Cat. No. RCCD 3038: JOHNNY POWERS ~LONG BLOND HAIR. ROLLERCOASTER RCCD 3038. (IMPORT).
JOHNNY POWERS’ MAIN CLAIM TO FAME WAS A SUPERB ROCKABILLY TRACK TITLED “LONG BLOND HAIR” WHICH HAS BEEN RECORDED BY NUMEROUS BANDS OVER THE YEARS. ONE OTHER 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 2 CD OUTING FROM ROLLERCOASTER CONTAINS ALL OF JOHNNY’S ‘50s RECORDINGS ALONG WITH SOME DEMOS AND ACETATES AND SOME MORE RECENT RECORDINGS. OVERALL A GREAT OVERVIEW OF JOHNNY’S CAREER.
TRACK LISTING: CD1 – 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 (I’m Evil) / With Your Love, With Your Kiss / Be Mine All Mine / Me And My Rhythm Guitar / Waitin’ For You / Oh So Far Away / Kiss-A-Me Baby / Falilng Star / The Bigger They Are (The Harder They Fall In Love) / Please Return My Love / Someone’s Gonna Hurt You / Seventeen / Mama Rock / Indeed I Do / Waitin’ For You / Don’t Go Away / Trouble (I’m Evil) / Don’t Lie To Me / Waiting For You / Won’t You Please, Pretty Baby / Rosalee / But Now That It’s Over / I Believe She Loves Me Too / I Need Your Lovin’ Baby / I Got A Girl Who Knows How To Live / Everybody Says That I’m A Lucky Guy / Well I Got Troubles / I’ll Take That Chance* / Indeed I Do.*
CD2 – New Spark For An Old Flame / Mama Rock / Your Cheatin’ Heart / Matchbox / Waitin’ For You / Corrine, Corrina / Waitin’ For You / Endless Love* / My Love, My Life* / I Was There When It Happened / Good Gracious Me / Ring, Damn You, Ring / Long Blond Hair / Thought I Heard Something / Me And My Rhythm Guitar / Till Honky Gets Tonky Again / I Haven’t Learned My Lesson Yet / Anything You Say / Doo-Wop Shang-A-Lang / Three Little Words / Ooooh Give It To Me Baby / Everybody’s Got A Dream / Just One Kiss / I’ll Come Back To You.
*Denotes previously unissued cuts.
2CD SET - DIGIPAK
