Hank C. Burnette - "Cecilia Lind"Sometimes in the misty shades of a gray and almost forgotten day in the mid-'70s I cut this rather dreamy and heavy minor driven instru ballad, written by a very famous Dutch born troubadour by the name of Cornelius Vreeswijk who early on immigrated and settled down here in Sweden. It was probably one of the first tunes I ever did where I used , to my recollection, a Stratocaster. At the same session I also cut a self-penned tune in the same type of mood called "Shades". The guitar used was one of those rare japanese made Aria Pro II Strats with a handcarved dragon inlaid body and headstock (I've had two more of those since). In fact, that's the only guitar I used throughout the entire tune, both for lead and rhythm. I've always liked the tune itself, called "Cecilia Lind", because of the very pleasant and almost sad melody. Hope you enjoy (and can bear that it's app. 4:30 long!)... - Created with AquaSoft SlideShow Ultimate: www.aquasoft.net
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Hank C. Burnette - "His Latest Flame"Time for yet another EP number, an instru version of his '61 hit, "His Latest Flame", which I included in that outragious 1997 home recording session which brought no less than 62 tracks to life in just one month!! I've already uploaded quite a few tracks from that session, since it overall produced quite a few pretty decent instrus, if I may say so. As you may figure out (with the 62 tracks in one month hysteria, lol) it was a pretty quick affair to record and there's a few bits & pieces here and there that I probably would've arranged another way if I hadn't been so stressed (had two record labels breathing up my neck and a short deadline to boot, so I had to be fast!). Anyway, hope you like it... TRIVIA: "(Marie's the Name Of) His Latest Flame" is a song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961. It was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and originally recorded by Del Shannon on the album "Runaway With Del Shannon" which was released in June 1961.The more famous and successful recording by Elvis Presley was released in August 1961. The relatively intense tune, featuring a Bo Diddley beat, performed well on both pop and easy listening stations, reaching #4 on the Billboard Top 100, and #2 on the Easy Listening chart, based (at the time) on the Top 100, but deleting "teen beat" singles. The single (a double A-side with "Little Sister") made #1 in the UK. It was covered by alternative-rock band The Smiths (as part of a live ...
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Hank C. Burnette - "Butterfly"My own personal interpretation of Charlie Gracie's hit, "Butterfly, comin' up. Cut in the late '70s and never released (WHAT??). In fact, the backing and vocal was recorded at the same session that brought "Last Night" to life, although there's not a synth in sight on this one. Same 'problem' with a drowned vocal though, which makes me realise that I probably had turned my ears into crumbled cookies from too much headphone volume, making my hearing 'a bit dimmed', ha, ha! Anyway, the melody has a nice ring to it so I hope you like it... TRIVIA: Charlie Gracie was born Charles Anthony Graci on May 14, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father encouraged him to play the guitar. Gracie's musical career started at the age of 14 when he appeared on the Paul Whiteman television show. The owner of Cadillac Records, Graham Prince, heard one of Gracie's early radio performances, contacted the young musician and signed him to a recording contract. This association yielded the single "Boogie Woogie Blues" backed with "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter". The record led to Charlie's first appearance on Bob Horn's American Bandstand television program. (This was four years before Dick Clark became the host). After cutting two more singles for Cadillac, including one called "Rockin´ ´n´ Rollin´" in 1952, Charlie moved on to 20th Century Records, where he put out another four sides. By 1956, Philadelphia had given birth to the new Cameo record label. Its founders ...
