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MALCOLM YELVINGTON
It's Me, Baby - The Sun Years, plus
CD with 32-page booklet
BCD 16757 AH

Malcolm Yelvington was in at the creation of rockabilly music. He was recording at the same time as Elvis Presley, and his first disc sat alongside Presley's in the Sun Records catalog. He may have only had three records released in the formative mid-fifties period of Memphis music, but they were on Sun and Meteor, the flagship labels of the new music - and they were all wonderful.

Malcolm was the rarest of rockabilly singers - a man who was sure enough of his own direction to create a style of his own.

This CD collects together all of Yelvington's issued and unissued music from the 1950s, from the R&B influenced Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee and the western swing of Just Rolling Along to the iconic Rockin' With My Baby and unreleased cuts that should have been classics - Way Down Blues, Goodbye Marie, and the clever It's My Trumpet. Malcolm never got the chance to properly blow his own trumpet. This CD finally does it for him.

Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Just Rollin' Along - Yakety Yak - A Gal Named Jo - Rockin' With My Baby - It's Me Baby - I've Got The Blues (Blues In The Bottom Of My Shoes) - Yakety Yak - Gonna Have Myself A Ball - Rockin' With My Baby - It's Me Baby - It's My Trumpet (And I'm Gonna Blow It) - Mr. Blues - Did I Ask You To Stay - First And Last Love - It's My Trumpet (And I'm Gonna Blow It) - Goodbye Marie - Ocean (Goin' To The Sea) - Let The Moon Say Goodnight - I've Got The Blues (Blues In The Bottom Of My Shoes) - Yakety Yak - Goodbye Marie - It's My Trumpet (And I'm Gonna Blow It) - Mr. Blues - Did I Ask You To Stay - Rockin' With My Baby (demo) - It's Me Baby (demo) - Rockin' With My Baby