Various - That‘ll Flat Git It - Vol.5 - Rockabilly From The Vaults Of Dot Records (CD)

1-CD mit 48-seitigem Booklet, 31 Einzeltitel. Spieldauer ca. 65 Minuten. Rockabilly aus den Archiven von Dot Records, reiner, fünfsterniger, hochklassiger Rockabilly der Fünfzigerjahre. , , Wir finden, dass Rockabilly auf Compact Discs ganz prima klingt. Also nahmen wir uns 1992 vor, die ultimative Rockabilly-Serie aus der Taufe zu heben, "That’ll Flat Git It!" Ursprünglich war diese Art von Musik ja etwas zur Veröffentlichung auf Singles, darum bauten wir unsere neue Reihe nach Labels auf und nicht nach Künstlern. Und wir setzten alles daran, dass sie ein Genuss für die Ohren wird – mit einem Knaller nach dem anderen, ergänzt durch etliche Top-Raritäten. Jede einzelne der CDs sollte gewissermaßen eine, wenn möglich, 30-Titel-Musicbox sein, mit den besten Rockabilly-Songs, die jemals für all die legendären Labels aufgenommen worden sind. Wir machten uns auf die Suche nach den am besten klingenden Bändern, ließen sie dann von den führenden Mastering-Spezialisten bearbeiten und haben auch in puncto Verpackung neue Maßstäbe gesetzt. Als übergeordneten Serien-Titel wählten wir ‚ "That’ll Flat Git It!", das verbale Erkennungszeichen des ersten Rockabilly-Discjockeys Dewey Phillips. Für die Zusammenstellung konnten wir Bill Millar verpflichten, der in den Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahren die klassischen Label-Rockabilly-LPs zusammengestellt hat. Außerdem suchten wir unveröffentlichtes Fotomaterial und machten all jene Interpreten ausfindig, nach denen bis dahin vergeblich geforscht worden war. Unterm Strich steht unsere einzigartige Rockabilly-Serie mit insgesamt 27 Folgen. THAT‘LL FLAT GIT IT, VOL. 5 Virtually all of the independent record companies that began life in the late 40s and early 50s have disappeared. It‘s true that Atlantic Records is still around as an ongoing concern, and logos like Chess, Specialty and Sun still grace the occasional reissue, but, as the labels‘ original owners grew tired of the business or simply went bust, the catalogues were sold. Dot Records for instance has been absorbed and its identity lost in several corporate megadeals. During the 50s and early 60s, the label sold millions and millions of records, although--it must be added--the records on this compilation didn‘t do much for Dot‘s profit picture. Dot Records was launched in January 1950 by Randy Wood as an offshoot of Randy‘s Record Shop, his mail order business in Gallatin, Tennessee, some 30 miles northeast of Nashville. Wood, born in McMinnville, Tennessee, left the U.S. Air Force in 1944 and put his savings into an appliance store. Two years later, he converted his business into a record store, and pioneered mail-order record sales via Gene Nobles‘ show on WLAC, Nashville. Wood entered the manufacturing business when Nobles discovered R&B singer Richard Armstrong. The two men co-operated on three labels: Randy‘s (on which Armstrong made his debut with Gene Nobles‘ Boogie ), Record Shop Special which featured bluesman Cecil Gant, and Dot. Dot really hit its stride when Wood stumbled on the formula of having pop artists like Pat Boone cover R&B and country songs. As early as 1955, Dot had cornered almost 15% of singles sales, and Wood was being courted by ABC who wanted a record division (CBS had Columbia and NBC owned RCA). He held out for the big payday, though, which came in 1957 when Dot was bought by Paramount Pictures for $ 3,000,000. Wood stayed on as head of the company. To his credit, Randy Wood was willing to try anything that he felt had an outside chance of making it. That eclectic approach secured a surprising number of left-field hits, and a good number of flops including LLOYD ‘COWBOY‘ COPAS‘s Circle Rock. I don‘t know if Copas habitually broke wind after a skilletful of beans, but the cowboy image was something he fostered. He claimed, for instance, to have been born on a ranch in Oklahoma when, in fact, he came from Blue Creek, Ohio. In 1927 he played with the Hencacklers‘ String Band, by 1935 he was half of a duo with fiddler Vernon Storer, and in 1945 he joined Pee Wee King‘s Golden West Cowboys. The following year, he became King Records‘ first bigtime hillbilly act when he broke through with Filipino Baby, although by 1952, his career had slumped. In an attempt at resuscitation, he dropped the name ‘Cowboy‘ and turned - at the age of 43 - to rock ‘n‘ roll, sounding as if he‘d invented the music. Circle Rock was written by (cue trumpets) Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, it was one of their earliest recorded compositions originally cut by the Salmas Brothers on Keen, for whom Alpert and Adler worked as staff songwriters. Circle Rock didn‘t revive Copas‘s fortunes, but at the turn of the 60s Alabam (#1 C&W), brought him back to the attention of a younger audience. He was capitalising on this surprising renaissance when he perished in the 1963 plane crash that took the lives of Hawkshaw Hawkins and Patsy Cline. Jerry Lott, a.k.a. THE PHANTOM, was born near Mobile, Alabama in 1938 and moved to Lea...