RAY SMITH - TRAVELIN' WITH RAY - MEMPHIS ROCKABILLY
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Description
1960 DEEP GROOVE MONO RLP 628 REO RECORDS CANADA 1ST PRESS!
Record - NM STUNNING COPY LOOKS UNPLAYED!
Cover - EX LAMINATED SLEEVE HAS STICKER RESIDUE ON BACK COVERING THE JUDD CATALOG NUMBER.
Ray Smith was a rockabilly and country singer who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label, and is best remembered for his 1958 hit "Rockin' Little Angel." Smith was born on October 31, 1938 in Melber, KY, where his father supported his family as a sharecropper and sheet metal worker. Smith was a self-taught musician who didn't begin performing in public until he joined the Air Force in 1952, after driving a Coca-Cola truck, operating an oven for a commercial baker, working in a shoe factory, and brewing moonshine with his brother-in-law. Smith was recruited to perform in a talent show while in basic training in Syracuse, NY; after winning first prize for his rendition of ' "Lovesick Blues," Smith began teaching himself to play the piano, guitar, and harmonica. While stationed in California, he began playing club dates on weekends, and in 1956 he formed his band "The Rock & Roll Boys," featuring on guitar, Dean Perkins on steel guitar, James Webb on bass, and rhythm guitar, and Henry Stevens on drums. The band began playing clubs in Kentucky and Illinois, and in 1956 Ray Smith & the Rock & Roll Boys landed their own local television show on a station in Paducah, KY. The show caught the attention of manager Charlie Terrell, who signed Smith as a client and got him a deal with Sun Records. Judd Phillips, brother of label founder , produced Smith's sessions and gave his material a bit more polish than much of the classic Sun material, but Smith was a strong singer with a solid band, and his fourth single, 1959's "Rockin' Little Angel" -- a revved-up rewrite of the folk chestnut "Buffalo Gals" -- became a major hit. (While his first three singles were issued on Sun, "Rockin' Little Angel" appeared on the subsidiary label Judd, as did most of his subsequent releases for the Phillips Brothers.)
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Shipping Rates below. Unfortunately, because we are in Canada, we use www.canada post.ca . Take a look and see the detailed price gouging for yourself! Sorry we no longer ship to Italy and South America.
We can combine shipping on multiple purchases.
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AIR POSTAGE TO USA IS $10 ...OR $8 SURFACE IF THE PACKAGE WEIGHS LESS THAN 500 GRAMS(one regular pressing).........USA AIR POSTAGE FROM 500 GRAMS TO 1 KILO IS $15 AND SURFACE MAIL IS $12(usually 1-3 lp’s depending on individual weight), We can also send heavier packages to the USA by expedited surface mail, this option includes a tracking number and free insurance up to $100 for $15 to $20 depending on weight, insurance over $100 is $1.00 for each additional hundred dollars.
INTERNATIONAL AIR POSTAGE(depending on destination) UNDER 500 grams is $17 to $20(one regular weight lp), OVER 500 grams is $30 to $36(usually up to 3 lp’s depending on individual weight),OVERSEAS AIR POSTAGE BETWEEN 1000g AND 2000g (usually between 3 and 6 lp’s depending on individual weight) is $49 to $55.
IN CANADA..POSTAGE IS $9 IN Ontario and Quebec, $12 elsewhere in Canada.
