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York Brothers: Detroit In The 40s & 50s

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Interpret: York Brothers
Album titlle: Detroit In The 40s & 50s
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label COLLECTOR
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0741084028619
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York Brothers - Detroit In The 40s & 50s CD 1
01	Going To The Shindig	York Brothers
02	Mountain Rosa Lee	York Brothers
03	You're The One	York Brothers
04	Let's Talk Our Troubles Over	York Brothers
05	It Taint No Good	York Brothers
06	Highland Park Girl	York Brothers
07	Hamtramck Mama	York Brothers
08	Detroit Hula Girl	York Brothers
09	Gamblers Blues	York Brothers
10	Going Home	York Brothers
11	I Ain't Foolin'	York Brothers
12	New Mississippi River Blues	York Brothers
13	It Ain't No Good	York Brothers
14	Motor City Boogie	York Brothers
15	Lookin' For Somebody New	York Brothers
16	Saint Joseph's High School Bounce	York Brothers
17	Gravy Train	York Brothers
18	Sixty Minute Man	York Brothers
19	I'm Coming Back Home To Stay	York Brothers
20	Chicken Blues	York Brothers
21	That's Why I'm Crying All The Time	York Brothers
22	Don't Leave Me With The Yum Yum Blues	York Brothers
23	Tremblin'	York Brothers
24	Lakewood And John Marshall Blues	York Brothers
25	Love Sweet Love	York Brothers
26	You Get Mad	York Brothers
27	Mister Midnight	York Brothers
28	Pretty Little Thing	York Brothers

The YORK BROTHERS, Leslie and George, were born in the Cumberland Mountain country of Louisa,... more

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"York Brothers"

The YORK BROTHERS, Leslie and George, were born in the Cumberland Mountain country of Louisa, Kentucky; George in 1910 and Leslie in 1917. Each gained individual recognition, George as a guitar picker in Denver, Colorado and Leslie who won a talent contest in Lexington, Kentucky. They paired up in the late '30s on radio WPAY in Portsmouth, Ohio.

A paragraph or two cannot possibly accommodate the York Brothers' forty years in country music but rockabilly fans are particularly grateful for their original version of Hamtramck Mama for Detroit's Universal Recording Co. in 1939. After World War II when both men served in the Navy, they settled in Nashville and re-recorded Hamtramck Mama for Bullet. In 1947 they signed with King Records. The Yorks enjoyed best-sellers with New Mississippi River Blues, Gravy Train and Take A Number. They also covered the Dominoes' Chicken Blues and Sixty Minute Man, the Checkers' House With No Windows and Faye Adams' R&B chart-topper, Hurts Me To My Heart.

Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby, recorded for Decca in 1957, is commonly associated with Carl Perkins who claimed authorship on his Sun recording. Webb Pierce and Country Johnny Mathis are credited with the York Brothers' variation. In fact, the song was written by Rex Griffin who first recorded it for Decca. (Griffin, the originator of The Last Letter, Just Call Me Lonesome and My Little Red Wagon, influenced Hank Williams' version of Lovesick Blues).

The York Brothers also made records for Fortune, Mellow and Hot Wax while Leslie cut solo sides for Sage and York.

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