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Hank C. Burnette - "My Hamtramck Mama"I got this track from an extremely rare 45 by Ray Taylor & the Alabama Pals on the small and obscure Clix label in Michigan.. Hardly anything is known about this artist other than that he worked strictly locally out of his home town in Michigan and that "My Hamtramck Mama" (on some copies entitled "My Hamtramck Baby") b/w "Connie Lou" (the later the A-side of the single) was his only footprint in the world of recorded music. The Clix record is in fact a 1st class bluesy type rockabilly effort, show casing his 15 year old son, Adolfus, playing drums on both sides. Another example of yet another great roots type artist that 'fell by the wayside' and hardly went nowhere at all, in spite of his undoubtable qualities as a first class singer and rhythm guitarist! I recorded both sides of this Clix single in the mid-'70s..."Connie Lou" was released on the "Rockabilly Gasseroonie" album on the Sonet label in '77 and "My Hamtramck Mama" on the "Cruisin' Deuces" CD on the Sunjay label in '96. The usual set-up is appearing as far as the instruments goes, aka my Country Gent for the guitar parts and the Ludwig set for the drums. However, I added a dog house bass in the mid-'80s, just in case you're wondering what's slappin' away in there. Hope you enjoy... - Created with AquaSoft SlideShow for YouTube: www.aquasoft.net
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Hank C. Burnette - "Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu"A classic Huey "Piano" Smith tune coming up, "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu". Trivia... Huey "Piano" Smith was born, January 26, 1934 in New Orleans' Garden District and was influenced by New Orleans' piano innovator, Professor Longhair. He became known for his shuffling right-handed break on the piano that influenced other Southern players. Smith wrote his first song on the piano, "Roberson Street Boogie" (named after the street where he lived), when he was only eight years old, and performed the tune with a friend. When Smith was fifteen he began working in clubs and recording records with his flamboyant partner, Eddie Jones, who rose to fame as Guitar Slim. When he was eighteen, in 1952, he signed a recording contract with Savoy Records, which released his first known single, "You Made Me Cry". In 1955, Smith became the piano player with Little Richard's first band for Specialty Records, after Richard had left Don Robey's Peacock Records of Houston, Texas. The same year he also played piano on several studio sessions for other artists such as Lloyd Price. Two of the sessions resulted in hits for Earl King ("Those Lonely Lonely Nights"), and Smiley Lewis ("I Hear You Knocking"). In 1957, Smith formed Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns with blues singer and female impersonator (!) Bobby Marchan and signed a long term contract with former Specialty record producer, Johnny Vincent at Ace Records. They hit the Billboard charts with several singles in succession ...
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Hank C. Burnette - "Riverside Jump"As most of you seem to 'ignore' my ballad sides, according to the comments I receive (with a few exceptions, of course, which I'm very grateful for!!), here's another flat out rocker...my version of Jackie Lee "Jack The Cat" Cochran's old '56 Sims label bopper, "Riverside Jump" (I've also recorded "Hip Shakin' Mama", the flip side of his Sims single, which I'll most likely upload here later on). In fact, this must be the 3rd time, at least, that I've recorded this one, as it's such a likeable and easy song to record. The 1st version I did was completely different in structure and tempo compared to this one. But the 2nd version I did is an almost note for note exact same one as this one, minus the dog house bass which I added in the '80s. And by this time it may not come as any big surprise to you to learn that the basics of this track was laid down in the...'70s (my, oh, my..wasn't I creative during that decade!!). Stay wild....
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Hank C. Burnette - "Till Min Syster"My second attempt here on YT to upload a song with SWEDISH LYRICS may surprise many of you, unless you havn't already lent an ear or two to the first attempt I made here on February 15, 2009 in the shape of "Jag Väntar Vid Min Mila". As well as that one this song/poem is also written by the same composer, Dan Andersson and dedicated to his sister Anna Andersson on her 18th birthday on May 15, 1917. Called "Till Min Syster" ("To My Sister") and taken from a collection of poems called 'Black Ballads'. Daniel "Dan" Andersson was born April 6, 1888 in Skattlösberg, Dalarna, Sweden and died of cyanidpoisoning September 16, 1920 in Stockholm at the mere age of 32. Together with Nils Ferlin, he was and still is one of the most respected and loved poets Sweden has ever fostered! Hope you like my version of this song, even if the lyrics are non-understandable to you. For any Swedes that hopefully has happened to drop by, I'm enclosing the original Swedish lyrics so you'll understand what I'm singing about, lol... Till min syster Nu spelar vårens ljumma vind i myrens gula starr, och sakta stiga sagorna kring ön i Berga fors. Förlåt ett stänk av bitter fröjd, en visa till gitarr, det starka oss till läkedom likt strandens unga pors. En sång till dej, min syster, när all marken väntar vår! Luossas ljunghed surrar yr av vind och vilda bin. Där lärde vi oss tunga steg i våra yngsta år, och ingen vet hur djupt vi drack vår barndoms beska vin. Men härlig, härlig våren kom vart år i rosor ...
