Willie Lewis favorites
Here are just a few links to Willie Lewis‘ record-collecting favorites. An expanded list to follow soon.
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(label art borrowed from Rockin’ Country Style, the best site to learn about rockabilly)
Here is a top 50 list of Willie Lewis‘ favorite rockabilly records from Way Gone Magazine a long time ago:
1. Don Feger – Date On The Corner (Ebony) (Though now Lewis would tell you that this song is not technically rockabilly)
2. “Little” Donnie Bowshire – Rock and Roll Joys (King)
3. Thumper Jones – Rock It (Starday)
4. Charlie Feathers – Bottle To The Baby (King)
5. Herbie Duncan – Hot Lips Baby (Mar Vel)
6. Hank Swatly – The Okie Boogie (Aaron)
7. Jackie and Tony Lamie – Wore To a Frazzel (Sunset)
8. The Lynn Twins – Rockin’ Out The Blues (Blue Sky)
9. Three Aces and a Joker – Booze Party (G.R.C.)
10. Three Aces and a Joker – Sleigh Bell Rock (G.R.C.)
11. Lean and Carlos – Rock Everybody (Liberty Tone)
12. Vern Pullens – It’s My Life (Spade)
13. The Echo Valley Boys – Wash Machine Boogie (Island)
14. Joe Clay – 16 Chicks (Vik)
15. Bill Bowen – Don’t Shoot Me Baby (Meteor)
16. Junior Thompson – Raw Deal (Meteor)
17. Mac Sales – A Gal Named Joe (Meteor)
18. Bobby Poe – Rock and Roll Boogie (White Rock)
19. The “New” Blockbusters – Rock and Roll Guitar (Antler)
20. Autry Inman – Be Bop Baby (Decca)
21. Billy Barrix – Cool Off Baby (Chess)
22. Tex Rubinowitz – Hot Rod Man (Ripsaw)
23. Sonnee West – Sweet Rockin’ Baby (Nor-Va-Ja)
24. Buddy Holly – Blue Days, Black Nights (Decca)
25. Bill Beach – Peg Pants (King)
26. Walter Brown – Jelly Roll Rock (Zip)
27. Ronnie Self – Pretty Bad Blues (ABC)
28. Harold McKinnon – Little Jump Joint (Carter)
29. Gene Maltais – The Raging Sea (Lilac)
30. Custer Bottems – The Stood Up Blues (Bakersfield)
31. Harold Shutters – Bunny Honey (Golden Rod)
32. Jimmy Dale – Baby Doll (Saber)
33. Jimmy Lee & Wayne Walker – Love Me (Chess)
34. Roy Moss – You’re My Big Baby Now (Mercury)
35. Wayne McGinnis – Rock, Roll & Rhythm (Meteor)
36. Curtis Gordon – Mobile, Alabama (Mercury)
37. Sonny Fisher – Rockin’ Daddy (Starday)
38. Cliff Bakely – High Steppin’ (Starday)
39. Lee “Red” Nelson – Carmen Sue Rock (Ridge Crest)
40. Red Moore – Crawda Hole (Red)
41. The Surf Riders – I’m Out (Nasco)
42. Frank Starr – Dig The Squeaky Shoes (Lin)
43. Roc LaRue – Baby Take Me Back (Rama)
44. Alvis Wayne – Swing Bop Boogie (Westport)
45. Charlie Feathers – Get With It (Meteor)
46. Gene Norman – Snaggle Tooth Ann (Snag)
47. Elroy Dietzal – Teenage Bait (Bokay)
48. Bill Flagg – Guitar Rock (Tetra)
49. Al Ferrier – Hey Baby (Excello)
50. Maddox Brothers & Rose – The Death of Rock and Roll (Columbia)
