Sun Story

Various Artists - Rock - Vintage Rock & Roll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000348Z
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #229,999 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley, Scotty And Bill

2. Honey Don't - Carl Perkins

3. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis And His Pumping Piano

4. Red Hot - Billy Riley And His Little Green Men

5. Straight A's in Love - Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two

6. Devil Doll - Roy Orbison And The Roses

7. Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames

8. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two

9. Raunchy - Bill Justis And His Orchestra

10. Mona Lisa - Carl Mann

11. Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich

12. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis

13. Ubangi Stomp - Warren Smith

14. Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll - Billy Riley And His Little Green Men

15. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison And The Teen Kings

16. That's All Right - Elvis Presley, Scotty And Bill

17. I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two

18. Who Will the Next Fool Be? - Charlie Rich

19. Breathless - Jerry Lee Lewis And His Pumping Piano

20. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not Great, May 18, 2004

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John Y. Ritz "Homeschool Dad" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sun Story (Audio CD)

Fours Stars because it is the Sun Story but... I have the vinyl and there are 8 songs that were left off the CD. They left off My Bucket's Got A Hole In It and High School Confidential, which are the two most egregious errors. A guy at Rhino Records told me they didn't get the clearances for the CD. Didn't make sense. Why didn't they get them for all formats? However this is a good start. If you can find the vinyl get it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Collection of Sun Classics, January 21, 2001

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sun Story (Audio CD)

Sam Phillips and his Sun Records played an integral role during the formative years of rock 'n' roll and artists like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lewis, and Roy Orbison belong in any serious music collector's library. What makes this CD of interest to more than merely the casual fan is the inclusion of some of Sun's lesser known artists.

Billy Lee Riley was a session player for Sun, but also recorded with his band The Little Green Men. "Red Hot" is a rambunctious number and with Jerry Lee Lewis on piano, "Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll" is an equally raucus number.

The version of "Mystery Train" included here is not Presley's souped-up classic, but a slowed down number by Herman "Junior" Parker with a soulful vocal delivery.

Carl Mann gives the rockabilly treatment to Nat King Cole's 1950 No. 1 hit "Mona Lisa." Mann's version stalled at No. 25

Warren Smith's "Ubangi Stomp" is rockabilly in the Carl Perkins mold. In fact, when I first head this, I thought it WAS Perkins.

So if you're looking for a single disc to illustrate the importance of Sam Phillips and Sun Records, this will do the job more than adequately. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD's RED HOT!, April 21, 2003

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun Story (Audio CD)

This is the good stuff that put the rock in rockabilly! Hard driving, hard pumping gritty poor-White Rhythm and Blues that is still a lot of fun to listen to nearly 50 years later. All the classics are here. Elvis, Bill, and Scotty doing "That's All Right Mama" (with apologies to Arthur Crudup), Warren Smith's "Ubangi Stomp," Charlie Rich's lovely "Lonely Weekends." Carl Perkins' "Honey Don't," and (to me), best of all, Billy Riley's underground classic "My gal is Red Hot/Your gal ain't doodely squat!" So is this CD! FUN FUN FUN! I DEFY anyone to sit still while listening to this!