GILMER, JIMMY & THE FIREBALLS - SUGAR SHACK / MY HEART IS FREE 45 UNPLAYED 1966

$

35

ROCK/HARD ROCK/GARAGE     POP/SURF     R&B/MOTOWN     COUNTRY     BLUES/JAZZ

 

JIMMY GILMER
AND THE  FIREBALLS

45 RPM

DOT RECORDS
16979
COMPANY SLEEVE


A-SIDE

SUGAR SHACK

PEAK  # 1  BILLBOARD HOT 100  15  WEEKS ON CHART 

 

B-SIDE

MY HEART IS FREE

CONDITION:  VINYL  MINT  "UN-PLAYED"

CONDITION:  LABEL  MINT-

COMES  with  COMPANY SLEEVE  EXCELLENT  and  PLASTIC COVER
[16979 IN INK BACK SLEEVE]

ARTIST:

  JIMMY GILMER  AND THE  FIREBALLS

TITLE:

A-SIDE

B-SIDE

  SUGAR SHACK          
    /  DAISY PETAL PICKIN'

LABEL:

  DOT  16979

YEAR:

  1966  ORIGANAL RELEASED 63

FORMAT:

  45 RPM

CONDITION:

  MINT  "UN-PLAYED"  

COMMENTS:

  COMPANY SLEEVE   EXCELLENT             

COLORED VINYL:

  BLACK

 

ADDITION NOTES:

                                                                             

ADDITION INFO:

 

  NEW BUY  MARCH 28, 2015  

  The Fireballs, sometimes billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs,      was an American rock and roll group.

 Particularly popular at the end of the 1950s and in the early 1960s. The original 1958 line-up was: George Tomsco (lead guitar), Chuck Tharp (vocals), Stan Lark (bass), Eric Budd  (drums), and Dan Trammell (rhythm guitar).   

The group in 1959, from left: George Tomsco, Stan Lark, Eric Budd, Dan Trammel, Chuck Tharp

The Fireballs were formed in Raton, New Mexico, and got their start as an instrumental group, featuring the very distinctive lead guitar of George Tomsco. They recorded at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico, where Buddy Holly had previously launched his career. According to group founders Tomsco and Lark, they took their name from Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire." They reached the Top 40 with the singles "Torquay" (1959), "Bulldog" (1960) and "Quite a Party" (1961). "Quite a Party" peaked at #29 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961. Tharp, Budd and Trammell left the group in the early 1960s, but the Fireballs added Doug Roberts on drums, plus Petty Studio singer/pianist Jimmy Gilmer (born September 15, 1940 in Chicago and raised in Amarillo, Texas) to the group.

Billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, the group reached number 1 on the Billboard chart with "Sugar Shack", which remained at that position for five weeks in 1963. The single also reached number 1 on Billboard's R&B chart for one week in November of that year, but its run on that chart was cut short because Billboard ceased publishing an R&B chart from November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965. Nonetheless, "Sugar Shack" earned the group a Gold Record Award for "Top Song Of 1963". In the UK the song peaked at #45. Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs then had another pop hit in 1964 with a similar sounding "Daisy Petal Pickin'", which reached number 15 on the Hot 100.

During the run of "Daisy Petal Pickin'" on the charts, the British Invasion began with the first hits by the Beatles. The group had difficulty competing with the influx of British artists and did not reach the Top 40 again until 1968, with "Bottle of Wine", which was written by Tom Paxton. The Fireballs took "Bottle of Wine" to number 9 on the Hot 100. Although Gilmer was still a member of the group, the band was billed simply as "The Fireballs" on that single. Gilmer left the group in 1969 to pursue artist management and record production in Nashville, Tennessee. Drummer Doug Roberts died in 1981.

All of the Fireballs' material has been reissued on Ace Records (UK) and Sundazed record labels. The Fireballs continued performing with original members George Tomsco, Stan Lark and Chuck Tharp until Tharp died of cancer in 2006. Jimmy Gilmer has returned occasionally as lead vocalist and this line-up continues to perform, as of 2013. George Tomsco has continued to release CDs of new material using The Fireballs name.

Discography

Singles

Year Title Peak chart positions Record Label B-side Album US US
AC US
R&B UK AU 1959 "I Don't Know" – – – – – Kapp Records "Fireball" "Torquay" 39 – – – – Top Rank Records "Cry Baby" The Fireballs "Bulldog" 24 – – – – "Nearly Sunrise" 1960 "Foot-Patter" – – – – – "Kissin'" "Vaquero (Cowboy)" 99 – – – – "Chief Whoopin-Koff" Vaquero 1961 "Rik-A-Tik" – – – – – "Yacky Doo" "Rik-A-Tik" – – – – – Warwick Records "Yacky Doo" Here Are the Fireballs "Quite a Party" 27 – – 29 – "Gunshot" 1963 "Sugar Shack"+ 1 – 1 – 1 Dot Records "My Heart is Free" Sugar Shack "Torquay Two" – – – – – "Peg Leg" Torquay "Daisy Petal Pickin'"+ 15 – – – 5 "When My Tears Have Dried" 1964 "Ain't Gonna Tell Anybody"+ – – – – 65 "Young Am I" "Look at Me"+ – – – – 90 "I'll Send For You" 1965 "She Belongs to Me"+ – – – – – "Rambler's Blues" 1966 "Ja-Da" – – – – – "What I Am" 1967 "Bottle of Wine" 9 – – – 3 Atco Records "Can't You See I'm Tryin'" Bottle of Wine 1968 "Goin' Away" 79 33 – – 31 "Groovy Motions" "Chicken Little" – – – – – "3 Minutes' Time" "Come On, React!" 86 – – – 70 "Woman, Help Me!" Come On, React! 1969 "Long Green" 73 – – – – "Light in the Window" "Watch Her Walk" – – – – – "Good Morning Shame"

+ = Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs

 

  

    

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