Mister Moon wrote:skabillyrebels wrote:Hi Mister Moon
buddy holly on FECC Got The Carl Perkins - 1952 - 53 vinyl last Thursday any news on yours yet
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Well?
Mister Moon wrote:skabillyrebels wrote:Hi Mister Moon
buddy holly on FECC Got The Carl Perkins - 1952 - 53 vinyl last Thursday any news on yours yet
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:skabillyrebels wrote:Hi Mister Moon
buddy holly on FECC Got The Carl Perkins - 1952 - 53 vinyl last Thursday any news on yours yet
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Well?
Mister Moon wrote:John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:skabillyrebels wrote:Hi Mister Moon
buddy holly on FECC Got The Carl Perkins - 1952 - 53 vinyl last Thursday any news on yours yet
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Well?
According to the tracking link, the parcel is not lost, but it's evidently a very slow service. I still hope it will arrive this week.
Mister Moon wrote:John wrote:Mister Moon wrote:skabillyrebels wrote:Hi Mister Moon
buddy holly on FECC Got The Carl Perkins - 1952 - 53 vinyl last Thursday any news on yours yet
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Well?
According to the tracking link, the parcel is not lost, but it's evidently a very slow service. I still hope it will arrive this week.
Mojo Filter wrote:Have you ever bought off Bob Thomas of Bim Bam Records? His service is quite good.
John wrote:Are you happy? Was it as good as you hoped?
All timings taken from CD display
9 tracks - 21:52
1 - "Good Rockin' Tonight" - 1:53 - Originally recorded by Roy Brown (De Luxe 1093) in 1947, as "Good Rocking Tonight"
2 - "There's Been A Change In Me" - 2:13 - Originally recorded by Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor 0412) in 1950
3 - "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" - 2:02 - Originally recorded by Stick McGhee (Harlem 1018) in 1946
4 - "Devil's Dream" - 2:49 (7 seconds false start + 2:42) - Instrumental - Traditional - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dream)
(10 seconds gap to separate the acetate recordings from the bonus Sun recordings)
5 - "Gone, Gone, Gone" - 3:01 - Early take of song originally issued as Sun 224 (tape defect at 1:40)
6 - "What Ya Doin' When You're Cryin'" - 2:55 - Song not originally issued by Sun
7 - "You Can't Make Love To Somebody" - 2:28 - Song not originally issued by Sun
8 - "Sure To Fall" - 2:35 - Duet with Jay Perkins - Early take of song not originally issued by Sun, but master take scheduled to be Sun 235
9 - "Perkins Wiggle" ("Dixie Bop") - 1:56 - Song not originally issued by Sun
Those records make it clear that he was far from the clueless hillbilly who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the rockabilly revolution.
Mister Moon wrote:A few thoughts and some obsessive data about this release :All timings taken from CD display
9 tracks - 21:52
1 - "Good Rockin' Tonight" - 1:53 - Originally recorded by Roy Brown (De Luxe 1093) in 1947, as "Good Rocking Tonight"
2 - "There's Been A Change In Me" - 2:13 - Originally recorded by Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor 0412) in 1950
3 - "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" - 2:02 - Originally recorded by Stick McGhee (Harlem 1018) in 1946
4 - "Devil's Dream" - 2:49 (7 seconds false start + 2:42) - Instrumental - Traditional - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dream)
(10 seconds gap to separate the acetate recordings from the bonus Sun recordings)
5 - "Gone, Gone, Gone" - 3:01 - Early take of song originally issued as Sun 224 (tape defect at 1:40)
6 - "What Ya Doin' When You're Cryin'" - 2:55 - Song not originally issued by Sun
7 - "You Can't Make Love To Somebody" - 2:28 - Song not originally issued by Sun
8 - "Sure To Fall" - 2:35 - Duet with Jay Perkins - Early take of song not originally issued by Sun, but master take scheduled to be Sun 235
9 - "Perkins Wiggle" ("Dixie Bop") - 1:56 - Song not originally issued by Sun
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From Bear Family's blurb on this release (see first post in this thread) :Those records make it clear that he was far from the clueless hillbilly who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the rockabilly revolution.
C'mon, folks at BF. Every Carl Perkins fan has always known that. His recordings at 706 Union Avenue, before and after "Blue Suede Shoes", make it quite clear.
That said, it's amazing to listen to these pre-Sun recordings - amazing that they were unknown until just recently, and amazing that they have survived to reach us well into the 21st century.
It's interesting to listen to Carl and the boys doing a version of an Eddy Arnold novelty song, or to listen to that fiddle workout, but of course the meat of this release are the two R&B covers, although not as earth-shattering as it could have been, coming from Perkins.
White artists, country and not country, had always covered R&B stuff. This is just another example. The resulting music, although close in time to the official birth of rockabilly, is light years away from The Big Beat, as personified in 1954 and 1955 by Elvis, Scotty & Bill, and by Carl Perkins himself. What we hear is closest to, for example, Hank Williams. Honky tonk music of the best kind, deeply rooted on both white and black stylings, but yet to explode. A simple comparison of Elvis' 1954 recording of "Good Rockin' Tonight" with the one we hear here tells the whole story. History is not changed.
As for the five bonus Sun recordings, three of them (tracks 5, 6 and 7) are not really making their vinyl debut as we are led to believe by the blurb. Also, track 5 retains the tape defect that was once repaired by Bob Jones. The unrepaired tape has been used yet again.
All in all, a landmark, beautifully presented, release.
I'm glad I got it. Thank you, Bear Family.
Now there are folks who like to brag about where they came from
But when they start that stuff I let 'em be
But it makes me feel like I wanna brag some
To know that I come from the state of Tennessee
Let's give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville everyday
Let's give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old Hillbilly way
Mister Red Foley came from Kentucky
Now, Ernest Tubb down in Texas, don't you see
But if all you folks out there can remember
Mister Eddy Arnold came from Tennessee
They make bombs they say, that can blow up our world, dear
Well a country boy like me, I will agree
But if all you folks out there can remember
They made the first atomic bomb in Tennessee
Mister Moon wrote:Arnold 0412.jpg
Eddy Arnold must have been such a favourite of Perkins. His name was mentioned in "Tennessee", the song that, coupled with "Sure To Fall", was scheduled to be released as a single in 1956, but both songs were finally featured in Perkins' debut album in 1957 :Now there are folks who like to brag about where they came from
But when they start that stuff I let 'em be
But it makes me feel like I wanna brag some
To know that I come from the state of Tennessee
Let's give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it up in Nashville everyday
Let's give old Tennessee credit for music
As they play it in that old Hillbilly way
Mister Red Foley came from Kentucky
Now, Ernest Tubb down in Texas, don't you see
But if all you folks out there can remember
Mister Eddy Arnold came from Tennessee
They make bombs they say, that can blow up our world, dear
Well a country boy like me, I will agree
But if all you folks out there can remember
They made the first atomic bomb in Tennessee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bCPGy8DTM
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