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ORION: Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

4-CD boxset (LP-Size) with 24-page book 108 tracks. Playing time approx. 284 mns.

It was Orion Eckley Darnell, keeping the flame of rootsy Southern music alive in the Seventies, and doing it by sounding remarkably like Elvis Presley. This boxed set documents Orion's career on the legendary Sun Records label. It begins with the 1972 single on which Orion, then simply Jimmy Ellis, recorded That's All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky. It was issued on Sun without an artist name, and created a furor because Jimmy Ellis bore such an uncanny vocal resemblance to Elvis.

Then, shortly after Elvis's death, legendary producer Shelby Singleton reconnected with Jimmy Ellis, signing him to Sun, and creating the myth of Orion, the hero of a book, in which a famous star fakes his own death, and takes himself and his music back the roots. Shelby Singleton duly took Orion back to Elvis's roots in rockabilly, rock 'n' roll, country, blues, and gospel. He began by overdubbing him onto recordings by Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Charlie Rich, and then recording solo albums which many fans thought were better than many of Elvis's later LPs. The association ended in 1982, and this boxed set includes the very best of the recordings that Jimmy Ellis made for Sun. Among the titles are Such A Night, Honey, Patches, Ebony Eyes, Rocky, and Release Me; the complete overdubs with Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich, and Carl Perkins, plus many previously unissued titles.

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  • Interpret: ORION

  • Album titlle: Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Rock

  • Label Bear Family Records

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  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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  • weight in Kg 1.05
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Moody Blue ORION
02 Return To Sender ORION
03 Hurt ORION
04 Kentucky Rain ORION
05 It's Now Or Never ORION
06 Burning Love ORION
07 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me ORION
08 My Way ORION
09 Love Me Tender ORION
10 Can't Help Falling In Love With You ORION
11 Mean Woman Blues ORION
12 Teddy Bear ORION
13 Hound Dog ORION
14 That's All Right ORION
15 Blue Moon Of Kentucky ORION
16 I Forgot To Remember To Forget ORION
17 Such A Night ORION
18 Where He Leads Me ORION
19 Sweet Hour Of Prayer ORION
20 I Surrender All ORION
21 Peace In The Valley ORION
22 It Is No Secret ORION
23 I Believe ORION
24 He Touched Me ORION
25 Softly And Tenderly ORION
26 Where No One Stands Alone ORION
27 Just A Closer Walk With Thee ORION
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Honey ORION
02 Billy And Sue ORION
03 The Last Kiss ORION
04 Long Black Limousine ORION
05 Teen Angel ORION
06 Endless Sleep ORION
07 Patches ORION
08 Tell Laura I Love Her ORION
09 Tragedy ORION
10 Ebony Eyes ORION
11 Rocky ORION
12 Susie Q ORION
13 Long Tall Sally ORION
14 Peggy Sue ORION
15 Rockin' Little Angel ORION
16 Maybelline ORION
17 Mona Lisa ORION
18 Lonesome Angel ORION
19 Midnight Rendezvous ORION
20 I Hear You Knockin' ORION
21 Matchbox ORION
22 I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday ORION
23 Rockabilly Rebel ORION
24 Crazy Little Thing Called Love ORION
25 Memphis Sun ORION
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Feelings ORION
02 Before The Next Teardrop Falls ORION
03 She Hates To Be Alone ORION
04 Am I That Easy To Forget ORION
05 Just Out Of Reach ORION
06 There Ya Go ORION
07 What Did I Promise Her Last Night ORION
08 Rollin' With The Flow ORION
09 Green, Green Grass Of Home ORION
10 The Long Black Veil ORION
11 Faded Love ORION
12 Crazy Arms ORION
13 Release Me ORION
14 Texas Tea ORION
15 Please Help Me I'm Falling ORION
16 Send Me The Pillow You Dream On ORION
17 He'll Have To Go ORION
18 Snowbird ORION
19 I Can't Stop Loving You ORION
20 I Love You Because ORION
21 No One Will Ever Know ORION
22 Old Mexico ORION
23 Night Of The Rain ORION
24 These Sometimes ORION
25 Listen To Daddy (I'll Sing You What To Dream) ORION
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Be Bop A Lula (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
02 On My Knees (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
03 Dixie Fried (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
04 Gentle As A Lamb (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
05 Money (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
06 Breakup (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
07 Matchbox (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
08 Good Rockin' Tonight (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
09 Gone Gone Gone (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
10 Sittin' And Thinkin' (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
11 Save The Last Dance For Me (& JERRY L. LEWIS) ORION
12 Sweet Little Sixteen (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
13 I Love You Because (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
14 C.C. Rider (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
15 Cold Cold Heart (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
16 Hello Josephine (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
17 It Won't Be Happen With Me (& JERRY L. LEWIS) ORION
18 What'd I Say (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
19 Good Golly Miss Molly (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
20 Rockin' The Boat Of Love (& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
21 True Love (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
22 Put Your Clothes On (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
23 Country Boy (& JOHNNY CASH) ORION
24 Caught In The Middle (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
25 When My Blue Moon Turns...(& JERRY LEE LEWIS) ORION
26 Honey Don't (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
27 Get Rhythm (& JOHNNY CASH) ORION
28 Who Will The Next Fool Be (& CHARLIE RICH) ORION
29 Lonely Street (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
30 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (& JOHNNY CASH) ORION
31 Glad All Over (& CARL PERKINS) ORION
ORION WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? The story of Orion began as fiction. A Georgia-based... more
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ORION

WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?

The story of Orion began as fiction.

A Georgia-based writer, Gail Brewer-Giorgio, concocted a tale about a charismatic rock 'n' roll singer, Orion Eckley Darnell, who came to be called 'King' because of his enormous popularity across the world. However, this shy, sensitive superstar came to view his fame as a trap and a curse. Because he couldn't do anything as simple as buy groceries or fill a tank with gas without drawing a mob, he was forced to live in seclusion. His body bloated, and he sank into a deep depression.

But, this being fiction, the man devised a fantastical route to escape his living hell. He created a wax figure of his own overweight image. Then he grew a beard, lost weight until his waist was trim again, and faked his own death in the mansion that had become his prison. After attending his own funeral, he drove off into the sunset in a beat-up station wagon with luggage strapped to the roof. As he drove, the first tribute song to the life and death of Orion blasted from the radio.

Brewer-Giorgio wrote 'Orion: The Living Superstar of Song' prior to Elvis Presley's death on Aug. 16, 1977. But she had failed to get it published until after his death -- and after she gained a fan in Nashville-based record producer and music mogul Shelby Singleton, who had purchased the Sun Records catalog and name in 1969. Singleton, it turned out, had been trying to figure out a way to utilize the talents of an Alabama-born singer, Jimmy Ellis. Born on February 26, 1945 in Orrville, Alabama, Ellis began his recording career in 1964 on the Dradco label. By the time he crossed paths with Singleton, he'd spent nearly a decade pursuing a career as a romantic balladeer and hip-shaking rocker. But he'd found little success.

Then, in 1972, Singleton received a two-song single that included the song, I Used Her To Remind Me Of You. When Singleton first heard the song, he thought, "Man, either that is Elvis Presley singing, or it's someone who sounds just like him." The singer was Jimmy Ellis. He had recorded the songs in Fort Walton, Florida, with producer Finley Duncan.

Once Singleton was convinced by Duncan that the singer indeed was Ellis rather than Elvis, the Nashville owner of Sun requested that Duncan cut a couple more songs on the performer. Singleton made specific requests: That's Alright Mama and Blue Moon Of Kentucky, the two songs that launched Presley's career on Sun Records. "I told them to try to duplicate the Elvis records as close as possible," Singleton recalls. "And that's what they did."  Singleton made the request because he had a plan. "I put the record out on Sun Records without a name on it," the record company owner recalls. "Everybody came back and swore that I had some long lost Elvis tracks, that I found them in the Sun vaults and re-released them."  At that time, Singleton and Sun Records were embroiled in several lawsuits with RCA Records, mostly involving Sun's reissuing of early Presley songs and from the release of the 'Million Dollar Quartet' album, which featured old studio tapes of Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. The Jimmy Ellis songs almost joined the fight between the two companies. "RCA came very close to suing me over the record," Singleton says. "But I kept telling them it wasn't Elvis, but they didn't believe me, and they thought I kept a name off the single because it was Elvis. But all I was doing was wanting people to think it was Elvis. It wasn't, of course. It was Jimmy Ellis. But nobody who listened to it could tell the difference. RCA didn't believe me when I said it wasn't Elvis, so they ran a voice print on it. That's when they found out it really wasn't Elvis.”

