Cat. No. VV 1196: BOYD BENNETT AND HIS ROCKETS ~ ROCK AND ROLL. SWING RECORDS B 4950.
USED VINYL RECORD. PART OF A COLLECTION NOW UP FOR SALE.
BOYD BYRON BENNETT WAS BORN INTO A MUSICAL FAMILY AND GREW UP IN NORTH DAVIDSON, TENNESSEE JUST OUTSIDE OF NASHVILLE AND FORMED HIS FIRST BAND THERE. HIS GRANDFATHER TAUGHT BOYD BY THE AGE OF FOUR YEARS HOW TO READ THE NOTES IN MUSIC BEFORE BOYD COULD ACTUALLY READ SONG LYRICS. GROWING UP DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. BOYD DID ANYTHING HE COULD TO MAKE MONEY. HE SANG IN QUARTETS AND PLAYED GUITAR AND SANG OUTSIDE OF BARS For EXTRA FUNDS. AT THE AGE OF 16 HIS CAREER WAS INTERUPTED BY WW11 IN WHICH HE SERVED FOUR YEARS. DURING HIS FREE TIME HE PERFECTED HIS GUITAR PLAYNG. DURING THE EARLY 1950s BOYD BENNETT AND HIS SOUTHLANDERS PERFORMED AT LOCAL DANCES AND ON VARIETY TV SHOWS.
BOYD AND HIS GROUP CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF SYD NATHAN, OWNER OF KING RECORDS. THEY RELEASED A COUPLE OF COUNTRY TRACKS, "TIME" AND "HOPELESS CASE". NATHAN THEN SIGNED THE GROUP TO A RECORDING CONTRACT. BOYD BENNETT AND HIS ROCKETS, AS THEY WERE NOW KNOWN BY, BECAME THE HOUSE BAND AT KING RECORDS, BACKING UP MOON MULLICAN, EARL BOSTIC, BILL DOGGETT, MERLE TRAVIS AND OTIS WILLIAMS AND THE CHARMS.
BOYD BECAME ACUTELY AWARE OF THE MUSIC TEENAGERS WERE LISTENING TO AND IN 1955 WROTE "SEVENTEEN" AIMED SPECIFICALLY AT THE TEENAGE MARKET. SID NATHAN DISMISSED THE EFFORT CLAIMING TEENAGERS HAD NO MONEY TO BUY RECORDS. BOYD SHREWDLY WAITED UNTIL NATHAN LEFT FOR A TWO-WEEK VACATION AND PREVAILED UPON NATHAN'S ASSISTANT TO RELEASE THE RECORD. THE RECORD REACHED THE BILLBOARD CHART ON JULY 9, 1955 AND WENT TO NUMBER FIVE BY SEPTEMBER. THE BAND FOLLOWED UP "SEVENTEEN" WITH "MY BOY FLATTOP" WHICH REACHED THE TOP 40 FOR A NUMBER OF MONTHS, ALTHOUGH A LESSER SELLER THAN THEIR EARLIER EFFORT.
THIS ALBUM RELEASE BY SWING RECORDS OF ITALY (DATE UNKNOWN) GATHERS TOGETHER 20 OF BOYD'S TRACKS HE RECORDED FOR THE KING LABEL AND CONTAINS SOME GREAT ROCKERS NOT UNLIKE BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS. THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITON WITH ONLY VERY, VERY MINOR WEAR ALONG THE EDGES. THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO SOILING OF THE SLEEVE AT ALL. THE RECORD IS GRADED AS NEAR MINT.
TRACK LISTING: Side 1 - Click Clack / There's Nothing Like This / Rabbit-Eye Pink And Charcoal Black / Hit That Jive Jack / Sentimental Journey / You Mother Doesn't Think It's Right / Boy Meets Girl / Signed Sealed And Delivered / Rockin' Up A Storm / The Most. Side 2 - Boogie Bear / Naughty Rock & Roll / Seventeen / Tight Tight / Laughin' Girl, Crying Boy / Big Junior / The Brain / Hershey Bar / Coffee Break / Hear Me Talking.
12" VINYL RECORD
