Rockabilly Rock MONSTER "Go Ahead On" By Tommy Cassel 1st Pressing 45

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This has been in my collection since 1984. It came from the depths of a junk store in Mojave CA along with a Howlin Wolf single (Smokestack Lightning).

For years it was just a cool record that I couldn't find listed anywhere. It has only been in the past 10 years that I learned the story of Tommy Cassel ' s rockabilly gem, his self financed recording session with Burton on guitar and DJ Fontana on drums.

All I can say is you won't find another one on ebay.

The bad. The vinyl has a "wave" to the edge. It has played through on every system I have ever owned with no distortion. But it is there. Otherwise the vinyl would look and play grade VG+.

I just replayed both sides last night. Minimal surface noise, the Tommy Cassel vocals and James Burton guitar solos ring clear as a bell, no distortion, wave in vinyl is mainly on the outer edge before the grooves tighten up.

The labels are clean. The labels on this are correctly pressed down over the vinyl (like a 1950's RCA SINGLE) , not glued down on a flat (like a 1950's Mercury single).

Your chance to own a ROCKABILLY GRAIL!!!

I know ebay buyers HATE high starting prices so I am going to to see if any of the 52 watchers for this item will give it a try at 10% of previous price! Good luck!!! I will give it 5 more days and then it goes back into my collection as a treasured rockabilly relic :)

I GUARANTEE This is NOT a reissue and I will refund if I am proven wrong by a recognized authority.

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The Story of "Go Ahead On"

"Tommy Cassel, well known for its two releases on its own "Cassel" label in 1958 was born May 16, 1924 in Converse, near Noble, Louisiana, growing up on the family farm. His father, Perry Eli Cassel, being a country dance fiddle player, young Tommy tried to play his fiddle but soon gave up. His dad was able to buy him a harmonica for Christmas and that soon became the instrument he learned to play following the step of Wayne Raney.

In 1957, an attorney in Shreveport wanted to back him in a recording company and formed a corporation. The lawyer, owned of a local Investment company, never put one dime in the pot and Tommy had to spend its own money, which was very little, plus $200.00 his sister invested, to produce a session at KWKH and have two singles issued on his own Cassel record label.

That recording session was done in radio station KWKH studios, then located in the Commercial Building on the corner of the 200 block of Texas Street and Market Street in downtown Shreveport. For the session that produced "Go Ahead On" the session artists were "Coach" Floyd on bass, Leon Post on piano, James Burton on lead guitar, D.J. Fontana on drums and Tommy on vocal and rhythm guitar. That gang of great musicians who worked with Bob Luman, Elvis Presley, Dale Hawkins and many others cut that day, under the sound expertise of engineer Bob Sullivan, four of the best rockin' sides from the era making these two singles much sought after items in original pressing.

These two records, offering four sides written by Tommy himself, challenge these recorded by Jimmy Wilson & The Jimmie Cats (Ram 15551), Gene Wyatt (Ebb 1223), Pat Cupp ( RPM 461), The Lonesome Drifter ( K 5812) and Roy Wayne (Clif 101) as the hottest and rarest rock-a-billy sides coming from Shreveport.

All these records are still being played in foreign countries being seen as classic sides.

Tommy's sides were published by its own Delta Publishing, a BMI affiliate, but went nowhere then by lack of distribution and promotion. By the late 60's when famous French records collector Charlie Barbat meet him in Shreveport, Tommy still had several boxes of unsold 45 rpm and was offering them for sale to wealthy collectors mostly from Europe.

Charlie, always tight in money, passed the offer and keeps hunting in warehouses and jukeboxes operator depot from Louisiana, Tennessee or Mississippi as did Breathless Dan O'Coffey and few others early rockin' pilgrims."

Mr. Cassel passed away on 4 February, 2013.