Rockabilly Legend

Warren Smith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Snapper Music Group
• ASIN: B0001ACKV6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #608,315 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rock 'N' Roll Ruby

2. I'd Rather Be Safe Than Sorry

3. Black Jack David

4. Ubangi Stomp

5. Tell Me Who

6. Tonight Will Be the Last Night

7. The Darkest Cloud

8. So Long, I'm Gone

9. Who Took My Baby

10. Miss Froggie

11. Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache

12. Stop the World

13. Got Love If You Want It

14. I Fell in Love

15. Dear John (Studio Master)

16. Hank Snow Medley

17. Do I Love You

18. Uranium Rock

19. Goodbye Mr.Love

20. Sweet Sweet Girl (Studio Talk Master)

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2008 installment in this new classic Rock 'N' Roll series from the Snapper label featuring striking artwork, comprehensive sleeve notes and original recordings. Contains 30 tracks from the Rockabilly legend including his successful Sun single 'Rock 'N' Roll Ruby' plus 'Black Jack David', 'Miss Froggie' and many more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worthy of being listed among the greats in Rockabilly, July 15, 2010

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Stevelvis (Atlanta GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rockabilly Legend (Audio CD)

One of the lesser known of the Sun Rockabilly superstars in the 1950s and a minor country music star of the early 1960s, Warren Smith is fortunately still remembered as a rockabilly legend, worthy of being mentioned along with the other great names of the genre like Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis. Warren had a great voice and an ability to rock hard with the rockabilly songs as well as deliver a smooth country hit.

He only cut about 30 tunes for the Sun Records label before moving on to Warner Brothers and Liberty Records where he had a few years of minor success in the country music charts. His biggest hits that you're most likely to see on rockabilly compilations were "Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache" and "Ubangi Stomp" which was recorded by just about every rockabilly star in the '50s and '60s, and was famously covered by the Stray Cats on their first album.

Other songs he is known for include "Uranium Rock" which was covered by the Cramps, "So Long, I'm Gone," which was written by Roy Orbison and Sun Records mogul Sam Phillips, the Don Gibson song "Sweet Sweet Girl," the British folk tune "Black Jack David," Warren Smith's own tune "Stop the World (Baby I'll Jump Off)," the traditional song "Miss Froggie" performed in an upbeat rockabilly style, the Johnny Cash tune "Rock 'N' Roll Ruby," and a song which sounds like Johnny Cash should have written and performed it, called "My Hanging Day."

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoa baby!, October 3, 2010

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Bore Vidal (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rockabilly Legend (Audio CD)

Wow! What a great disc! Warren Smith WAS Mr. Rock-n-Roll -- the way it was MEANT to be played. Give this disc a spin and you'll know exactly what I mean.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Uranium Rock, June 17, 2004

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Martin 13 (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rockabilly Legend (Audio CD)

A mix of rockabilly and country songs. Rockabilly songs are great ("Miss Froggie", "Ubangi Stomp", "Tonight Will Be the Last Night", "Rock & Roll Ruby",...) but country songs are sometimes little boring. "Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache" is originaly his but Bob Luman made the hit. The sound quality is not the best, but it's ok! And of course all songs are recorded at legendary Sun.