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By 1958, rock ‘n’ roll seemed to have pretty well settled in for good.
“Here to stay,”
according to Danny & The Juniors. (Elvis had only just joined the army in March and the
rock ‘n’ roll-crippling payola scandals were just light wisps of clouds on the horizon).
Taking their cue from the Danny & The Juniors hit, Grand Ole Opry star Jimmy Dickens
and his producer, Don Law, assembled the Nashville ‘A’ team at the Bradley Film &
Recording Studio inApril to take another stab at making a rock ‘n’ roll record (see Vol.1 of
this collection for Jimmy Dickens' 1953 cover of Piano Red's
Rocking With Red
)
.
The song
they had on tap was a Felice and Boudleaux Bryant composition. The husband and wife
(Felice & Boudleaux Bryant)
recorded April 16, 1958 (19:00-22:00)
Bradley Film & Recording Studio,
804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee;
Producer: Don Law
with Little Jimmy Dickens: vocal/guitar; Harold Ray
Bradley: 6-string electric bass guitar; Thomas Grady
Martin: electric guitar/leader; Buddy Gene Emmons:
steel guitar; Floyd T. ‘Lightnin’’ Chance: bass; Farris
Coursey: drums; Thomas Lee ‘Tommy’ Jackson Jr:
fiddle; Henry Newton ‘Tommy’ Vaden: fiddle
Co 4-41173
master OB 1548 (CO 60819)