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50s Rockabilly Bopper - Epic Records unissued (recorded, October 29, 1956, Columbia Studio, New-York City) with George Barnes on lead guitar🎸 at 00:59
Jaycee Hill, Born Hillman Baker, 28 October 1931, in Big Sandy near Nashville, Tennessee. Died 16 May 2013, Ravenna, Ohio, USA.
Jaycee moved to Cleveland in 1945 and then to Valley View, Ohio, where he finished high school in 1949.
He and his buddy, Joe Sway, formed an act, Hill & Joe,
The Valley Boys, and began performing country music in and around Cleveland on radio and TV.
Cleveland was one of the United States' breakout markets, and Elvis made his first northern appearance there.
Shortly thereafter, Hillman and Joe changed their country tune.
On July 3, 1956, they went to Audio Recording Studio in Cleveland to record four songs. "A Love So Fine" and "Romp Stompin' Boogie", two fine but very different rockabilly tracks, were selected for release on Epic 9185 in September.
The single from the Cleveland session must have sold well enough for Epic's producer Joe Sherman to bring Jaycee back to the studio in New York with some top session men (George Barnes lead guitar) (Danny Perri, rhythm guitar) (Milt Hinton, bass) (Panama Francis, drums), on October 29, 1956. Sherman gave Jaycee a bunch of songs and told him to pick four.
Out of this session came the single "Bump!"/"Crash-Out" (Epic 9193), released in November. "She's Gone" was finally issued in 2006 on Bear Family.
Epic kept the faith until 1958 and released two further singles.
Jaycee remembers one appearance on the Dick Clark Show.
After leaving Epic, he recorded a single as J.C. Hill in Cleveland and sold the masters to Chess "Solong - Goodbye"/"Only True Love" came out on Argo 5311 in September 1958.
In 1959, he cut one session for MGM and was unaware that the record "Dum De Dah Dah Dah Dah"/"Little Boy Blue" (MGM 12765) had been released, until Colin Escott told him.
He co-wrote "Yea, Yea" for the Kendall Sisters (Argo 5291, # 73 in 1958), produced Buddy Covelle's "Lorraine" for Coral, and sent some tapes of then unknown Dottie West to Chet Atkins, but his enthusiasm for the music business quickly waned.
Biography: http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/jaycee_hill.htm
#rockandroll #rockabilly #50s
50s Rockabilly Bopper - Epic Records unissued (recorded, October 29, 1956, Columbia Studio, New-York City) with George Barnes on lead guitar🎸 at 00:59
Jaycee Hill, Born Hillman Baker, 28 October 1931, in Big Sandy near Nashville, Tennessee. Died 16 May 2013, Ravenna, Ohio, USA.
Jaycee moved to Cleveland in 1945 and then to Valley View, Ohio, where he finished high school in 1949.
He and his buddy, Joe Sway, formed an act, Hill & Joe,
The Valley Boys, and began performing country music in and around Cleveland on radio and TV.
Cleveland was one of the United States' breakout markets, and Elvis made his first northern appearance there.
Shortly thereafter, Hillman and Joe changed their country tune.
On July 3, 1956, they went to Audio Recording Studio in Cleveland to record four songs. "A Love So Fine" and "Romp Stompin' Boogie", two fine but very different rockabilly tracks, were selected for release on Epic 9185 in September.
The single from the Cleveland session must have sold well enough for Epic's producer Joe Sherman to bring Jaycee back to the studio in New York with some top session men (George Barnes lead guitar) (Danny Perri, rhythm guitar) (Milt Hinton, bass) (Panama Francis, drums), on October 29, 1956. Sherman gave Jaycee a bunch of songs and told him to pick four.
Out of this session came the single "Bump!"/"Crash-Out" (Epic 9193), released in November. "She's Gone" was finally issued in 2006 on Bear Family.
Epic kept the faith until 1958 and released two further singles.
Jaycee remembers one appearance on the Dick Clark Show.
After leaving Epic, he recorded a single as J.C. Hill in Cleveland and sold the masters to Chess "Solong - Goodbye"/"Only True Love" came out on Argo 5311 in September 1958.
In 1959, he cut one session for MGM and was unaware that the record "Dum De Dah Dah Dah Dah"/"Little Boy Blue" (MGM 12765) had been released, until Colin Escott told him.
He co-wrote "Yea, Yea" for the Kendall Sisters (Argo 5291, # 73 in 1958), produced Buddy Covelle's "Lorraine" for Coral, and sent some tapes of then unknown Dottie West to Chet Atkins, but his enthusiasm for the music business quickly waned.
Biography: http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/jaycee_hill.htm
#rockandroll #rockabilly #50s
