CLASSIC ROCK 78 DUANE EDDY " REBEL ROUSER / STALKIN' " SOUTH AFRICA RAVE R 44 EX

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Duane Eddy

Rock and roll's best selling instrumentalists, Duane Eddy scored a series of pop hits between 1958 and 1963 that featured a deep "twangy" sound produced by playing the guitar's bass strings.

Duane Eddy's instrumental hits from the late '50s can sound unduly basic and repetitive (especially when taken all at once), but he was vastly influential. Perhaps the most successful instrumental rocker of his time, he may have also been the man most responsible (along with Chuck Berry) for popularizing the electric rock guitar. His distinctively low, twangy riffs could be heard on no less than 15 Top Forty hits between 1958 and 1963. He was also one of the first rock stars to successfully crack the LP market.

Duane Eddy was born in Corning, New York, in 1938. Eddy started playing the guitar at age five and moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona area at thirteen. At sixteen he dropped out of high school, obtained a Chet Atkins model Gretsch guitar, performing locally, and met multi-instrumentalist Al Casey in 1955. It was while playing with Casey's group, that Eddy devised the technique of playing lead on his guitar's bass strings to produce a low, reverberant "twangy" sound.

In 1957 Eddy met Lee Hazlewood, an Arizona disc jockey who wrote songs and published music. By the late '50s, Hazlewood had branched out into production and had his own recording studio Before Duane began recording, his principal influence had been Chet Atkins, but at Hazlewood's suggestion, he started concentrating on guitar lines at the lower end of the strings. His opening riff of his debut single, "Movin' and Groovin'," cowritten with Hazelwood, would be lifted for the Beach Boys five years later to open "Surfin' U.S.A." The song was sent to Dick Clark and Eddy was signed to a contract with Jamie Records. It was the next 45, "Rebel Rouser," that would really break him as a national star, reaching the Top Ten in 1958. Opening with a down-and-dirty, heavily echoed guitar riff, it remains the tune with which he's most often identified

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SOUTH AFRICA RAVE R 44 10" 78 rpm SHELLAC

A Side: REBEL ROUSER

B Side: STALKIN'

CONDITION IS RATED EXCELLENT (SOUNDS GREAT!)

TWO CLASSIC ROCKING GUITAR SIDES!

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