Having unearthed the recordings of talented Texas session-guitarist Hal Harris (ETCD 1033), El Toro Records now turns the spotlight to the North West to highlight the magic of Phoenix-based session-man, Al Casey. A big fish in a relatively small pond, Al Casey was already a local radio and TV celebrity when his friend Lee Hazlewood began using him and his band on sessions for the latter's Viv Records in 1955; so much so that Casey invariably received a credit on each label - an accolade that session musicians rarely received in those days. The following year, Lee Hazlewood and Al Casey hit paydirt with Sanford Clark's huge hit, "The Fool" and many hits followed for Casey throughout the '50s with collaborations on hits by Jody Reynolds and Duane Eddy, amongst others. Here are those early collaborations, both big and small, peppered with Al's own attempts at being a rock 'n' roll record star in Phoenix and afterwards, following his relocation to Los Angeles, where he became one of the founders of the renowned group of session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew...
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CD 1
1 Sanford Clark - The Fool
2 Sanford Clark - Lonesome For A Letter
3 Al Casey - A Fool's Blues
4 Al Casey - Juice
5 Al Casey - If I Told You (Wouldn't Know It All By Myself)
6 Al Casey - The Pink Panther
7 Sanford Clark - A Cheat
8 Sanford Clark - Usta Be My Baby
9 Al Casey - Guitar Man
10 Al Casey - Come What May
11 Al Casey - Willa Mae
12 Al Casey She Gotta Shake
13 Sanford Clark - Ooo Baby
14 Sanford Clark - 9LB. Hammer
15 Duane Eddy & his Rock-A-Billies - Caravan
16 Al Casey & The Bats - The Adventures of Frank N Stein
17 Duane Eddy & his Rock-A-Billies - Ramrod
18 Al Casey & The Bats - (Got The) Teen-Age Blues
19 "Frantic" Johnny Rogers - Sassy
20 Al Casey & Corkey with The Bats - Give'n Up
21 Al Casey - The Stinger
22 Al Casey - Keep Talking
23 Jody Reynolds & The Storms - Tight Capris
24 The Storms - Thunder
25 The Storms - Tarantula
26 Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep
27 Sanford Clark - New Kind Of Fool
CD2
1 Jimmy Johnson with Al Casey & The Arizona Hayriders - Cat Daddy
2 Jimmy Spellman with The Sunset Riders - It's You, You, You
3 Sanford Clark - A Cross-Eyed Alley Cat (Unissued)
4 Jim Murphy & The Accents - Plumb Crazy
5 Don Cole with Al Casey (piano) - Snake Eyed Mama
6 Dave Lowe - A Tramp
7 Dick Robinson & his Makebelievers - The Boppin' Martian (Gibo Miban Gibo)
8 Gene Maltais - The Bug
9 Jimmy Johnson with Al Casey & The Arizona Hayriders - How About Me? - Pretty Baby
10 Jim Murphy & The Accents - I'm Gone, Mama
11 Joe Montgomery - Planetary Run
12 Lonesome Long John Roller - Hay Momma
13 Judy Faye - Rocky-Rolly-Lover Boy
14 Sanford Clark - Every Minute Of The Day (Unissued)
15 Jody Reynolds & The Storms - Beulah Lee
16 Sanford Clark - Modern Romance
17 The Barker Brothers (Monty & Fredy) - Hey Little Mama
18 Jerry Demar - (She Wantsa) Lover Man
19 Jimmy Dell - I've Got A Dollar (
20 Don Cole - Saturday Nite Party Time
21 Joe D Johnson - Rattlesnake Daddy
22 Jody Reynolds - Daisy Mae
23 Jimmy Spellman with Al Casey (guitar) - Doggonit
24 Sanford Clark - Don't Care (Unissued)
25 Don Cole - Sweet Lovin' Honey
26 Lonesome Long John Roller - Long John's Flagpole Rock
27 Loy Clingman with Al Casey & The Arizona Hayriders - Time Wounds All Heels
28 Gene Maltais - Lovemakin' (Regal 7502) 29 Sanford Clark - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Unissued)
30 Jody Reynolds - Fire Of Love
31 The Tads - The Pink Panther
32 Ted Newman - Plaything >> Play CD >>
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