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BILLY LEE RILEY – Red Hot: The Best Of Billy Lee Riley. AVI Records AVI CD 5007. FACTORY SEALED NEW CD. This release issued in 1995. 24-track compilation from the Sun Records’ archive; includes two alternate versions. TRACKS: Rock With Me Baby, Trouble Bound, Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, I Want You Baby, Red Hot, Pearly Lee, Wouldn’t You Know, Baby Please Don’t Go, Down By The Riverside, No Name Girl, Come Back Baby (One More Time), Got The Water Boilin’ Baby, Open The Door Richard, Flying Saucer Rock & Roll (alternate), She’s My Baby (alternate 1), Let’s Talk About Us, That’s Right, Rock With Me Baby, Searchin’, College Man, Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But Trash, Swanee River Rock, Betty & Dupree, and When A Man Gets The Blues. DESCRIPTION: First off, this is not the same as the 1999 Collectables release: Red Hot – The Very Best Of Billy Lee Riley, though it does duplicate many of the same tracks and is equally recommended especially for including a selection of some of his great R&B styled recordings (which many seem to overlook). You do get his major rockabilly recordings, all made between 1955 and 1960, for Sun Records plus 2 alternates. This release should more than serve the need of the curious and average fan.

As I couldn’t find specific details on this release, for your further reading enjoyment and enlightenment I offer the following biographical information for those of you who may not be too familiar with Riley’s work which also mentions some of the recordings featured on this CD release:

Born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the son of a sharecropper, Riley learned to play guitar from black farm workers. After 4 years in the Army, Riley first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955 before being lured to Sun Studios by Sam Phillips. He recorded Trouble Bound for Jack Clement and Slim Wallace. Sam Phillips obtained the rights and he released Trouble Bound b/w Rock With Me Baby September 1,1956 (Sun 245). His first hit was Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll b/w I Want You Baby released February 23,1957 (Sun 260) after which he recorded Red Hot b/w Pearly Lee released September 30,1957 (Sun 277) both with backing piano by Jerry Lee Lewis. Red Hot was showing a lot of promise as a big hit record, but Sam Phillips pulled the promotion and switched it to Great Balls Of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis. To add insult to injury Sam seemed to loose interest in promoting Riley’s further Sun releases, which after one spin of this CD will have you scratching your head and saying, “Huh, what was he thinking?” Considered good looking and with wild stage moves, Riley had a brief solo career with his backing band The Little Green Men. Riley and his Little Green Men were the main Sun studio band. They were Riley, Roland Janes, J.M. Van Eaton, Marvin Pepper, and Jimmy Wilson, later joined by Martin Willis (and these guys had some chemistry going on, which could, in part, explain Phillips’ reluctance in wanting to have Riley out on the road promoting hit singles). In 1960, he left Sun, and started Rita Record label with Roland Janes. They produced the national hit record Mountain Of Love by Harold Dorman (most of you will be more familiar with Johnny Rivers’ version from 1964 which hit #9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart). He later started two other labels Nita and Mojo. In 1962, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a session musician with Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Sammy Davis Jr. and others, as well as recording under various aliases. In the early seventies, Riley quit music to return to Arkansas to begin his own construction business. In 1978 Red Hot and Flyin’ Saucers Rock ‘n’ Roll were covered by Robert Gordon and Link Wray, respectively, which led to a one-off performance in Memphis in 1979, the success of which led to further recording at Sun Studio and a full-time return to performing. Rediscovered by Bob Dylan in 1992, who had been a fan since 1956; Riley plays Rock and Roll, Blues, and Country-Blues as well as being a Rockabilly pioneer and innovator. His album Hot Damn! (Capricorn, 1997) was nominated for a Grammy. Billy passed away in August of 2009.

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