Linda Lu (CD)

Sharpe, Ray

1-CD with 20-page booklet, 27 tracks (8 first releases), Mastering Bob Jones. Playing time approx. 66 mns.

"Well now they call my baby Fatty, but her real name is Linda Lu"

Every entertainer needs one song that he can call his own and for Ray Sharpe that song is Linda fa It was written whilst he was still a skinny teenager struggling to establish himself in the blues clubs of Dallas, Texas. It carried him into the national charts in the summer of 1.959 and provided him with a fleeting taste of that big time success which his immense talent deserved but never really sustained.
Even after Linda Lu dropped out of the best selling lists, the song never deserted him. Ray settled into a steady routine of club work, and every night his show would not be complete until that familiar shuffling guitar sound had heralded in his most famous number.
Ray Sharpe has always had more than one song to offer an audience however. He has a most diverse musical taste and can comfortably move through a whole range of styles, encompassing R&B, country, funk, soul, blues and of course rock and roll, all in the course of one evening's entertainment.

Doug Sahm, Delbert McClinton and others cite it as a record that turned their heads around. The original version is here together with 27 other rare or unissued sides recorded from 1958 to 1962 for labels like Jamie, Hamilton, Trey, Gregmark and Park Central. Most of these sides were cut in Phoenix by the legendary Lee Hazlewood, and the underground classics in this long overdue rerospective include Oh My Baby's Gone, That's The Way I Feel, Kewpie Doll, TA Blues, Red Sails In The Sunset, Long John, and Justine. Check out one of the great original talents in rock 'n' roll!


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