From Boppin’ Hillbilly to Red Hot Rockabilly
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Label: ProperBox
Cat No: PROPERBOX103
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
About
Without duplicating any tracks from ProperBox100 ("We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll"), this equally bumper 4CD set might be considered an expansion of one aspect of that across-the-genres look at the evolution of Rock 'n' Roll.
This 120 track compilation concentrates on how the livelier examples of roots country music, traditionally sidelined by the establishment as 'Hillbilly', influenced younger performers, and so attracted an expanding youth market, with a brasher form of delivery that would become known as 'Rockabilly'.
Few (if any!) of these recordings were Pop chart hits but there is an aggressive intensity in many, and a joyous flippancy about others, that retrospectively shows them all to have been an integral part of the 1950s frisson (in music, the other arts, and western society as a whole) between old values and new perspectives. From the likes of Hardrock Gunter and Johnny Hicks in 1951 it's a roller-coaster ride to Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins in 1955.
Another fat 68-page booklet is your tour guide.
Track Listing:
CD 1: HOT GUITAR
1. Rose Maddox: Kiss Me Like Crazy (Mabel Mofford, Charles Klemer)
2. Luke McDaniel: Whoa Boy (McDaniel)
3. Eddie Hill: The Hot Guitar (Ted Brooks)
4. Forest Rye: Wild Cat Boogie (Rye, Pyle)
5. Slim Redman & Donnie Bowshier: Strut My Stuff (Dorothy Slone)
6. Onie Wheeler: Run ‘Em Off (Onie Wheeler, T.Lee)
7. Jess Willard: Honkytonk Hardwood Floor (Harrell, Hazelwood, Atchison)
8. Billy Starr: Hound Dog (Leiber, Stoller)
9. Hardrock Gunter: Hesitation Boogie (Hardrock Gunter)
10. Lucky Joe Almond: Rock Me (Perryman)
11. Jim Atkins: I’m A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) (P.Baxter)
12. Lee Bell: Beatin’ Out The Boogie On The Mississippi Mud (Bob Baker)
13. Charline Arthur: Looking At The Moon Wishing On A Star (Rudy Grayzell)
14. Western Melody Makers: Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle’s Girdle (Blackie Crawford)
15. Carlisles: Is Zat You Myrtle (Louvin, Louvin)
16. Little Jimmy Dickens: Rock Me (Perryman)
17. Autry Inman: Uh-Huh-Honey (George, Bond)
18. Carl Smith: Dog-gone It Baby I’m In Love (Keefer, Amway)
19. Charline Arthur: I Heard About You (Sheb Wooley)
20. Ray Batts: Wild Man Boogie (Ray Batts)
21. Johnny Horton & Billy Barton: Bawlin’ Baby (Johnny Horton, J.Grimes)
22. Earl Songer: Whoopie Baby (Songer)
23. Lattie Moore: Pull Down The Blinds (Lamb, Nash)
24. Lonnie Barron: You’re Not the First Girl (Lonnie Barron)
25. R.D.Hendon & His Western Jamboree Cowboys: Music Makin’ Mama From Memphis (Hank Snow)
26. Johnny Hicks: Get Your Kicks (From The Country Hicks) (Fields, Hanna)
27. Tommy Scott: Cat Music (Tommy Scott)
28. Arlie Duff: You All Come (Duff)
29. Jimmy & Duane: I Want Some Lovin’ Baby (unk)
30. Eddy Arnold: Hepcat Baby (Cy Coben)
CD 2: HILLBILLY FEVER
1. Weldon Rogers: I’m Building A ?? (On The Moon) (Weldon Rogers)
2. Carlisles: Busy Body Boogie (Hickey Carroll)
3. Frankie Miller: Hey Where Ya Goin’ (Frankie Miller)
