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New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Wed May 22, 2019 9:37 pm

To be released July 5.

Killer cover !!!


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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mojo Filter » Thu May 23, 2019 4:52 am

Mister Moon wrote:To be released July 5.

Killer cover !!!


Riley rocks.jpg

https://www.bear-family.com/riley-billy-lee-billy-lee-riley-rocks-cd.html

Woohoo!!!!

Shall be getting this little beauty!!

Great cover!! Wonder if they have found any more "new" pix!
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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Thu May 23, 2019 7:19 pm

Mojo Filter wrote:
Mister Moon wrote:To be released July 5.

Killer cover !!!


Riley rocks.jpg

https://www.bear-family.com/riley-billy-lee-billy-lee-riley-rocks-cd.html

Woohoo!!!!

Shall be getting this little beauty!!

Great cover!! Wonder if they have found any more "new" pix!


The Little Green Men were one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever to land on Earth.

Here's three cool photos, the first one in stunning quality :



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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Thu May 23, 2019 7:35 pm

Riley's third single, recorded and released early 1957 (it featured the first line-up with the addition of pianist Jimmy Wilson and saxman Ace Cannon) is one of my favourite couplings ever. Full tilt rock and roll :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mtRmsyY2g



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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mojo Filter » Fri May 24, 2019 5:33 am

Mister Moon wrote:Riley's third single, recorded and released early 1957 (it featured the first line-up with the addition of pianist Jimmy Wilson and saxman Ace Cannon) is one of my favourite couplings ever. Full tilt rock and roll :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mtRmsyY2g


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kwQKtsOSOA

It is a great single.

My favorite has to be the first one "Trouble Bound"/"Rock With Me Baby" just love this 45.

The last three outings for Sun are not so good.

I do like his unfinished tantalizing cover of the great Clovers song "You're Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash".

One of the most underrated artists. Shame that Sam Phillips didn't pay much more attention to promoting him more, and he should have.
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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Sat May 25, 2019 7:54 pm

Mojo Filter wrote:My favorite has to be the first one "Trouble Bound"/"Rock With Me Baby" just love this 45.


Oh God, that's a sensational record too.

"Trouble Bound" has shades of "Heartbreak Hotel". It's a wonderful recording. "Rock With Me Baby" is one of those records that define rockabilly music. By the way, it was recently established that the latter features two lead guitars and two slap basses playing at the same time. Really unique, very intense sound, especially during the two solos.

Funnily, for many years an alternate take of "Rock With Me Baby" was used, mainly by Charly Records, as being the master. When Bear Family took over the Sun catalog, they were very careful in releasing the correct masters (there were other examples too). Ironically, when they compiled the outtakes set on Riley, they forgot to include the one that had been around for ages as the master, which was also absent from the earlier Riley set on Bear Family. Now, that take is only available on out-of-print releases, and most likely will live in the Twilight Zone forever.

We can hear it on YouTube :


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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mojo Filter » Sun May 26, 2019 5:17 am

Mister Moon wrote:
Mojo Filter wrote:My favorite has to be the first one "Trouble Bound"/"Rock With Me Baby" just love this 45.


Oh God, that's a sensational record too.

"Trouble Bound" has shades of "Heartbreak Hotel". It's a wonderful recording. "Rock With Me Baby" is one of those records that define rockabilly music. By the way, it was recently established that the latter features two lead guitars and two slap basses playing at the same time. Really unique, very intense sound, especially during the two solos.

Funnily, for many years an alternate take of "Rock With Me Baby" was used, mainly by Charly Records, as being the master. When Bear Family took over the Sun catalog, they were very careful in releasing the correct masters (there were other examples too). Ironically, when they compiled the outtakes set on Riley, they forgot to include the one that had been around for ages as the master, which was also absent from the earlier Riley set on Bear Family. Now, that take is only available on out-of-print releases, and most likely will live in the Twilight Zone forever.

We can hear it on YouTube :


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhvbHH9ah58

Didn't realize that about the master (outtake) of "Rock With Me Baby". I'm contemplating getting the Riley outtakes set as well as the upcoming "Rocks" CD. I already have the earlier double CD set from a few years ago, but i suppose this set will be redundant if I get the two I've mentioned.
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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Sun May 26, 2019 9:38 am

Mojo Filter wrote:I'm contemplating getting the Riley outtakes set as well as the upcoming "Rocks" CD. I already have the earlier double CD set from a few years ago, but i suppose this set will be redundant if I get the two I've mentioned.


