Billy Lee Riley Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD)
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Billy Lee Riley: Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD)
Classic... and then some! When people talk about rockabilly, Billy Lee Riley is usually in the 'A' list, even tho' he never had a hit. His spectacularly untamed vocals, backed by the equally uninhibited Little Green Men stand at the very pinnacle of rockabilly. If this set only had Billy's Sun recordings, like 'Red Hot', 'Rock Me With Me Baby', 'Flying Saucers Rock'n Roll', and 'No Name Gal', it would be a great set, but we added some never-before-heard alternate takes, and then we added his Brunswick session ('Rockin' On The Moon', etc.), and then we added his Rita recordings like 'Dark Muddy Bottom', 'Repossession Blues', and 'That's What I Want To Do'. - (BEAR FAMILY) 2-CD (47 tracks) & 36 page booklet.
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Album titlle: Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
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EAN: 4000127154446
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Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Trouble Bound | Billy Lee Riley | ||
02 | Flying Saucer Rock & Roll | Billy Lee Riley | ||
03 | I Want You Baby | Billy Lee Riley | ||
04 | Red Hot | Billy Lee Riley | ||
05 | Pearly L | Billy Lee Riley | ||
06 | Wouldn't You | Billy Lee Riley | ||
07 | Baby Please Don't Go | Billy Lee Riley | ||
08 | Rockin' On The Moon | Billy Lee Riley | ||
09 | Is That All To The Ball | Billy Lee Riley | ||
10 | Itchy | Billy Lee Riley | ||
11 | Thunderbird | Billy Lee Riley | ||
12 | Down By The Riverside | Billy Lee Riley | ||
13 | No Name Girl | Billy Lee Riley | ||
14 | Come Back Baby | Billy Lee Riley | ||
15 | Got The Water Boiling | Billy Lee Riley | ||
16 | Open The Door Richard | Billy Lee Riley | ||
17 | Dark Muddy Bottom | Billy Lee Riley | ||
18 | Repossession Blues | Billy Lee Riley | ||
19 | That's What I Want To Do | Billy Lee Riley | ||
20 | Too Much Woman For Me | Billy Lee Riley |
Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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01 | I Want You Baby | Billy Lee Riley | ||
02 | She's My Baby (1) | Billy Lee Riley | ||
03 | Pearly Lee | Billy Lee Riley | ||
04 | She's My Baby (2) | Billy Lee Riley | ||
05 | Pearly Lee | Billy Lee Riley | ||
06 | Red Hot | Billy Lee Riley | ||
07 | Rock With Me Baby | Billy Lee Riley | ||
08 | Wouldn't You | Billy Lee Riley | ||
09 | That's Right | Billy Lee Riley | ||
10 | Searchin' | Billy Lee Riley | ||
11 | chatter & College Man | Billy Lee Riley | ||
12 | Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash | Billy Lee Riley | ||
13 | Down By The Riverside | Billy Lee Riley | ||
14 | Swanee River Rock | Billy Lee Riley | ||
15 | Betty And Dupree | Billy Lee Riley | ||
16 | Let's Talk About Us | Billy Lee Riley | ||
17 | Got The Water Boiling | Billy Lee Riley | ||
18 | Saturday Night Fish Fry | Billy Lee Riley | ||
19 | Folsom Prison Blues | Billy Lee Riley | ||
20 | Billy's Blues | Billy Lee Riley | ||
21 | Dark Muddy Bottom | Billy Lee Riley | ||
22 | When A Man Gets The Blues | Billy Lee Riley | ||
23 | Sweet William | Billy Lee Riley | ||
24 | Red Hot | Billy Lee Riley | ||
25 | Mud Island | Billy Lee Riley | ||
26 | My Baby's Got Love | Billy Lee Riley | ||
27 | That's What I Want To Do | Billy Lee Riley |
Billy Lee Riley
Kayattracted an answer disc, Wendy Dawn's John,in which Kay hears the record and comes home to live happily ever after. Instead, here’s Kayin Memphis.In Billy Riley's former lives, he'd been a radio hillbilly singer in Arkansas, a rockabilly singer on the original Sun label (in fact, just possibly the best rockabilly singer on any label), a blues man (his Lightnin' Leon single fooled the compilers of the original Blues Recordsdiscography), and a club-a-go-go singer. He'd been an artist, backing musician, label owner, and producer. Some of his tracks had appeared on a Bo Diddley album, and he'd recorded under more pseudonyms and for more labels than anyone besides John Lee Hooker. In 1967, an album he recorded for his own Mojo label was acquired by Stax Records in Memphis. Riley was in Atlanta at the time but decided that Memphis was happening again.
Stan Kesler, known to Riley from his first go-round in Memphis, was running the Sounds of Memphis studio and that's where Riley recorded Kaywith a sharp-tip funk groove. He resituated the song in Memphis aka Soul City USA, so the line about Ft. Campbell (the military base north of Nashville where Jimi Hendrix served), was gone. The gulf between Memphis and Nashville was never more evident. Riley's rhythm track was created by Kesler's in-house group: guitarist Charlie Freeman, bassist Tommy McClure, drummer Sammy Creason, and Jim Dickinson on keyboards. The wah-wah guitarist could be Riley himself. All the musicians were white, but this was funk from the ground up.
On the label, Kay was credited to Riley’s Libra Productions. Riley played Kayfor Sam Phillips, who said it was Riley's finest record. "Sam suggested I play it for Shelby Singleton who had just bought all the old Sun masters and had formed the Sun International label," Riley said later. "I did all the arranging and I had part of the Memphis Symphony, the Memphis Horns. I had the cream of the crop on that one. Shelby bought the record and gave me a job as producer and moved me to Fort Walton Beach, Florida to produce in his studio there."Singleton licensed it on June 17, 1969, a couple of weeks before he officially bought Sun from Phillips. Soon after Riley left for Florida, Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records whisked Kesler's studio group away to Criteria Studios in Miami, and Kesler himself left for Nashville. Once again, everybody was leaving town. Riley grew disillusioned, but lived to enjoy late acclaim for his early records. He died on August 2, 2009. COLIN ESCOTT
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