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1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 48-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 87 mns. Contains...more

Bill Yates: Blues Like Midnight - The Sun Years, Plus

1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 48-page booklet, 33 tracks. Playing time approx. 87 mns.

Contains all the singles made by Bill Yates in Memphis at the turn of the 1960's and an astonishing collection of unknown and unissued sides! Includes the three renowned Sun singles by one of the very best, bluesy and soulful, white vocalists ever to appear on that label together with 12(!) unissued tracks! Plus the three very rare singles on IST and Pixie Records! In addition, there are seven unissued sides made for the Home Of The Blues label! In a 48- page booklet, Martin Hawkins brings together the untold story of Bill Yates and his music! Rare photographs!

Bill Yates had a background in gospel music and was an exceptional vocalist and a good pianist. During his time in Memphis, he worked on the edge between the emerging R&B/soul sound of the city and the late night blues and ballads of the day. His story is told here for the first time. Apart from his three renowned Sun singles, this music is incredibly rare and a welcome addition to the picture of Memphis music at the turn of the '60s. -- Bill Yates worked a lot with the Billy Adams band, and there is a companion CD (BCD 17116) containing Billy Adams' part in the story.

Note: There are other artists named Bill Yates in the rock & roll history books, principally a bluegrass player, but in Memphis music there was only one Bill Yates.

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  • Interpret: Bill Yates

  • Album titlle: Blues Like Midnight - The Sun Years, Plus

  • Genre Blues

  • Label Bear Family Records

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  • EAN: 5397102172779

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Yates, Bill - Blues Like Midnight - The Sun Years, Plus CD 1
01MojoBill Yates
02All I Need Is YouBill Yates
03Blues Like MidnightBill Yates
04Fool Around With LoveBill Yates
05Don't Step On My DogBill Yates
06Stop, Wait And ListenBill Yates
07CarleenBill Yates
08Too Late To Right My WrongBill Yates
09Big Big WorldBill Yates
10I Dropped My M&MsBill Yates
11Signs In The SandBill Yates
12AlbuquerqueBill Yates
13Blues Like Midnight -2Bill Yates
14(I'll Never) Fool Around With Love (No More)-Bill Yates
15I'm So Lonely Without YouBill Yates
16I Believe To My SoulBill Yates
17World Of Make BelieveBill Yates
18Before I Lose My MindBill Yates
19Boom BoomBill Yates
20Every Night About This TimeBill Yates
21Before I Lose My Mind -2Bill Yates
22High On The Hill (instrumental)Bill Yates
23Recipe For LoveBill Yates
24Tiny TearsBill Yates
25Share Your Love With MeBill Yates
26Carleen -2Bill Yates
27You Seem Like A Stranger To MeBill Yates
28Two Can Play The GameBill Yates
29I Dropped My M&Ms -2Bill Yates
30Big Big World -2Bill Yates
31Popcorn PollyBill Yates
32She's Still Got A Hold On MeBill Yates
33Bill's Jazz (instrumental)Bill Yates
Bill Yates and his recording partner Billy Adams had more singles issued on Sun Records than... more
"Bill Yates"

Bill Yates and his recording partner Billy Adams had more singles issued on Sun Records than many of the major names associated with the label. Because they recorded in the early 1960s rather than the rockabilly '50s their music has tended to be overshadowed by the soulful developments in black music and the blues tradition that were coming out of Hi, Stax, and other Memphis labels. Nevertheless, they were important white musicians spearheading Sun's part in the musical convergence in the city some years before the civil rights movement took hold. Adams and Yates frequently worked at the same clubs as the R&B bands of Willie Mitchell and Gene 'Bowlegs' Miller. Unlike the British beat groups who were invading white America with recycled versions of black music, Adams and Yates were part of Memphis's evolving musical scene, black and white.

Billy Adams was the bandleader and organiser, a drummer of some note, and a decent singer. Bill Yates was less organised, a pianist of some note, and a really good singer. He played as part of the Adams band and on his own account. He was comfortable with almost any style of music and may have been seen at Sun as the new white hope after the loss of Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich.

This CD collects together all the 45 rpm singles made by Bill Yates for the Sun and Home Of The Blues companies together with unissued titles and fascinating alternative versions of his songs. We have added also his single on the Pixie label. Apart from his three Sun singles, this music is incredibly rare and a welcome addition to the picture of Memphis music at the turn of the '60s. There is a companion CD ('Rock Me Baby,' BCD 17166) containing Billy Adams' part in the story.