4. Hawkshaw Hawkins: Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) (Frost, Porter, Wilson)
5. Neal Jones: I’m Playin’ It Cool (Woodward)
6. Lloyd McCullough & The Drifting Hillbillies: Watch That Girl (McCollough)
7. Tani Allen & His Tennessee Pals: When Hillbilly Willie Met Kitty From The City (Crowe, Kinsey)
8. Chuck Murphy: They Raided The Joint (Burley, Louis Jordan)
9. Jimmy Myers: Ding Dong Mama From Tennessee (Myers, Brown)
10. Little Jimmy Dickens: Hillbilly Fever (George Vaughn)
11. Reece Shipley & His Rainbow Valley Boys: Hillbilly Jive With A Hillbilly Beat (Talley, Murray)
12. Carl Perkins: Movie Magg (Carl Perkins)
13. Tommy Scott: Rockin’ And Rollin’ (T.Scott)
14. Lou Graham: Long Gone Daddy (Hank Williams)
15. Sid King & Five Strings: Sag Drag & Fall (Massey, Gilliland)
16. Marty Robbins: Pretty Mama (Marty Robbins)
17. Marty Robbins: Mean Mama Blues (Marty Robbins)
18. Miller Sisters: There’s No Right Way To Do Me Wrong (Gabe Smokey Stove)
19. Jimmy Murphy: Here Kitty Kitty (Jim Murphy)
20. Jimmy & Johnny: Sweet Singing Daddy (Angel, Lewis, Mathis)
21. Rudy Gray: Please Big Mama (R.Gray)
22. Gene Henslee: Diggin’ And Datin’ (Gene Henslee)
23. Doug Poindexter & Starlite Wranglers: My Kind Of Carryin’ On (Moore, Poindexter)
24. Carl Perkins: Gone Gone Gone (Carl Perkins)
25. Gene Henslee: Rockin’ Baby (Gene Henslee)
26. Johnny Cash: Hey Porter (Cash)
27. Charlie Brown: Mean Mean Mama (Charlie Van Brown)
28. Skeeter Bonn: Rock-a-Bye Baby (Skeeter Bonn)
29. Tibby Edwards: Flip Flop And Fly (Calhoun, Turner)
30. Sonny Fisher: Hold Me Baby (Therman B. Fisher)
CD 3: CATTIN' AROUND
1. Charlie Adams: Cattin’ Around (Adams, Garland)
2. Rudy Grayzell: It Ain’t My Baby (And I Ain’t Gonna Rock It) (Hicks, Leisy)
3. Bill Mack: Play My Boogie (Bill Mack)
4. Buck Griffin: Meadowlark Boogie (A.C.Griffin)
5. Merle Kilgore: Seein’ Double Feelin’ Single (Merle Kilgore)
6. Gayle Griffith: Rockin’ And A Knockin’ (Hager, Richardson)
7. Chuck Murphy: Rhythm Hall (Murphy, Gunter)
8. Marvin Rainwater: I Gotta Go Get My Baby (Marvin Rainwater, Kay Adelman)
9. Malcolm Yelvington: Drinkin’ Wine Spo Dee O Dee (McGee, Williams)
10. Malcolm Yelvington: Just Rollin’ Along (Reece, Fleming)
11. Marty Robbins: That’s All Right (Crudup)
12. Elvis Presley: Milkcow Blues Boogie (James Arnold)
13. Elvis Presley: You’re A Heartbreaker (Charles Alvin Sallee)
14. Carl Smith: Go Boy Go (F.Wilson)
15. Red Smith: Whoa Boy (Luke Jefferson Daniels)
16. Justin Tubb & Goldie Hill: Sure Fire Kisses (Mysels, Phillips, Sims, Perry)
17. Charlie Brown: Have You Heard The Gossip (C.Brown )
18. Elvis Presley: I’m Left You’re Right She’s Gone (Stan Kesler, Bill Taylor)
19. Elvis Presley: Baby Let’s Play House (Gunter)
20. Werly Fairburn: Baby He’s A Wolf (Werly Fairburn)
21. Werly Fairburn: Good Deal Lucille (Terry, Theriot, Miller)
22. Five Strings: I Like It (Erwin)
23. Five Strings: Drinkin’ Wine Spo Dee O Dee (McGee, Williams)
24. George McCormick: Don’t Fix Up The Doghouse (Bob Gazzaway, Don Helms)
25. Buck Griffin: One Day After Pay Day (A.C.Griffin)
26. Five Strings: Put Something In the Pot Boy (Erwin)
27. Wayne Walker: Now Is the Time For Love (Wayne Walker)
28. Faron Young: If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’ (Tommy Collins)
