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| 1. SHE'S THE ONE THAT'S GOT IT - Allen Page | |||
| 2. JELLO SAL - Benny Ingram | |||
| 3. DON'T BE GONE LONG - Bob Doss | |||
| 4. PUT YOUR CAT CLOTHES ON - Carl Perkins | |||
| 5. GET WITH IT - Charlie Feathers with Jody & Jerry | |||
| 6. HOW CAN YOU BE MEAN TO ME - Dale Vaughn | |||
| 7. SNAKE EYED MAMA - Don Cole | |||
| 8. WASH MACHINE BOOGIE - Echo Valley Boys (w Bill Browning) | |||
| 9. MYSTERY TRAIN - Elvis Presley | |||
| 10. EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO BE BABY - Freddie Franks | |||
| 11. THE RAGING SEA - Gene Maltais | |||
| 12. JITTERBOP BABY - Hal Harris | |||
| 13. ROCKIN' IN THE GRAVEYARD - Jackie Morningstar | |||
| 14. I CAN'T FIND THE DOORKNOB - Jimmy & Johnny | |||
| 15. BIG GREEN CAR - Jimmy Carroll aka Billy Carroll | |||
| 16. I GOT A ROCKET IN MY POCKET - Jimmy Lloyd | |||
| 17. TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN' - Johnny Burnette & Rock'n'Roll Trio | |||
| 18. BOPPIN' HIGH SCHOOL BABY - Don Willis | |||
| 19. MAMA'S LITTLE BABY - Junior Thompson with the Meteors | |||
| 20. SAVE IT - Mel Robbins | |||
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* Here are a couple of fistfuls of tracks from the wild side of rockabilly. Over the years many 50s cuts have been issued under the rockabilly banner that would have been better described as country or hillbilly. These, however, are the real deal: hopped-up, whiskey-fuelled songs of teenage rebellion, sung by untamed rockers who probably never expected their careers to last the week.
* Alongside acknowledged classics of the genre such as `Put Your Cat Clothes On' by Carl Perkins, there are rare rockin' one-offs such as the frantic bass-slapping `Don't Be Gone Long' by Bob Doss or the remarkable `Wash Machine Boogie' by the Echo Valley Boys - the world's finest rockin' hymn to the romantic joys of household appliances.
* The CD covers the whole rockabilly spectrum, with tracks from prime rockin' labels such as Sun, Starday, Meteor and Columbia, plus tiny imprints such as Lilac.
* Tied-in with this release is the publication of a 300-page book, also called A Rocket In My Pocket - the Hipster's Guide To Rockabilly by Max Décharné (Serpent's Tail), the first comprehensive history of the entire rockabilly genre to appear for twenty years. Max has compiled the Ace CD to complement the book, and has also written the sleevenotes.
* This is the first time on CD for some of these tracks, many of them favourites at rockin' clubs in the UK and around the world. The CD's title comes from Jimmy Lloyd's 1958 classic `I Got A Rocket In My Pocket', included here alongside frantic movers such as `The Raging Sea' by Gene Maltais or the gutbucket hill-country sounds Rocky Bill Ford's `Mad Dog In Town'. There's also a track from the cat who started it all, Elvis Presley - whose `Mystery Train' inspired a whole regiment of young musicians to find a cheap studio and get down and wail. He's on the cover of both the CD and the book, too.
* An ideal introduction for anyone new to genre, but with enough rare tracks to please the long-term, hardcore rockabilly fan.
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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
feel good beats you can move your groin to,
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This review is from: A Rocket In My Pocket (Audio CD)
Feel good music enshrined within the literal senses...touch, taste, hear and feel. The template to the unfolding sexual revolution evidenced by the vitriol launched at early Elvis, the hands on approach to teenage dancing and the delicious sexualised subject matter. Starting in the wild backwards of the untamed south then slowly spreading like a virus in the post war world, finally infecting the nation and then corrupting the world.
