Elevator Boogie

Frankie Starr | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 1996)
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001B4V
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,313,307 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Elevator Boogie

2. That's the Way the Big Ball Bounces

3. Sky Writin' Airplane

4. I Don't Care What You Used to Be

5. I Love You Too Much to Leave You

6. I'm Paying the Price

7. Cross My Heart (I'm Not Double Crossing You)

8. There's a Vacancy

9. Your Kind Wasn't Meant for Me

10. My Heart Can't Stand Another Tear

11. I Want Someone to Love

12. You Broke Your Heart Breaking Mine

13. Your Daddy's Looped Again

14. My Woman Ain't Pretty (But She Don't Swear None)

15. Elevator Baby

16. That Crazy Dream

17. Between You, Me and the Gatepost

18. The Great Fireball

19. Little Joe Weatherly

20. Tear Stained Bible

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Frankie Starr was a country singer who learned his trade in his thirties and settled in Phoenix. His first recordings he made in 1950 for 4-Star, then worked for Rangeland, Decca, Baron, Sims and other small labels. Starr was also the man who introduced Marty Robbins to the world; and this set is rounded off by his very first recordings, which Marty 1948 recording for Frankie: 'Our Love Is At An End', 'For A Lifetime', 'I've Lost My Love And You' and 'I Want Somebody To Love'. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Early Marty Robbins and his mentor, December 12, 2008

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Diane Diekman (Sioux Falls, SD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Elevator Boogie (Audio CD)

I purchased this CD as research material for the Marty Robbins biography I'm currently writing. I wanted to read what Frankie Starr said about Marty, and I wanted to hear Marty's earliest recordings. This CD contains four demos sung by Marty in 1949, two years before his first Columbia recording session. Marty wrote these songs and gave the copyright to Frankie. Marty's emotionless singing may have been due to the fact that the recordings were made only for transcription purposes, not to be played as records. He sounds timid. What surprised me about this CD was how much I enjoyed the music of Frankie Starr. It's too bad he never had a major recording contract. Billy Walker comes to mind when I listen to Frankie.