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Free Music Download this week...New songs just added, including Eddie's 1962 (lost) gunfighter ballad... "Bounty Hunter Dale"
The songs currently featured on our jukebox, are from the era in which Eddie recorded under the stage name, Les Parker. Included are the rockabilly cult-classics... "(Low-down Lonesome) Lovesick Blues", and "Twist All Night" A.K.A. "We're Gonna Dance All Night", recorded in 1961, at the RCA Studios in New York City, and put out on a pilot label. All of the songs listed, contain background vocals by the incomparable Nastu Sisters. Also included are Eddie's lost demo recordings of "Bounty Hunter Dale", and "Anna Marie". These two tracks were suppose to be re-recorded, and released as Eddie's next single, this never came to fruition, however, the demos were released as a promotional CD (single) in 1999, and is now being sold for ungodly amounts of money by record scalpers, over the Net, and on eBay. You can download these tracks here, for free.
For complete lyrics to "Bounty Hunter Dale", along with the lyrics to the other songs, currently on our jukebox, please read our blog, titled... "Song Lyrics read like poetry".
This week only... Download "Anna Marie" and "Bounty Hunter Dale" Free.
In the late 1950s, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Eddie Sulik, kept audiences spellbound with his unique blend of rockabilly, country, pop, and Latin sounds. He had a wildly popular nightclub act, playing music sets, between big-name burlesque acts at the popular Emerald Room, in the Soundview Hotel, located on the beach in Milford, Connecticut.
In 1959, Eddie caught the attention of Columbia Records' A&R Director, Don Law, who produced Hit records for names such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Marty Robbins, to name just a few. Law heard a demo of Eddie's, called "Loving and Losing", and wanted him to fly to Nashville, to record it for the label, along with three other songs. Eddie had been rehearsing with a background/harmony singer, and convinced law to record them together as a duo.
The records were released under the name, 'the Echoes'. Eddie sang lead on four of his original compositions, titles: "Bye-Bye My Baby", "Do I Love You? - 'Deed I Do", "Ecstasy", and of course, "Loving and Losing". Law brought in Nashville heavyweights to back the recording session, including: guitar GREAT, Hank Garland (co-writer and guitarist of Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock"), also, Grady Martin (who played second guitar), the master bassist, Joe Zinkan, and the Legendary, Anita Kerr Singers (for background vocals). This elite group of musicians, tagged 'Nashville's A-Team', collectively, recorded on Hit records by Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, and many others.
All four (Echoes) songs received favorable reviews in Billboard Magazine, and did well regionally, and in parts of Europe. In fact, "Bye-Bye My Baby" and "Ecstasy" actually reached Top-10 status, on certain local charts, in the Northeastern United States. However, the records did not make a huge splash throughout the rest of the country.
Unfortunately, the Echoes' records were released during the infamous payola probe, a time when radio stations and disk-jockeys were under investigation for illegally taking money from record companies and music managers, in return for airplay and record promotion (exactly what is done today, legally, through record promoters). The paranoia that this scandal brought forth in the music industry, was devastating to new artists on the scene. With only limited national radio-play, the Echoes did not not have a major Hit record. So, after a brief promotional tour in the the Northeast, appearing on 'American Bandstand' type TV shows, playing at amusement parks like 'Palisades Park' in New Jersey, and performing at state selections for the 'Miss Universe Pageants', the Echoes went their separate ways, and Eddie returned to playing the nightclub scene on his own.
In 1961, under the stage name, Les Parker, Eddie recorded a couple of songs for an independent record record label, called T-Kay Records. The songs were, a (Sulik) rockabilly original called "We're Gonna Dance All Night" (A.K.A. "Twist All Night"), and on the flip side, a rowdy, rocking, rendition of the Hank Williams classic, "Lovesick Blues". Today, these scarce records are considered a gem among rockabilly record collectors.
In 1965, it seemed that Eddie was finally going to get a second chance to record for a major record label. He was scheduled to meet with Archie Bleyer, the former head of Cadence Records, along with producer Chet Atkins, who was top-man at RCA Victor. The meeting was scheduled to take place two weeks before Christmas, at Bleyer's office in New York City. The scope of the meeting was to discuss a recording contract and music publishing deal with Eddie and RCA Records.Eddie prepared a briefcase filled with a back-log of demo recordings, original compositions, for the record executives to hear. Unfortunately, Eddie Sulik was killed in an automobile accident, near his home in Connecticut, the night before this fateful meeting was to take place. His death was a true Rock-n-Roll tragedy, in the same vein as "The Buddy Holly Story", the motion picture "La Bamba" (the Ritchie Valens Story), and of course, the fictitious rock-n-roll film, "Eddie and the Cruisers" . The recordings that Eddie packed in his briefcase, sat unheard for over 34 years, until finally being resurrected by Eddie's son (Eddie Sulik Jr.), and forever archived by Hard Rock Hattie Productions.
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