Early December 2016 bopping fortnight’s favorites
Hi ! Everybody. Ready for this new Fortnight ? From New Orleans on the Meladee label (run by Mel Mallory – I wonder if he launched other labels), here’s JACK WYATT & his Bayou Boys and the fine, uptempo « Why did you let me love you ». Fiddle and steel all...
read moreThe ‘Bitter Feelings’ of Larry Phillipson (195? to 1959 and onwards)
The Larry Phillipson – ‘The Bitter Feelings Mystery’ Bopping.org salutes a new contributor, who adds a very strange story about a Rockabilly classic.. I spotted this 78 record ( below) on Ebay in June 2015 ‘ Tennessee Valley Boys’ singing ‘Bitter Feelings’ & ‘I’m...
read moreDub Dickerson, « Mama laid the law down », Texas Hillbilly bop and Rockabilly (1950-1962)
Dub Dickerson was one of those artists who toured constantly, mixed in the right circles of musicians and made a fair handful of recordings, but didn’t leave us much in the way of historical information. Even the performers he toured and played with don’t...
read moreLate November bopping fortnight’s favorites
Howdy folks ! Another selection concentrating between 1954 and 1957, but with the early odd side from…1929 and the latest from 1964. Here we go with SKEETER BONN (born 1923 Junior Lewis Bougham) he had a long serie of sides cut early to mid-’50s for RCA....
read moreEddie Jackson & his Swingsters: Detroit Hillbilly rock (1950-1960)
Detroit’s country music scene of the 1950’s featured a solid mix of talents and clubs where folks could stomp ’till two o’clock every night of the week, with some of the wildest sounds this side of Mason-Dixon Line. One man who was there in the...
read moreEarly November 2016 bopping fortnight’s favorites
Howdy folks ! Hi ! to returning visitors. Here is my choice of bopping billies (and a classic rocking blues) for this fortnight, mainly from the late ’40s. We begin with JIMMIE SAUL on his own Redskin label out of Detroit, in 1947. His singer Jimmy Franklin, out...
read morePortland, OR. Country rock: JOHNNY SKILES (1958-59)
From Monroe, La, JOHNNY SKILES enlisted in WWII at the age of 17. After the war, he moved from Beaumont, Texas to New Orleans, constantly writing songs and playing his guitar. His brother-in-law (from Monroe) was Jack Hammons, who co-wrote with him and recorded « Mr....
read moreLate October 2016 bopping Fortnight’s favorites (1945-1964)
Howdy folks ! En route for a new batch of bopping billies, mostly from the late ’40s-early ’50s, with the occasional foray into the early ’60s. We begin this fortnight with an artist I’d already post a song in March 2011 – that is more than 5...
read moreEarly October 2016 bopping (and rocking) fortnight’s favorites
For a reason unknown, most of podcasts won’t open. Just click on the « Download » button to hear the music, when the player fails. Onto the first Fortnight of this Autumn 2016. SMOKEY ROGERS (1917-1993) was a personality of the West coast...
read moreThe Khoury’s label: a Cajun concern (1949-1956)
The Beginning The story of Khoury’s Recordings starts in 1949 with a man named John Harvey « Virgel » Bozman. He was a rustic singer/guitarist and part-time comedian who sometimes billed himself, with tongue-in-cheek, as « The Arkansas...
read moreLate September 2016 bopping fortnight’s favorites
This is late September 2016 fortnight’s bopping favorites. As prettily usual, I selected a dozen songs which I feel interesting both for their obscurity and/or their appeal. The songs range from early-to-mid ’50s to very early ’60s. Let’s begin...
read moreBILL MORGAN a.k.a. BILL CARROLL: Feel so good
a. No image available of the boys neither of Bill Morgan at the moment. Maybe someone has one picture? Pease help! This Bill Morgan has nothing to do with the Columbia songwriter and artist (1954-55), brother to George Morgan. By the mid-1955, Texans Bill [Morgan,...
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