LES WALDROOP - Centennial Boogie 1955 bopper / rockabilly super rare PRIVATE VG-

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LES WALDROOP AND HIS CAROLINIANS

"Centennial Boogie" b/w "Shenandoah / Lil LIza Jane"

Centennial 1525

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This record was released in 1955 to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the founding of Franklin, North Carolina. Not Franklin County but Franklin, a small town in Macon County, North Carolina surrounded by mountains about an hour past Asheville on U.S. 64, on the way to places like Clay and Cherokee Counties, basically in the middle of nowhere.

About the record, not much is known. It appears nowhere online. Waldroop did  have a number of releases over the years, one as recently as 1974 (Big Watergate Bugs), one on Flop in 1961 and an earlier release with the Carolinians on Country Jubilee from 1959. The a-side of that 45 was 'They Said it Couldn't Be Done' and was credited to Les Waldrop (one 'o'). That label was located in Demorest, Georgia, in the far northeastern corner of the state and not that far from Franklin, NC.  Call him hick rockabilly or country bop but he's somewhere in between.  On this bopper/primitive rockabilly song, he's accompanied by bass and guitar. Probably by two guys named Wade and Mickey who accompanied Waldroop (sometimes spelled Waldrop) on the Flop single.

Centennial Boogie bridges the gap between country bop and rockabilly; from 1955 it pre-dates classic rockabilly but Waldroop has a strong voice and rocks it. The music is spare, just a bass and electric guitar backing Waldroop's vocals; there are two instrumental breaks - both are fairly short but the second one foreshadows the heyday of classic rockabilly with it's hollow out electric guitar sound. There is no time of the song listed on the label but I'd estimate 2:15. On the b-side side, not that it matters to rockabilly fans, but the medley, especially a sweet version of Shenandoah, stands out too.

I've e-mailed a couple of rockabilly and country bopper collectors/dealers both in the states and overseas and only one was the least bit familiar with this record. He wrote back that probably only 100 or so copies were pressed (though that was just an educated guess he admitted) but he knows of only a few copies in the hands of rockabilly collectors. Here's your chance to pick up an extreme rarity.

LABELS: Yellow and black, average wear.

MADE IN THE USA

Released way back in 1955

United States customers

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