Most people will know the first two A sides ‘Henrietta’ and ‘You’re Late Miss Kate’, through them being leased on Dot this collection includes the equally great flips and the non-leased final coupling of ‘I Feel Like Rockin’ and ‘Rock-Tick-Tock’.īoth Dottie Jones and Cecil Moore had previously recorded at Sarg records, which was about 60 miles out of San Antonio, Dottie’s ‘Honey Honey’ moves along great while the couple from Moore are very much in the tradition of his chugging Sarg 45s. One of my favourite rocking bands, Jimmy Dee and the Offbeats, have all six sides that were recorded in ’58 and ’59. Led by a young, and presumably already wild, Roy Head, the Traits cut a some classy tracks for the label – three of their tracks including ‘Live It Up’ and ‘One More Time’ grace the collection. The late Ray Campi, who helped with the putting together of the CD, sounds as fresh as ever on both ‘Catapillar’ and ‘Play it Cool’ - the stripped down sound and Ray’s finishing vocal cymbal crash still sounds great to this day. So, what is there to recommend? Well, frankly 95% of it. The quality of releases on the label were stupendous and these kids and unfashionable hillbillies cut some amazing slices of rock and roll. Mostly known for the Jimmie Dee and Ray Campi releases, it was home to lots of excitable teenagers trying to be the next big thing and reconstructed hillbillies trying to get hip to the new style of music. The result is a truly definitive Rockabilly CD-Album-SerieĪ welcome and again a strong That'll Flat Git It release!īob Tanner’s TNT (Tanner ‘N’ Texas) label was a mainstay in San Antonio from late ’53 and, to a large extent, the only gig in town. We looked for previously unpublished photos, and tried to find all the artists who'd never been found before. We adopted the catchphrase of the first Rockabilly dee-jay, Dewey Phillips, 'That'll Flat Git It!', and we hired Bill Millar, who'd compiled the still-classic label-oriented LPs in the 1970s and 1980s, to write the notes. On top we took the packaging to a new level. We sourced the very best sounding tapes and took them to the best mastering engineers. Just the great stuff, plus a few super rarities.Įvery of these That'll Flat Git It CDs would be for the most part a 30 song jukebox of the finest Rockabilly ever recorded for all the great labels. And we compiled it for listening pleasure. That'll Flat Git It CD-Album-Series with Rockabilly Music Classic Rockabilly on CDīack in 1992, we had the idea that we should create the all-time definitive Rockabilly CD-Album-Series, That'll Flat Git It! - Above all, Rockabilly was music recorded for 45RPM singles, so we designed a CD-Album-Serie label-by-label instead of artist-by-artist.
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