Merle Kilgore Teenager's Holiday

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Merle Kilgore recorded for the legendary Imperial label between 1954 and 1959. He started as a... more

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Merle Kilgore: Teenager's Holiday

Merle Kilgore recorded for the legendary Imperial label between 1954 and 1959. He started as a country singer, cutting the original version of Webb Pierce's hit More And More and a couple of other classic hillbilly tunes like Feeling Single Seeing Double and It Can't Rain All The Time. Then he switched to rock 'n' roll, recording in New Orleans with Fats Domino's producer, Dave Bartholomew. The songs he recorded there included Hang Doll and Teenager's Holiday.

Then he recorded in Louisiana, using such luminaries as James Burton and Jim Landry on guitar. And then between 1961 and 1962, Merle was on Mercury Records, cutting country-pop. In addition to all 18 Imperial recordings, we've included 14 of Merle's early Mercury cuts, like 42 In Chicago, The Love Bug, There's No Food In This House, Wicked City, Lovers Hell and Trouble At The Tower.

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Interpret: Merle Kilgore
Album titlle: Teenager's Holiday
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Price code AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127155443
weight in Kg 0.115

Kilgore, Merle - Teenager's Holiday CD 1
01	Ride Jesse Ride	Merle Kilgore
02	Hang Doll	Merle Kilgore
03	Everbody Needs A Little Lovin'	Merle Kilgore
04	Ernie	Merle Kilgore
05	Start All Over Again	Merle Kilgore
06	Tom Dooley, Jr.	Merle Kilgore
07	More And More	Merle Kilgore
08	It Can't Rain All The Time	Merle Kilgore
09	Seein' Double, Feeling Single	Merle Kilgore
10	What Makes Me Love You	Merle Kilgore
11	Funny Feelin'	Merle Kilgore
12	Now That You Are Leavin'	Merle Kilgore
13	That's When My Blues Began	Merle Kilgore
14	Teenager's Holiday	Merle Kilgore
15	Please, Please, Please	Merle Kilgore
16	I Feel Guilty	Merle Kilgore
17	Trying To Find (Someone Like You)	Merle Kilgore
18	Goodbye	Merle Kilgore
19	42 In Chicago	Merle Kilgore
20	Wicked City	Merle Kilgore
21	I'll Take Ginger And Run Away	Merle Kilgore
22	A Girl Named Liz	Merle Kilgore
23	Ain't Nothin' But A Man	Merle Kilgore
24	Something's Goin' On That I Can't See	Merle Kilgore
25	There's No Food In This House	Merle Kilgore
26	Lover's Hell	Merle Kilgore
27	Back Street Affair	Merle Kilgore
28	Trouble At The Tower	Merle Kilgore
29	The Love Bug	Merle Kilgore
30	I'll Shake Your Hand	Merle Kilgore

Merle Kilgore Merle Kilgore could be forgiven for thinking that he's seen it all. As a h... more

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Merle Kilgore

Merle Kilgore could be forgiven for thinking that he's seen it all. As a h Louisana, with something to prove - and arrive back six years later with noth-ing left to prove, but with ambition supplanted by an emptiness that alcohol eat ( efe: teenager he saw an almost unknown Hank Williams arrive in Shreveport, had filled. Merle saw Elvis Presley mount the same stage two years later with the same searing need to be heard. Later, with Johnny Horton, Merle ex- hor plored the outer limits of spiritualism, only to see his belief turn to apostasy. Me He sat on the tour bus while fans told Hank Williams Jr. that he would never be but a shadow of his daddy - and, working eventually as Jr's manager, saw the son define his own boundaries to become arguably the hottest property in A f country music.

Merle has written, or co-written, over three hundred songs that others have recorded, starting with More And More, and embracing the timeless im-agery of Ring of Fire, and the solid novelty appeal of Wolverton Mountain. He started his recording career as a hillbilly singer, switching to rockabilly and even recording a session with Fats Domino's band, before flirting with ersatz folk, and eventually returning to country music.
Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma on August 9, 1934, Kilgore grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and started attending Byrd High School in 1948 - the year that the Louisiana Hayride started on KWKH. He hung around the sta-tion and the grill across the street where the performers whiled away the hours. Merle's heroes were the Bailes Brothers who played daily on KWKH as well as on the Hayride; he carried their guitars up to the studio every morn-ing: "The elevator didn't work 'I'll 7 :00am," recalls Merle, "and some of the shows started at 5 :00am. I' d carry up instruments all morning long."

It was in the grill that Merle met Hank Williams, just arrived from Montgomery with a rumour that he could steal any show: "We'd heard that if he could be sober a year, they'd put him on the Opry. The Bailes Brothers had helped to get him on the Hayride, and on the first night he asked me how they'd done. I said, 'Real good. l' d hate to have to follow them.' He said, 'I'll eat 'em alive' - and he did!" By the time Williams returned in 1952 with his life in tatters, Kilgore was attending Louisiana Tech in Ruston: "I' d come home for Thanksgiving and I walked into the grill and a voice said, 'Hey, Merle, ain't you gonna speak'. It was Hank. He had an old black rumpled suit, hat pulled down and he hadn't shaved in four orfive days."
A few months later, he was dead.

It was another graduate from KWKH, Webb Pierce, who got Merle his first shot at recording. Merle had finished at Louisiana Tech. He was working at American Optical, and as a dee-jay and featured artist on various stations in and around Pierce's home town of Monroe. "This guy came by with a big cigar," said Kilgore, "He'd been listening to me on the radio, and told me he was the biggest pipeliner in the entire South. He said he was building a television station in Monroe, and that I could be the first TV star in north-east Louisiana. I jumped at it. They billed me as the Tall Texan,
"At that time, Webb Pierce was just about the hottest thing in country music. He came home to Monroe for Christmas and went to see the barber who had been cutting his hair since he was a kid. The barber said, 'Hey, Webb, you ought to try and get on that Tall Texan show. If you get on that show, you' 11 have it made'. That made Webb mad,'and he went down to this bar where he had drunk all his life. The guy poured him a drink and said, 'Webb, you oughta watch that Tall Texan show at seven o' clock' . Webb got mad as hell and said, 'Who IS this Tall Texan?' He was at his sister's house at seven and he watched the show. He said, 'That' s Merle Kilgore! The kid that used to carry everyone's guitar at the Hayride'...