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Roy Head & The Traits: Roy Head & The Traits - Live It Up! (LP)

(2010/Norton) 16 Tracks - Sixteen song roundup of the earliest recordings by inimitable Texas madman Roy Head along with the original Traits! These 1958-1962 sides include all the group's wild TNT and Renner singles!

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Interpret: Roy Head & The Traits
Album titlle: Roy Head & The Traits - Live It Up! (LP)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Norton Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0731253035814
weight in Kg 0.23

Head, Roy - Roy Head & The Traits - Live It Up! (LP) LP 1
01	One More Time	Roy Head & The Traits
02	Don't Be Blue	Roy Head & The Traits
03	Live It Up	Roy Head & The Traits
04	Yes I Do	Roy Head & The Traits
05	My Baby's Fine	Roy Head & The Traits
06	Here I Am In Love Again	Roy Head & The Traits
07	Summertime Love	Roy Head & The Traits
08	You Turn To Cry	Roy Head & The Traits
09	Walking All Day	Roy Head & The Traits
10	Night Time Blues	Roy Head & The Traits
11	One More Time #2	Roy Head & The Traits
12	Don't Be Blue #2	Roy Head & The Traits
13	Little Mama	Roy Head & The Traits
14	Linda Lou	Roy Head & The Traits
15	Woe Woe	Roy Head & The Traits
16	Got My Mojo Working	Roy Head & The Traits

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"Roy Head & The Traits"

Roy Head & The Traits

Treat Her Right

Roy Head & The Traits

Treat Her Right

Texas was the ultimate musical melting pot. Blues, country, R&B, and rockabilly melted together to spawn blue-eyed soul men like Roy Head, who blended those influences into a horn-leavened sonic attack and an astonishing stage show with spectacular stage moves and mic stand tricks. R&B audiences initially thought Roy was one of their own when his Treat Her Right vaulted to #2 R&B and pop. "I remember coming on stage at the Apollo Theatre," he says. "I was working with the Joe Scott band. People were going, 'Yeaahh!!' I walked out and it was (silence). 'God,' I thought. 'What the hell?!?' I mean, just night and day. But when I did the first few flips and some of the mic stuff, hell, they were up in the seats screaming!"

Born September 1, 1941 in Three Rivers, Texas, Head was a big R&B fan. "Etta James, Bo Diddley, Jackie Wilson, naturally James Brown. Joe Tex is the one that taught me all the mic stuff," he says. "Thanks to Edra Pennington, who owned a funeral home in San Marcos, Texas, I put me a little band together, and we started playing like little talent shows, etc. And we started winning. So we formed a group called Roy Head & The Traits in 1958." The group debuted on Bob Tanner's San Antonio-based TNT Records in '59 with the regional hit Baby Let Me Kiss You One More Time. "Things just escalated from there," he laughs. "We played a lot of chicken-wire bandstands!" After several TNT encores and a couple more for Renner, Head hooked up with Houston producers Charlie Booth and Huey P. Meaux.

"We went in the studio, Gold Star Recording Studio, over on Brock. For $500, we cut 'Treat Her Right,'" says Roy. The anthem was originally saddled with the unlikely title of Talking About A Cow. "My bass player, Gene Kurtz, at the time, said, 'Look. Make this about a girl. Get out of the country, and we might sell some records!'" says Head. "Charlie Booth and Huey Meaux knew Don Robey. Charlie Booth really was the one that laid the record down in the studio. Then we took it to Huey. Huey liked it. Huey naturally was the engineer on it. He shopped it to Don Robey and Don Robey bought it." Released on Robey's Back Beat Logo, Treat Her Right got Roy on several national TV shows--'Shindig!', 'American Bandstand'—to showcase his wild stage gymnastics.

Head briefly battled himself on the pop charts right after that, his covers of Just A Little Bit and Get Back that Meaux had peddled to Scepter fighting for prominence with his freshly cut Back Beat 45s Apple Of My Eye and My Babe. Along the way, The Traits imploded. "My group sued me for six-sevenths of everything I made, because they didn't want to travel. I had all these tours offered and all this, and they all had different occupations," he says. "So I just quit singing for about a year. Which was really--well, you can tell I'm country. It wasn't real sharp." Roy rejuvenated his career during the '70s by going country. "I was hungry," he says. Today, he's back to belting R&B. And yes, he still does a backflip at show's end.

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