Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman

[filthyphillyboy]

Sonny Burgess supposedly opened for Elvis back in the day. Must've been a TOUGH act to follow!

[Flatlandkayak]

Sam, I agree with you. There was a really good feeling with this one.

[closedcircle1]

This caused chaos on the dance floor when they put this and we wanna boogie on in the rock n roll club I went to as an 18 yr old in 1980.

[gingerredrocket]

I met Sonny and the Pacers last night at VIVA. Got autographs and my very own signed SUN Records plaque with Red Headed Woman as the title song. Talk about awe struck!

[skihalli]

she couldn't be that bad  Bub

[fsae0607]

Not too often you hear a trumpet in Rockabilly. Mr. Burgess and the Pacers sure pulled it off!

If you don't at least start tapping your feet when hearing this song, you must be dead!

[theburdcotter]

@fsae0607 Imelda May uses quiet a bit of trumpet in her music but then she is not pure rockabilly

[Weidenberg]

Great!

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

This has gotta be the original, i's been covered by The Tramps in the eighties and again by Bruce Sprinsteen in the ninties. There ususally is something about the original, in that it usually has what it takes, but not always and not always will people agree with the fact. The younger the more they'll sigh with the updated version, like the other version is old fashion, I will agree with the older sounding ones like Baby Face, where a younger Bobby revitalized it, in a way I couldn't resist.

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

This has got to be the original and it sounds rockabilly. It wasn't played up here along with the likes of mainstream rock and roll. This takes in most Rockabilly by the way, for reasons beyond my control it wasn't to be played here in Vancouver Canada...I don't think this number was ever played to this day and if I didn't have yourtube and the senders that poted it, I'd be shit out of luck and wounldn't know my Rockabilly. SO WHERE ON EARTH WAS THIS ROCK and roll played?? thx4 postin'

[rockabillycat1954]

@Ezdduf4kuZ in the southern united states: west virginia, virginia, tennessee (naturally), mississippi, louisianna, kentucky, north and south carolina, georgia, florida, texas to name a few. basically where country music was big, rockabilly was big.

[rockerdinger1]

for a different kind of red headed woman try my site!

[Elvislover1978]

Sonny turned 80 in May. Hard to believe since he doesn't act like it. You should see him with the young Swiss band Mars Attacks. He can still rock! Plus he's a nice guy. Have seen him many times in person. Doesn't get any better than Red Headed Woman.

[gabrieldix64]

Gets better everytime. Gabriel blow your horn!

Thanks for posting that.

[titi661966]

superbe ça c'est le sound SUN

[RockabillyMira]

I've met him here in Sweden for about 1 month ago. He is the best!

[DTDexter]

Saw Sonny playing Hemsby UK last year...the geezers in his 70's but still has the wildness in his eye. Thanks for posting

[closedcircle1]

Probably the best double sider of the rock n roll era.

[ratsdontrace]

Yeah , turn it on.... riktiga jävla lirare.

[macvoutie]

They must have been something to see live back then. This thing rocks.

[kitsjuke]

You bet! I wish I had a time machine so that I could see them when they were young. Sonny Burgess and the Pacers were supposed to have had a great stage show. The Pacers formed human pyramids, as can be seen on one of the photographs in my slide show. Sonny even dyed his hair red to match his guitar and clothes.

[macvoutie]

Now that's a show.

You keep postin', I'll keep watchin"

[poolpig]

@kitsjuke I wrote him he's so damn nice!

[eddie2elvis]

Klasse Song und toll gemacht!!! 5ers!!