After the release of the single, which gained some success from rural radio play in the South, Ellis got involved with another record man, Bobby Smith of Macon, Georgia. The two collaborated on a couple of singles and an album, 'Ellis Sings Elvis', that traded off of Ellis' ability to sound remarkably similar to the most famous rocker in the world. "They were all Elvis hits," Singleton says. "The album sounded technically as good as anything Elvis ever did. The songs sounded very, very close to Elvis to me." The album was created before Presley's death. But as Jimmy Ellis and Bobby Smith were preparing for its release, the world's most famous rocker was found dead in his Graceland mansion. Immediately, of course, interest was heightened in the deceased legend. Smith rushed the album out; at the same time, Smith contacted Singleton to ask if Sun might want to get involved. "I told him, 'Bobby, I just don't think an Elvis impersonator doing Elvis songs would do anything," Singleton recalls. "It won't be original. People won't want to buy an imitator doing Elvis songs, but possibly songs not related to Elvis."

Smith brought Ellis to visit Singleton, who took the singer into the studio. They cut the classic song Release Me, as well as several other songs not generally associated with Elvis. Listen to those recordings now, and it's obvious that Ellis managed to resemble Presley's vocal tone and mannerisms more than other soundalikes and imitators. "It sure sounded like Elvis to me," the producer says. So Singleton, who owns a legendary ability to scheme up unique record promotions, felt the wheels start to turn. There must be some way to make money of a Southern farm boy with jet-black hair and long sideburns who sounded almost exactly like the best-selling musical performer the world had ever seen. "I told them, 'Well, maybe we can do something here,'" Singleton says. "But we have to come up with a gimmick in order to make someone pay attention to it. You're not going to get any attention just because you sound like Elvis. There already were hundreds of Elvis impersonators out there. But Jimmy was different. He wasn't an imitator, he was a soundalike. I thought we could do something with him if we came up with an angle that was unique.” The first gimmick Singleton conspired was to continue to stoke the idea that Ellis might actually be Elvis. But instead of simply having him sing covers of Presley songs, he began pairing Ellis with Presley's famous colleagues from the Sun Records era. To start, he took Ellis in the studio and put his voice onto some old Jerry Lee Lewis masters that had been recorded at Sun Records. He purposely left Ellis' name off the cover, simply billing the album as 'Jerry Lee & Friends', in hopes that people would think that the unnamed singer was Elvis Presley.

It worked, at least to some degree. "Immediately after I put it out, it got on the radio and of course everyone thought it was Elvis, that it was something I found in the can," Singleton says. "We kind of had a reputation for doing weird things anyway." Singleton went on to create another album that cashed in on the mystery of whether the unnamed singer was Presley or a soundalike. He pasted Ellis's voice onto more tracks and that paired him with Lewis, Carl Perkins and Charlie Rich. The latter album was billed as 'Trio +'. In each case, Ellis's name never appeared on any of the credits. But the trick of "Who is that mystery vocalist?" could only go on so long. So Singleton came up with an even wilder gimmick. The Sun owner heard about this unpublished book, 'Orion: The Living Superstar of Song'. "The book had been written as a parallel of Elvis' life," Singleton says. "Only it had a twist at the end. It was written before Elvis died, and the writer had come up with this very smart twist that showed a way that Elvis could have faked his own death and still be alive."

