Sonny West Sweet Rockin' Rock Ola Ruby (CD)

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(2002/ROLLERCOASTER) 24 tracks 1956-2002. Gatefold ecopac with 16 page booklet. Two long-time... more

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Sonny West: Sweet Rockin' Rock Ola Ruby (CD)

(2002/ROLLERCOASTER) 24 tracks 1956-2002. Gatefold ecopac with 16 page booklet.

Two long-time rockabilly hop favourites kick off this, Sonny West's first album. Straight from the original Norman Petty Studios masters, Sonny's 1956 Clovis recordings have never sounded better. We've added his other 50s and 60s recordings and the CD is rounded out with some new recordings recently completed by Sonny. Sweet & Rockin!

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Interpret: Sonny West
Album titlle: Sweet Rockin' Rock Ola Ruby (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label ROLLERCOASTER
Price code VCD6
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5012814030505
weight in Kg 0.1

West, Sonny - Sweet Rockin' Rock Ola Ruby (CD) CD 1
01	Sweet Rockin' Baby	Sonny West
02	Rock-Ola Ruby	Sonny West
03	All My Love (Oh Boy)	Sonny West
04	Rave On	Sonny West
05	Call On Cupid	Sonny West
06	Dreamboat	Sonny West
07	Baby Bessie Lee	Sonny West
08	Doll Britches	Sonny West
09	Londa Loves A Hula Hoop	Sonny West
10	Love Denied	Sonny West
11	Pretty Little Girl	Sonny West
12	Wasted Days And Wasted Nights	Sonny West
13	Maybe You're The One	Sonny West
14	Evening Star	Sonny West
15	Sugar Hill	Sonny West
16	Ride	Sonny West
17	Oh Boy	Sonny West
18	Dire Need	Sonny West
19	The Rave Is Gone	Sonny West
20	Cast Iron Arm	Sonny West
21	A Bad Case	Sonny West
22	Big City Woman	Sonny West
23	Sweet Dreams	Sonny West
24	I've Had It	Sonny West

SONNY WEST Joe aka Sonee aka Sonnee aka Sonny West was from Buddy Holly's hometown of Lubbock,... more

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"Sonny West"

SONNY WEST

Joe aka Sonee aka Sonnee aka Sonny West was from Buddy Holly's hometown of Lubbock, Texas (born June 30, 1937), but he grew up homesteading in New Mexico, Texas, and California. "We've all heard stories of poor people being sharecroppers," he told Marc Bristol, "but my dad must have been a rung lower on the ladder." Along the way, Sonny acquired a guitar, learned a few chords, assembled a band, and gigged around west Texas. He drove to Memphis to audition for Sun, but Sam Phillips wouldn't even let him unpack his guitar, saying he had more artists than he could handle.

A few months later, in the summer of 1956, Sonny went to Buddy Holly's producer, Norman Petty, with Rock-Ola Ruby (a sort-of follow-up to Warren Smith's Rock 'n' Roll Ruby), and Petty issued it on Nor-Va-Jak Records. In the spring of '57, Sonny met Bill Tilghman. "I was driving through Levelland," he told Marc Bristol, "and here comes this guy walking out in the middle of the street calling me. He had some papers in his hip pocket and said he'd written some songs. He was tall and skinny, like a bean pole, with a slight limp from a car accident. Before I could answer him, he was humming some tune and doing a shuffle with his feet. He was in the zone I was in, and had a great desire to write." Tilghman and West cooperated first on Oh Boy, a song that ended up in the hands of Buddy Holly, of course.

Later, they worked up another song based on an exclamation, Rave On! Tilghman told John Goldrosen that he based it on the line "Rave on, children, I'm with you" in Carl Perkins' Dixie Fried. Sonny cut it with Trini Lopez's band, the Big Beats, in November 1957 (November 5, per John Ingman). As Sonny explained to John Stafford, "Norman Petty had contacted Jerry Wexler and told him of his idea for me and the Big Beats to record together. Wexler didn't like the idea, but owing to Norman's recent successes, he decided to try it. I didn't like the idea, either, but I felt I had to go with it." The session was done in Clovis, and Atlantic purchased the master on January 10, 1958. Wexler flew to Clovis to collect the tape, and released it in mid-February.

"I guess if my record would've sold, Buddy probably wouldn't have recorded it," Sonny told Derek Glenister,"but he and Norman liked the song and had a session lined up and needed some new material." Holly actually recorded Rave On! before Sonny's version was issued, although his record wasn't released until April 20. Holly's record wasn't even much of a hit in the USA (#37 in 'Billboard'), but Rave On! together with Oh Boy have probably funded Sonny's retirement. Wexler had an option on more Sonny West records, but didn't exercise it, and three years passed before Sonny recorded again.

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