Modern Don Juan - Buddy Holly
Lonesome Tonight - Feathers
If You Only Knew - Little Jimmy Scott
All Aboard - Muddy Waters
A Foolish Fool - Ben Zeppa & Zephyrs
Mumbles Blues - Big Connie
My Baby's Gone Away - Eddie Riff
The Key (To Your Door) - Sonny Boy Williamson
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
Race With The Devil - Gene Vincent & Blue Caps
In My Younger Days - Monarchs
I'm Mad With You - Moon Mullican
Stablemates - Miles Davis
Goin' South - John Lee Hooker
She's Got It - Little Richard
My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino
My Troubles Are Not At An End - Penguins
I Want A Little Girl - Joe Turner
You Ain't Moving Me - Linda Hayes (Flairs)
Perkins Wiggle - Carl Perkins
Little Girl Of Mine - Hurricanes
That's What I Wanna Do - Shirley & Lee
Rockin' With My Baby - Malcolm Yelvington
Hurry Home To Me - Mel Williams
Every Woman I Know -Billy Emerson
Yvonne - Parakeets
Tall Lanky Papa - Four Sounds
Girlfriend - Five Scalders
Ape Call - Nervous Norvous
Rabbit-Eye Pink And Charcoal Black - Boyd Bennett & Rockets
Now That You've Gone - El Dorados
Wrong Doing Woman - Earl Gilliam
Please Don't Tease - Spaniels
Oh Yeah! - Guitar Slim
The Thing - Lafayette Thomas
Hit, Git And Split - Young Jessie
Sweet Love On My Mind - Jimmy & Johnny
Buchanan and Goodman On Trial - Buchanan & Goodman
I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This - Highway QC's
No Fault Of Mine - Benny Barnes
When My Dreamboat Comes Home - Fats Domino
You Better Change - Ole Sonny Boy
My Heart's Desire - Wheels
Oh Baby Don't - Heartbeats
Since I Fell For You - Spaniels
Boogie Beat - Levis Seabury
Who - Little Walter
Honey Don't - Carl Perkins
Mad Dog In Town - Rocky Bill Ford
Just A Fool - Eddie Boyd

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On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:44:02 AM UTC, Bruce wrote:

Modern Don Juan - Buddy Holly

Never a favorite for me from his Decca stuff. OTOH the best thing he ever did pre-Crickets IMO is the first cut of "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" (from the July 1956 session). This is the take that appears on the Decca LP and on the UK Brunswick single not
to be confused with the later November take (the one with the Dutch McMillin sax)

Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

My introduction to "Blue Suede Shoes" was in the Elvis version which I heard first. Over here they appeared as singles much closer together timewise----and both directly vied against each other for chart honors (Elvis won with #9 place in June 1956 ------
-this whilst "Heartbreak Hotel" was still climbing to #2----whilst Carl managed #10). It didn't take me long to figure which was best and Carl has ruled with this song ever since. There's some other decent versions out there but NONE compare with the
superb Carl original

Little Girl Of Mine - Hurricanes

So-so cover but for me doesn't really compare with the Cleftones

Sweet Love On My Mind - Jimmy & Johnny

Released before the Johnny Burnette Trio version but the Trio actually recorded the song first---on 5th July 1956 compared with Jimmy & Johnny's 25th July recording date

Buchanan and Goodman On Trial - Buchanan & Goodman

Followup to "The Flying Saucer" is another pretty good "break-in" with the classic exchange between reporter "Hey! Aren't You Skinny Dynamo?" and record star "Yes it's me and I'm in love again"
("Skinny Dynamo" being the comedy name for Fats Domino first used in "The Flying Saucer". The funniest thing was that there REALLY was a "Skinny Dynamo" on record (and more than one too)--with at least one of them being Slim Saunders of "Let's Have Some
Fun" fame in disguise

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On 1/29/2023 3:37 AM, Roger wrote:

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:44:02 AM UTC, Bruce wrote:

Modern Don Juan - Buddy Holly

Never a favorite for me from his Decca stuff. OTOH the best thing he ever did pre-Crickets IMO is the first cut of "Rock Around With Ollie Vee" (from the July 1956 session). This is the take that appears on the Decca LP and on the UK Brunswick single

not to be confused with the later November take (the one with the Dutch McMillin sax)

Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

My introduction to "Blue Suede Shoes" was in the Elvis version which I heard first. Over here they appeared as singles much closer together timewise----and both directly vied against each other for chart honors (Elvis won with #9 place in June 1956 ----

---this whilst "Heartbreak Hotel" was still climbing to #2----whilst Carl managed #10). It didn't take me long to figure which was best and Carl has ruled with this song ever since. There's some other decent versions out there but NONE compare with the
superb Carl original

Little Girl Of Mine - Hurricanes

So-so cover but for me doesn't really compare with the Cleftones

Sweet Love On My Mind - Jimmy & Johnny

Released before the Johnny Burnette Trio version but the Trio actually recorded the song first---on 5th July 1956 compared with Jimmy & Johnny's 25th July recording date

Buchanan and Goodman On Trial - Buchanan & Goodman

Followup to "The Flying Saucer" is another pretty good "break-in" with the classic exchange between reporter "Hey! Aren't You Skinny Dynamo?" and record star "Yes it's me and I'm in love again"
("Skinny Dynamo" being the comedy name for Fats Domino first used in "The Flying Saucer". The funniest thing was that there REALLY was a "Skinny Dynamo" on record (and more than one too)--with at least one of them being Slim Saunders of "Let's Have

Some Fun" fame in disguise
-----------
I didn't know about Slim Saunders, but I think the other one was Vince
Monroe a/k/a Polka Dot Slim. Or did I dream that?

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