29. Carl Perkins: Let the Jukebox Keep On Playin (Carl Perkins)
CD 4: ROCKIN' AND A ROLLIN'
1. Barney Burcham: Much Too Young For Love (B.Burcham, Leslo)
2. Eddie Bond: Double Duty Lovin’ (V.Claude)
3. Terry Fell: That’s What I Like (Axton, Reeves)
4. Farmer Boys: You’re A Humdinger (Tommy Collins)
5. Sonny Fisher: Rocking Daddy (Therman B.Fisher)
6. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train (Herman Parker, Sam Phillips)
7. Jess Hooper: All Messed Up (J.Hooper)
8. Jess Hooper: Sleepy Time Blues (J.Hooper)
9. Elvis Presley: I Forgot To Remember To Forget (Kesler)
10. Jimmy Lee & Wayne Walker: Love Me (Stan Lewis)
11. Barney Burcham: Can’t Steal My Way Around (Lester Bihari, Barney Burcham)
12. Marty Robbins: Maybelline (Berry)
13. Eddie Zack & Cousin Richie: I’m Gonna Roll & Rock (McMurry, Almond)
14. Sid King & Five Strings: Purr Kitty Purr (M.Robinson)
15. Mac & Jake: Yakety Yak (R.Fleming, W.G.Mashburn)
16. Mac Sales: A Gal Named Joe (R.Fleming, Leslo)
17. Maddox Bros & Rose: I Gotta Go Get My Baby (Marvin Rainwater, Kay Adelman)
18. Sonny Fisher: Hey Mama (Therman B.Fisher)
19. Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever (R.Gaddis, J.Gaddis)
20. Glenn Barber: Ice Water (Glenn Barber)
21. Rudy Grayzell: Ocean Paradise (R.Gray, T.Jennings)
22. Werly Fairburn: I Guess I’m Crazy (For Loving You) (Werly fairburn)
23. Farmer Boys: It Pays To Advertise (Lewis Tally, Fuzzy Owen)
24. Sonny Fisher: Rockin’ And A Rollin’ (Therman B.Fisher)
25. Andy Starr: Dig Them Squeaky Shoes (Miller, Baker)
26. Roy Hall: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (D.Williams, S.David)
27. Rudy Gray: Hearts Made Of Stone (R.Jackson, E.Ray)
28. Elvis Presley: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine (Mac Davis)
29. Alvadean Coker: We’re Gonna Bop (Geraldine Coker)
This 120 track compilation concentrates on how the livelier examples of roots country music, traditionally sidelined by the establishment as 'Hillbilly', influenced younger performers, and so attracted an expanding youth market, with a brasher form of delivery that would become known as 'Rockabilly'.
Few (if any!) of these recordings were Pop chart hits but there is an aggressive intensity in many, and a joyous flippancy about others, that retrospectively shows them all to have been an integral part of the 1950s frisson (in music, the other arts, and western society as a whole) between old values and new perspectives. From the likes of Hardrock Gunter and Johnny Hicks in 1951 it's a roller-coaster ride to Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins in 1955.
Another fat 68-page booklet is your tour guide.
Track Listing:
CD 1: HOT GUITAR
1. Rose Maddox: Kiss Me Like Crazy (Mabel Mofford, Charles Klemer)
2. Luke McDaniel: Whoa Boy (McDaniel)
3. Eddie Hill: The Hot Guitar (Ted Brooks)
4. Forest Rye: Wild Cat Boogie (Rye, Pyle)
5. Slim Redman & Donnie Bowshier: Strut My Stuff (Dorothy Slone)
6. Onie Wheeler: Run ‘Em Off (Onie Wheeler, T.Lee)
7. Jess Willard: Honkytonk Hardwood Floor (Harrell, Hazelwood, Atchison)
8. Billy Starr: Hound Dog (Leiber, Stoller)
9. Hardrock Gunter: Hesitation Boogie (Hardrock Gunter)
10. Lucky Joe Almond: Rock Me (Perryman)
