Various Artists – Red Hot Boppers (10″ Vinyl LP) $18.99 Add to cart.Carl Perkins – Put Your Cat Clothes On (10″ Vinyl LP) $24.99 Add to cart.The sleeve notes include definitive career-spanning sleeve notes by Clive Anderson. This new LP highlights the cream of Lewis’ peerless recordings made for Sun Records, when he was at his creative peak and includes: ‘Great Balls Of Fire’, ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On’, and ‘Wild One (Real Wild Child)’.ĭown the Road With Jerry Lee has been newly-remastered from the original tapes and pressed on audiophile-quality 10-inch vinyl, the first 1,000 of which on limited edition cyan vinyl. Whilst there he recorded prolifically, encompassing the diverse musical styles, including: country, gospel, blues, hillbilly and R&B, genres which he had grown up listening to. One of the few serious contenders to Elvis Presley’s title of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Lewis made his finest recordings during his early years with Sun Records. When Jerry Lee Lewis walks on-stage, he provokes uproar just by standing still… And from the moment he hits the keyboard, hands raking and floating around the mic stand, hair flying, he leaves no one in any doubt about who gives the greatest live show on earth. Limited edition 10-inch cyan-colored vinyl Just listen to it and watch your feet start to move.įor the rest of the 100 best covers list, click here.Description *This is a Vinyl LP* Release Date: 2016 Label: Charly Records It’s got a danceable beat, sliding synths and riffing guitars, and meanwhile, sweat is flung everywhere while Pop sing/speaks, dripping cool. Recorded for his New Wave-influenced, 1986 album “Blah-blah-blah”, it almost doesn’t sound like him and you could be forgiven for mistaking it for Christopher Otcasek’s cover (which appeared on the “Pretty Woman” soundtrack). Interesting, then, that his cover of this tune is relatively tame. He performed half naked, rarely sober, rolled around in broken glass, and pretty much invented the stage dive. ![]() Pop’s live performances with the Stooges and then solo throughout the seventies were definitely wild. Indeed, this song could have just as easily been mistaken to be based upon him. Which brings me back to James Newell Osterberg jr. His original version sounds like typical rock n roll today but I’m sure it was considered as dangerous to the youth and parents of the day as punk was in the seventies. The song’s title, “Wild one”, is also one of the nicknames bestowed upon O’Keefe, whom it appears to me was like a cross between Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis (someone who has also covered this song). The fights morphed into riots which required intervention by the law and of course, a legend was born. Originally performed in the late 1950s by Johnny O’Keefe, Australia’s first rock n’ roll star, the song was purportedly inspired by a fight that broke out at one of his concerts between his rock fans and guests at a wedding happening downstairs. She just shrugged and changed the topic.įrom this innocuous conversation, I was reminded about the song, its energy, and that I still had words to write on it. She listened, pretended to think on it for a moment, and shook her head in the negative. “Do you know who this is?” I asked Victoria. It might’ve been lost forever (okay, maybe I’m exaggerating here) had my wife and I not gone out to Prime Burger Bar for dinner last Saturday night.Īt some point during the typical twenty or so minute wait for our burgers to come up, I realized my right foot was tapping under the table and then, I recognized the song. But well, it didn’t happen and the draft has kept getting pushed further and further out of sight as other posts somehow take precedence. I created the skeleton and saved it as a draft, meaning to write some words on the song the next day. ![]() ![]() This post was supposed to be published a month ago.
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