ROY ORBISON “At the Rock House” LP on SUN mono ’61 orig rare NICE HEAR

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Artist:  ROY ORBISON

Title:   “At the Rock House”

Label:   SUN ~ LP 1260.  Monaural pressing on thick vinyl, with deep groove.  Label is yellow with brown text. 

Year:  1961.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is visually a nice VG with full original gloss, plays VG+ or better.  There is some scuffing and a few light hairline marks, but none are serious or distracting.  I have provided a sound clip so that you can hear the overall sound which I consider to be quite good and enjoyable.  No pops, clicks, skips or jumps.  As with all my records, your satisfaction is fully guaranteed.          

JACKET:  Jacket is nice VG to VG+ with noticeable signs of wear and handling, but still quite serviceable.   Front panel has darkened slightly around the edges; otherwise is clean.  Reverse has ring and surface wear, and a few pen marks.  Also, wear along seams and spine, but no splits, stickers, or cutout indications. 

Track Listing:   

Side One:

• This Kind of Love
• Devil Doll
• You’re My Baby
• Tryin’ to Get to You
• It’s Too Late
• Rock House  

Side Two:

• You’re Gonna Cry
• I Never Knew
• Sweet and Easy to Love
• Mean Little Mama
• Ooby Dooby
• Problem Child

Review:

“Although it was technically Roy Orbison's first album, At the Rock House wasn't really an LP effort on his part so much as a cash-in effort by Sun Records in the wake of Orbison's later success on Monument Records with "Uptown," "Only the Lonely," etc.  And understandably, the sound is very retro for 1960-1961, comprised as the record is primarily of the rock & roll and hardcore rockabilly numbers that he cut for Sun in 1956 (with his original group the Teen Kings) and 1957, including the Johnny Cash-authored "You're My Baby," the Orbison/Harold Jenkins collaboration "Rock House," and Sam Phillips' "Mean Little Mama" and "Problem Child."  Not everything is quite as briskly paced as those two numbers, but even the ballads, such as "Sweet and Easy to Love" and "Devil Doll," and the melodic "This Kind of Love" and "It's Too Late," have an edge to them -- they stand midway between the rock & roll that was happening in 1956 and the more lush and dramatic sound that Orbison would perfect at Monument Records from 1959 onward.  All of the material is fascinating as a sort of alternate-universe version of where Orbison might've headed musically, and most of it is downright bracing and exciting, though it's easy to see why it never succeeded at the time -- numbers like "You're Gonna Cry" and "Problem Child" were a little too intense and ambitious as rock & roll, with too many changes and involved lyrics, to hold that audience en masse.  It was some of the best and most intense rock & roll you could buy in 1961 this side of Elvis Presley, however, and heard today the album is a fascinating curio from what's usually thought of as a fallow period in rock & roll history..”

(courtesy Bruce Eder, allmusic.com.)

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