Billy Lee Riley Red Hot (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
- catalog number: LPSUNSC1288
- weight in Kg 0.17
Billy Lee Riley: Red Hot (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
Riley has always been held in high regard by rockabilly fans. His backing band, The Little Green Men, comprised the cream of Sun's session men, including Jerry Lee Lewis on piano.
"Flying Saucers Rock And Roll" and "Red Hot" are two undisputed landmark recordings in rockabilly and lead each side of this excellent collection. The 10 tracks have been newly-remastered from the original tapes and pressed on audiophile-quality 10-inch vinyl. Red Hot will be released on the legendary Sun Records label via Charly. The first 1,000 copies will be on limited edition "red hot" red vinyl and feature definitive career-spanning sleeve notes by Adam Komorowski.
Article properties: Billy Lee Riley: Red Hot (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
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Interpret: Billy Lee Riley
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Album titlle: Red Hot (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)
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Label CHARLY
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Genre Rock'n'Roll
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Edition 2 Limited Edition
- Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
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Artikelart LP
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EAN: 0803415821112
- weight in Kg 0.17
| Riley, Billy Lee - Red Hot (LP, 10inch, Ltd.) LP 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Flyin' Saucers Rock 'n' Roll | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 02 | Pearly Lee | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 03 | I Want You Baby | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 04 | Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 05 | College Man | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 06 | Red Hot | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 07 | Rock With Me | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 08 | Let`s Talk About Us | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 09 | Swannee River Rock | Billy Lee Riley | ||
| 10 | Got The Water Boiling | Billy Lee Riley | ||
Billy Lee Riley
K
ay 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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