Billy Lee Riley Rock With Me - Rock Originals Collection Vol.10 (CD)

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Billy Lee Riley: Rock With Me - Rock Originals Collection Vol.10 (CD)

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Singer, author, composer, harmonica player, drummer, bass player and guitar player - sorry/bit! - Billy Lee Riley was born on October 5, 1933 in Pocahontas, Arkansas, of Indian descent. After a stay in the army he moved to Memphis and was hired by the Sun label in 1956.

Sam Phillips, the boss, notices his talents as a multi-instrumentalist, and regularly asks him to participate in recording sessions. You can hear Billy behind Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich or Barbara Pittman. Yet it was thanks to "flying Saucer Rock And Roll" and "Red Hot", two rock classics that Robert Gordon, Sleepy LaBeef and others would later sing, that his name became part of rock history. "Red Hot" is a song he borrows from black singer Billy The Kid Emerson.

The success of "Elying Saucer Rock And Roll", on which Jerry Lee Lewis plays the piano, led him to name his orchestra The Little Green Men. In 62, Billy Lee left Memphis, and Sun, for Hollywood where he continued his career. Yet these are his first recordings, "Saucer" and "Red Hot", but also "Trouble Round" (just wonderful!), "Rock With Me", "Pearly Lee", etc., which remain in everyone's mind as irrefutable proof of his talent.

-Jean William Thoury

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Interpret: Billy Lee Riley
Album titlle: Rock With Me - Rock Originals Collection Vol.10 (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label FNAC MUSIC
Artikelart CD
EAN: 3383006620647
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Riley, Billy Lee - Rock With Me - Rock Originals Collection Vol.10 (CD) CD 1
01	Red Hot	Billy Lee Riley
02	Fliying Saucer Rock'n'roll	Billy Lee Riley
03	Trouble Bound	Billy Lee Riley
04	Let's Talk About Us	Billy Lee Riley
05	Rock With Me Baby	Billy Lee Riley
06	I Want You Baby	Billy Lee Riley
07	She's My Baby	Billy Lee Riley
08	Baby Please Don't Go	Billy Lee Riley
09	Corne Back Baby	Billy Lee Riley
10	Got Your Water Boiling	Billy Lee Riley
11	Open The Door Richard	Billy Lee Riley
12	Betty And Dupree	Billy Lee Riley
13	Sweet William	Billy Lee Riley
14	Pearly Lee	Billy Lee Riley
15	No Name Girl	Billy Lee Riley
16	Wouldn't You Now?	Billy Lee Riley
17	Searchin'	Billy Lee Riley
18	Swanee River Rock	Billy Lee Riley
19	Down By The Riverside	Billy Lee Riley

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"Billy Lee Riley"

Billy Lee Riley

Kay attracted an answer disc, Wendy Dawn's John, in which Kay hears the record and comes home to live happily ever after. Instead, here’s Kay in 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 Records discography), 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 Kay with 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 Kay for 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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