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Carl Mann: Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

The Mona Lisa man is back! Here are his legendary Sun-Phillips International recordings, complete for the first time, plus his first record for Jaxon, and later records for Monument and ABC. Some previously unissued demos round out the set. 

The magic in this set comes from the combination of Carl's quietly rocking vocals and Eddie Bush's fiery guitar. They completely transform standards like Some Enchanted Evening, South Of The Border, Pretend, or Chinatown, and really cut loose on originals like I'm Coming Home (copied note-for-note by Elvis) and Rockin' Love.

Article properties:Carl Mann: Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Interpret: Carl Mann

  • Album titlle: Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127157133

  • weight in Kg 1.2
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01Gonna Rock & Roll TonightCarl Mann
02Rockin' LoveCarl Mann
03Mona Lisa (master)Carl Mann
04Foolish OneCarl Mann
05Rockin' Love (master)Carl Mann
06PretendCarl Mann
07I Can't Forget You (master)Carl Mann
08Some Enchanted Evening (master)Carl Mann
09I'm Coming HomeCarl Mann
10South Of The Border (master)Carl Mann
11Ain't Got No HomeCarl Mann
12If I Ever Needed YouCarl Mann
13Island Of LoveCarl Mann
14Walkin' And Thinkin'Carl Mann
15Baby I Don't CareCarl Mann
16I'm Bluer Than Anyone Can BeCarl Mann
17The Wayward Wind (single version)Carl Mann
18Born To Be BadCarl Mann
19Ain't Got No HomeCarl Mann
20If I Could Change You (with chorus)Carl Mann
21When I Grow Too Old To DreamCarl Mann
22Mountain DewCarl Mann
23Mona Lisa (alt)Carl Mann
24Look At That MoonCarl Mann
25Rockin' Love (alt)Carl Mann
26Too YoungCarl Mann
27Take These Chains From My HeartCarl Mann
28I Can't Forget You (undubbed)Carl Mann
29South Of The Border (alt)Carl Mann
30Kansas CityCarl Mann
31Today Is ChristmasCarl Mann
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01The Wayward Wind (alt)Carl Mann
02Crazy FoolCarl Mann
03Mountain DewCarl Mann
04Blueberry HillCarl Mann
05I'll Always Love You DarlingCarl Mann
06Ain't You Got No Lovin' For MeCarl Mann
07Then I Turned And Walked Slowly AwayCarl Mann
08Serenade Of The BellsCarl Mann
09It Really Doesn't Matter NowCarl Mann
10Sentimental JourneyCarl Mann
11Born To Be Bad (undubbed)Carl Mann
12I Love You, I Adore YouCarl Mann
13Are You Teasing MeCarl Mann
14Stop The World And Let Me OffCarl Mann
15I Don't CareCarl Mann
16I'm Walking The DogCarl Mann
17Ubangi StompCarl Mann
18Don't Let The Stars Get In Your EyesCarl Mann
19Long Black VeilCarl Mann
20If I Could Change You (w/o chorus)Carl Mann
21Blueberry HillCarl Mann
22Canadian SunsetCarl Mann
23Even Tho'Carl Mann
24Chinatown, My ChinatownCarl Mann
25Because Of YouCarl Mann
26'Til The End Of ForeverCarl Mann
27Mexicali RoseCarl Mann
28Hey Doll Baby (EDDIE BUSH)Carl Mann
29Vanished (EDDIE BUSH)Carl Mann
30Baby I Don't Care (EDDIE BUSH)Carl Mann
31Walkin' And Thinkin' (EDDIE BUSH)Carl Mann
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01Serenade Of The BellsCarl Mann
02Down To My Last Forgive YouCarl Mann
03Blue RiverCarl Mann
04Yesterday Is GoneCarl Mann
05Burnin' Holes In The Eyes Of Abraham LincolnCarl Mann
06German TownCarl Mann
07She Was YoungCarl Mann
08Paying For The CrimesCarl Mann
09Met Her In AlaskaCarl Mann
10Funny Way Of Gettin' Over Someone ElseCarl Mann
11When The Leaves Turn BrownCarl Mann
12Everyday Grows Sweet With The WineCarl Mann
13More To LifeCarl Mann
14Going To Church With MamaCarl Mann
15It Really MattersCarl Mann
16Toast To A FoolCarl Mann
17I'm Married FriendCarl Mann
18My Favorite Bunch Of RosesCarl Mann
19Burnin' Holes In The Eyes Of Abraham LincolnCarl Mann
20The Ballad Of Johnnie ClydeCarl Mann
21Cheatin' TimeCarl Mann
22Keep Feeding Her The WineCarl Mann
23Let's Turn Back The PagesCarl Mann
24If I Ever Love AgainCarl Mann
25Make A Man Want ToCarl Mann
26Neon LightsCarl Mann
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01I'm Just About Out Of My MindCarl Mann
02Neon LightsCarl Mann
03It's Not The Coffee That's Keeping Me AwakeCarl Mann
04No Easy Way To Say GoodbyeCarl Mann
05Back Lovin'Carl Mann
06Annie Over TimeCarl Mann
07Somebody Has To BoozeCarl Mann
08Is There No End To Lovin' YouCarl Mann
09Back Lovin'Carl Mann
10Annie Over TimeCarl Mann
11I've Got Feelings TooCarl Mann
12Twilight TimeCarl Mann
13Eighteen Yellow RosesCarl Mann
14Belly Rubbin' Country SoulCarl Mann
15Tennemonk, GeorgiaCarl Mann
16She Loves To Love For The FeelingCarl Mann
17Love Died A Long Time AgoCarl Mann
18Darling Of AtlantaCarl Mann
19Country Was The SongCarl Mann
20Mona LisaCarl Mann
21Second GuessingCarl Mann
22One Last GoodbyeCarl Mann
23On The Back Streets Of DallasCarl Mann
24Tripping On TeardropsCarl Mann
25I Love You Too MuchCarl Mann
Carl Mann A Young Rocker Unlike the classic rockabilly stars of Sun's Golden era, Carl... more
"Carl Mann"

