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1-CD with 24-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 69 mns. Some of the wildest, most... more

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Ronnie Self: Bop-A-Lena (CD)

1-CD with 24-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 69 mns.

Some of the wildest, most spectacularly untamed music ever to come out of Nashville - or anywhere! Ronnie lived his life in overdrive after starting his recording career in 1956 with a case of Pretty Bad Blues. In 1957 and 1958, he cut rockabilly classics like Bop-A-Lena, Ain't I'm A Dog, Date Bait, and the original version of Big Blon' Baby. We've rounded out the set with his Decca/Kapp recordings from 1956 to 1963, a little quieter, but still weird and exciting. Check out Ugly Stick, So High, Go Go Cannibal, or Moon Burn.

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Interpret: Ronnie Self
Album titlle: Bop-A-Lena (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127154361
weight in Kg 0.115

Self, Ronnie - Bop-A-Lena (CD) CD 1
01	Bop A Lena	Ronnie Self
02	I Ain't Goin' Nowhere	Ronnie Self
03	You're So Right For Me	Ronnie Self
04	Ain't I'm A Dog	Ronnie Self
05	Too Many Lovers	Ronnie Self
06	Date Bait	Ronnie Self
07	Big Blon' Baby	Ronnie Self
08	Petrified	Ronnie Self
09	Flame Of Love	Ronnie Self
10	Big Fool	Ronnie Self
11	Black Night Blues	Ronnie Self
12	Pretty Bad Blues	Ronnie Self
13	Three Hearts Later	Ronnie Self
14	Rocky Road Blues	Ronnie Self
15	Do It Now	Ronnie Self
16	Bless My Broken Heart	Ronnie Self
17	This Must Be The Place	Ronnie Self
18	Big Town	Ronnie Self
19	Some Other World	Ronnie Self
20	Instant Man	Ronnie Self
21	Oh Me, Oh My	Ronnie Self
22	Whistling Words	Ronnie Self
23	Past, Present And Future	Ronnie Self
24	So High	Ronnie Self
25	I've Been There	Ronnie Self
26	Moon Burn	Ronnie Self
27	Some Things You Can't Change	Ronnie Self
28	Houdini	Ronnie Self
29	Go Go The Cannibal	Ronnie Self
30	Ugly Stick	Ronnie Self

Ronnie Self Born July 5, 1938 in Tin Town, Missouri, just north of Springfield (home of the... more

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Ronnie Self

Born July 5, 1938 in Tin Town, Missouri, just north of Springfield (home of the ‘Ozark Jubilee’), Self impressed ‘Jubilee’ regular Bobby Lord enough that Lord set up a demo session and brought the results to Red Foley’s manager, Dub Albritten. Albritten got Self a contract with ABC-Paramount. At the age of 18, towheaded Ronnie made his 1956 debut single, the rockabilly classic, Pretty Bad Blues, in Nashville. A second ABC single was scheduled but never saw light of day. Albritten booked Ronnie on the ‘Philip Morris Caravan,’ an all-star touring troupe sponsored by the cigarette company headlined by Carl Smith, Red Sovine, and Goldie Hill.

Allbritten moved his protégé to Columbia, where Nashville mainstay Don Law produced Ronnie’s Big Fool b/w Flame Of Love in February of ’57 and the swaggering Ain’t I’m A Dog b/w a remake of Bill Monroe’s Rocky Road Blues in June. They were precursors to Self’s insane rocker Bop-A-Lena, penned by Mel Tillis and Webb Pierce and waxed that December; seldom has a record hurtled along as recklessly (Self co-wrote the relaxed flip, I Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere). Ronnie cut his next Columbia offering, Big Blon’ Baby, in March of ’58 (Jerry Lee Lewis covered it the following year for Sun), with Date Bait its flip. Petrified, Self’s Columbia swan song, hailed from the same session (it was the work of Tillis and Wayne Walker), with Ronnie’s own careening You’re So Right For Me its plattermate.

Self unexpectedly left the ‘Caravan’ when his pregnant wife gave birth. But Albritten got him signed to Decca, where he had more luck writing smashes for Brenda Lee (Sweet Nothin’s and I’m Sorry) than he did scoring his own hits. With Owen Bradley in charge, Self cut his first Decca date on July 17, 1959 with the cream of Nashville’s session aces: guitarist Hank Garland, pianist Floyd Cramer, bassist Bob Moore, and drummer Buddy Harman. Self wrote both Big Town and its party-time flip This Must Be The Place, his voice as raspy and compelling as ever.

So High (cut in 1960), Instant Man (1961), and Oh Me, Oh My (1962) saw light of day on Decca, but some of Ronnie’s more inspired creations were buried in Decca’s vaults. Houdini, a loopy 1963 one-off for Kapp, and a Dale Hawkins-produced 1968 45 for Amy pretty much finished his recording career. He died August 28, 1981.

Ronnie Self Bop-A-Lena (30 Klassiker 1957-63)
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Ronnie Self Bop-A-Lena (30 Classsics 1957-63)
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From: rock_the_universe On: 8 May 2017

Boom!

This 'Rockabilly Wild Man' man has recorded much more than the great 'Bop-A-Lena' tune. He was the 'mad man' of the Nashville scene , completely underrated and nearly without any commercial success as an musician. On this CD you'll find all his rocking' hymns like 'You're So Right For Me' (Mitch Miller, one of his label mates, must have been close to a heart attack, when he's had listen to this), 'Petrified', Big Blon' Baby', 'Three Hearts Later', 'Big Fool' and tons more! All his ABC-Paramount, Columbia and Decca sides are included on this ass-kickin' CD album!

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