The Outsiders and it got me started on Elvis. First sets are soundtrack of Director's Cut of the film The Outsiders / Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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* - But FIRST released by Ian & Sylvia and Peter, Paul & Mary (Sept 1965 - minor US hit). Lightfoot's version was 1st released on his debut album, Jan 1966.
Lewis' version was recorded in 1958, and titled 'Wild One (Real Wild Child' // * - BUT known in the US through the cover by "Ivan", July 1958, a minor hit. Here's the scoop - "Ivan" is actually Jerry Allison, of The Crickets (Buddy Holly's group - Holly plays guitar on it). Allison heard it when The Crickets toured Australia in the spring of 1958.
Recorded Aug 19th, 1954 at Sun Studios / * - FULL billing: 'Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra' // ** - In 2003, his debut album was ranked
#56 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time".
* - Dylan once said that Presley's cover of the song was "the one recording I treasure the most". / Dylan's version wasn't released till Nov 1971, on the 2-LP set 'Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II'; it was a live recording from New York's Town Hall - April 12, 1963.
* - Recording first released as a different mix on "Neil Young Archives Volume 1", 2009. // PERSONNEL: Neil Young – guitar, piano, vocal / Danny Whitten – guitar, vocals / Billy Talbot – bass / Ralph Molina – drums, vocal
* - Swamp Dogg's real name: "J. Williams" = "Jerry Williams" / “Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.” - Swamp Dogg // Click on Link above/ left, to read an article about this release
This song is generally attributed to the 1920s Appalachian musician and Baptist preacher Lloyd Chandler, but it was likely taken or adapted from folk songs already existing in the region. // This soundtrack won all sorts of Music Industry awards.
The son of Zydeco legend Alton “Rockin’ Dopsie” Rubin / * - The title is listed here as 'Ooh Woo Woo (Please Don't Leave Me)' / Click on Link above/ left, to read about this release.
George Jones called this his all-time favorite Haggard tune: In the documentary "Learning to Live With Myself", Haggard is quoted: "Things that you've enjoyed for years don't seem nearly as important, and you're at war with yourself as to what's happening. 'Why don't I like that anymore? Why do I like this now?' And finally, I think you actually go through a biological change, you just, you become another...Your body is getting ready to die and your mind doesn't agree."
REAL name: Derek Rogers / Described as "Roy Orbison With a head wound" :)) . From Montreal, Québec, Canada. // Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD.