Carl Mann

A Young Rocker

Unlike the classic rockabilly stars of Sun's Golden era, Carl Mann was a kidwhen he first set foot in that legendary studio at 706 Union Avenue. Elvis? He was just six months shy of his 20th birthday. Johnny Cash? An old man pushing 23. Carl Perkins? The same ancient age as Cash. Roy Orbison? A cool 20. Jerry Lee? He had just had his 21st birthday. Charlie Rich? In his 26th year. All old men. Geezers. It's a wonder they could open their guitar cases or make it to the piano without assistance. At least, compared to Carl Mann. Mann was just over 16.

Now don't get us wrong. Rock 'n' roll was supposed to be young people's music. The further away the adults stayed, the more legitimate the music sounded. Just ask Frankie Lymon and Paul Anka. Lymon was barely 13 when he and his pals from the Bronx recorded Why Do Fools Fall In Love. And Anka was no older than Carl Mann when Dianahit the charts in 1957. In fact, they were just the same age as teen idol Fabian when he scored with Turn Me Loosein early 1959.

So what's the big deal about age? Who said 16 is too young to make records? The answer can be summarized in two words: Sun Records. Sun and Sam Phillips worked differently than the rest of the industry. Or at least the part of it that was self-consciously concerned with marketing teen idols. There's two separate parts to that observation. Recording artists were becoming younger as companies strove to match the age of their artists to the age of the audience buying their records. Then there's the 'marketing' part. It hadn't happened yet, but within several years the record industry would see the era of the 'Bobbys' – best remembered today for their palatable whitebread music and squeaky-clean good looks. If the Bobbys could sing – which was debatable in the case of someone like Fabian, then so much the better. The important thing was these guys would look well-groomed and pretty on television and on picture sleeve 45s. The Bobbys were manufacturedfor success, a forerunner of what is today referred to as 'inauthentic' music. This has come to refer to an endless stream of fourteen-year old singers or Boy Bands on major labels, whose appearance, wardrobe and music are first tested on focus groups and then saturation-marketed like any commodity to children by multi-national corporations. Arguably, much of this movement away from 'authentic music' (that Sun used to specialize in) began with or had its most conspicuous roots in the Bobby era nearly 50 years earlier. Spend an afternoon in a record store in a middle-American mall and you'll see and hear the direct descendants of the Bobbys, two generations removed.

