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From '' More Riverside Rockabillies ''
Label: Raucous Records – RAUCLP 022
Format: Vinyl, LP, 10", Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Tracklist
A1 The Crawdads - Whiskey And Gin
A2 Jesse James & The Outlaws - Raging Sea
A3 The Slingshots - The Pain Has Gone
A4 Al Holden - Baby Let`s Play House
A5 The Riverside Trio - Peach Pickin`Time In Georgia
B1 The Slingshots - Blue Eyed Country Girl
B2 The Rhythmaires - Wildcat Tamer
B3 The Ricardos - Don`t Bug Me No More
B4 Walt Mitchinson - Sugar In My Coffee
B5 Jesse James & The Outlaws - Who Do You Love
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Baby Let's Play House" is a song written and originally recorded by Arthur Gunter in 1954 on the Excello Records label, and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records.
It was the fourth issue of a Presley record by Sun, and became the first song recorded by Elvis to appear on a national chart, when it made no.5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in July 1955.
Presley's version differs greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac auto that had been serving as the band's transportation at the time.
Elvis Presley version Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1955) / Peak position
US Billboard Country Singles / 5
Chart (2008) / Peak position
Italy (FIMI) / 1
Spain (Promusicae) / 3
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) / 23
UK Singles (OCC) / 84
John Lennon version and ''Run For You Life''
John Lennon used the line, "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man," from this song for the opening line of the Beatles song, "Run for Your Life."
On July 6, 1957, John Lennon covered "Baby Let's Play House" in the evening set at the Woolton church fete. Note: this was the day Lennon met Paul McCartney.
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly recorded a cover of this song in 1955 at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas. Holly's cover, cut as a demo for Columbia Records, and included on the 1985 Charly Records compilation Buddy Holly Rocks, sounds very much like the Elvis version.
Lonnie Lee
The song was also recorded by Australian Lonnie Lee on Leedon Records in early 1960.
The version was not unlike Elvis' in many respects.
It was very popular at Lee's shows and a version of him singing it in 1960 on Australia's first Rock'n'Roll TV Show, 'Six O'Clock Rock' is still extant.
The song was lip synched by Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the TV biopic Elvis: The Early Years, in a scene of Presley's 1955 Odessa Auditorium performance.
In 2008, a Spankox remix of it made no.84 in the UK.
🔗 [LINKS]
raucousrecords.com
#rockabilly
From '' More Riverside Rockabillies ''
Label: Raucous Records – RAUCLP 022
Format: Vinyl, LP, 10", Compilation
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Tracklist
A1 The Crawdads - Whiskey And Gin
A2 Jesse James & The Outlaws - Raging Sea
A3 The Slingshots - The Pain Has Gone
A4 Al Holden - Baby Let`s Play House
A5 The Riverside Trio - Peach Pickin`Time In Georgia
B1 The Slingshots - Blue Eyed Country Girl
B2 The Rhythmaires - Wildcat Tamer
B3 The Ricardos - Don`t Bug Me No More
B4 Walt Mitchinson - Sugar In My Coffee
B5 Jesse James & The Outlaws - Who Do You Love
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Baby Let's Play House" is a song written and originally recorded by Arthur Gunter in 1954 on the Excello Records label, and covered by Elvis Presley the following year on Sun Records.
It was the fourth issue of a Presley record by Sun, and became the first song recorded by Elvis to appear on a national chart, when it made no.5 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in July 1955.
Presley's version differs greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac auto that had been serving as the band's transportation at the time.
Elvis Presley version Charts
Weekly charts
Chart (1955) / Peak position
US Billboard Country Singles / 5
Chart (2008) / Peak position
Italy (FIMI) / 1
Spain (Promusicae) / 3
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) / 23
UK Singles (OCC) / 84
John Lennon version and ''Run For You Life''
John Lennon used the line, "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man," from this song for the opening line of the Beatles song, "Run for Your Life."
On July 6, 1957, John Lennon covered "Baby Let's Play House" in the evening set at the Woolton church fete. Note: this was the day Lennon met Paul McCartney.
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly recorded a cover of this song in 1955 at the Jim Beck Studio in Dallas. Holly's cover, cut as a demo for Columbia Records, and included on the 1985 Charly Records compilation Buddy Holly Rocks, sounds very much like the Elvis version.
Lonnie Lee
The song was also recorded by Australian Lonnie Lee on Leedon Records in early 1960.
The version was not unlike Elvis' in many respects.
It was very popular at Lee's shows and a version of him singing it in 1960 on Australia's first Rock'n'Roll TV Show, 'Six O'Clock Rock' is still extant.
The song was lip synched by Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the TV biopic Elvis: The Early Years, in a scene of Presley's 1955 Odessa Auditorium performance.
In 2008, a Spankox remix of it made no.84 in the UK.
🔗 [LINKS]
raucousrecords.com
#rockabilly
