Cat. No. VV 1420: JOHNNY POWERS ~ ROCK! ROCK! ROCK!. ROLLERCOASTER ROLL 2010.

USED VINYL RECORD. PART OF A COLLECTION NOW UP FOR SALE.

JOHNNY POWERS (BORN JOHN LEON JOSEPH PAVLIK) IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS 1957 RECORDING ON THE FOX LABEL ENTITLED "LONG BLOND HAIR". JOHNNY (AS PAVLIK) BEGAN HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN 1953 AT AGE 15 WHEN HE JOINED A LOCAL DETROIT COUNTRY BAND KNOWN AS JIMMY WILLIAMS AND THE DRIFTERS. LATER, HAVING BECOME A FAN OF CARL PERKINS AND THE YOUNG ELVIS PRESLEY, JOHNNY BEGAN TO INCLUDE ROCK'N'ROLL ELEMENTS IN HIS MUSIC.

UNTIL 1955, JOHNNY PERFORMED AND RECORDED UNDER HIS BIRTH NAME BUT, FOLLOWING A STUDIO SESSION FOR FORTUNE RECORDS IN DETROIT CO-OWNER DEVORA BROWN - SEEING JOHNNY EATING A POWERHOUSE CANDY BAR - GAVE HIM THE STAGE NAME OF JOHNNY POWERS.

JOHNNY RELEASED A PAIR OF SINGLES ON THE FOX RECORDS LABEL (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 20TH CENTURY FOX RECORDS) INCLUDING "LONG BLOND HAIR" BUT NOT LONG AFTER FOX RECORDS WENT OUT OF BUSINESS AND JOHNNY SIGNED WITH SUN RECORDS WHICH RELEASED ONE SINGLE UNDER HIS OWN NAME. IN 1960, JOHNNY MET WITH BERRY GORDY AND SIGNED ON WITH MOTOWN RECORDS BECOMING THE FIRST WHITE MALE MUSICIAN TO DO SO. NONE OF THE RECORDINGS JOHNNY MADE FOR MOTOWN WERE RELEASED. OVER THE YEARS JOHNNY RECORDED FOR A VARIETY OF LABELS BUT NEVER ACHIEVED THE SUCCESS HE DESERVED.

ONE TRACK RELEASED IN AUSTRALIA WAS “MAMA ROCK” UNDER THE PSEUDONYM JOHNNY “SCAT” BROWN ON THE LOCAL LEEDON LABEL. FOR MANY YEARS NOBODY KNEW WHO JOHNNY “SCAT” BROWN WAS UNTIL SOMEONE GOT HOLD OF A COPY OF JOHNNY POWER’S VERSION AND COMPARED THE TWO AND WHAM OH!, THE TRUE IDENTITY CAME TO LIGHT.

THIS SELECTION WAS RELEASED BY ROLLERCOASTER OUT OF ENGLAND AND FEATURES A BRIEF CROSS-SECTION OF JOHNNY'S RECORDINGS INCLUDING THE AFOREMENTIONED "LONG BLOND HAIR". THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ONLY VERY, VERY MINOR SIGNS OF WEAR. THE RECORD IS GRADED AS NEAR MINT.

TRACK LISTING: Side 1 - Long Blond Hair / Rock Rock / Honey Let's Go "To A Rock'n'Roll Show) / Your Love / I'm Walkin / Treat Me Right / Be-Bop-A-Lula / Mean Mistreater / Trouble / With Your Love, With Your Kiss. Side 2 - Be Mine All Mine / Me And My Rhythm Guitar / Waiting For You / Oh So Far Away / Kiss-A-Me Baby / Falling Star / The Bigger They Are (The Harder They Fall In Love) / Please Return My Love / Someone's Gonna Hurt You / Seventeen.

12" VINYL RECORD