SHIPPING DATE: March 17, 2008 (estimated) STREET DATE: April 07, 2008 ARTIST HAYDEN THOMPSON TITLE Rock-A-Billy Gal The Sun Years, plus LABEL Bear Family Records CATALOG # BCD 16131 PRICE-CODE AH EAN-CODE

4000127 161314 ISBN-CODE 978-3-89916-377-3 FORMAT CD with 48-page booklet GENRE / Rock'n'Roll TRACKS 35 PLAYING TIME 82:16

KEY SELLING POINTS

• A ten-year retrospective of one of the unsung heroes! • Previously unissued Sun recordings! • He was there at the beginning... watching Elvis in Mississippi in 1955... and he's still wowing crowds at revival shows!

SALES NOTES

Hayden Thompson is one of the last of the surviving original rock'n'rollers, and he's still a mighty impressive performer on the rockabilly revival circuit. He might not have had any hits, but he had credentials and style to spare. He was there at the epicentre of rockabilly back when nobody knew quite what it was or what to call it. He was born within a few miles of , he saw Elvis at the dawn of his career, he made his first record within a few months of Elvis, and he was on the legendary Sun Records. His 1956 recording of Love My Baby is acknowledged as classic rockabilly. It comes no finer.

This collection covers Hayden Thompson's first decade of recording: Here are both sides of all five singles issued between 1954 and 1962... all of them fabulously rare, along with most of the songs unissued at the time, plus eight previously unissued versions of the much-admired and much-emulated classic rockabilly sides Hayden cut at Sun in 1956 and '57.

TRACK LISTING

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1. Love My Baby 19. I Guess I'd Better Be Moving Along 2. Rock-A-Billy Gal 20. This Old Windy City 3. Fairlane Rock 21. Lonely For My Baby 4. One Broken Heart 22. I Wanna Get Home 5. Blues Blues 23. Train From Chicago (16:88) 6. Oh Mama (Mama Mama Mama) 24. Act Like You Love Me 7. You Are My Sunshine 25. I Feel The Blues Coming On 8. Don't You Worry 26. Love My Baby 9. Congratulations To You, Joe 27. One Broken Heart 10. Call Me Shorty 28. Dream Love 11. I'll Hold You In My Heart 29. Tom Thumb 12. Goin' Steady 30. Whatcha Gonna Do 13. Kansas City 31. Summers Almost Over 14. Frankie And Johnny 32. Queen Bee 15. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 33. Pardon Me 16. The Key To My Kingdom 34. Love My Baby 17. Your True Love 35. Rock-A-Billy Gal 18. Kansas City

Also available in the 'Sun Years' series: Plus more Sun:

Tommy Blake THE ORIGINAL SUN SINGLES COLLECTION Koolit – The Sun Years, plus BCD 16797 AH Volume 1 (Sun 175-228 & Flip 501-504) ISBN: 978-3-89916-284-4 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 68-Page-Book BCD 15801 DI Ernie Chaffin ISBN: 978-3-89795-342-0 Laughin' & Jokin' - The Sun Years Volume 2 (Sun 229-278) BCD 16780 AH 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 72-Page-Book ISBN: 978-3-89916-192-2 BCD 15802 DI ISBN: 978-3-89795-343-7 Mack Self Volume 3 (Sun 279-328) Easy To Love – The Sun Years, plus 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 68-Page-Book BCD 16519 AH BCD 15803 DI ISBN: 978-3-89916-319-3 ISBN: 978-3-89795-344-4 Volume 4 (Sun 329-379) Gene Simmons 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 68-Page-Book Drinkin' Wine – The Sun Years, plus BCD 15804 DI BCD 16758 AH ISBN: 978-3-89795-345-1 ISBN: 978-3-89916-248-6 Volume 5 (Sun 380-407 & Phillips International 3516-3538) 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 68-Page-Book Malcolm Yelvington BCD 15805 DI It's Me, Baby - The Sun Years, plus ISBN: 978-3-89795-346-8 BCD 16757 AH Volume 6 (Phillips International 3539-3586) ISBN: 978-3-89916-215-8 4-CD Boxed Set (LP-Size) with 68-Page-Book BCD 15806 DI ISBN: 978-3-924787-39-4

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