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Red Hot: The Best of Billy Lee Riley | 
 enlarge | Artist: Billy Lee Riley
Label: Collectables
Category: Music
List Price: $14.97
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 182968
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 6008
UPC: 090431600825
EAN: 0090431600825
ASIN: B00000HX5K
Release Date: February 2, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Red Hot - Billy Lee Riley, Emerson, Bill | | • | Pearly Lee - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy Lee | | • | Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy | | • | Baby Please Don't Go - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy Lee | | • | Searchin' - Billy Lee Riley, Leiber, Jerry | | • | Betty & Dupree - Billy Lee Riley, Willis, C. | | • | Trouble Bound - Billy Lee Riley, Clement, Jack | | • | Wouldn't You Know - Billy Lee Riley, Marascalco, John | | • | College Man - Billy Lee Riley, Justis, Bill | | • | Got the Water Boiling - Billy Lee Riley, Cornelius, A. | | • | I Want You Baby - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy Lee | | • | Swanee River Rock - Billy Lee Riley, Charles, Ray [1] | | • | Rock With Me Baby - Billy Lee Riley, Clement, Jack | | • | Open the Door Richard - Billy Lee Riley, Fletcher, Dusty | | • | No Name Girl - Billy Lee Riley, Clement, Jack | | • | That's Right - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy | | • | Down by the Riverside - Billy Lee Riley, Clement, Jack | | • | Come Back Baby (One More Time) - Billy Lee Riley, Howard, Paul | | • | Lookin' for My Baby - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy Lee | | • | Tallahassee - Billy Lee Riley, Craft, Paul | | • | Workin' on the River - Billy Lee Riley, Riley, Billy Lee | | • | Gallows Hill - Billy Lee Riley, McGuirt, Glen R. |
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| Customer Reviews:
Sun's Failed Replacement For Elvis September 7, 2007
AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Billy Lee Riley, a multi-instrumentalist with a raw, rockabilly sound, was to be the Sun label's replacement for Elvis after they sold the latter's contract to RCA. He could certainly belt out a tune with the best of his contemporaries like Charlie Feathers, Johnny Carroll, and Mac Curtis but, also like them, hit single status eluded him. His best, obviously, was the pounding Red Hot but even that, while played extensively throughout the South, could not crack the national charts.
He did finally get a hit of sorts in 1962 when his self-penned instrumental Shimmy, Shimmy Walk Part 1 struggled to # 88 Billboard Pop Hot 100 by the group he then headed called The Megatons [Billy Lee on guitar and harmonica, Jimmy Wilson on piano, and Martin Willis on sax and drums]. This had actually been released in 1961 on the Dodge label, but only became a charter after being picked up and distributed by Checker.
Further such success would elude him until 1972 when, for the Entrance label, I Got A Thing About You Baby just made the Hot 100 at # 93 in November. Riley tried his hand at everything and for a multitude of labels, doing pure Country for Mojo, Pen, Hip, Sun, and Entrance, soul for Fire, Fury, Smash, and Myrl, and backwoods blues for Dodge, R&B and his own Rita label. None made any impact.
In this CD, Collectables has chosen to concentrate on the rockabilly sides, although it would have been nice had they found room for the only two cuts he did that ever made the national charts.
Still, if you're seeking a sampling of the raw acoustic rhythm and heavy backbeat that was the beginning of the genre known briefly as "rockabilly" in the 1950s, this is as good a place as any to start.
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