BOB LUMAN- Red HotOne of the very first rockabilly tunes I got into, Bob Luman's version of 'Red Hot' is still one of my all time favourites. It's everything rockabilly should be: fun, swaggering, wild, crude, sexy and above all a great dance record. It also features some incendiary guitar playing from a 17 year old James Burton, who then repeats the trick on the slightly more restrained B-side.
BOB LUMAN- Whenever You're Ready
This 45 came from Licorice Pie possibly the best used record store in Melbourne. Unfortunately (though appropriately) I seem to have warped the record by leaving it on the player during a couple of days of plus 40 degree heat- not something I had to look out for in Scotland!
Perhaps the warping is a sign that the vinyl is a 70s repress? I really find it hard to tell what's an original with rockabilly records, as the bootleggers got in there so early on compared to other genres. The good news is that it still plays great as you can hear above.
The following youtube footage is from Roger Corman's 1957 rock'n'roll exploitation movie 'Carnival of Rock' and features the same band as play on 'Red Hot'. Shortly afterwards Burton and bassist James Kirkland would jump to Ricky Nelson's ship.
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