Barbara Pitman I NEED A MAN (RARE ROCKABILLY SUN 253 45) MINT-
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Barbara Pitman I NEED A MAN (RARE ROCKABILLY SUN 253 45) MINT-.
ORIGINAL 1956 SUN US 253 45 by Barbara Pittman, "I Need A Man" b/w "No Matter Who's To Blame",
This is an ORIGINAL 1956 pressing!
Condition of Vinyl, and labels are Mint Minus --- (NEAR MINT)
THIS TITLE IS VERY TOUGH TO FIND, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION ...
Barbara Pittman was born and grew up in Memphis. As a child, she was friends, and the neighbor of Elvis Presley. She recalled to an interviewer, "I sang with him, I knew him, I lived down the street from him when we were kids in North Memphis. His mom and mine used to get together to have what they called Stanley parties. They call them Tupperware parties now. I practically lived out at Graceland in the 1950s before Elvis went into the service. He was going to take me on the road with him, and then he got drafted." (It was Presley who first brought Pittman to Sun Studio.)
Still very much in her teens, Barbara Ann Pittman earned her professional grounding in familiar Memphis nitespots such as the Eagles Nest and the Cotton Club. She fronted an outfit led by local drummer Clyde Leoppard and several of his sidemen were on hand when her inaugural recordings were made at 706 Union. There was little doubting what she had in mind with this title, to wit, the light soprano she'd been displaying on stage was convincingly replaced by a hot-blooded growl.Not many Sun labels have borne the names of women. One side of Barbara Ann Pittman first Sun single (several records later appeared on Phillips International) was a conscious attempt to expand the boundaries of rockabilly to include female vocalists or, as Billboard called it, "the backshack sound, female style". Along with Janis Martin, Wanda Jackson and several others, Barbara Pittman has been dubbed a "female Elvis". She was indeed a chum of the King, but as an artist she was much more."I Need A Man", was an obvious attempt by Sun to climb onto its own rockabilly bandwagon with a female artist. Driven by a slap bass, this track helped challenge rockabilly's 'men only' bias.
ON THIS SESSION: Barbara Pittman - Vocal and Guitar ,Roland Janes - Guitar ,Buddy Holobaugh - Guitar ,Marcus Van Story - Bass, Smokey Joe Baugh - Piano, Stan Kesler - Steel Guitar, and Johnny Bernero - Drums.
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