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1-CD-Album with 48-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns. True, Roy Hall never... more

Roy Hall: Roy Hall - Roy Rocks (CD)

1-CD-Album with 48-page booklet, 27 tracks. Playing time approx. 78 mns.

True, Roy Hall never had a record released on Sun, but he recorded for Sun and of course he recorded the version of Whole Lotta Shakin' that Jerry Lee Lewis made into a worldwide sensation. It's all here: Roy's rockin' recordings for Fortune, Bullet, Citation, Tennessee, Decca, Sun, Hi-Q, and Pierce. Includes Roy Hall's version of Shakin' plus songs like Diggin' The Boogie, Blue Suede Shoes,
You Ruined My Blues Suede Shoes, and One Monkey Can't Stop The Show.


• 27 Songs, 71 minutes
• Digipac with 56-page booklet
• For the first time a complete CD by Rock'n'Roll legend Roy Hall
• Compiled by Rock 'n' Roll expert Bill Millar.

Who was Roy Hall?
Was Roy Hall the man who discovered Skeeter Davis, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and co-wrote Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On in a Florida swamp? Or was he a bullshit artist who made a handful of very obscure but very wonderful records a half- century ago? Listen to the music, read the text and make up your own mind. This much is certain: even if Roy Hall didn't do all he claimed, he was definitely there. Roy Hall was there when country boogie began morphing slowly into rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. Roy Hall was running his Nashville nightclub when Jerry Lee Lewis came to town. ,


Roy Hall recorded See You Later Alligator before Bill Haley and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On before Jerry Lee Lewis. Later, he too recorded at Sun. The full story of Roy Hall's contribution to rock music is finally all in one place, from the primitive delights of Dirty Boogie to the Cat Music of '55 and '56 (All By Myself, Blue Suede Shoes, etc.) to the later Sun recordings. Along the way, there are incredible rarities, like the single for Webb Pierce's hortlived label...which almost no one has ever seen, much less heard.
It's an amazing story (even if it's untrue) and the music is equally amazing.

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  • Interpret: Roy Hall

  • Album titlle: Roy Hall - Roy Rocks (CD)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode AR
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127167477

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Hall, Roy - Roy Hall - Roy Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Roy Hall
02 Diggin' The Boogie Roy Hall
03 Off-Beat Boogie Roy Hall
04 Move On Roy Hall
05 Three Alley Cats Roy Hall
06 See You Later Alligator Roy Hall
07 Christine Roy Hall
08 Blue Suede Shoes Roy Hall
09 All By Myself Roy Hall
10 Don't Stop Now Roy Hall
11 You Ruined My Blue Suede Shoes Roy Hall
12 Dirty Boogie Roy Hall
13 She Sure Can Rock Me Roy Hall
14 Three Alley Cats Roy Hall
15 Bed Spring Motel (23 Spring Street) Roy Hall
16 Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie Roy Hall
17 Go Go Little Queenie Roy Hall
18 One Monkey Can't Stop The Show Roy Hall
19 Flood Of Love Roy Hall
20 My Girl And His Girl Roy Hall
21 Lost My Baby Roy Hall
22 Sweet Love On My Mind Roy Hall
23 Christine Roy Hall
24 Diggin' The Boogie (alt) Roy Hall
25 Mule Boogie Roy Hall
26 Luscious Roy Hall
27 My Girl And His Girl Roy Hall
Roy Hall Hall, Roy There are two versions of the Roy Hall story. There is the one that... more
"Roy Hall"

Roy Hall

Hall, Roy There are two versions of the Roy Hall story. There is the one that plays up the legend about the wild two-fisted, blues-influenced piano-pounder with the tall stories, who took another man's name, wrote one of the anthems of rock 'n' roll, stayed drunk a lot, conned every man, woman and child he came into contact with, and who recorded some of the rawest music ever to come out of the piano cracks between blues, boogie, and honky tonk music.

