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2-CD with 38-page booklet, 49 tracks. Playing time approx. 110 mns. Classic... and then some!...more

Billy Lee Riley: Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD)

2-CD with 38-page booklet, 49 tracks. Playing time approx. 110 mns.

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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  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 4000127154446

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Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 1
01Trouble BoundBilly Lee Riley
02Flying Saucer Rock & RollBilly Lee Riley
03I Want You BabyBilly Lee Riley
04Red HotBilly Lee Riley
05Pearly LBilly Lee Riley
06Wouldn't YouBilly Lee Riley
07Baby Please Don't GoBilly Lee Riley
08Rockin' On The MoonBilly Lee Riley
09Is That All To The BallBilly Lee Riley
10ItchyBilly Lee Riley
11ThunderbirdBilly Lee Riley
12Down By The RiversideBilly Lee Riley
13No Name GirlBilly Lee Riley
14Come Back BabyBilly Lee Riley
15Got The Water BoilingBilly Lee Riley
16Open The Door RichardBilly Lee Riley
17Dark Muddy BottomBilly Lee Riley
18Repossession BluesBilly Lee Riley
19That's What I Want To DoBilly Lee Riley
20Too Much Woman For MeBilly Lee Riley
Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 2
01I Want You BabyBilly Lee Riley
02She's My Baby (1)Billy Lee Riley
03Pearly LeeBilly Lee Riley
04She's My Baby (2)Billy Lee Riley
05Pearly LeeBilly Lee Riley
06Red HotBilly Lee Riley
07Rock With Me BabyBilly Lee Riley
08Wouldn't YouBilly Lee Riley
09That's RightBilly Lee Riley
10Searchin'Billy Lee Riley
11chatter & College ManBilly Lee Riley
12Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But TrashBilly Lee Riley
13Down By The RiversideBilly Lee Riley
14Swanee River RockBilly Lee Riley
15Betty And DupreeBilly Lee Riley
16Let's Talk About UsBilly Lee Riley
17Got The Water BoilingBilly Lee Riley
18Saturday Night Fish FryBilly Lee Riley
19Folsom Prison BluesBilly Lee Riley
20Billy's BluesBilly Lee Riley
21Dark Muddy BottomBilly Lee Riley
22When A Man Gets The BluesBilly Lee Riley
23Sweet WilliamBilly Lee Riley
24Red HotBilly Lee Riley
25Mud IslandBilly Lee Riley
26My Baby's Got LoveBilly Lee Riley
27That's What I Want To DoBilly Lee Riley
Billy Lee Riley K ay attracted an answer disc, Wendy Dawn's John, in which Kay hears the... more
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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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Tracklist
Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Trouble Bound
02 Flying Saucer Rock & Roll
03 I Want You Baby
04 Red Hot
05 Pearly L
06 Wouldn't You
07 Baby Please Don't Go
08 Rockin' On The Moon
09 Is That All To The Ball
10 Itchy
11 Thunderbird
12 Down By The Riverside
13 No Name Girl
14 Come Back Baby
15 Got The Water Boiling
16 Open The Door Richard
17 Dark Muddy Bottom
18 Repossession Blues
19 That's What I Want To Do
20 Too Much Woman For Me
Riley, Billy Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-1960 (2-CD) CD 2
01 I Want You Baby
02 She's My Baby (1)
03 Pearly Lee
04 She's My Baby (2)
05 Pearly Lee
06 Red Hot
07 Rock With Me Baby
08 Wouldn't You
09 That's Right
10 Searchin'
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17 Got The Water Boiling
18 Saturday Night Fish Fry
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24 Red Hot
25 Mud Island
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27 That's What I Want To Do