SHIPPING DATE: OKTOBER 29, 2007 (estimated) STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 12, 2007 ARTIST BUDDY KNOX & JIMMY BOWEN with THE RHYTHM ORCHIDS TITLE Rock LABEL Bear Family Records CATALOG # BCD 16872 PRICE-CODE AR EAN-CODE
4000127 168726 ISBN-CODE 978-3-89916-335-3 FORMAT CD digipac with 52-page booklet GENRE Rock 'n' Roll TRACKS 31 PLAYING TIME 65:17
KEY SELLING POINTS
• First definitive package devoted to a true rockabilly pioneer! • First package to draw from all Buddy Knox's significant label affiliations. • Includes first self-composed #1 rockabilly hit, Party Doll. • Incredible photos and first-hand recollections!
SALES NOTES
Following their national emergence in 1957, the achievements of two small town Texas boys would shake the music world for decades to come. Still remembered for the enduring classic Party Doll, Buddy Knox was the first rockabilly singer-songwriter to score a number one pop hit, and enjoyed more follow up successes than many of his peers ( Hula Love, I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself and several others). Jimmy Bowen, whose Roulette waxing of I'm Stickin' With You was a solid Top 20 hit, later produced major smash hits by Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tillis, Reba McEntire, and George Strait. In the process, he revolutionized the Nashville sound. Knox and Bowen began their careers in the Rhythm Orchids, a freewheeling quintet that rose from college fraternity parties to national prominence virtually overnight. "Those were the pioneer days of rock," Knox said in an interview, "most of us won't trade those days for anything." The complete story is here. Every hit and every rockin' single from every significant label affiliation.
Bear Family's 'Rocks' series continues its commitment to definitively rockin' packages.
TRACK LISTING
1. Party Doll 2. Maybelline
3. Mary Lou 4. Jimmy Bowen: I'm Stickin' With You 5. Cause I'm In Love With You 6. Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep 7. Devil Woman 8. Jimmy Bowen: My Baby's Gone 9. Rockabilly Walk (instrumental) 10. Rockhouse 11. Rock Around The Clock 12. Jimmy Bowen: Warm Up To Me Baby 13. Hula Love 14. Whenever I'm Lonely 15. Swingin' Daddy 16. Jimmy Bowen: Money Honey 17. C'mon Baby 18. That's Why I Cry 19. Somebody Touched Me 20. Jimmy Bowen: Can She Kiss 21. I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself 22. All For You 23. Long Lonely Nights 24. Jimmy Bowen: Stick With Me 25. Storm Clouds 26. The Girl With The Golden Hair 27. Lovey Dovey 28. I Got You 29. Ling Ting Tong 30. She' s Gone 31. Good Lovin'