in here like this...? " Anyway, they finally decided to listen to us and so we brought the equipment up and sat in the office with no microphone, and Art Talmadge walked over and stood near me where he could hear my voice over the band. I was kind of singing in his ear. We did a couple of songs and he said send them on down to Universal Studios to record. We went down that afternoon and recorded until probably midnight after taking supper break, and wound up recording ten songs. Within a month my first record Kiss-A-Me Baby andFoolish Thoughts  was on the market. I believe it was the 10th ofJune, 1957.

The band that I recorded with at Mercury was still the same that was on my Sun sessions. Also a piano player named Chuck Stacy worked some of the songs on the Chicago session with us. The line-up was myself doing vocals and rhythm guitar, Leon Barnett on lead guitar, J. W. Grubbs on bass, Bob Taylor on drums and Jerry Tuttle playing steel guitar and saxophone; in fact later on that year we recorded an instrumental that featured Jerry on saxophone, called Rocket Ride. That record came out and really started getting some action, this was early '58. The story goes that Art Talmadge heard a radio station in Chicago play Rocket Ride on a slow speed and it sounded like a stroll record to him, and they had a hit at the time with the Diamonds’ The Stroll, and so he slowed it down, and it was re-issued very quickly as Rocket Ride Stroll. That was actually a re-recording and I believe it was Sil Austin and the Orchestra who recorded Rocket Ride Stroll and they issued it under my name. The original Rocket Ride was just us, the Rockets. We did that at RCA Studio B in Nashville in October of 1957, featuring Jerry Tuttle on saxophone...

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Tracklist
Felts, Narvel - Memphis Days (CD) CD 1
01 Night Creature
02 Your True Love
03 Blue Darlin'
04 What You're Doing To Me
05 Sad And Blue
06 She's In Your Heart To Stay
07 Return
08 Welcome Home, Mister Blues
09 Love Is Gone
10 Tear Down The Wall
11 The Four Seasons Of Life
12 Come What May
13 Lola Did A Dance
14 Lovelight Man
15 Mr. Pawnshop Broker
16 Tongue Tied Jill
17 All That Heaven Sent
18 I Had A Girl
19 Slippin' And Slidin'
20 Larry And Joellen
21 You Were Mine
22 Get On The Right Track, Baby
23 Sweet, Sweet Loving
24 Mountain Of Love
25 Private Detective
26 One Man At A Table