Billy Lee Riley "I got me a pill this big, and when I take a bite...grows right back" & Jerry Lee Lewis guitarist Roland Janes with Catfish PLUS Elvis Memphis Mafia Boss, Red West F.B.I. Story " Anybody wanna buy a duck?" - Dewey Phillips *Jaro International video twofer

  Billy Lee Riley  

"Man, I got me a pill this big, and when I take a bite, it grows right back" 

& 

Jerry Lee Lewis guitarist 

 

Roland Janes 

Catfish  

PLUS

Red West  

F.B.I. Story 

 

(Jaro International Day)

Anybody wanna buy a duck? -  Dewey Phillips

 

Memphis DJ

 Dewey Phillips

 Jerry Lee Lewis

1957

 

@mrjyn 

5 septembre 2019

Billy Lee Riley, the man who cut Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll for Sun in 1957, materialized, looking like 5,000 concentrated volts. He spread his hands before him as if holding a birthday cake.

- Nick Tosches (Country: The Biggest Music In America)

Red Hot was red hot. It could blast you out of your skull and make you feel happy about it.

Change your life.

- Bob Dylan

Jerry Lee Lewis' original guitarist,

Roland Janes 

and

insane, Sun wildman,

Billy Lee Riley,

whose Back to the Future hits include

Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll

and

Red Hot,

team-up for Catfish, a Miltown-lazy 7" 45rpm instrumental, released under the tossed-off pickup-band appelation The Spitfires, whose strolling instrumental, b-side on Memphis based *Jaro International Records' Fireball Mail.

Catfish wags the dog, whose best friend thought HE was walkin' HIM in Memphis, 1959.

It sounds like Travis Wammack and Elvis bassist, Bill Black had a baby, who used to have an uncle, but she died; sold it to a Germantown family, fed him a strict diet of pablum and the music of Bill Justis and Boots Randolph as spun-out by Dewey Phillips on WHBQ Radio.

*obscurity reveals itself slowly, and therefore, I am pleased to introduce a newly discovered Elvis- Memphis Mafia-related chestnut

entitled

F.B.I. Story / What Must I Do ‎(7", Single)

Jaro International

A Rudy Grayzell performed by Elvis' Red West, original member of Elvis Presley's  Memphis Mafia.

Red West

Robert "Red" Gene West

Red West (born March 8, 1936, Bolivar, Tennessee, USA – died July 18, 2017, Memphis, Tennessee, USA) was an American actor, songwriter, and singer.

He was a high school friend of Elvis Presley and became the singer's driver, bodyguard and confidante, until he was expelled from Elvis' inner circle (the so-called "Memphis Mafia") in the mid-1970s after becoming too vocal about Presley's drug habits and unhealthy associations. West was a movie stuntman and appeared in 16 of Elvis' films in the 1960s, usually playing extras or bit and supporting parts.

He also wrote songs that were recorded by Elvis, and other artists such as Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson and Johnny Rivers, including the classic tune "Separate Ways" for Elvis, which won a BMI Award.

  

F.B.I. Story  

(Jaro International 77031)

Jaro International

Sublabel

Rank Records Of America, Inc.

 

Roland Janes (Jerry Lee Lewis original guitarist), and Billy Lee Riley (original Sun wildman, penning such Back to the Future hits as "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," team up for this lazily Milltown 45... https://t.co/qozS4ezdNC

— mrjyn (@mrjyn) 4 septembre 2019

 

Hot Damn!

 

 

In Nick Tosches' book Country: The Biggest Music In America, the author covers Jerry Lee Lewis' Southern Roots session, and mentions Billy:

Billy Lee Riley, the man who cut Flying Saucers Rock'n'Roll for Sun in 1957, materialized, looking like 5,000 concentrated volts. He spread his hands before him as if holding a birthday cake.

In 2015, Bob Dylan offered this tribute to Riley:

He was a true original. He did it all: He played, he sang, he wrote.

 

He would have been a bigger star but Jerry Lee came along. And you know what happens when someone like that comes along.

 

You just don't stand a chance.

 

So Billy became what is known in the industry—a condescending term—as a one-hit wonder.

 

But sometimes, just sometimes, once in a while, a one-hit wonder can make a more powerful impact than a recording star who's got 20 or 30 hits behind him.

