RAY HARRIS RARE ROCK-A-BILLY 78 " GREENBACK DOLLAR WATCH AND CHAIN " SUN 272 EX+
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MEGA RARE ORIGINAL US SUN ROCK-A-BILLY 78 FROM RAY HARRIS WITH JERRY LEE LEWIS, ROY ORBISON AND FRIENDS!
Homer Ray Harris, singer, guitarist and record producer: born Tupelo, Mississippi 7 September 1927; married (two daughters); died Tupelo 13 November 2003.
Ray Harris was one of the pioneers of rockabilly music, recording for the famed Sun label in the 1950s until Harris decided that he was "on the wrong side of the mike" and became a record producer, starting Hi Records and making several hit records.
He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1927 and raised in poverty during the Depression. By the early Fifties, he got a job at the Firestone tyre plant in Memphis, where hie met the bass player Bill Black. In 1954 Black told Harris that he was working with a young musician who was also born in Tupelo, Elvis Presley. Harris was invited to Sun Records and he watched Presley, Black and Scotty Moore record "Good Rockin' Tonight". Another onlooker was Wayne Cogswell from Connecticut, who was selling vacuum cleaners in Memphis and was a talented guitarist.
Once Presley started having hit records, Harris and Cogswell thought they would develop along similar lines. They wrote and rehearsed "Come On Little Mama" and recorded it for Sun. It was a frantic rock'n'roll song with an intense, almost nonsensical lead vocal from Harris. The record made Harris $300 and Sun's owner, Sam Phillips, requested a follow-up.
One drunken night, Harris recorded "Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain" with Roy Orbison singing back-up and Jerry Lee Lewis playing piano. It is, effectively, a true party record. Only two singles were issued during Harris's tenure at Sun.
GREENBACK DOLLAR, WATCH AND CHAIN
(Harris)
RAY HARRIS (SUN 272, 1957)
Well, I don't want your green back dollar
Well, I don't want your watch and chain
All I want is your heart baby
Won't you take me back again
Well, once I had a loving sweetheart
Who thought the world of me
Till another came between us
Now she cares, but not for me
Well, many a night with you I rambled
Down beside the ocean blue
In your heart you loved another
In my dreams, I still love you
Well, I don't want your green back dollar
Well, I don't want your watch and chain
All I want is you my baby
Won't you take me back again
Well, I don't want your green back dollar
Well, I don't want your watch and chain
All I want is your heart baby
Won't you take me back again
Well, won't you take me back again
(Alternative ending)
Well, mama said that we should marry
Papa said it'd never do
But if you still want me baby
Well, I will run away with you
Well, I will run away with you
TWO FANTASTIC SIDES ON THIS ORIGINAL SUN 78!
DISC DETAILS:
US SUN 272 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
CONDITION - EX/EX+
SURFACE OF THE RECORD IS EXCELLENT BUT THERE IS SOME DAMAGE TO THE B SIDE LABEL
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ROCKER!!
BID NOW!!
RTESERVE IS SET AT £100
On 29-Oct-05 at 08:29:02 BST, seller added the following information:
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