Johnny Tillotson The Outtakes (2-CD)

2-CD Cap-Box mit 60-seitigem Booklet, 58 Einzeltitel. Spieldauer ca. 2 Stunden 47 Minuten.

Exzellente 2-CD-Edition mit Alternativ-Versionen von Johnny Tillotson für Cadence Records. Tolle Gelegenheit für Johnny Tillotson-Fans und -Sammler, die Unterschiede zwischen frühen und späteren Einspielungen verfolgen zu können. Schwerpunkt des Materials sind die ersten Jahre von Johnny Tillotsons Plattenkarriere (1958-1963).

Bear Family freut sich- nach den Everly Brothers, Johnny Cash, Billy Riley, Gene Vincent und Janis Martin - einen sehr willkommenen Neuzugang für die CD-Reihe mit Studio-Outtakes präsentieren zu können. Johnny Tillotson ist ein internationaler Star, der zwischen 1958 und 1965 insgesamt 26 Titel in die 'Billboard'-Charts brachte. Sein größter Hit war Poetry In Motion, der in den USA bis auf Platz 2 kam und in England sogar auf Rang 1 und dort in den ersten drei Wochen des Jahres 1961 blieb.

Diese Aufnahmen - die meisten nie zuvor veröffentlicht - lassen erkennen, wie sich Songs im Studio allmählich entwickelten. Einige sind hier ohne Overdubs und Orchester zu hören, die auf den Originalausgaben noch enthalten waren.

Ein Höhepunkt ist die Entdeckung mehrerer nie veröffentlichter Fassungen von Poetry In Motion, eine davon wurde in New York mit King Curtis am Saxophon eingespielt - kurz bevor die Hit-Version mit
Boots Randolph am Saxophon in Nashville entstand. Auch von der Rudolph-Fassung sind alternative Einspielungen zu hören! Ebenfalls ein Treffer ist der nie zuvor veröffentlichte Song Please Help Me I'm Falling - aufgenommen vier Monate nachdem Hank Locklin damit einen Hit feierte.

Johnny Tillotson letzte Single für Cadence war Judy, Judy, Judy / You Can Never Stop Me Loving You - dieses Set enthält nicht nur eine Alternativfassung der Originalversion, sondern auch einen Take aus einer zweiten Aufnahmesession mit einem veränderten Arrangement.

Johnny Tillotson Klassiker wie Judy, Judy, Judy, Out Of My Mind, Send Me The Pillow You Dream On, Dreamy Eyes, Princess, Princess, Why Do I Love You So und Earth Angel sind alle dabei - viele davon gleich mehrfach. Etliche dieser Outtakes gibt es außerdem hier in Stereo, während die Originale in Mono erschienen waren.

Ein Super-Bonus ist die extrem seltene Aufnahme, die Johnny Tillotson 1958 mit Genevieve machte. I'm Never Gonna Kiss You wird auf dieser Zusammenstellung erstmals wiederveröffentlicht. Bear Family ist in der Tat stolz auf diese Kopplung mit wunderbaren Songs von Johnny Tillotson, der - gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Nancy - dieses Projekt von Beginn an unterstützt und begleitet hat.

Johnny Tillotson

Geboren am 20. 4. 1939 in Jacksonville, Florida. Wurde als Jugendlicher in der “Nashville Pet Milk'-Talentshow entdeckt. Größte künstlerische Vorbilder: Roy Rogers, Gene Autry und Hank Williams. Johnny Tillotson unterschrieb 1958 einen Vertrag bei Archie Bleyers Cadence Records, wechselte 1963 zu MGM. Der Country- und Balladen-Spezialist spielte bis in die 70er Jahre Platten ein, seine Hoch-Zeit hatte er jedoch zwischen 1958 und 1965, als er 26 Titel in die amerikanischen Top 100 bugsierte. Tillotsons erfolgreichste Songs sind “Poetry In Motion' (Platz 2 - 1960), 'It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' ' (Platz 3 - 1962) und 'Talk Back Trembling Lips' (Platz 7 - 1963). Während der 70er hatte er ferner Rollen in diversen TV-Serien übernommen. In den späten 90er Jahren war er, gemeinsam mit Kollegin Brenda Lee, Gastgeber der Fernseh-Reihe 'Nashville Today'.

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Johnny Tillotson

At the time of writing, it is now over 52 years since Johnny Tillotson made his first professional recordings for Cadence in August 1958. In that time he has achieved what many fail to do in music industry. He has lasted! After a lifetime in the firmament of popular music, he remains an attraction in the U.S.A. and abroad where his appearances in cabaret and one nighters are still enjoyed by fans many of whom, have stood by him through five decades of music, films, television and concerts

Born in Jacksonville, Florida on April 20^th 1939, Johnny was actually raised in Palatka by his grandparents but he travelled back to be with parents each summer. His mother was Doris and his father was Jack, a country music disc jockey.

It appears that performing was in his blood from an early age and indeed by the age of nine, he was featured on the local radio show, Young Folks Revue. Encouraged by his grandparents, he set about turning himself into becoming a professional singer. He sang at local functions and had played so much locally by the time he entered Palatka Senior High School, his reputation had preceded him and he was quite well established and known in the state of Florida.

He guested on the television show, The Toby Dowdy Show, where he became a regular with a three year contract and when the show itself ceased transmission, the opportunity opened up for Johnny to have his own show on WDGA-TV. Juggling a television show and studies at the University of Florida was not easy but Johnny pulled it off and he successfully graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism and Communications in 1959 despite the distractions of his passion for music.

At the same time that all this was going on, Johnny has started writing songs and when, in 1957, a local disc jockey sent six of his songs to the National Pet Milk Talent contest, Johnny found himself in Nashville performing on WSM Radio.

In Nashville he was heard by Lee Rosenberg, a Nashville music publisher who was so impressed by what she heard that she took a tape of Johnny singing to Archie Bleyer at Cadence Records, already scoring highly in the pop charts with hit titles by The Chordettes, The Everly Brothers and Andy Williams as well as achieving a #17 hit in his own right with The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane as 1954 turned into 1955.

The hits started immediately with Dreamy Eyes charting in November 1958 and peaking at #63 (reissued in 1961, it moved 28 positions higher to #35). Twenty-six chart entries followed in the U.S. with his biggest being Poetry In Motion which advanced to #2 in the States in late 1960 but was eclipsed by its success in the U.K. where it spent three weeks in the #1 position at the early part of 1961.

 

Undoubtedly Johnny's greatest success a songwriter was with It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin' which was a #3 pop and #4 country hit for him in 1962. Many covers and revivals followed with perhaps Elvis Presley's rendering on his 'From Elvis In Memphis' album in 1969 being the most prestigious.

During his association with Cadence Records (1958-1963), Johnny recorded 41 different titles in his own right. He recorded three songs on more than one occasion and he added his vocal to a session by French singer, Genevieve, on one song.

When the Cadence tapes were analysed, it was found that all but one performance existed in outtake form; the only track to survive purely as a master was Love Is Blind (Cadence 1365).

There was one song, Please Help Me I'm Falling that had never been released before and like something akin to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, we found a session recorded in New York with King Curtis on sax playing on an earlier attempt at Poetry In Motion.

Within the master tapes boxes, the master take, as originally issued, tends to be missing from the spools.

Johnny Tillotson The Outtakes
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