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Charlie Rich, Gene Simmons, Warren Smith
That'll Flat Git It!, Vol. 17 - Rockabilly From the Vaults of Sun Records
Genres: Country, Rock, Classic Rock

Track Listings (34) - Disc #1
1. Jungle Queen - Fred Prentiss
2. All I Want - Jimmy Williams
3. Little Woman Friend Of Mine - Charlie Rich
4. Greenback Dollar (alternate take) - Ray Harris
5. What Else Could I Do? - Alan Wingate
6. Searchin' For My Baby - John Tolleson
7. Do What I Do - S. Brooks & the Slim Rhodes Band
8. If You Need Me - Unknown Artist
9. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - Ray Scott
10. Chains Of Love - Gene Simmons
11. Red Cadillac And A Black Mustache - Warren Smith
12. Snake Dance - Unknown Artist
13. Little Girl (alternate take) - Ray Smith
14. It Makes No Difference Now (alternate take) - Johnny Bernero
15. Hickory Nut Mountain - John Tolleson
16. No More Crying The Blues (alternate take) - Alton & Jimmy
17. Should Be You - Alan Wingate
18. I'll Satisfied - Carl McVoy
19. Take And Give (alternate take) - S. Brooks & the Slim Rhodes Band
20. Goodbye Mary Ann (alternate take) - Charlie Rich
21. Little Boy Blue - Jerry Arnold
22. That's All - Onie Wheeler
23. Tonight Will Be The Last Night - Ray Scott
24. Red Hot (alternate take) - Billy Lee Riley
25. Rocky Road Blues - John Tolleson
26. Find My Baby For Me - Sonny Burgess
27. Big River (alternate take) - Johnny Cash
28. Lazy River - Fred Prentiss
29. Rainin' The Blues - Alan Wingate
30. Life's Too Short To Live - Jerry Lee Lewis & the Sonny Burgess Band
31. High Class Baby - Jerry Arnold
32. Driving Home - Unknown Artist
33. Don't Sweetheart Me - John Tolleson
34. Unknown Tape Fragment - Jimmy Wages

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CD Details

All Artists: Charlie Rich, Gene Simmons, Warren Smith, Billy Riley, Sonny Burgess, Johnny Cash, Fred Prentiss, Jimmy Williams, Ray Harris, Alan Wingate
Title: That'll Flat Git It!, Vol. 17 - Rockabilly From the Vaults of Sun Records
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bear Family
Original Release Date: 1/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 6/13/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Rock, Classic Rock
Styles: Bluegrass, Classic Country, Oldies & Retro, Roots Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

Synopsis

Product Description

CD with 36-page booklet. Back in 1992, we decided that Rockabilly sounded good on CD, so we had the idea that we should create the all-time definitive Rockabilly series. Above all, Rockabilly was music recorded for 45RPM singles, so we designed a Rockabilly series label-by-label instead of artist-by-artist, and we compiled it for listening pleasure. Just the great stuff, plus a few super rarities. Every CD would be for the most part a 30 song jukebox of the finest Rockabilly ever recorded for all the great labels. We sourced the very best sounding tapes and took them to the best mastering engineers, and then we took the packaging to a new level. We adopted the catchphrase of the first Rockabilly dee-jay, Dewey Phillips, THAT'LL FLAT GIT IT, and we hired Bill Millar, who'd compiled the still-classic label-oriented Rockabilly LPs in the 1970s and 1980s, to write the notes. We looked for previously unpublished photos, and tried to find all the artists who'd never been found before. The result is a truly definitive series that now runs to TWENTY volumes. And the good news is that there will be FIVE more before the series is finished.This is Bear Family's third trip through the Sun rockabilly vaults, emphasizing on lesser-known artists & tracks; over two-thirds of the tracks here are being released for the first time ever, and the remainder contains alternate takes & rarities.

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CD Reviews

That'll just about flat git it

oneeyeraised | KY | 07/06/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"(Actual rating would be 3 and a half stars) Bear Family's 17th entry in this series, this is a mostly well chosen compilation of unreleased, alternate, and unknown Sun recordings. Several of the offerings on here are anonymous demos that were found in the Sun records vaults, others are demo recordings sent in to Sun in hopes of cutting an actual rating, and the rest are either unreleased demos by Sun artists or alternate versions of Sun singles. You get 34 songs and a great booklet with super liner notes. The majority of the songs are pretty good, with a handfull of real gems. I'm especially partial to Ray Harris' propulsive version of "Greenback Dollar", Alton and Jimmy's "No More Cryin the Blues", the Charlie Rich demos, both Jerry Arnold tunes("Little Boy Blue" touches on the softer soft of rockabilly, and wouldn't be out of place on a Buddy Holly album, and "High Class Baby" though it suffers from muddy sound is worth ressurecting), Onie Wheeler's "That's All", the Johnny Cash alternate of "Big River" (practically a different song than the released version), "Jungle Queen" by Fred Prentiss, and Sonny Burgess' "Find My Baby For Me" with great backing vocals by Roy Orbison. Remember though that some of these songs are anonymous contributions or were just stuck back in the vaults because they just didn't quite have "it." The John Tolleson demos are a case in point; did Bear Family really need to put three of his songs on this cd? One would be more than enough. Really, they are generic in every way, and I hit the skip button every time one of them cues up. His vocal stylings on "Rocky Road Blues" are particularly egregious. Yeah, this guy defintely should have remained in the vault, though he apparently did make records for other companies. Mind boggling.By and large though, this cd is a winner. If you are just getting interested in rockabilly, this might not be the best place to start, but long time fans will enjoy this one."