This Track is from the first E.P of the Blue Rhythm Boys. Paul Ansell sing all Tracks on this Recording
In the world, there are some enigmas which remain unexplained and others which find sometimes their resolution. But while waiting for this moment of light, the men think hard fantasise and seek placebos. For a long time the Elvis My Happiness version, the first recording of the future King for the Sun label remained a mystery, an all the dreams object for wild imagination of the whole wide world rockers. Was it possible to sense an already germinated hillbilly cat magic in this title? Even some suspicious people wondering whether this legendary Graal really existed until it was finally discovered and published for the first time ever.
But before this magic moment, a blue EP enabled us to have an idea of what this song was supposed to sound by a young Elvis. This mono recording Ep released back in the early eighties by the no longer alive british label Northwood had on his cover written in some large black capital letters framed by musical ranges what seems to be the name of the band : The Blue Rhythm Boys. But inside of that modest blue cover there was four tracks of pure rockabilly blues dynamite which included a presleyan My Happiness cover
Paul Ansell, the singer, for whom it was the first band, gives us an idea with his inhabited voice of what one dreamed being Elvis interpretation of that Betty Peterson and Borney Bergantine song. It was like holding in your hands the real one copy Sun single and being Indiana Jones listening to that relic of the past!!! It was for my part the first time that I heard a so much fifties sounding combo. The other tracks were Rollin & Tumblin (Muddy Waters), That dont move me (Carl Perkins) and Nobody But You (Little Walter) and are real killers played by some of the finest british musicians of that era (Jim Carlisle - slide guitar, Allen Thow - bass and Jeff Tuck - drums). If you havent already lived that experiment and even if we all know today the Elvis My Happiness cover, its never too late to listen to what has become a rockabilly milestone for many rockers around the world
Long Tall
sorry, paul has his own band paul ansells number nine, he played with scotty in memphis
leeluke360 2 years ago
No the lead singer of the blue rhythm boys was paul ansell who now fronts scotty moore's band instead of Elvis
fijago 2 years ago
is this the blue rythum boys pat lead singer???
GreenEmeraldLady 3 years ago