RARE ROCKABILLY 45 BOBBY CROWN FELCO 102 ONE WAY TICKET
$
103
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RARE ROCKABILLY 45 BOBBY CROWN FELCO 102 ONE WAY TICKET
Direct from an Arkansas Estate!
Here You Go - One of the RAREST ROCKABILLY 45'S!
Bobby Crown and the Kapers "One Way Ticket"/ "Your Conscience" FELCO Records F-102
From RockabillyHall.com:
Among fans of the Big Beat, Bobby Crown is revered. Even if his Felco disc was the only record he ever made, that reverence would still be justified, as that one release, One Way Ticket b/w Your Conscience is quintessential Texas rockabilly.
Fort Worth, Texas, Clifford Herring Recordings, 1705 West 7th Street.
1959.
Bobby Crown and the Kapers.
Robert Louis "Bobby Crown" Krajca - vcl/gtr, Eddie Conley - gtr, Dale Morgan - gtr, Leslie Louis Krajca - bs, Gilbert Gray - dms, "Butch" Evans - pno.
ZTSC 10364 - One Way Ticket (Krajca) - Felco F - 102
ZTSC 10365 - Your Conscience (Lumpkins) - Felco F - 102
NOTE: Initial pressings of Felco 102 were issued with incorrect writer credits. Second pressings featured the incorrect artist credit - Bobby Lumpkins and the Kapers. Third and final pressings contained the correct writer and artist credits.
By the time an initial demo of Your Conscience was laid down at Cliff Herring's, drummer Gilbert Gray and pianist "Butch" Evans had joined the Kapers. Their talents were used to good effect on the early '58 and '59 demos and would be used again, providing the propulsive back beat to Bobby's first rendition of Your Conscience. Fields was impressed with the result, but needed a second tune to use on the flip. Bobby dredged up a song he had written a few years earlier when he was fourteen, One Way Ticket. The lyrics were astoundingly emotive, considering Bobby had penned the tune at such a tender age. The Kapers backing was appropriately solemn, but maintained an infectious beat, due in the most part to "Butch" Evans resonating key thumping and Dale Morgan's searing runs.
Fields liked the demo and booked another date at Herring's to recut both tunes for release. With minor changes in composition and lyrics, Bobby and the band re-recorded Your Conscience and One Way Ticket with an even more aggressive feel than the earlier demos. Released as by Bobby Crown and the Kapers on Felco 102, initial pressings featured reversed writer credits. Fields attempt to rectify the printers ineptitude was thwarted a second time, as he told Larry Harrison, "I sent the master to this pressing plant in Indiana with the label info and they sent them back labeled Bobby LUMPKIN", continuing "I shipped the lot back to the plant in exchange for the correct "Crown" ones and they promised to destroy the "Lumpkin' ones".
Condition: GOOD. I like to rate vinyl on the low side, just to make everyone happy - that's my bottom line.
(I'm sure some people selling this would probably rate it VG or VG++, but I won't - I'm honest.)
This 45 Does Not Skip but...
1) It has not been professionally cleaned
2) It does display surface scuffs and scratches
3) There are several small chips on the outer edge - they do not affect play on my machine
4) a bassy 'thump' can quickly be heard twice on the One Way Ticket side in the last third of the song
(this might disappear after a professional cleaning - I cannot guarantee that).
I have included 2 extra photos in attempt to show the surface wear better.
Questions - Please Ask!
Therefore - This RARE 45 Record is being SOLD AS IS - AS FOUND -
WITH ALL FAULTS DESCRIBED AND PHOTOGRAPHED and NO RETURNS.
Priority Shipping and Insurance Included in the U.S.
Shipping Charges outside of the U.S. are $45.00 for Priority Mailing and Insurance - no complaints, please
NO RESERVE!
