The Female Elvis: Complete Recordings 1956-60 [IMPORT]

Janis Martin

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1987
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B0000071YL
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #157,934 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll

2. Will You, Willyum

3. Love and Kisses

4. My Boy Elvis

5. Cracker Jack

6. Bang Bang

7. Ooby Dooby

8. Barefoot Baby

9. Good Love

10. Little Bit

11. Two Long Years

12. All Right, Baby

13. Billy Boy, My Billy Boy

14. Let's Elope Baby

15. Love Me, Love

16. Love Me to Pieces

17. William

18. Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

19. Teen Street

20. Hard Times Ahead

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Here's the original wild woman of rock 'n' roll! She signed with RCA two months after Elvis and cut unvarnished rockabilly and rock 'n' roll for the next two years. RCA wasn't kidding when they dubbed her 'The Female Elvis'. Backed by the crack Nashville and New York session men, she cut 26 stellar cuts like Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll, Will You Willyum, My Boy Elvis, Bang Bang, Love Me To Pieces, Ooby Dooby, and Let's Elope Baby. All 26 RCA cuts are here together with a 1960 Palette session that included Teen Street and the honky tonk classic Cry Guitar. One of our very first CDs--and still one of the best!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Female Elvis, June 15, 2004

By	Martin 13 (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This is fine example of polished rockabilly from the 50's! Janis Martin rocks with Nashville session players like Chet Atkins (on guitar), Floyd Cramer (on Piano), Grady Martin (on guitar), Murray Harman, Jr. (drums), Bob Moore (bass),... Same musicians who were playing for Elvis. Sessions were produced by Steve Sholes, who was Elvis' producer too. Good rockabilly and nice country ballads!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Janis Martin - smooth voice, great guitar, July 28, 2004

By	nebula42 - See all my reviews

Well, I just started my Rockabilly collection, and this looked like one to definitely have. I bought this with Wanda Jackson's Queen of Rockabilly CD. I am thoroughly enjoying both. Janis Martin has a very smooth voice, less edgy than Wanda Jackson's. This CD is excellent and provides some great classic Rockabilly guitar sounds, and Janis' voice is just great. I'd definitely recommend this to Rockabilly fans. I personally prefer Wanda Jackson's Rockabilly style (a little more edgy and wild) to Janis Martin's, but both are excellent examples of women who knew how to rock and roll in the 50s/60s.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 isn't enough.!!!, July 16, 2002

By	"sethlox23" (Seattle Wa) - See all my reviews

This is such a great album, simular to bad girl Miss Wanda Jackson, but mellow almost like a patsy cline style, well mix em up and there you have Janis Maritn. She's absolutley great and you will not be dissapointed!
They don't say the female Elvis for nothing;)