Artist: Billy Lee Riley

Title: Classic Recording 1956-60

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Format: CD

Release Date: 1994

Label: Bear Family

UPC: 4000127154446

Genre: Rock, Blues

Album Tracks

1. Rock with Me Baby
2. Trouble Bound
3. Flying Saucer Rock & Roll
4. I Want You Baby
5. Red Hot
6. Pearly Lee
7. Wouldn't You Know
8. Baby Please Don't Go
9. Rockin' on the Moon
10. Is That All to the Ball
11. Itchy
12. Thunderbird
13. Down By the Riverside
14. No Name Girl
15. Come Back Baby (One More Time)
16. Got the Water Boiling
17. Open the Door Richard
18. Dark Muddy Bottom
19. Repossession Blues
20. That's What I Want to Do
21. Too Much Woman for Me
22. Flyin' Saucer Rock & Roll
23. I Want You Baby
24. She's My Baby (1)
25. Pearly Lee
26. She's My Baby (2)
27. Pearly Lee
28. Red Hot
29. Rock with Me Baby
30. Wouldn't You
31. That's Right
32. Searchin'
33. Chatter & College Man
34. Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
35. Down By the Riverside
36. Swanee River Rock
37. Betty and Dupree
38. Let's Talk About Us
39. Got the Water Boiling
40. Saturday Night Fish Fry
41. Folsom Prison Blues
42. Billy's Blues
43. Dark Muddy Bottom
44. When a Man Gets the Blues
45. Sweet William
46. Red Hot
47. Mud Island
48. My Baby's Got Love
49. That's What I Want to Do
9. Come Back Baby (One More Time)
10. Got the Water Boiling
11. Betty and Dupree
12. Let's Talk About Us
13. Saturday Night Fish Fry
14. Folsom Prison Blues
15. Dark Muddy Bottom [Demo Version]
16. When a Man Gets the Blues
17. Sweet William
18. Open the Door, Richard
19. Red Hot
20. Dark Muddy Bottom
21. Repossession Blues
22. That's What I Want to Do
23. That's What I Want to Do [Undubbed Master]
24. Too Much Woman for Me
25. My Baby's Got Love
26. Mud Island
27. That's What I Want to Do

When people talk about rockabilly, Billy Lee Riley is usually in the 'A' list, even tho' he never had a hit. His spectacularly untamed vocals, backed by the equally uninhibited Little Green Men stand at the very pinnacle of rockabilly. If this set only had Billy's Sun recordings, like 'Red Hot', 'Rock Me With Me Baby', 'Flying Saucers Rock'n Roll', and 'No Name Gal', it would be a great set, but we added some never-before-heard alternate takes, and then we added his Brunswick session ('Rockin' On The Moon', etc.), and then we added his Rita recordings like 'Dark Muddy Bottom', 'Repossession Blues', and 'That's What I Want To Do'.