Yes, I'm Lonesome Tonight

"YES, I'M LONESOME TONIGHT", one of the answers to Elvis "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Linda Lee on Shasta Records, Hollywood label owned by Jimmy Wakely who happened to be her father!

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The Kavaliers on Morgan

Get Your Feet Off Of Me

Greenville, Alabama band on a Montgomery, Alabama label. The Kavaliers were Mike Morris, Wayne Neuendorf (lead), Jack Boutwell, Larry Hughes, Tim Nix and Mike Walters. A 5 piece pop/rock/soul band playing all over Alabama and West Georgia. Became a show band in 1968 after a change of name : they were then The Original Dedications.

Serge Blouin : Chuck Berry tribute

Go Mr. Berry Go

Chuck Berry tribute on a St. Laurent, Québec label.
In french. (si, si!)

Serge Blouin

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Lover Please

Lover Please - Rhythm Steppers

Billy Swan-penned "Lover Please" is probably best known sung by Clyde McPhatter. It was a hit in 1962 (Mercury Records).

This is the very first version by the Rhythm Steppers (vocal : Jim Boyer) on the Memphis Louis label owned by Bill Black.

A band Bill Black sometimes played with, Mirt Mirley & the Rhythm Steppers, drove from St. Louis to Memphis to record for Black. Billy Swan was just along for the ride. « My friend Jimmy Boyer was the lead singer for them. », recounts Swan. « So, we went into Satellite studios, and Chips Moman was the engineer, and they did one song called « Little Miss Heartbreak ». That’s the only one they had with ‘em. Then Jimmy Boyer, who was standing against a wall drinking a Coke, said « Well, Swan writes songs". So Bill said, « Well, play me something." So I played him three, and ‘Lover Please' was one of ‘em. So, they did ‘Lover Please’.
[from The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Band, book by Ken Burke,Dan Griffin]

"Lover Please" - Dennis Turner

Mirt Mirley & the Rhythm Stepppers’ version of the song didn’t click, but Black liked the song well enough to record it with another Swan’s friends, Dennis Turner.

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Jack Evans on Kayo

Jack Evans

KAYO-502

Colette

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