11. Jim Atkins: I’m A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) (P.Baxter)
12. Lee Bell: Beatin’ Out The Boogie On The Mississippi Mud (Bob Baker)
13. Charline Arthur: Looking At The Moon Wishing On A Star (Rudy Grayzell)
14. Western Melody Makers: Who Put The Turtle In Myrtle’s Girdle (Blackie Crawford)
15. Carlisles: Is Zat You Myrtle (Louvin, Louvin)
16. Little Jimmy Dickens: Rock Me (Perryman)
17. Autry Inman: Uh-Huh-Honey (George, Bond)
18. Carl Smith: Dog-gone It Baby I’m In Love (Keefer, Amway)
19. Charline Arthur: I Heard About You (Sheb Wooley)
20. Ray Batts: Wild Man Boogie (Ray Batts)
21. Johnny Horton & Billy Barton: Bawlin’ Baby (Johnny Horton, J.Grimes)
22. Earl Songer: Whoopie Baby (Songer)
23. Lattie Moore: Pull Down The Blinds (Lamb, Nash)
24. Lonnie Barron: You’re Not the First Girl (Lonnie Barron)
25. R.D.Hendon & His Western Jamboree Cowboys: Music Makin’ Mama From Memphis (Hank Snow)
26. Johnny Hicks: Get Your Kicks (From The Country Hicks) (Fields, Hanna)
27. Tommy Scott: Cat Music (Tommy Scott)
28. Arlie Duff: You All Come (Duff)
29. Jimmy & Duane: I Want Some Lovin’ Baby (unk)
30. Eddy Arnold: Hepcat Baby (Cy Coben)
CD 2: HILLBILLY FEVER
1. Weldon Rogers: I’m Building A ?? (On The Moon) (Weldon Rogers)
2. Carlisles: Busy Body Boogie (Hickey Carroll)
3. Frankie Miller: Hey Where Ya Goin’ (Frankie Miller)
4. Hawkshaw Hawkins: Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) (Frost, Porter, Wilson)
5. Neal Jones: I’m Playin’ It Cool (Woodward)
6. Lloyd McCullough & The Drifting Hillbillies: Watch That Girl (McCollough)
7. Tani Allen & His Tennessee Pals: When Hillbilly Willie Met Kitty From The City (Crowe, Kinsey)
8. Chuck Murphy: They Raided The Joint (Burley, Louis Jordan)
9. Jimmy Myers: Ding Dong Mama From Tennessee (Myers, Brown)
10. Little Jimmy Dickens: Hillbilly Fever (George Vaughn)
11. Reece Shipley & His Rainbow Valley Boys: Hillbilly Jive With A Hillbilly Beat (Talley, Murray)
12. Carl Perkins: Movie Magg (Carl Perkins)
13. Tommy Scott: Rockin’ And Rollin’ (T.Scott)
14. Lou Graham: Long Gone Daddy (Hank Williams)
15. Sid King & Five Strings: Sag Drag & Fall (Massey, Gilliland)
16. Marty Robbins: Pretty Mama (Marty Robbins)
17. Marty Robbins: Mean Mama Blues (Marty Robbins)
18. Miller Sisters: There’s No Right Way To Do Me Wrong (Gabe Smokey Stove)
19. Jimmy Murphy: Here Kitty Kitty (Jim Murphy)
20. Jimmy & Johnny: Sweet Singing Daddy (Angel, Lewis, Mathis)
21. Rudy Gray: Please Big Mama (R.Gray)
22. Gene Henslee: Diggin’ And Datin’ (Gene Henslee)
23. Doug Poindexter & Starlite Wranglers: My Kind Of Carryin’ On (Moore, Poindexter)
24. Carl Perkins: Gone Gone Gone (Carl Perkins)
25. Gene Henslee: Rockin’ Baby (Gene Henslee)
26. Johnny Cash: Hey Porter (Cash)
27. Charlie Brown: Mean Mean Mama (Charlie Van Brown)
28. Skeeter Bonn: Rock-a-Bye Baby (Skeeter Bonn)
29. Tibby Edwards: Flip Flop And Fly (Calhoun, Turner)
30. Sonny Fisher: Hold Me Baby (Therman B. Fisher)
CD 3: CATTIN' AROUND
1. Charlie Adams: Cattin’ Around (Adams, Garland)
2. Rudy Grayzell: It Ain’t My Baby (And I Ain’t Gonna Rock It) (Hicks, Leisy)
3. Bill Mack: Play My Boogie (Bill Mack)
4. Buck Griffin: Meadowlark Boogie (A.C.Griffin)
