Starday Dixie Rockabilly, Vol. 1 [Import]

Various Artists - Rock - Rockabilly | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 2, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B00000I7WZ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #191,907 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let's Get Wild - Rudy Grayzell

2. Find A New Woman - Arnold Parker & The Southernairs

3. Boogie Woogie All Night - Bill Willis

4. Where There's A Will (There's A Way) - Carl Trantham & The Rhythm All Stars

5. Tally Ho - Ernie Nowlin & The Blue Shadow Boys

6. The Woman I Love - Gene Terry & His Kool Kats

7. Tip, Tap & Tell Me - Gene Terry & His Kool Kats

8. Sweet Rockin' Mama - The Hi-Tombs

9. I'm Gonna Rock Some Too - The Hodges Brothers

10. Goin' Steppin' - J C Sawyer

11. I'm Doing All Right - Jerry Hanson

12. Live It Up - Joe Moon & His Stars Of Note

13. Teenage Cutie - Lucky Wray/Link & Doug Wray

14. Be-Boppin' Daddy - Mack Banks & His Drifting Troubadours

15. You're So Dumb - Mack Banks & His Drifting Troubadours

16. Sweet Love - Orangie Ray Hubbard

17. Crawdad Song - Red Moore & His Rhythm Drifters

18. Dumplin' Pie - Sleepy Jeffers

19. Hobo Bop - Tommy Nelson & His Band

20. Wore To A Frazzel - Tony & Jackie Lamie/The Swing Kids

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

If 'Pappy' Daily and Don Pearce had just given us George Jones, their place in history would be secure. George Jones has been one of the most significant country artist of the post-Hank Williams era and his career was nurtured on Starday. Daily and Pearce's fingerprints were all over the country and rockabilly map of the 1950s - whether it was Pearce working with the slick Bill McCall at 4 Star or running his Hollywood label, or Daily's keen eye for talent, launching Starday and the important D label. The duo split in 1958 with Daily producing Chantilly Lace by the ill-fated Big Bopper on D, while Pearce carried on with Starday, hitting the Top 10 with Frankie Miller, Cowboy Copas, Johnny Bond and Red Sovine.

Their working relationship was an ideal one - Daily made all the musical decisions, while Pearce excelled at the business - working with managers, agents, bookers and DJs. This gave him easy access to many new artists for the label's custom pressing series, he would accept master tapes of local talent for a fee on a separate Starday or Dixie series.

Entrepreneurial youngsters saw this as a way of getting local radio play to promote their group or possibly expose their manager as the next Colonel Tom Parker. The risks were few, the cost negligible and the rewards promising. The records could be left on consignment in local stores or sold from the bandstand. Today, the rarity of these rockabilly gems from Gene Terry, Orangie Ray Hubbard or Mack Banks reveal there were precious few re-pressings. Pearce also saw this as a way to flesh out their publishing companies and encouraged self-written material.

The late Groovey Joe Poovey and Lucky Wray (aka Ray Vernon) featuring Link Wray are here with their early custom pressings.

This is the first look at Starday-Dixie Rockabilly on Ace Records, and such is the richness of the repertoire that compiler Ray Topping has planned a second volume.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Rock-A-Billy Must Have, February 6, 2007

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The Mean Eyed Cat "Rock-A-Billy Review" (KNON Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Starday Dixie Rockabilly, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

There are two of these vol 1 and vol 2. Both are excellent works and packed full of some great Rock-A-Billy music. Buy them together, because they both really rock! A must have for rock-a-billy fanatics.

The Mean Eyed Cat
KNON 89.3
Dallas, Texas

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Rockabilly!, June 13, 2003

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A. Burton (Lawrenceville, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Starday Dixie Rockabilly, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Both of the Starday Dixie Rockabilly CDs are excellent! You may have never heard of the artists, but you will like these CDs if you like Rockabilly. Listen to the samples and if you like Find a New Woman, Boogie Woogie All Night, and Tally Ho then I think you would enjoy most of the songs on the CD. This CD is definitely a buy for Rockabilly fans.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, June 5, 2007

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Timothy O. Glazner "Swanky" (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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These CDs go right along with the "That'll Flat Git It" set for great listening. Roots Rock at its best. For the fan, this is new stuff. We've all heard the "hits" a zillion times and yearn for more new music. This is the good stuff.