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| From | Bill <billm45s@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Carl's List (Burnette, Richman, Nesmith) |
| Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:32:25 -0500 |
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At 10:29 AM 12/16/2004 -0800, Judy wrote:
>Hi Bill. Yeah, I'm listening to The Train Kept a-Rollin' Now. I love the
>way Johnny yells with the trio (in almost all the songs by them).....I would
>assume Johnny does most of the lead singing, don't you think?
Yes that is Johnny doing the lead singing/screaming. In fact the 45 even
states vocal by Johnny Burnette. And to answer another question, Coral was
a New York label and you would have figured that they would never have put
out the raw rockabilly power of the Trio back in 1956, but they did. Also
as far as my poor memory can recall, I also do not believe that the 45 was
leased from another smaller company, but I could be wrong. The Trio's
other major 45's were also on Coral and I do believe the A Side of Train
Kept A Rollin was Honey Hush and Train was the "b" side.
As Mark indicated, early rockabilly is really amazing stuff - it combined
mostly blues and r&b on one side and country and western swing on the other
in varying degrees but in that nascent stage of rock'n'roll's development
it was open to influences from Polka to Dean Martin (Elvis was a huge fan
of Dean Martin and Clyde McPhatter - remember that on his slow tunes). I
love early rockabilly (less so the revivals), and often include a very
obscure rockabilly cut or two on my SOTT mixes (SOTT folks almost time for
a new round - my move is almost settled and I would guess I will announce
one in the early part of the new year). Rockabilly has a purity and
excitement that is missing from most modern forms of rock that would never
be that raw and honest.
> This is all
>pretty new to me since my earliest memories of Johnny was Dreamin', You're
>Sixteen, Little Boy Sad and I Beg Your Pardon. With Dorsey, it was Hey,
>Little One and (There Was a) Tall Oak Tree, I loved all that but it was
>tame compared to
>these Burnette Trio songs.
Very tame. After listening to the Trio it just isn't rock'n'roll. As I
said, it is more like teen idol, but with more soul than a Fabian/Frankie
Avalon could ever muster. Actually the later Liberty 45's are more in the
vein of Ricky Nelson - tasteful.
>I'm going to see if our Monday night DJ on
>TopShelfOldies.com will play The Train Kept a-Rollin' next week. It's
>great. Thanks for your input.
Judy, I hope the DJ does play it and then maybe dips a bit more
obscure. Maybe follow it up with Jim Foley's "Goodbye Train" (do a little
theme).
Bill
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