LITTLE JUNIOR'S BLUE FLAMES - LOVE MY BABY SUN 78 RPM

[dru42or3]

DAMN GOOD SONG!

[shafer9]

Sam Phillips was cutting a range of black artists and often said "if I could only find a while boy who could sing black."

THen he did -- until RCA bought the contract.

[krabbers]

brilliant i havnt heard these vesions

[dkmi]

You have a simply amazing collection of vinyl. I can't thank you enough for posting these. Vintage records on a vintage player....that's as close as you can get to traveling back in time.

[rbound827]

And Hayden Thompson's version of this song is fantastic

[TheSunRecords]

A legendary classic Sun recording.And a big inspiracion to Rockabilly music.

[Darngyt]

Great song, and always the same story! Innovation is a subtle thing. Elvis and Sam Phillips were hailed as inventors of rock'n'roll but really they were just reworking southern blues and hillbilly traditions. But even if you know this, you shouldn't be too harsh 'cause you'll find this with any innovation. (Totally unrelated example, say, is Einstein. Studying relativity you'll quickly run into Riemann and Lorentz...). That's what innovation is, it doesn't come from nowhere.

[195477]

@Darngyt

I've been a member if the U.K. Elvis fan club for 30yrs{a fan longer}.

The fact is nobody invented Rock and Roll it grew from many different styles most of all,blues country,gospel.

What Elvis did was to fuse them all together in a way they had never been done before..you are right in what you say they were reworking the blues hillbilly style as the blues/jazz people of the 30s and 40s were adding to what they had heard from their ancestors etc...

[josephnathanscott]

" nobody invented" Songs about rocking over backbeat through most of the song were basically unknown in '46. Wynonie Harris and Wild Bill Moore '47 recordings popularized that mix, which led to J. Preston's '49 hit "Rock The Joint," which led to e.g. R. Brown's "Boogie At Midnight" and J. Turner's "Jumpin' At The Jubilee," both '49. (Backbeat through most of a secular song was very rare in '42 and was being popularized '45-'46 by Lionel Hampton and Buddy Johnson, without lyrics about rocking.)

[luisescalonharo]

que buena musica,Grande Little Junior quien influyó en Elvis Presley.

[gfgfm]

Elvis' Mystery Train is truly a perfect combination of Little junior Parker's version mixed with this song.

Good to hear that.

[lwcowgirls]

Pat Hare

[lwcowgirls]

with Pat "I'm Gonnar Murder My Baby" on guitar

[whest]

@lwcowgirls Usually credited to Pat Hare but I think actually that it's Floyd Murphy.

[sunrecords56]

Now this how Elvis's Mystery Train was born, Love my baby/mystery train by jr Parker becpmes (parker-Phillips) Version of Mystery Train Performed on Sun 223, by Elvis Presley. Question is, who gave birth to the idea to turn Mystery Train from Blues to Rockabilly..? I'd love to know true answer to that.

[josephnathanscott]

"who gave birth to the idea to turn Mystery Train from Blues to Rockabilly..?" The Junior Parker rockabilly recording "Love My Baby" gave birth to Elvis, Scotty, and Bill's idea to turn the song "Mystery Train" to rockabilly. (Junior Parker wasn't the first "black" guy to record rockabilly, Buddy Lucas's "Undecided" is an earlier example.)

[jukeboxdude]

Probably my most favorite Parker song. I'm trying to get the leads down with hopes of playing it one day. Keep this stuff up! I'm loving this.