This is another one of those rockabilly songs that I had missed out on back in the doowop era....most of this rock was played in the same era but not here in Vancouver Canada...and I'd like to know why!? Oh we had the mainstream r&r, but not all the rockabilly, hundreds of selections are avaliable on yooutube and It's all new to me. Thanks for postin' Fanny Brown. Damn that Elvis, I would trade in everything he ever sang if it meant they'd of played all this Rockabilly rock.
@Ezdduf4kuZ Thanks for this comment. I know what you're trying to say, but I would like to defend Elvis Presley. He did record what we now call rockabilly (check out his Sun Studio recordings). The truth of what you say is that by the time Elvis came to your attention in Vancouver, he would have been signed to RCA and they moulded his music to suit a more mainstream pop audience. As for Sonny Burgess, he never had a national hit and that is why you were unlikely to have heard of him in Canada.
Does anyone notice the similarity between this tune and Louie Jordan's music? As in all music a lot of "cross pollination" occurs and though this is clearly a rockabilly band I see the influence of early R&B by the fact that Jack Nance (thanks Kit) plays trumpet.
Pure early Rockabilly. I know a lot about Ronnie Hawkins and Levon ( two other Arkies by the way) but not a lot about Sonny other than hearing his name come up or mentioned in a book every now and then. He recorded at Sun? I didn't know that. Nice guitar work.
He did indeed record at Sun. According to the article on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame website, Sam Phillips said that he "could have been one of the greats but he never got the right break". I am, therefore, not at all surprised that you dont know much about him. As I understand it, he only had regional success in the US. He still performs. There are some recent performances on youtube.
Thanks, I am, however, a bit surprised that someone 20yrs. younger than me and living in the U.K. does know much about him but then again I love Tommy Cooper and no one knows or remembers him in my circle.
I guess I am a bit unusual. I liked Elvis Presley from an early age. Because of this I was interested in Sun Records. I think Sonny Burgess must have come to the UK in the late 1980s or early 1990s and I read about him. I then bought a tape (We wanna boogie Rounder Records). One of the things I like about his band, The Pacers, is the trumpet player. Having a trumpet player seems quite unusual for a Rockabilly band.
This guy opened for Elvis back in the early days..........Porkys and Silvermoon Club Newport Arkansas
b2engr 5 months ago
@b2engr would have blown Elvis out of the water
russ9356 2 months ago
This is another one of those rockabilly songs that I had missed out on back in the doowop era....most of this rock was played in the same era but not here in Vancouver Canada...and I'd like to know why!? Oh we had the mainstream r&r, but not all the rockabilly, hundreds of selections are avaliable on yooutube and It's all new to me. Thanks for postin' Fanny Brown. Damn that Elvis, I would trade in everything he ever sang if it meant they'd of played all this Rockabilly rock.
Ezdduf4kuZ 1 year ago
@Ezdduf4kuZ Thanks for this comment. I know what you're trying to say, but I would like to defend Elvis Presley. He did record what we now call rockabilly (check out his Sun Studio recordings). The truth of what you say is that by the time Elvis came to your attention in Vancouver, he would have been signed to RCA and they moulded his music to suit a more mainstream pop audience. As for Sonny Burgess, he never had a national hit and that is why you were unlikely to have heard of him in Canada.
kitsjuke 1 year ago
came over 1976,i think with Charlie Feathers,
jivemoggie 1 year ago
Does anyone notice the similarity between this tune and Louie Jordan's music? As in all music a lot of "cross pollination" occurs and though this is clearly a rockabilly band I see the influence of early R&B by the fact that Jack Nance (thanks Kit) plays trumpet.
macvoutie 3 years ago 2
@macvoutie It's a Roy Brown classic. Note Jack Nance on trumpet.
whitefalcon64 1 year ago
Pure early Rockabilly. I know a lot about Ronnie Hawkins and Levon ( two other Arkies by the way) but not a lot about Sonny other than hearing his name come up or mentioned in a book every now and then. He recorded at Sun? I didn't know that. Nice guitar work.
macvoutie 3 years ago
He did indeed record at Sun. According to the article on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame website, Sam Phillips said that he "could have been one of the greats but he never got the right break". I am, therefore, not at all surprised that you dont know much about him. As I understand it, he only had regional success in the US. He still performs. There are some recent performances on youtube.
kitsjuke 3 years ago
Thanks, I am, however, a bit surprised that someone 20yrs. younger than me and living in the U.K. does know much about him but then again I love Tommy Cooper and no one knows or remembers him in my circle.
macvoutie 3 years ago
I guess I am a bit unusual. I liked Elvis Presley from an early age. Because of this I was interested in Sun Records. I think Sonny Burgess must have come to the UK in the late 1980s or early 1990s and I read about him. I then bought a tape (We wanna boogie Rounder Records). One of the things I like about his band, The Pacers, is the trumpet player. Having a trumpet player seems quite unusual for a Rockabilly band.
kitsjuke 3 years ago