ROCK-A-BILLY 78 SID KING "OOBIE DOOBIE" EX

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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS ULTRA RARE 1957 ROCK-A-BILLY PHILIPS SAMPLE 78 FROM SID KING AND THE FIVE STRINGS

TWO SUPERB SIDES - LISTEN!!

   OOBIE DOOBIE   b/w  BOOGER RED

Sid King & The Five Strings - Ooby Dooby

Sid King & The Five Strings - Booger Red

One of the first white rock & rollers to record for a major label, Sid King (born Sid Erwin) was also one of the first young Southern musicians to go from Western swing to rockabilly in the mid-’50s. Erwin grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He sang and played guitar at school, and while still in his mid-teens he began appearing on local radio with a friend, Melvin Robinson. The duo eventually took over the program, and Erwin and Robinson (who also played steel guitar and sax) formed a band, bringing in Erwin’s brother Billy Joe on lead guitar, Ken Massey on bass, and David White on drums.

The group, by then known as the Western Melody Makers, stuck to playing country and Western swing in their gigs and radio appearances, but they were listening to lots of records by black artists. They were signed to Starday Records in 1954 and recorded a handful of songs, but these yielded no hits. They subsequently got a contract with Columbia Records and rechristened themselves the Five Strings. Erwin, in turn, changed his name to Sid King, all for the sake of a rhyming moniker, Sid King & the Five Strings.

The Columbia sessions show just how far afield from country the group’s listening had gotten. Their harmonies, the high-compression beat of their playing, and their choice of songs, coupled with Jim Beck’s hard, up-front mixing of the rhythm section, made them, for a time, one of the hotter rockabilly acts outside of Memphis.

In 1954 Dick Penner enrolled in North Texas State College in Denton where he met Wade Moore. Together they wrote "Ooby Dooby" in February 1955. "Wade and I took a six pack of beer onto the flat roof of the fraternity house and it took us three minutes", Penner told Dominique Anglares. (Fifteen minutes in another version of the story.) The song came to the attention of fellow student Roy Orbison, who recorded a demo of the song with his band, the Wink Westerners, and sent it to Columbia Records. The label was not interested in Orbison, but pitched the song to Sid King and the Five Strings, who recorded it on March 5, 1956, in Dallas.

In the UK the record wasn't released until 1957 on the Philips label and attracted minimal sales.

It is incredibly rare!  

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