And then there is the other story of Roy Hall. The country boy from the Appalachians who did indeed play a mean piano, did indeed write at least part of a famous song, did indeed pull a few alcohol-fuelled scams in his time, but who essentially was a country musician who spent most of his time as a back-up player and road manager, show promoter, night club owner, newspaper proprietor, and general hustler.

I'm going to tell you about the real Roy Hall, the man I first met one Sunday in 1974. He was in his office, wearing red trousers and a young blonde on his arm. He was hustling, talking on three phones at once, and telling me his life story. That story is interesting enough, and confusing enough, without any embellishments. And along the way he did happen to record a CD’s worth of classic rock 'n' roll.

Roy Hall was not actually 'Roy' Hall at all: his given name was James Faye Hall when he was born on May 7, 1922 in Virginia. He came from Big Stone Gap, a town smaller than it sounds, some twenty miles from Bristol. "That's the town that straddles the Tennessee state line," he told me. "I was born on the Virginia side."

Although writer Nick Tosches later promoted the legend that Roy learned piano from "an old coloured man" who taught him the blues, the boogie, and how to drink, Hall had actually given me a much more prosaic version when I first met him in 1974 and again in 1975. "Back there in Big Stone Gap, Virginia was where I learned music. I started to play piano through my mother's influence. She was the one that started me with that, playing hymns and old tunes. She got me some piano lessons too, but I play by ear. I just can hear it and follow it. I had two lessons from a professional teacher, but I gave it up because I was better at learning by ear. I could just listen to a tune, see, and play it right off. I could already hear what I wanted to know."

Hall made no mention to me of learning his piano style from bluesmen, though he did talk about Piano Red, and in fact he emphasised his roots in folk and hillbilly music. "When I started to play, we would work at all the little country dances and school halls and social events in little no-account hillbilly towns. We played music for dancing mostly. I learned the piano first but I also learned to play the accordion 'cos that was what was used in a lot of folk music at that time, and it was easier to carry round than a piano! Later on, when I got into the honky tonks and joints and all, then there was always a piano and I went back to that as my main instrument."

The first important thing that happened to James Faye Hall in music was when he was hired to back up a travelling WSM radio 'Grand Ole Opry' show featuring the legendary pre-War star of pre-country music, Uncle Dave Macon. Roy told me, "I started playing piano professionally as a sideman with Uncle Dave Macon, from the Grand Ole Opry. I was eleven years old."

The next significant thing was that James Faye became 'Roy' sometime around 1945 or 1946. "About then," he told me, "I worked some around Roanoke, Virginia with some other boys, and we were the Hall Brothers. That was my first professional band really." He didn't specifically say so, but the brothers were probably banjoist Clayton Hall and his brother Saford, who played fiddle. The brothers had formerly worked with their older brother, Roy, as part of Roy Hall's Blue Ridge Entertainers, firstly out of South Carolina and latterly in and around the Virginias. They had recorded on Vocalion and Bluebird in the late 1930s and early 1940s. When guitarist Roy Hall died in an auto wreck in 1943, his brothers continued playing with a number of other musicians including, it seems, James Faye Hall.

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Tracklist
Hall, Roy - Roy Hall - Roy Rocks (CD) CD 1
01 Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
02 Diggin' The Boogie
03 Off-Beat Boogie
04 Move On
05 Three Alley Cats
06 See You Later Alligator
07 Christine
08 Blue Suede Shoes
09 All By Myself
10 Don't Stop Now
11 You Ruined My Blue Suede Shoes
12 Dirty Boogie
13 She Sure Can Rock Me
14 Three Alley Cats
15 Bed Spring Motel (23 Spring Street)
16 Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie
17 Go Go Little Queenie
18 One Monkey Can't Stop The Show
19 Flood Of Love
20 My Girl And His Girl
21 Lost My Baby
22 Sweet Love On My Mind
23 Christine
24 Diggin' The Boogie (alt)
25 Mule Boogie
26 Luscious
27 My Girl And His Girl