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Various - That'll Flat Git It!: Vol.12 - Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Imperial Records (CD)

1-CD with 44-page booklet, 30 tracks. Playing time approx. 66 mns.

Rockabilly from the vaults ofImperial Records! Imperial was home to Rick Nelson and Fats Domino, but it was also home to some firebreathing rockabillies like Bob 'Red Hot' Luman, Johnny & Dorsey Burnette and the Strikes. There's even former R&B great Roy Brown trying his hand at Rockabilly, as well as a great early track by Bill Mack, who later wrote Lee Ann Rimes' #1 Country smash, 'Blue'. - Back in 1992, we decided that Rockabilly sounded good on CD, so we had the idea that we should create the all-time definitive Rockabilly series, 'That'll Flat Git It!'
Above all, Rockabilly was music recorded for 45RPM singles, so we designed a Rockabilly series label-by-label instead of artist-by-artist, and we compiled it for listening pleasure. Just the great stuff, plus a few super rarities.

Lewis R. Chudd generally avoids publicity. Even in his heyday all you'd see was an occasional fuzzy picture of a lean, austere-looking, gap-toothed man handing a gold disc to Fats Domino or Ricky Nelson. The former NBC executive had produced a radio programme, 'Let's Dance', during the 30s and it served to popularize Benny Goodman's swing band.

After a stint in the Office Of War Information, Chudd remained in LA and entered the record business. He set up Crown Records, a jazz label, and sold it to another budding mogul, Irvin Feld. In January 1946 he launched Imperial (or Discos Imperiales) initially basing his catalogue around Mexican groups, a square dance roster and all types of foreign folk music. By the end of the year he had turned a start-up investment of $10,000 into a reputed $90,000.

Chudd has been described as gruff, hardbitten, ill-mannered, demanding and abrasive. According to sound engineer Bunny Robyn: "He didn't know an A-flat from a G but he smelled money." By the mid 50s he'd made a fortune selling Fats Domino in the race field and Slim Whitman to hillbilly fans. Both performers crossed over into the crucial pop domain where, by the early 60s, Chudd was busy selling an estimated $35 million's worth of Ricky Nelson records and turning Imperial into one of the most profitable independent companies.

A talent-spotter with few equals, Chudd was nonetheless concerned more with marketing and promotion than with supervision or production. Staff arranger Jimmie Haskell supervised many of Imperial's local rock 'n' roll sessions including those for Ricky Nelson. "Chudd", said Haskell, "was nasty, ruthless and rude but he knew how to make hit records." Haskell didn't have a comprehensive input here since most of Imperial's finest rockabilly moments were recorded far away from the company's Los Angeles' HQ, in Cleveland, Ohio (Laura Lee Perkins), Fort Worth, Texas (The Strikes), Clovis, New Mexico (Weldon Rogers) and, quite possibly, New Orleans (Roy Brown).

Chudd's Dallas distributors also told him what was happening on Shreveport's 'Louisiana Hayride', an important rung on the ladder for aspiring rockabilly singers like Bob Luman and Al Jones. None of these artists contributed much to the company's profits and Lew Chudd's famous sense of smell wasn't operating too keenly when he picked up on, say, Bill Allen or Dennis Herrold. Nonetheless, this is all prime-cut, spring-heeled rockabilly and as exciting a collection as you'll find on any label.

Lew Chudd rode the wave for 18 years, longer than most of his equally tough contemporaries in the independent record business. Liberty absorbed Imperial in 1963 and Chudd apparently used his capital gains to buy several radio stations. Corporate takeovers also permit the inclusion here of records on United Artists which merged with Liberty in 1969. Ten years later, the whole lot was swallowed up by EMI.

(Bill Millar, Bear Family Records 1997)

Article properties:Various - That'll Flat Git It!: Vol.12 - Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Imperial Records (CD)

Interpret: Various - That'll Flat Git It!
Album titlle: Vol.12 - Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Imperial Records (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127161024
weight in Kg 0.115

Various - That'll Flat Git It - Vol.12 - Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Imperial Records (CD) CD 1
01	Red Hot	LUMAN, Bob
02	So Long, Good Luck, Goodbye	ROGERS, Weldon
03	Play My Boogie	MACK, Bill
04	Let's Go Baby	ELDRIDGE, Billy
05	Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop	WILLIAMS, Lew
06	Please Give Me Something	ALLEN, Bill
07	Hip Shakin' Baby	BROWN, Roy
08	Make With The Lovin'	HERROLD, Dennis
09	If You Can't Rock Me	STRIKES
10	Centipede	WILLIAMS, Lew
11	Don't Wait Up	PERKINS, Laura Lee
12	Didi Didi	GARNER, Johnny
13	Everybody's Got A Baby But Me	MILLER, Warren
14	Warm Love	BURNETTE BROTHERS, THE
15	Abracadabra	WILLIAMS, Lew
16	Rockin'	STRIKES
17	Hip Hip Baby	HERROLD, Dennis
18	Sweet Baby Doll	BURNETTE, Johnny
19	Loretta	JONES, Al
20	Cat Talk	WILLIAMS, Lew
21	Hey Baby	LAWRENCE, Bill
22	I Don't Want To Cry Over You	STRIKES
23	All Night Long	LUMAN, Bob
24	Kiss Me Sweet	GARNER, Johnny
25	Gone Ape Man	WILLIAMS, Lew
26	You Arouse My Curiosity	HERROLD, Dennis
27	Dirty Dog	BANKS, Dick
28	Baby I'm Sorry	STRIKES
29	Something I Said	WILLIAMS, Lew
30	Rockin' By Myself	GOWANS, Sammy