5. Merle Kilgore: Seein’ Double Feelin’ Single (Merle Kilgore)
6. Gayle Griffith: Rockin’ And A Knockin’ (Hager, Richardson)
7. Chuck Murphy: Rhythm Hall (Murphy, Gunter)
8. Marvin Rainwater: I Gotta Go Get My Baby (Marvin Rainwater, Kay Adelman)
9. Malcolm Yelvington: Drinkin’ Wine Spo Dee O Dee (McGee, Williams)
10. Malcolm Yelvington: Just Rollin’ Along (Reece, Fleming)
11. Marty Robbins: That’s All Right (Crudup)
12. Elvis Presley: Milkcow Blues Boogie (James Arnold)
13. Elvis Presley: You’re A Heartbreaker (Charles Alvin Sallee)
14. Carl Smith: Go Boy Go (F.Wilson)
15. Red Smith: Whoa Boy (Luke Jefferson Daniels)
16. Justin Tubb & Goldie Hill: Sure Fire Kisses (Mysels, Phillips, Sims, Perry)
17. Charlie Brown: Have You Heard The Gossip (C.Brown )
18. Elvis Presley: I’m Left You’re Right She’s Gone (Stan Kesler, Bill Taylor)
19. Elvis Presley: Baby Let’s Play House (Gunter)
20. Werly Fairburn: Baby He’s A Wolf (Werly Fairburn)
21. Werly Fairburn: Good Deal Lucille (Terry, Theriot, Miller)
22. Five Strings: I Like It (Erwin)
23. Five Strings: Drinkin’ Wine Spo Dee O Dee (McGee, Williams)
24. George McCormick: Don’t Fix Up The Doghouse (Bob Gazzaway, Don Helms)
25. Buck Griffin: One Day After Pay Day (A.C.Griffin)
26. Five Strings: Put Something In the Pot Boy (Erwin)
27. Wayne Walker: Now Is the Time For Love (Wayne Walker)
28. Faron Young: If You Ain’t Lovin’ You Ain’t Livin’ (Tommy Collins)
29. Carl Perkins: Let the Jukebox Keep On Playin (Carl Perkins)
CD 4: ROCKIN' AND A ROLLIN'
1. Barney Burcham: Much Too Young For Love (B.Burcham, Leslo)
2. Eddie Bond: Double Duty Lovin’ (V.Claude)
3. Terry Fell: That’s What I Like (Axton, Reeves)
4. Farmer Boys: You’re A Humdinger (Tommy Collins)
5. Sonny Fisher: Rocking Daddy (Therman B.Fisher)
6. Elvis Presley: Mystery Train (Herman Parker, Sam Phillips)
7. Jess Hooper: All Messed Up (J.Hooper)
8. Jess Hooper: Sleepy Time Blues (J.Hooper)
9. Elvis Presley: I Forgot To Remember To Forget (Kesler)
10. Jimmy Lee & Wayne Walker: Love Me (Stan Lewis)
11. Barney Burcham: Can’t Steal My Way Around (Lester Bihari, Barney Burcham)
12. Marty Robbins: Maybelline (Berry)
13. Eddie Zack & Cousin Richie: I’m Gonna Roll & Rock (McMurry, Almond)
14. Sid King & Five Strings: Purr Kitty Purr (M.Robinson)
15. Mac & Jake: Yakety Yak (R.Fleming, W.G.Mashburn)
16. Mac Sales: A Gal Named Joe (R.Fleming, Leslo)
17. Maddox Bros & Rose: I Gotta Go Get My Baby (Marvin Rainwater, Kay Adelman)
18. Sonny Fisher: Hey Mama (Therman B.Fisher)
19. Rudy Gaddis: Uranium Fever (R.Gaddis, J.Gaddis)
20. Glenn Barber: Ice Water (Glenn Barber)
21. Rudy Grayzell: Ocean Paradise (R.Gray, T.Jennings)
22. Werly Fairburn: I Guess I’m Crazy (For Loving You) (Werly fairburn)
23. Farmer Boys: It Pays To Advertise (Lewis Tally, Fuzzy Owen)
24. Sonny Fisher: Rockin’ And A Rollin’ (Therman B.Fisher)
25. Andy Starr: Dig Them Squeaky Shoes (Miller, Baker)
26. Roy Hall: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (D.Williams, S.David)
27. Rudy Gray: Hearts Made Of Stone (R.Jackson, E.Ray)
28. Elvis Presley: I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine (Mac Davis)
29. Alvadean Coker: We’re Gonna Bop (Geraldine Coker)
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