Note: There are other artists named Bill Yates in the Southern music history books, principally an Appalachian bass player who led bluegrass bands for many years, and a modern-day country singer. But, in Memphis music, there was only one Bill Yates.

 

I BELIEVE TO MY SOUL

He was known as Bill Yates in Memphis and on most of his recordings, but he was born Billy Vance Yates on December 21, 1936 in Columbus, Georgia. His father, Hubert Vance Yates, was born in Mississippi around 1912 and his mother, Kittie, six years younger, came from Oklahoma. Hubert was a traveling evangelist who seems to have moved regularly between the area around Columbus, the northern Carolinas, and northern Mississippi. At the time of the 1940 census the family was living on Desota Avenue in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Hubert was listed as H. B. Yates employed at the YMCA in an 'athletic' capacity. Billy Vance Yates was the oldest of three children born in Columbus (though, strangely, in a census error he was recorded as Billie Vance Yates, female). His brother, Leonard Charles, was a couple of years younger and his sister, Carolyn, was a further year younger. These three would be joined in September 1943 by their new young brother, Hubert Vance Yates Jnr., known as Vance, born in Kannapolis.

"All three brothers and their sister were interested in music and they all had a natural ability to sing and play," report Charles Yates' sons, Rusty and Jeff, who are Billy's nephews and musicians themselves. Rusty told me: "Their father was a roving evangelist, and the family all sang in church right from the beginning. That was their introduction to music. The family was always traveling, but they spent a lot of time in north Mississippi not far from Memphis. They were living in Mississippi when they formed a kids' gospel group in church. Charles, Bill and Carolyn were three members, and at one point they drafted in the pre-teen Elvis Presley who went to the same church when Hubert was preaching near Tupelo. The boys all stayed in touch with Elvis in later years."

Through the 1950s, the Reverend Hubert Yates was based in Columbus, according to the annual City Directories, and it seems that Billy Vance Yates spent most of his teenage years there, honing his musical skills and planning a life as a touring musician. Rusty Yates said: "In Georgia, Uncle Bill grew up as a natural piano player. But he could play great harmonica and he could play guitar too. He could just do it. He started to play at various places there, and later Uncle Vance started to play with him too." The events of those years are a little unclear but guitarist James 'Lucky' Ward (who later played with Elvis Presley, Barbi Benton, and Janis Joplin) remembered, as a teenager, "toiling in 'drifter bands' behind now-obscure headliners like Hugh Lee Ott, Billy Vance Yates, briefly touted as 'the white Ray Charles,' and Curley Money" at Georgia clubs like the Chainsaw. Ward played guitar with Money on an unissued Sun session that included Chainsaw Charlie. Local news ads show that Billy Yates and Vance Yates played all along the Georgia coast and into Alabama and it is likely that Billy made his recording debut as pianist with Jerry Lott who, as The Phantom, recorded the frantic rocker, Love Me, in Mobile in 1958. The record came out on Dot Records and Lott later told Derek Glenister, "I'm telling you, it was wild. The drummer lost one of his sticks, the guitar player's glasses were hanging sideways over his eyes, and the piano player screamed and knocked his stool over."

 

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Blues, R&B, Soul. All great.

Not a well known artist but should be. Outstanding.

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Tracklist
Yates, Bill - Blues Like Midnight - The Sun Years, Plus CD 1
01 Mojo
02 All I Need Is You
03 Blues Like Midnight
04 Fool Around With Love
05 Don't Step On My Dog
06 Stop, Wait And Listen
07 Carleen
08 Too Late To Right My Wrong
09 Big Big World
10 I Dropped My M&Ms
11 Signs In The Sand
12 Albuquerque
13 Blues Like Midnight -2
14 (I'll Never) Fool Around With Love (No More)-
15 I'm So Lonely Without You
16 I Believe To My Soul
17 World Of Make Believe
18 Before I Lose My Mind
19 Boom Boom
20 Every Night About This Time
21 Before I Lose My Mind -2
22 High On The Hill (instrumental)
23 Recipe For Love
24 Tiny Tears
25 Share Your Love With Me
26 Carleen -2
27 You Seem Like A Stranger To Me
28 Two Can Play The Game
29 I Dropped My M&Ms -2
30 Big Big World -2
31 Popcorn Polly
32 She's Still Got A Hold On Me
33 Bill's Jazz (instrumental)