 

 

Billy Lee Riley et les petits hommes verts | Soucoupes volantes Rock 'n' Roll (1957) 

     Le guitariste original de Jerry Lee Lewis,

         Roland Janes et
         homme sauvage de soleil fou,

     Billy Lee Riley,

     dont frappe Retour vers le futur
     Soucoupes Volantes Rock 'n' Roll

                 et

Rouge chaud,

     team-up pour Catfish, un groupe de 45 joueurs publié dans le cadre de l'appel de groupe, The Spitfires, dont le traitement instrumental pour Memphis Jaro International remue le chien, dont le meilleur ami pensait qu'il le promenait à Memphis , 1959.

     Cela ressemble à Travis Wammack et au bassiste Elvis. Bill Black a eu un bébé, qui avait un oncle, mais elle est décédée. le vendit à une famille de Germantown, le nourrit d'un régime strict de pablum et de la musique de Bill Justis et Boots Randolph interprétée par Dewey Phillips sur WHBQ Radio.

Quelqu'un veut acheter un canard?

	Artist	Title (Format)	Cat#	Year
		Wade Phillips	Getting Through To You / Today ‎(7")	77028	1960
		Woody Byrd	Jazz Vs. Rock And Roll / Chop Sticks Cha Cha Cha ‎(7", Single)	J-77000	1959
		Joy Martell	No Arms Can Ever Hold You / The One I Love ‎(7", Promo)	J-77002	1959
		Big Bob	Your Line Was Busy / What Am I
J-77003	1959
		The Spitfires (3)	Fireball Mail
J-77004	1959
		The Chordells	At Last / September Song (Single)
J-77005	1959
		Billy And The Glens	Oh Boy! (Single)
J-77006	1959
		Hank Leeds (2)	One More For the Road
J-77007	Unknown
		Terry Philips	Don't Leave My Arms / Hot Rod Jalopy ‎(7", Single, Promo)	J-77008	1959
		Ronnie Moore	When You LoseYour Love ‎(7", Single, Mono, Promo)	J-77009	1962
		Georgie Auld	Hawaiian War Chant
J-77010	Unknown
		Bill Walters (3)	Honey Lips / Never Gonna See You Again ‎(7", Single)	J-77013	1959
		Siv Malmkvist (Seev)*	Buon Giorno Amore (Single)
J-77014	1959
		Berlingeri and his orchestra	Lolita / Lonely Island ‎(7", Single)	J-77015	Unknown
		Craig Douglas (2)	My First Love Affair (Single)
J-77016	1960
		Wade Phillips	All Alone To Cry / Please Don't Lie (Single)
J-77017	1960
		Wini Brown	Johnny With The Gentle Hands / Gone Again (Single)
J-77018	1959
		Sonny Lester His Orchestra And Chorus*	Tintarella Di Luna (Single)
J-77019	1960
		Sonny Lester His Orchestra And Chorus*	Tintarella Di Luna ‎(7", Single)	J-77019-ST	1960
		Norman Mapp	Fools Rush In ‎(7")	J-77021	1960
		Tom Brown And The Tom Toms	Tomahawk / Kentucky Waltz (Single)
J-77023	1960
		Pee Wee King & His Orchestra*	Vagabond Waltz ‎(7")	J-77025	Unknown
		The Norman Petty Trio	Ditty Dum ‎(7")	J-77027	Unknown
		Chuck Tharp* And The Fireballs	Long, Long Ponytail ‎(7", Single)	J 77029	Unknown
		Craig Douglas (2)	Heart Of A Teenage Girl / New Boy ‎(7", Single, Promo)	J 77030	1960
		Red West	F.B.I. Story / What Must I Do ‎(7", Single)	J-77031	1960
		Gastone Parigi And His Quintet	"A" Come Amore/Be Mine Tonight ‎(7")	J-77033	Unknown
		Jesse And The Roadrunners	Sentimential ‎(7")	J-77034	1960
		Kitty Ford	Blue Diamond Ring / I Love You, Conrad
J-77035	Unknown
		The Ivy Jives	Knockout / Million Dollar Girl ‎(7", Single, Mono)	J-77036	1960
		Myron Lee	From Now On / Someone I Know ‎(7", Single)	J-77037	1960
		Raven Wildroot	I Love You So / Never In a Million Years ‎(7")	J-77038	Unknown
		Babs Gonzales	Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales (Album)
JAM 5000	1959
		Cootie Williams And Wini Brown	Around Midnight (Album)
JAM 5001	1959
		Philip Green And His Orchestra	Wings Of Song ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	JAM-5002	1959
		Georgie Auld And His Hula-Gans	Hawaii On The Rocks ‎(LP, Album, Mono, Promo)	JAM 5003	1959