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Hank C. Burnette - "Young & Beautiful"An instrumental version better known as a vocal ballad included in Elvis' first movie for MGM, "Jailhouse Rock". I recorded it in the early part of the '70s and it's never been released on any of my 70+ records, so this is a first! If you wanna sing along I've included the lyrics at the end of this info. TRIVIA: Jailhouse Rock is an American film directed by Richard Thorpe for MGM. The film stars Elvis Presley in his third film and MGM debut. The film tells the story of Vince Everett (Elvis Presley), an ex-convict who discovers his musical talent during his time in jail. His cellmate, Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy) teaches him to play guitar and sing. Shortly after being released from prison, Vince meets in a night club Peggy van Alden (Judy Tyler), a music scout who asks him to record a demo. Peggy and Vince take the demo arrangements of a song to a label that ultimately publishes it under one of their established artists. To avoid studios, Peggy and Vince open their own label to release future recordings, finally achieving success. Soon the fame and fortune change Vince, whose personality becomes self-centered and disloyal towards his associate, Peggy, and to his former cellmate, Hunk. The movie was premiered on October 17, 1957, in Memphis and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at number 3 on Variety box office chart, and reached number 14 in the year's box office totals grossing $4 million. By 1969, the movie grossed between the United States ...
Duration:2.67 min.
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Hank C. Burnette - "It's The Way You Are"Another one of those obscure songs I managed to track down ages ago. Originally cut by one James Mask (born 1932 in Pontotoc, Miss.) but never released, until European Collector, White and Redita labels all three decided to include it on three different compilation albums, "Mississippi Rock and Roll", "Ten Years Collector Records" and "Bandera Rockabillies" respectively. A straight country rendition in it's original form (I wonder where the guys at Collector and Redita got the 'Rock and Roll' vs. 'Rockabilly' tabs from??). But, as usual, yours truly's version has more of a rocked up country flavour to it, although still keepin' the country roots intact. My trusty old Gretsch Country Gent is at it again, but this time taking a back seat and doing that familiar Luther Perkins type 'do-whacka-do' rhythm part. The guitar solo is a whole different ballgame altogether...same Country Gent but run through a pitch transposer to give it a rather 'peculiar' synth like sound! There's also a kind of special story behind this particular version, as the couple of versions you will find issued throughout the years, on different record labels, has added instruments to them, while this one is the bare boned raw demo version, which I happened to find by pure incident on an old cassette tape and simply liked more than the actual released versions, in spite of the pretty low-grade sound quality. The reason is that the vocal is more up-front and pronounced on this one than it is on the ...
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Hank C. Burnette - "Bad Seed"Time for some blues based offering....Austin blues addict (and Howlin' Wolf sound alike!) Kent "Omar" Dykes (front figure of the Austin based blues outfit 'Omar & The Howlers') is the man behind "Bad Seed" and did a terrific original version of it on the "Wall Of Pride" Columbia album of 1988 (which also included the hard boogie masterpiece "Rattle Snake Boogie", featured as part of a movie soundtrack the same year). Yours truly's instru version is from my hectic august 1997 living room session (cut on a 6-track Sansui MR-66 cassette recorder!), which brought to life no less than 62 tracks in a row, using only a 12-string Takamine acoustic, a Charvel HM solid body (both run through a Jerry Donahue designed Sessionmaster preamp) and a Alesis SR-12 drum machine triggered manually by a set of digital drum pads like a regular live drum set. What a gig! The video is made up of quite heavy edited bits & pieces from the movie "Bad Boys", one of the most car crash crazy films ever made, I think. Enjoy...
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