Teenagers just recently invented by James Dean, Levi's and the producers of cotton needed a musical backdrop a million miles away from the square worlds of Bing, Frank, Sammy, Dean and Glenn. The Second War won, the consumer taps flowing, young adults suddenly had excess income and freedom; guitars, sickles, fin shaped wonderbirds, european cosmetics, nylons, electricity, be bop pills and euphoria coupled with a belief in the future. Most important was the end of the big depression for school leavers. Design euphoria evolving from the space race combined with the ecstasy of horizontal frenzy were finally released from religious bondage. This musical collection captures the sense of wild abandon. Elvis the southern greek god formed from English and Cherokee roots bestrode the world stage selling male sexual musk. This ensnares his early presence, the amphetamine fuelled performances where he throbbed and oozed to a primeval zygotic beat. Fusing black and white worlds he injected sex into his creation. This connected with the worlds of suppression, those young people beaten into submission by a Bible belt, found a vice and a voice. The result was the greatest surrealist experiment until the 1960's, occuring again in the 1970's/80's finally diminishing in intensity in the 90's. This platter rounds up Wanda Jackson, Carl Perkins, Charlie Feathers, Junior Thompson, Jimmy Lloyd, Ronnie Self, Mel Robbins, Ric Cartey along with even lesser known names. Rockabilly labels arose throughout the land as every greaser in a white T bought a ticket to Elvisland by cutting a 45 and letting it all hang out. The States always has had an inferiority complex about its art and after four years of rule, it was all ditched for the Beatles, who copied this music and then fed it back. Somehow rock and roll coming from England sold more than rockabilly coming from the Ozarks. Contained here are the sounds of British/Irish folk transplanted to another world surged with the freedom of electricity. After three or four generations of intermarriage with "red" indians and each other, away from the feudal arrangements of the UK they created a new form of liberation. Gawd Bless America.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Well 'ard" rocking music!!!!,
By Mr. Alan Shaw "LOUDER, LOUDER, LOUDER!!!!!!!!... (Somerset, England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Rocket In My Pocket (Audio CD)
Some reviewers say so much and talk such a lot of tripe, it can give you a headache. This is why I was so impressed by the review by Sonja Paris. She says it all in just one line. A quick mention of "The Raging Sea" by Gene Maltais-after anything by Charlie Feathers, is this the best rockabilly track ever? Sod the neighbours, crank up the volume and ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wild, loud and crazy sounds of the 1950's rockabillly music!,
By Charlie "Wooley Booger" (Shangri-La) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Rocket In My Pocket (Audio CD)
How do you review something so obscure to general public and well known for
the collectors? This is not commercial Rock and Roll, this is 50's garage music, played mostly on the south and almost forgotten after few years of relative popularity. If you think the white folks in southern of USA at that time played only corny pop ballads or cheesy country songs and that Chuck Berry was the main thing, boy - you're into big surprise! With that being said, onto the music: Yes, the songs are common known to many Rockabilly Dj's or record collectors, but are compiled with great taste and the music flows with ease, no fillers here. The highlights are (IMO) inclusions of Benny Ingram's 'Jello Sal', which is one of the wildest obscure tracks with frantic drumm beat and singing and rarely seen on cd's, Freddie Franks covering 'Everybody's trying to be my baby' with one of the wildest slappin' bass ever recorded and some premiere songs on cd like 'Rock to the boogie' by Roy Burk & Bell Bottoms or 'The slide' by The Rhythm Rockers and the only alternate take here, 'Rockin in the graveyard' by Jackie Morningstar. This cd is companion to the book of the same title by Max Decharne, who also compiled the tracks. The book is really great insight into the world of obscure musicians and alternative music scene of 50's, and gives a great effort explaining how rockabilly music got it's form, and where influences came from. Very smart thinking and plenty of information. I would recommend the book, absolutely! The sound of this cd is superb, and the songs run like wildfire! Booklet desing is also great, with informative lines about each author & song. Standard Ace records quality release!
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