Ronnie Self - Bop-A-Lena (1953) [1990]

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Ronnie Self - Bop-A-Lena
Bear Family: BCD 15436 {1956-1963}

01 Bop A Lena 02:07
02 I Ain't Goin' Nowhere 02:42
03 You're So Right For Me 02:05
04 Ain't I'm A Dog 02:17
05 Too Many Lovers 02:11
06 Date Bait 02:17
07 Big Blon' Baby 01:48
08 Petrified 01:45
09 Flame Of Love 02:14
10 Big Fool 02:28
11 Black Night Blues 02:21
12 Pretty Bad Blues 02:13
13 Three Hearts Later 02:14
14 Rocky Road Blues 02:29
15 Do It Now 01:58
16 Bless My Broken Heart 02:46
17 This Must Be The Place 01:55
18 Big Town 02:14
19 Some Other World 02:08
20 Instant Man 02:01
21 Oh Me, Oh My 02:17
22 Whistling Words 02:11
23 Past, Present And Future 02:53
24 So High 02:33
25 I've Been There 02:45
26 Moon Burn 02:22
27 Some Things You Can't Change 02:24
28 Houdini 02:08
29 Go Go The Cannibal 02:10
30 Ugly Stick 02:43
30 tracks, 68:39

Musicians
Guitar, Vocals Ronnie Self
Vocals William Guilford Wright
Vocals Raymond C. Walker
Vocals Louis Nunley
Vocals Dolores Dinning
Vocals Anita Kerr
Trumpet William McElhiney
Trumpet Karl Garvin
Trumpet Cameron Mullins
Saxophone Boots Randolph
Saxophone Andrew L. Goodrich
Piano Marvin Hughes
Piano Hargus "Pig" Robbins
Piano Floyd Cramer
Guitar Ray Edenton
Guitar John T. Hill
Guitar Jerry Kennedy
Guitar Jack Pruett
Guitar Harold Bradley
Guitar Hank Garland
Guitar Grady Martin
Group The Anita Kerr Singers
Drums Buddy Harman
Bass Joseph S. (Joe) Zinkan
Bass Ike Inman
Bass Floyd T. "Lightning" Chance
Bass Bob Moore

Credits
Producer Owen Bradley; Don Law; Felton Jarvis
Liner Notes Colin Escott; Richard Weize

Details
Studio / Venue Bradley Film & Recording Studio; Columbia Recording Studios; Phillips Studio
Place Nashville, Tenn.
Recording Date 1956-1963
Date Of This Release 1990
UPC/EAC 4000127154361

Review/Notes
Review by Bruce Eder
This is one Bear Family disc that's a bargain any way you slice it, containing 30 songs cut between 1956 and 1963, covering his sound from the hard, raspy rockabilly of the title track to slightly bluesier slow numbers like "I Ain't Goin' Nowhere." At his best (and he was always at his best in the recording studio), Self could rock as hard as Elvis in his wildest Memphis days, edging into Little Richard territory -- "You're So Right For Me" is almost scary in its echoes of the latter -- or handle a ballad with the kind of wistful innocence that Rick Nelson turned into a career. The stuff here is all good, not a weak song or track in the 30, and anyone who thinks they know early rock & roll or rockabilly and doesn't own this CD is kidding themselves