SONNY FISHER ROCK-A-BILLY 78 SNEAKY PETE / HEY MAMA ORIGINAL US STARDAY 190 E
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TWO GREAT ROCK-A-BILLY SIDES FROM SONNY FISHER ON THIS ORIGINAL US STARDAY LABEL 78
SNEAKY PETE
b/w HEY MAMA
Rockabilly pioneer Sonny Fisher, "The Wild Man From Texas", never achieved anything more than regional stardom in the US. During the 1950s he cut only a handful of records, which were not released in Europe at the time. But when the Ace label in the UK reissued his recordings in 1979, he suddenly found himself proclaimed King of the rockabilly revival by European fans.
Sonny Fisher's date of birth is usually given as November 13, 1931. He was actually born in 1930, but his mother didn't record his birth until a year after. Sonny learned to play on his father's guitar and from listening to the Grand Ole Opry. His favourites were Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb and Little Jimmy Dickens, later also Hank Williams. The Fisher family left Texas during World War II, moving to California and later to Tacoma, Washington. But Sonny missed Texas and moved back there in the late 1940s, settling in Houston. He formed his own country band in 1951 and started playing local clubs. After the addition of Joey Long, an exceptionally talented electric guitarist, the band began to incorporate R&B covers into its repertoire.
"Everything we did came from R&B ; we picked up the beat, the rhythm, everything from Joe Turner, Fats Domino, B.B. King, people like that. Then we heard Elvis and recognized it as something different." Like many others, Fisher was under the impression that Presley was black until he saw him perform in Texas in November 1954. Sonny decided that this new rockabilly music was for him, sacked his fiddler and his steel guitarist and dubbed the remaining trio The Rocking Boys. He paid for his first session in January 1955, at Bill Quinn's Goldstar Studio in Houston, consciously going for a sound like Presley's. Quinn called Jack Starnes, co-owner of the Starday label, to tell him that there was someone doing songs similar to Elvis's material. Starnes came to hear the band, signed Fisher to Starday and would produce all his 1950s recordings. The four songs from that first session (all his own compositions) became Sonny's first two records : "Rockin' Daddy"/"Hold Me Baby" (Starday 179) and "Sneaky Pete"/"Hey Mamma" (Starday 190).
DISC DETAILS:
US STARDAY 190 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
CONDITION - EXCELLENT
TWO SUPERB ROCK-A-BILLY SIDES
on an original STARDAY 78!
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