In any case, the point is simply that, relative to Sun Records, Carl Mann was a young artist. Maybe not young in comparison to what was happening in the industry at large, but certainly young by Sam and Sun standards. In fact, it's possible that other than the dreaded Sherry Crane, Maggie Sue Wimberly or later artists like Tony Rossine (Sun 349) and Ira Lichterman  (Sun 351), nobody younger than Carl ever appeared on a Sun or Phillips International label. Sun had been a front-runner in hybridizing country and R&B, but they were admirably behind the pack in adapting to the teenage demands of the marketplace. With Dion singing Teenager In Love,Ricky Nelson singing A Teenager's Romance,it was clear who was keeping the cash registers ringing.

 

Bobby Stay Home

This was not the way Sam Phillips did business in his little Memphis-based empire – at least not around the time that Carl Mann first came to town. There was no search for marginally-talented pretty boys. When you walked into Sun for an audition, it helped if you were holding some kind of musical instrument. It didn't hurt if you also wrote your own material. Sam (or one of his honchos like Jack Clement) would be listening to you more than looking at your pretty face. They wanted something different. Unique.It's unlikely someone like Fabian Forte would have gotten through the front door at 706 Union Avenue. And most of the Bobbys could also have stayed home.

Thosewere the standards against which Carl Mann should be evaluated. Relative to the norms for Sun Records, Carl was indeed a kid.It's true he was a good-looking kid, but it was his unusual arrangement of Mona Lisathat got him a second look and listen. He was signed not becausehe was 16 and good-looking, but in spite of it. It sure didn't hurt that he could play a little guitar and piano and could also write songs. And, as we'll see in just a moment, he also walked into the studio with a couple of mighty fine sidemen.

So, yes. It's worth pointing out that 16 was mighty young by Sun Records standards. Those age differences may seem trivial today after a half-century, but back in the '50s they meant a lot. The seven years between Carl Mann and Cash or Perkins, or five years between Mann and the Killer from Ferriday – those were chasms, filled with life experience and musical development. Most of those Sun artists had it and Carl Mann didn't. At least, not yet. It was the kind of experience on which you could build confidence and bravado. Just keep that in mind when you're listening to the earliest music on this disc. Those recordings were made by a kid. True, he's a southern kid, and he was in the right place at the right time. But first and foremost, he was a kid. It's amazing he was as inspired and confident.

 

Clean Up Your Act

One of the ironies of the era of Bobbys (Vee, Vinton, Rydell and others) is that their emergence was indirectly triggered by what Sun Records had done so well just a few years earlier. It was those hip-swivelling, sneering, threatening rockabillies – guys like Presley and Jerry Lee and Gene Vincent – who had sent shock waves rippling through polite 1950s culture. Radio stations were under pressure and they were more than happy to pass that pressure along to the record companies. Quit scaring the audience! Clean up your act! Record some clean-cut looking kids. Take away the menace! Sweeten the recordings! Add some strings and voices and do something about those raw, stinging guitar solos. The message was clear: You want your records played? You want your records bought? Then tone them down.

It's true, this didn't happen overnight. And the impact wasn't total. There would always be exceptions, but by the 1960s it was easier to get your records played and sold if they went easy on the 'wildness' and emphasized the 'sweet side.' At The Hop, Get A Joband Tequilahad given rise to Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Come Softly To Meand Teen Angel.Brenda Lee had gone from Sweet Nothin'sto I'm Sorry.Even Ray Charles went from What'd I Sayto Georgia On My Mind.It just made good commercial sense.

It was into this musical world that Carl Mann stepped in 1959 when he set foot into 706 Union Avenue. Had he arrived three years earlier, things would undoubtedly have been different. But by the time Mann stepped up to the microphone, the Gene Lowery Singers – Sun's answer to the sweetening sweepstakes - were a regular part of the label's productions.

