Cat. No. BCD 16686: BRENDA LEE ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 16686. (IMPORT).

Cat. No. BCD 16686: BRENDA LEE ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 16686. (IMPORT).

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BRENDA LEE (BRENDA MAE TARPLEY) MADE HER RADIO DEBUT AT THE YOUNG AGE OF SEVEN IN 1952 ON THE ATLANTA PROGRAM “TV RANCH” WHERE SHE SANG THE HANK WILLIAMS SONG “HEY GOOD LOOKIN”. HER REPERTOIRE IN THOSE DAYS RANGED FROM HANK WILLIAMS AND EDDY ARNOLD HITS TO GOSPEL AND POP SONGS. SHE CONTINUED TO APPEAR ON “TV RANCH” FOR “EXPOSURE” AS WELL AS PERFORM LIVE SHOWS FOR AS MUCH AS $35 - A WEEKS SALARY. BRENDA WAS “DISCOVERED’ BY COUNTRY ARTISTS RED FOLEY WHEN SHE APPEARED ON A LIVE SHOW HEADLINED BY FOLEY. BRENDA WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SIGNED TO DECCA RECORDS AND HAD HER FIRST SESSION FOR DECCA WHERE SHE RECORDED “BIGELOW 6-200” B/W “JAMBALAYA”. THIS CD COMPRISES 36 TRACKS RECORDED BY BRENDA BETWEEN 1956 AND 1964, WHICH WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED AS HER “HEY-DAY”. GREAT UPTEMPO TRACKS BY ONE OF THE TOP FEMALE VOCALISTS OF ALL TIME *****

TRACK LISTING: Sweet Nothin’s / Rock Of The Bop / Little Jonah (Rock On Your Steel Guitar) / Dynamite / Jambalaya (On The Bayou) / Let The Four Winds Blow / That’s All You Gotta Do / When My Dreamboat Comes Home / Bigelow 6-200 / One Step At A Time / Crazy Talk / Weep No More My Baby / Let’s Jump The Broomstick / Love You ‘Till I Die / Hummin’ The Blues Over You / Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree / Heading Home / The Stroll / Dum Dum / (If I’m Dreaming) Just Let Me Dream / My Baby Likes Western Guys / Anybody But Me / Ring-A-My-Phone / Rock A Bye Baby Blues / Here Comes That Feeling / Ain’t That Love / Baby Face / Just A Little / Doodle Bug Rag / One Teenager To Another / Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home / Talkin ‘Bout You / Kansas City / Just Because / What I’d Say / Is It True. 

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