Rockabilly thread

Hmmmmm - this thread needs some howlin' Hoosiers from Indiana:

Tommy Lam:

Ronnie Haig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvw7mpMiw6k&list=PLwRmE9stut3Voi1skg_RZkN3XdLJsMgnt

Art Adams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuG-lOzaB9E&list=PL-vMtrkvVY3i4vvewgFNQ2Bg5eNoaowPR&index=5

The Jiants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAj8e6osf0

Bill Sherrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pApCv7yDxOI

 

everyone already posted my favorite eddie cochran records..

you guys are somethin' else.

 

Sleepy LaBeef is a favorite of mine. I love his baritone voice. It seemed like he was around forever, he was playing live up til his passing at age 84 in 2019.

 

A few choice cuts:

Herbie Duncan:

The Phantom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgsIdMa8qA

Dwight Pullen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5wELNVy9J0

G. L. Crockett/Checker Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwELDVGilg

G. "Davy" Crockett/Chief Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc061buGKm4

The Teen Kings/Je-Wel Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw1SxAvvMfQ

Roy Orbison and Teen Kings/Sun Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5FIBzYvXjo

 

Seems like we're missing Mr. Jack Scott:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slaV9gjGS-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQWkxFGxMDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaoRmc2B4Tk

 

IMO "Jungle Fever" has the most bang for your buck on 1 convenient disc...assuming you want as few ballads/re-records as possible



Charlie Feathers – Jungle Fever (Vinyl)

CHARLIE FEATHERS

 

rockabilly or billyesque?

i love this record and makes me wistful for the "times".



sure glad i don't have to dress like that any more ha.

 

these guys played at my daughters wedding . their bass player was sick so the bass player from X filled in

 

the ultimate rock a billy song

 

played the hell out of that album

 

Anyone mentioned the Flat Duo Jets in this thread yet?
EDIT: Ok yes, I am an idiot!

Here's a record that I found in my Grandfather's house, in the closet of my mom's old room, when I was a teen myself.

The best part is when I showed her this 45 she said she had no idea what it was, who the band was, or how it got in that closet. LOL
The Moonlighters, from Texas. 1958.

 

See my post above. Not sure it's rare or uncompiled, but it is kinda obscure. From Texas in 1958.

 

ha i remember them. they played all of la a hundred or more times. i saw a few on the circuit.

ok, i was kidding with the polecats. not really

here's another favorite of mine from '80. it's johnny burnette's kid for cryin' out loud. cut him some slack lol. this was as good as it was then.

 

Try this:
Charlie Feathers – Get With It: Essential Recordings (1954-69) (2005, Clear, Vinyl)

... and the Norton albums are also good value. As are the two Electra albums which are excellent (but I'm not sure if they were on vinyl)..

 

I find some Rockabilly records a little too uninteresting, lyrically. Eg., Dixie Fried gets me every time, but My Gal Is Red Hot leaves me cold.

I have a Janis Martin cd on its way to me, looking forward to hearing that.

I had a few Imelda May cds a few years back.

 

Ray Campi, who passed away March 11 earlier this year. The "King of Rockabilly", he released a few singles in the 50s and was maybe the biggest "old school" rockabilly performer in the 70s.

 

Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones. Just found this 78 a few weeks ago.

 

Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys

 

Brenda Lee

 

Little more modern. The Zantees

 

Flying Saucers

 

Tav Falco

 

Johnny Bond

 

Rodney Lay and the Wild West