Janis Martin The Female Elvis - Complete Recordings 1956-60 (CD)

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1-CD with 16-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx 64 mns. Although she spent eight... more

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Janis Martin: The Female Elvis - Complete Recordings 1956-60 (CD)

1-CD with 16-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx 64 mns.

Although she spent eight years in Akron, Ohio as a child, Janis Martin Martin always said that Virginia was her home. She was born Janis Martin Darlene Martin in Sutherlin, Virginia on March 27, 1940. When you consider that Ringo Starr, who epitomized a later generation, was born just four months later, you realize how young she was when she started. "I had a mother who was a show business/stage type mother," she told Bob Allen. "Both my father and my uncle were amateur musicians, and I can't remember a time when I didn't play or sing." In February 1951, bluegrass star Jim Eanes settled near the Martins, and Janis Martin joined him on the radio. Too young to play bars, she became a supporting act and local added attraction when the big names came to town. By age fourteen, Janis Martin had graduated to WRVA's 'Old Dominion Barndance' in Richmond when the show was a big deal in the country music world. When Janis Martin joined in 1953, she performed alongside Hawkshaw Hawkins, Jean Shepard, the Carter Sisters, Sonny James, and Martha Carson. "By the time I joined the 'Old Dominion Barndance' I was getting into my teens," she told Allen, "and it got to where I was bored with slow country songs, and I didn't particularly care for bluegrass either. It was the black R&B that I really started to get comfortable with. I started doing Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker songs. A few Dinah Washington songs, too. I more or less ended up doing rock 'n' roll music on a country show."

One of the on-air personalities at WRVA, Carl Stutz, began writing with another WRVA on-air personality, Carl Barefoot. In 1955, they wrote Will You, Willyum. They asked Janis Martin to demo it for them and the demo went to Tannen Music in New York. Tannen sent it to Steve Sholes at RCA, and, as 'Country Song Roundup' reported, "Steve was supposed to be listening to the song rather than the artist, but Janis' unusual delivery stuck in his mind." Just days later, on March 8, 1956, Janis Martin Martin was in Nashville. She recorded Will You, Willyum together with Buck Griffin's Let's Elope Baby and Boudleaux Bryant's One More Year To Go, and a her own Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll. "It's real surprising," Janis Martin said later, "because on my shows that I do in Europe, I always open with 'Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll.' Even though it was a B-side, that's the side that took off as far as the kids in Europe are concerned. The only reason I wrote [it] is because they were just beginning to realize that artists would have more success if they could write their own songs. I wrote 'Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll' in about ten minutes. Everything in that song was actually the scene that was happening for us as teenagers [it was recorded three weeks short of Janis's sixteenth birthday]. The drugstore was the only place we had to go and hang out after school. They had the jukebox and soda fountain and we'd just go and dance and have a soda, maybe order a hamburger and that was our social life."

Janis Martin hit the road, and Will You, Willyum sold well enough for Janis Martin to buy a Cadillac and for RCA to keep the faith. The second session was held in New York on May 11, 1956. Steve Sholes found what was probably the first song about Elvis, My Boy Elvis. Sholes had already come up with the 'Female Elvis' tag, apparently with the tacit approval of the 'Male Elvis.' When Janis Martin was showcased at RCA's sales conference in Miami, Elvis sent a dozen red roses. The Female Elvis had just two brief encounters with the Male Elvis. "I said hello to him backstage at a show in Danville, Virginia," she remembered later (that would have been on September 20, 1955). "Later, I ran into him in New York at RCA's studio. He said, 'How's it goin'?' I said, 'Fine, how about you?' He said, 'It's rough!'" Rougher than she ever knew.

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Article properties: Janis Martin: The Female Elvis - Complete Recordings 1956-60 (CD)

Interpret: Janis Martin
Album titlle: The Female Elvis - Complete Recordings 1956-60 (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127154064
weight in Kg 0.115

Martin, Janis - The Female Elvis - Complete Recordings 1956-60 (CD) CD 1
01	Drugstore Rock'n Roll	Janis Martin
02	Will You Willyum	Janis Martin
03	Love And Kisses	Janis Martin
04	My Boy Elvis	Janis Martin
05	Cracker Jack	Janis Martin
06	Bang Bang	Janis Martin
07	Ooby Dooby	Janis Martin
08	Barefoot Baby	Janis Martin
09	Good Love	Janis Martin
10	Little Bit	Janis Martin
11	Two Long Years	Janis Martin
12	All Right, Baby	Janis Martin
13	Billy Boy, My Billy Boy	Janis Martin
14	Let's Elope Baby	Janis Martin
15	Love Me Love	Janis Martin
16	Love Me To Pieces	Janis Martin
17	William	Janis Martin
18	Here Today And Gone Tomorrow	Janis Martin
19	Teen Street	Janis Martin
20	Hard Times Ahead	Janis Martin
21	Cry Guitar	Janis Martin
22	Just Squeeze Me	Janis Martin
23	One More Year To Go	Janis Martin
24	Blues Keep Calling	Janis Martin
25	Please Be My Love	Janis Martin
26	I Don't Hurt Anymore	Janis Martin
27	Half Loved	Janis Martin
28	My Confession	Janis Martin
29	I'll Never Be Free	Janis Martin
30	Love Me Love	Janis Martin

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From: Gerard Le jannou On: 4 Oct 2020

Excellent

Des enregistrements d excellente qualité avec de supers musiciens et toutes les nouveautés harmoniques de l époque. La fraîcheur des premiers enregistrement reste plus intéressante que les derniers morceaux plus conventionnels.
Elle a probablement bien fait de s arrêter la pour ne pas sombrer dans la banalité et perdre le titre un peu prétentieux quand même de Presley au féminin.

From: rock_the_universe On: 8 May 2017

++++++

One of the, in my opinion, best female Rockabilly singers! This CD includes all her 'RCA' and 'Palette' recordings and has a perfect sound and brilliant liner notes!

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