 

Recycling The Oldies

Violins and voices weren't the only path to making commercial recordings in the changing marketplace. Another way to calm things down and appease an older and possibly more conservative audience was to re-record songs that were already familiar to them. The songs may have sounded new to teenagers, but those older melodies and lyrics would bring nods of recognition and approval from their parents and aunts and uncles. In some cases, even their grandparents would tap their feet.

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Tracklist
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Gonna Rock & Roll Tonight
02 Rockin' Love
03 Mona Lisa (master)
04 Foolish One
05 Rockin' Love (master)
06 Pretend
07 I Can't Forget You (master)
08 Some Enchanted Evening (master)
09 I'm Coming Home
10 South Of The Border (master)
11 Ain't Got No Home
12 If I Ever Needed You
13 Island Of Love
14 Walkin' And Thinkin'
15 Baby I Don't Care
16 I'm Bluer Than Anyone Can Be
17 The Wayward Wind (single version)
18 Born To Be Bad
19 Ain't Got No Home
20 If I Could Change You (with chorus)
21 When I Grow Too Old To Dream
22 Mountain Dew
23 Mona Lisa (alt)
24 Look At That Moon
25 Rockin' Love (alt)
26 Too Young
27 Take These Chains From My Heart
28 I Can't Forget You (undubbed)
29 South Of The Border (alt)
30 Kansas City
31 Today Is Christmas
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Wayward Wind (alt)
02 Crazy Fool
03 Mountain Dew
04 Blueberry Hill
05 I'll Always Love You Darling
06 Ain't You Got No Lovin' For Me
07 Then I Turned And Walked Slowly Away
08 Serenade Of The Bells
09 It Really Doesn't Matter Now
10 Sentimental Journey
11 Born To Be Bad (undubbed)
12 I Love You, I Adore You
13 Are You Teasing Me
14 Stop The World And Let Me Off
15 I Don't Care
16 I'm Walking The Dog
17 Ubangi Stomp
18 Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
19 Long Black Veil
20 If I Could Change You (w/o chorus)
21 Blueberry Hill
22 Canadian Sunset
23 Even Tho'
24 Chinatown, My Chinatown
25 Because Of You
26 'Til The End Of Forever
27 Mexicali Rose
28 Hey Doll Baby (EDDIE BUSH)
29 Vanished (EDDIE BUSH)
30 Baby I Don't Care (EDDIE BUSH)
31 Walkin' And Thinkin' (EDDIE BUSH)
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Serenade Of The Bells
02 Down To My Last Forgive You
03 Blue River
04 Yesterday Is Gone
05 Burnin' Holes In The Eyes Of Abraham Lincoln
06 German Town
07 She Was Young
08 Paying For The Crimes
09 Met Her In Alaska
10 Funny Way Of Gettin' Over Someone Else
11 When The Leaves Turn Brown
12 Everyday Grows Sweet With The Wine
13 More To Life
14 Going To Church With Mama
15 It Really Matters
16 Toast To A Fool
17 I'm Married Friend
18 My Favorite Bunch Of Roses
19 Burnin' Holes In The Eyes Of Abraham Lincoln
20 The Ballad Of Johnnie Clyde
21 Cheatin' Time
22 Keep Feeding Her The Wine
23 Let's Turn Back The Pages
24 If I Ever Love Again
25 Make A Man Want To
26 Neon Lights
Mann, Carl - Mona Lisa (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 I'm Just About Out Of My Mind
02 Neon Lights
03 It's Not The Coffee That's Keeping Me Awake
04 No Easy Way To Say Goodbye
05 Back Lovin'
06 Annie Over Time
07 Somebody Has To Booze
08 Is There No End To Lovin' You
09 Back Lovin'
10 Annie Over Time
11 I've Got Feelings Too
12 Twilight Time
13 Eighteen Yellow Roses
14 Belly Rubbin' Country Soul
15 Tennemonk, Georgia
16 She Loves To Love For The Feeling
17 Love Died A Long Time Ago
18 Darling Of Atlanta
19 Country Was The Song
20 Mona Lisa
21 Second Guessing
22 One Last Goodbye
23 On The Back Streets Of Dallas
24 Tripping On Teardrops
25 I Love You Too Much