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'.

Tracklist:

Trouble Bound
Flying Saucer Rock & Roll
I Want You Baby
Red Hot
Pearly Lee
Wouldn't You
Baby Please Don't Go
Rockin' on the Moon
Is That All to the Ball
Itchy
Thunderbird
Down by the Riverside
No Name Girl
Come Back Baby (One More Time)
Got the Water Boiling
Open the Door Richard
Dark Muddy Bottom
Repossession Blues
That's What I Want to Do
Too Much Woman For Me
I Want You Baby
She's My Baby (1)
Pearly Lee
She's My Baby (2)
Pearly Lee
Red Hot
Rock With Me Baby
Wouldn't You
That's Right
Searchin'
Chatter & College Man
Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash
Down by the Riverside
Swanee River Rock
Betty and Dupree
Let's Talk About Us
Got the Water Boiling
Saturday Night Fish Fry
Folsom Prison Blues
Billy's Blues
Dark Muddy Bottom
When a Man Gets the Blues
Sweet William
Red Hot
Mud Island
My Baby's Got Love
That's What I Want to Do

UPC: 4000127154446
Label: Bear Family
Release Date: 6.27.94
Format: CD

Billy Riley Lee - Classic Recordings 1956-60 (Import)