I don't know what will be the exact contents of this new CD (although I don't expect nothing new Sun-wise), but the old double CD still has a handful of alternates that are not found on the outtakes set.


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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Mon May 27, 2019 9:22 pm

Bob Neal's package show hit Little Rock's Robinson Auditorium about one month before Elvis played there in 1956 (he had already performed at the venue twice the year before, though).

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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:53 pm

An image of the back cover of the CD has now been made available by Bear Family, and we can see there's no previously unissued material included.

Oddly, the title of the top side of Riley's second single, "Flyin' Saucer Rock & Roll" (Sun 260, 1957), is written in two different ways.

There was a misprint when this record was first released, as the correct word was "Saucer" instead of "Saucers" - that's what Riley sings, actually.



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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby javilu » Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:07 pm

I have an old 2 cd set from BF where first disc has the masters and disc 2 has the outtakes.

I guess the above is just a single disc culled from that 2 cd set.

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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:42 pm

javilu wrote:I have an old 2 cd set from BF where first disc has the masters and disc 2 has the outtakes.

I guess the above is just a single disc culled from that 2 cd set.

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Individually, all three Bear Family Riley releases (the 1990 2-CD set, the 2010 2-CD set, and the new single CD) include stuff that's not repeated in the others, especially the 2010 set, as it includes tons of previously unissued alternates that are still not available elsewhere.

As mentioned, the 2019 set has nothing new, but I see that the closing track is an alternate taken from the 2010 set, so it's not an abridged version of the 1990 set, at least Sun-wise.

Also mentioned earlier, the 1990 set has a few alternates that are probably still exclusive - at the very least, they are not on the 2010 set.

By the way, the 1990 set was mastered by the much missed Bob Jones.


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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mojo Filter » Mon May 11, 2020 7:06 am

Unbeknown to me until yesterday, I was talking with a friend about Billy Lee Riley and he told me while he was listening to the radio about Riley the other day they said it's Riley who plays harmonica on Dean Martin's "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me". He was working sessions on the west coast at the time. Wow! That's new to me. Great little song that is.
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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mister Moon » Mon May 11, 2020 8:54 am

Mojo Filter wrote:Unbeknown to me until yesterday, I was talking with a friend about Billy Lee Riley and he told me while he was listening to the radio about Riley the other day they said it's Riley who plays harmonica on Dean Martin's "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me". He was working sessions on the west coast at the time. Wow! That's new to me. Great little song that is.


Yes, I haven't delved into that period of Riley's career, but it seems he also recorded with The Beach Boys and Ricky Nelson, among others.

In fact, there's that Sonny Burgess instrumental release from 1958, "Itchy" / "Thunderbird" (Sun 304). where Riley and Burgess share the spotlight playing harmonica and guitar, respectively.


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Re: New CD from Bear Family - "Billy Lee Riley rocks"

Postby Mojo Filter » Mon May 11, 2020 9:59 am

Mister Moon wrote:
Mojo Filter wrote:Unbeknown to me until yesterday, I was talking with a friend about Billy Lee Riley and he told me while he was listening to the radio about Riley the other day they said it's Riley who plays harmonica on Dean Martin's "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me". He was working sessions on the west coast at the time. Wow! That's new to me. Great little song that is.


Yes, I haven't delved into that period of Riley's career, but it seems he also recorded with The Beach Boys and Ricky Nelson, among others.

In fact, there's that Sonny Burgess instrumental release from 1958, "Itchy" / "Thunderbird" (Sun 304). where Riley and Burgess share the spotlight playing harmonica and guitar, respectively.

During this lockdown i've had plenty of time to do some reading, amongst other things, so I thought i'd look at some back issues of NDT. I came across issue 130 from January, 1994, and in it is the first of a two-part interview that Trevor Cajiao did with Billy Lee Riley. And it's quite a good interview. Billy comes across with a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he was still (apparently it lasted til he died) bitter that Sam didn't promote him more and concentrated on Jerry Lee Lewis instead. He's also pissed off with people like Jack Clement and others putting their name on songs that Billy wrote all by himself with no help from others. Also has a go at Colin Escort for getting information wrong about him saying, "he should stay away from the history of sun records if he can't get it right". All interesting stuff.

Sadly, for some reason, I don't have issue 131 which has the second part of the interview. So I've just looked at the NDT website and it appears they still have copies of issue 131, so I've placed an order in for a copy. Maybe Billy discusses his west coast sessions with Trevor...have to wait and see.
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