Singleton decided to contact the author, Gail Brewer-Giorgio, who lived in Georgia. "I thought that if I could make a deal with this lady, we can take Jimmy and we can make him over to be Orion," Singleton says. Of course, there were a few sticky points. For instance, Ellis may have had thick black hair and long sideburns, but his was not the face of Elvis. Leave it to Singleton to come up with a plan, however. "I thought, 'If he would just wear a mask, we can make him a star,'" Singleton says. Ellis, however, didn't exactly embrace the idea of spending the rest of his career peering through the ornately made, rhinestone-studded masks that his mentor had in mind. "He didn't really want to do it," Singleton says, still incredulous at the insubordination. "I had an artist here at the time that I had to transform in some way to make him famous, and he was resisting. But, looking back, I think he didn't like it because he figured none of his friends would know that it was really him."

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Tracklist
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Moody Blue
02 Return To Sender
03 Hurt
04 Kentucky Rain
05 It's Now Or Never
06 Burning Love
07 You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
08 My Way
09 Love Me Tender
10 Can't Help Falling In Love With You
11 Mean Woman Blues
12 Teddy Bear
13 Hound Dog
14 That's All Right
15 Blue Moon Of Kentucky
16 I Forgot To Remember To Forget
17 Such A Night
18 Where He Leads Me
19 Sweet Hour Of Prayer
20 I Surrender All
21 Peace In The Valley
22 It Is No Secret
23 I Believe
24 He Touched Me
25 Softly And Tenderly
26 Where No One Stands Alone
27 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Honey
02 Billy And Sue
03 The Last Kiss
04 Long Black Limousine
05 Teen Angel
06 Endless Sleep
07 Patches
08 Tell Laura I Love Her
09 Tragedy
10 Ebony Eyes
11 Rocky
12 Susie Q
13 Long Tall Sally
14 Peggy Sue
15 Rockin' Little Angel
16 Maybelline
17 Mona Lisa
18 Lonesome Angel
19 Midnight Rendezvous
20 I Hear You Knockin'
21 Matchbox
22 I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
23 Rockabilly Rebel
24 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
25 Memphis Sun
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Feelings
02 Before The Next Teardrop Falls
03 She Hates To Be Alone
04 Am I That Easy To Forget
05 Just Out Of Reach
06 There Ya Go
07 What Did I Promise Her Last Night
08 Rollin' With The Flow
09 Green, Green Grass Of Home
10 The Long Black Veil
11 Faded Love
12 Crazy Arms
13 Release Me
14 Texas Tea
15 Please Help Me I'm Falling
16 Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
17 He'll Have To Go
18 Snowbird
19 I Can't Stop Loving You
20 I Love You Because
21 No One Will Ever Know
22 Old Mexico
23 Night Of The Rain
24 These Sometimes
25 Listen To Daddy (I'll Sing You What To Dream)
Orion - Who Was That Masked Man? (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Be Bop A Lula (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
02 On My Knees (& CHARLIE RICH)
03 Dixie Fried (& CARL PERKINS)
04 Gentle As A Lamb (& CHARLIE RICH)
05 Money (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
06 Breakup (& CHARLIE RICH)
07 Matchbox (& CARL PERKINS)
08 Good Rockin' Tonight (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
09 Gone Gone Gone (& CARL PERKINS)
10 Sittin' And Thinkin' (& CHARLIE RICH)
11 Save The Last Dance For Me (& JERRY L. LEWIS)
12 Sweet Little Sixteen (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
13 I Love You Because (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
14 C.C. Rider (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
15 Cold Cold Heart (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
16 Hello Josephine (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
17 It Won't Be Happen With Me (& JERRY L. LEWIS)
18 What'd I Say (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
19 Good Golly Miss Molly (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
20 Rockin' The Boat Of Love (& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
21 True Love (& CARL PERKINS)
22 Put Your Clothes On (& CARL PERKINS)
23 Country Boy (& JOHNNY CASH)
24 Caught In The Middle (& CHARLIE RICH)
25 When My Blue Moon Turns...(& JERRY LEE LEWIS)
26 Honey Don't (& CARL PERKINS)
27 Get Rhythm (& JOHNNY CASH)
28 Who Will The Next Fool Be (& CHARLIE RICH)
29 Lonely Street (& CARL PERKINS)
30 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (& JOHNNY CASH)
31 Glad All Over (& CARL PERKINS)