Charlie Rich..Lonely Weekends..Orig Rockabilly 1960 LP
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This is Charlie Rich...Lonely Weekends...Phillips Records 1970 LP 1960
Original Phillips Records pressing (Brother of Sun Records fame Sam Phillips)
This is the real deal 100% authentic 1960 pressing.
Rockabilly, Blues, Country, Rock sound from the great Charlie Rich
Rich began his professional musical career while he was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the early '50s. While he was stationed in Oklahoma, he formed a group called the Velvetones, which played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals. Rich left the military in 1956, and he began performing clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B; he also began writing his own material. Rich managed to land a job as a session musician for Judd Records, which was owned by Judd Phillips, the brother of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips. Around this time, saxophonist and Sun recording artist Bill Justis heard Rich play at the Sharecropper Club and asked the pianist to write arrangements for him. Sam saw Rich perform with Justis at a club gig and asked him to record some demos at Sun Studios. Phillips rejected the resulting demos, claiming they were too jazzy. After absorbing some Jerry Lee Lewis records Justis gave him, Rich returned to Sun quickly and became a regular session musician for the label in 1958, playing and/or singing on records by Lewis, Johnny Cash, Justis, Warren Smith, Billy Lee Riley, Carl Mann, and Ray Smith. He was also writing songs, including "Break Up" for Lewis, "The Ways of a Woman in Love" for Cash, and "I'm Comin' Home" for Mann, which was later cut by Elvis Presley.
In August of 1958, Rich released his first single, "Whirlwind," for the Sun subsidiary Phillips International. Throughout 1959, he recorded a number of songs at Sun, though only a handful were actually released. Rich didn't have a hit until 1960, when his third Phillips International single, "Lonely Weekends," became a Top 30 pop hit.
Cover: VG+ with very light edge and corner wear, glossy finish
Vinyl: VG+ to better... with a few fine hairline and light surface scratches....new gloss....some light background between tracks and in soft songs...
Tracks include: Lonely Weekends, Whirlwind, C.C. Rider, Breakup, Juanita ...+ 7 others..see back cover pic for list
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