Red Hot Rockabilly Part 2 - various artists

 

 Tracklist
1     –Ricky Nelson      My Bucket's Got A Hole In It     2:01
2     –Bob Luman     Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache     2:18
3     –Dennis Herrold     Make With The Lovin'     1:57
4     –Johnny Burnette     Sweet Baby Doll     2:31
5     –Eddie Cochran     Nervous Breakdown     2:18
6     –Sammy Gowans     Rockin' By Myself     1:49
7     –Laura Lee Perkins     Oh La Baby     1:56
8     –Johnny Garner     Kiss Me Sweet     2:18
9     –The Strikes      Rockin'     2:15
10     –Ricky Nelson      Boppin' The Blues     1:54
11     –Buddy Knox     Party Doll     2:12
12     –Bob Luman     Your Love (Version No. 2)     2:44
13     –Eddie Cochran     Mean When I'm Mad     1:51
14     –Lew Williams     Abracadabra     1:55
15     –Merle Kilgore     Ernie     1:43
16     –Al Jones      Loretta     1:56
17     –Gene Henslee     Rockin' Baby     1:59
18     –The Strikes      I Don't Want To Cry Over You     2:01
19     –Bill Lawrence      Hey Baby     2:10
20     –Johnny Burnette     Love Kept A-rollin'     2:26
21     –Eddie Cochran     Guybo     1:45
22     –Bob Luman     Make Up Your Mind Baby     2:27
23     –Ricky Nelson      Don't Leave Me     2:26
24     –Dennis Herrold     Hip Hip Baby     2:01
25     –Laura Lee Perkins     Kiss Me Baby     1:51
26     –Dorsey Burnette     I Only Came Here To Dance     1:59
27     –Ronnie Smith      Long Time No Love     2:19
28     –Jimmy Craig      Oh Little Girl     2:07
29     –Ricky Nelson      One Of These Mornings     2:12
30     –Eddie Cochran     Long Tall Sally     1:45
31     –Laura Lee Perkins     Gonna Rock My Baby Tonight     2:07

 Red Hot Rockabilly Part 2

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The Best of The Fireballs ...The Original Norman Petty Masters

 

The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, were an American rock and roll group, particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s. The original line-up consisted of George Tomsco (lead guitar), Chuck Tharp (vocals), Stan Lark (bass), Eric Budd (drums), and Dan Trammell (rhythm guitar).

The Fireballs were formed in Raton, New Mexico, in 1957, and got their start as an instrumental group featuring the distinctive lead guitar of George Tomsco. They recorded at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. According to group founders Tomsco and Lark, they took their name after their standing ovation performance of Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" at the Raton High School PTA talent contest in New Mexico, USA. They reached the top 40 with the singles "Torquay" (1959), "Bulldog" (1960), and "Quite a Party" (1961). "Quite a Party" peaked at No. 29 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961. Tharp, Budd, and Trammell left the group in the early 1960s, but the Fireballs added Doug Roberts on drums, plus Petty Studio singer/pianist Jimmy Gilmer to the group.

Besides their own recordings, the Fireballs were studio musicians for other recording artist projects. Among many, folk singer Carolyn Hester and Arthur Alexander. Norman Petty had been Buddy Holly's main recording producer; after Holly's death, he obtained the rights to Holly's early rehearsal and home demo recordings. From May 1962 until August 1968, Petty had the Fireballs overdub the Holly material, making them the band he never knew he had, though the band had met Holly at Petty's studio in 1957. The overdubs were originally released on four albums of "new" Holly material throughout the 1960s with four of the efforts, released as singles, charting. In 1964, they recorded and released an album (solely under Jimmy Gilmer's name) of a dozen Holly covers called Buddy's Buddy, likely inspired by the posthumous collaborations.

All of the Fireballs' material has been reissued on Ace Records (UK) and Sundazed record labels. The Fireballs continued performing with original members George Tomsco, Stan Lark, and Chuck Tharp until 2006, when Tharp died of cancer. Gilmer returned as lead vocalist in 2007. Lark retired from the group in 2016. Tomsco has continued to release CD's of new material using the Fireballs name and continues to do the occasional show as a "solo Fireball", and also along with Gilmer. 

 The Fireballs

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Red Hot Rockabilly Part 1 - various artists

  Tracklist
1     –Ricky Nelson      Believe What You Say     
2     –Bob Luman     Red Hot     
3     –Weldon Rogers     So Long, Good Luck And Goodbye     
4     –Bill Mack     Play My Boogie     
5     –Johnny & Dorsey Burnette     Do Baby Do     
6     –Billy Eldridge     Let's Go     
7     –Lew Williams     Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop     
8     –The Strikes      If You Can't Rock Me     
9     –Eddie Cochran     Cradle Baby     
10     –Merle Kilgore     Everybody Needs A Little Lovin'     
11     –Bob Luman     Blue Days, Black Nights     
12     –Ricky Nelson      You Tear Me Up     
13     –Buddy Knox     Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep     
14     –Bill Allen      Please Give Me Something     
15     –Roy Brown     Hip Shakin' Baby     
16     –Johnny & Dorsey Burnette     Warm Love     
17     –Laura Lee Perkins     Don't Wait Up     
18     –Johnny Garner     Didi Didi     
19     –Johnny Burnette     Me And The Bear     
20     –Bob Luman     Bring Along Your Lovin' (take 3)     
21     –Ricky Nelson      Stood Up     
22     –Eddie Cochran     Little Lou     
23     –Lew Williams     Centipede     
24     –Warren Miller     Everybody's Got A Baby But Me     
25     –Johnny & Dorsey Burnette     Boppin' Rosalie     
26     –Bobby Lonero     Little Bit     
27     –Laura Lee Perkins     I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'     
28     –Johnny & Dorsey Burnette     That's All I Care     
29     –Eddie Cochran     Sweetie Pie     
30     –Roy Brown     We're Goin' Rockin' Tonight

 Red Hot Rockabilly Part 1

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