While Ginny Wright has been overlooked here-in spite of many of her singles being more rockin' than her duet partner Tom Tall's-there's plenty of good stuff from the label which once had Jim Reeves until his protests over the nursery rhymes Fabor Robinson was feeding him (his description not mine) and many other future country stars like the Browns,Mitchell Torok,Bonnie Guitar,Dorsey Burnette,Ned Miller and Johnny Horton.
Burnette came here before brother Johnny became a high school popper on Liberty and cut 2 singles one of which borrowed its title from a standard -Let's fall in love-and its tune from Carl Perkins -Your true love-and while the ink was hardly dry on that song!
I mean great-don't you just love mass copying?.
Bobby Lee Trammell did a note for note copy of the Elvis song Baby I don't care for You mostest girl-and that's only two of 'em!
One of the more unusual items here is by one Dickie Podoler-who would go on a year later to help create the Sandy Nelson phenomenon
Bob Luman was never to see too much of his Fabor product released-his version of Helen Hall's Hello baby was covered in Canada by no less than Myrna Lorrie who became a Hot Boppin' Girl for 5 minutes and also by Charlene Arthur at RCA where she cut over a dozen singles and came to very little eventually dying in poverty.I once corresponded with her a couple of times when she told me Col. Parker had once managed her.
Bonnie Guitar was leased to Dot where she had her biggest hits but here are a couple of songs which have seen her on Hot boppin' girl comps though i see Bonnie Guitar not as a rockabilly-which is the name on this CD series-but as pop country.An instantly recognisable voice,very soft and subdued.She would go on to fame via the label she founded which recorded high school pop like the Fleetwoods and Vic Dana and more famously the Ventures
There's also a duo called the Shadows-who are James Burton and James Kirland-both known guitar men.In the U K Cliff Richard & the Drifters would be ordered to change their name by the Drifters' management just after the time the Drifters had topped the U S charts with There goes my baby. The name change was the Shadows which remained-it made no difference that America had another set of Shadows who backed the still unknown Bobby Vee.
Its a fact that if anyone copies a song and passes it off as their own work and that song is not a hit they get away with it. Which explains why Dorsey Burnette was never served with a summons!
Bolean Barry-a girl singer-cut an Elvis tribute.Not a real singer but Fabor Robinson's secretary who also held a job at a car hop. But Long sideburns travelled far-all the Elvis tributes and Hot Boppin' Girl comps.
The song was written by a couple of Ginny Wright's duet partners Tom Tall and Ruckus Taylor heard here in some pretty fine rockabilly