Get Hot Or Go Home: Vintage Rca Rockabilly [Original recording reissued]

Various Artists - Rock - Rockabilly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Country Music Found.
• ASIN: B000000QIU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,658 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Duck Tail

2. Sixteen Chicks

3. Doggone It

4. Goodbye, Goodbye

5. Slipping Out and Sneaking In

6. Get on the Right Track

7. You Look That Good to Me

8. Cracker Jack

9. Did You Mean Jelly Beans (When You Said Cabbage Head)

10. Ooh-Eee

11. Heart Throb

12. I Wancha to Know

13. Let Me Tell You About Love

14. Born to Love One Woman

15. Mellow Down Easy

16. My Babe

17. Two Tone Shoes

18. Catty Town

19. Sugar Sweet

20. Honky Tonk Mind (Woman I Need)

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this CD or Go Home...., August 1, 2003

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Matthew F. Strickland (Redford, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Hot Or Go Home: Vintage Rca Rockabilly (Audio CD)

"Get Hot or Go Home", put out by the Country Music Foundation, is one of the best rockabilly compiliations to come out of the U.S. period. It features darn near every song by the once rockabilly maniac/now bus driver Joe Clay. You'll be boppin your feet off with hits like "Ducktail", "Sixteen Chicks", "Get on the Right Track", etc..

Other standouts on the CD are Homer and Jethro- "Two Tone Shoes" (a parody of Carl Perkin's "Blue Suede Shoes"), Rick Carty - "Ohh Eee" and Pee Wee King - "Catty Town". Pick it up if you can find this scarce one!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Joe Clay (plus Mickey Baker), March 1, 2005

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Mesnenor (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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Most record labels trying to cash in on the rockabilly craze sent the country boys (and girls) signed by their talent scouts to Nashville, and they were there recorded backed by the same session pros who worked on honky-tonk country records from the same period. For some reason Joe Clay never made it to Nashville. His first session was in Houston, and it's not all that special. What makes the small body of Joe Clay's recordings remarkable is the results of his second session, for which RCA sent him to New York. There he was backed by an all black team of session musicians led by legendary guitarist Mickey Baker. This band absolutely blows away the Nashville bands you hear on almost all other rockabilly recordings from the 50s. The drumming is especially ferocious. I think producers in Nashville were still a little afraid of drums at that time (in the 30s and into the 40s Nashville recordings typically didn't use any drums, because many radio stations in the Bible-belt wouldn't play any record that featured that "satanic" instrument.) The other stuff on this comp is fine, but it's generic rockabilly; the tracks from the Joe Clay New York session are the real reason to buy this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Rock'a'billy lives again!, July 11, 2003

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Narciso Lopez "Nixter" (Long Beach, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a great compilation of some great RCA vintage Rock'A'Billy music. It was great to find Joe Clay which makes this cd worth buying. Especialy his version of "Doggone it" which is truly a lost gem! The rest is incidental background rock'n' roll. This compilation also has incredible liner notes. All comps should be done in this fashion. Only 4 stars and thats due to the other groups or individuals in this collection.