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Perkins Carl - Honey Don’t (Live ’56) / Eternal Stay (63 demo) (7 single/EP)
€12,00Quick ViewCarl Perkins is one of the unquestionable fathers of Rockabilly, his recordings in the short 3 years he spent at Sun Records are the foundation on which the genre was built, and have been profusely reissued over the last 70 years, being well know to any 50’s rock’n’roll fan and collectors.
This single includes two previously unreleased tracks, the first of which is the recently discovered live recording Carl and his band made on March 17, 1956 on the Ozark Jubilee TV show. Just 5 days later, Carl and his band were involved in a terrible car accident while travelling to NBC TV’s Perry Como Show.
As a result, they not only suffered serious injuries, but also missed the massive success that seemed was deserved after release of Blue Suede Shoes.On Side B you’ll find the demo of Eternal Stay, a song he recorded in Nashville in 1963. The original tape of that demo was stolen from him during his first UK tour, a few months later.
Eternal Stay, and several other tracks that were supposedly in those tapes, were released on various bootleg LPs in EU in the 70’s and 80’s, with a terrible sound. On this single we’ve mastered it from the best source available, improving a lot sound quality, and achiving the best sound possible until now.
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Various - Blacked! ’n’ Diddled! White kids going wild over the rhythm & blues of Bo Diddley EP (7 single/EP)
€10,00Quick ViewBLACKED VOL.2 – White kids going wild over the rhythm & blues of Bo Diddley
BLACKED AGAIN! This second volume of white kids seduced by the magic of black rock’n’roll brings us four examples of how Bo Diddley’s jungle beat possessed the spirits of white people.
Jo Ann & Troy were actually singer Jo Ann Campbell and, her then husband, songwriter and guitarist Troy Seals, attacking Uncle Bo’s WHO DO YOU LOVE? in 1963, halfway between twist and early soul. Side A is completed with Bobby Crown & the Kapers, well known in the rockabilly world for their late 50s recordings. In 1966 they did a tremendous over of DIDDLE-DADDY that could perfectly well have been signed by Bo himself.
The B-side opens with Jim Doval & The Gauchos and their garage tasted cover of MAMA, KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT, and closes at Goldband Records, Louisiana, where blacks and whites recorded with the same feelin’. There Dell Mack recorded one of the most powerful and wild versions of Bo Diddley’s classic YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY THE COVER.
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Various - Blacked! ’n’ Cruduped! White kids going wild over the rhythm & blues of Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup EP (7 single/EP)
€10,00Quick ViewBLACKED VOL.1 – White kids going wild over the rhythm & blues of Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
Was Arthur ”Big Boy” Crudup the father of rock’n’roll? Well, in a way he was. If Elvis chose one of his songs to open his first single on Sun, then old Arthur deserves some credit.
In the years following the big bang of rock’n’roll, more than a few bands and singers returned to Arthur Crudup’s repertoire, and this EP is a compilation of four good examples of how Big Boy’s rhythm & blues influenced white kids on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Star-Fires from Boston with SHE’S LONG AND TALL and WORRIED ’BOUT YOU BABY by Waylon Humphries & The Raiders from Shreveport, Louisiana, make up side A, while England’s Dave Berry and his version of MY BABY LEFT ME, and Australia’s Paul Wayne with the classic THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA do the same on side B.
Pale boys who went crazy for the sounds of rhythm & blues, JUST BLACKED ’N CRUDUPTED! -
Gray Phil And His Go-Boys - Pepper Hot Baby / Bluest Boy In Town (7 single/EP)
€10,00Quick ViewDo you know the story behind this 45? Phil Gray was 15 years old when he recorded this amazing slab of killer Rockabilly! Col. Tom Parker got an earful of it, and did not want his Elvis to have competition, it was hitting radio markets in Norfolk, Virginia Beach & Jacksonville, Florida…
Parker paid the stations not to play the 45, and bought up ALL existing copies and had them destroyed. Phil Gray told me that story, and he believes the same thing happened with the Billy Barrix 45. Parker tried to do it with Gene Vincent also, but he was too late. Jack Neal the bass player for Gene Vincent plays on the 45, and it was recorded at the Fernwood Studios, by Curly Burris. Fernwood also recorded the Cactus Record label. DJ Sheriff Tex Davis, heard Vincent, and became their manager much to Parker’s dismay, because Parker payed off Davis to stop Pepper Hot Baby from radio airplay. Phil Gray actually opened a few local gigs for the Blue Caps, but he left and went to TN to record for Marty Robbins. Phil Gray plays on several of the Robbins 45’s.
Mr. Phil Gray does not own a copy of this 45, and had not seen one since the 50’s. It is a fascinating story, as this is a truly unique opportunity to take a glimpse back into the heyday of Rock N Roll and Rockabilly music.
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Velaires - The HOTTEST Iowa Rock’n’Roll Band! EP (7 single/EP)
€10,00Quick Viewback in May of 1958. Four guys formed a band called The Screamers after they played a senior assembly in high school.
The original group
remained together as The Screamers, The Flairs and finally The Velaires.Jerry DeMers – bass and Danny – Rhythm guitar, did most of the singing on their recordings as well as Bob Dawdy – lead guitar and Don Bourret- drums.
They were lucky to have some money and to be able to record by themselves as The Screamers at Kay Bank studio in Minneapolis in 1959. The titles were ’Dig’ and ’What Did I Do Wrong?’ This got some local and regional air play and helped promote bookings for the band.
The group signed a recording contract with the Philadelphia based Jamie Records. They were a popular touring act called The Flairs, playing sock hops, nightclubs and ballrooms across the Midwest.
”As soon as we signed with Jamie, they told us we had to change our name since there was already a group called The Flairs. Since we had just played the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, it was my idea to call ourselves The Velaires.” quoted Bourret. With a hit record under their belt, The Velaires soon snagged a guest appearance on Dick Clark’s ’American Bandstand’ becoming the only Iowa band to appear on the legendary show on August 15 1961.
They zoomed onto Billboard Magazine’s top 100 recording charts with an electrifying cover of Chuck Berry’s ’Roll Over Beethoven’.
The guys jumped to Ramsey Studio in Phoenix, Arizona and recorded thirteen tracks. Only two 45s were released from that session – the rest remained unissued.
Donald Bourret is the last surviving member of the band which toured nationwide and has been inducted into the Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
We are proud to present four unissued tracks for the first time on vinyl 45.
So what are you waiting for? Wheel out this platter, spindle it, needle it and DIG THE VELAIRES!
