Ricky Nelson RARE EP Verve w/Hard PS 1957 NM

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Artist :  RICKY NELSON Title :  "RICKY" Label & # :  VERVE #EPV 5048  (1957) Vinyl Condition :  NM (no visible marks, no noise) HEAR CLIP BELOW Labels Condition : See Scan: NM Cover Condition :    SEE SCAN: Only a light bumped corner, No Stickers, No Glue residue, No Splits, just light "age" stains on front!  Remarks

HIS RAREST!!!  Complete your collection with this gem!!!

Side A:

• A Teenager's Romance
  I'm Walkin'

Side B:

• You're My One And Only Love
  Honey Rock (by Kessel Orchestra)

In 1949, Ricky and his brother David joined the "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" show playing themselves. The show transferred successfully to television in 1952 - it was to run until 1965 - and the whole family starred in a feature film, "Here Come The Nelsons." Thus, by 1956, when young Ricky Nelson asked his father to help him make a record, the request seemed natural. A brief career as a teen idol was, at the very least, clearly in the cards.

Ozzie Nelson made the necessary phone calls, a contract with Verve was signed and Ricky went into the studio to cut three sides. Problems at once occurred. Ricky wanted his cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin" to be the main title, while his parents and Verve wanted the ballad, 'A Teenager's Romance', as the A-side. Their concern was to market Ricky on the basis of his role in "Adventures," in which his cheeky lopsided grin and "I don't mess around, boy" catchphrase suggested rebelliousness but went no further. Parental opinion won the day, but to everyone's surprise both sides made the Top Twenty, in 1957, selling a million copies. Ricky Nelson had gained acceptance as both rock'n'roller and teen idol.

 RICKY'S ROCK 'N' ROLL

The contrast in style and direction between the two sides of Nelson's first disc was to reverberate down the years of his career. The lush empty balladry of "A Teenager's Romance" suggested a future as a vacuous teen idol, a cute image to sell records with. "Im Walking," with cheerful enthusiasm, wasn't the rockabilly rock'n'roll of Presley or Perkins - but then Rick Nelson was middle-class, not a poor white Southerner - yet it succeeded in creating that sense of pure unalloyed joy at being young and alive that characterized so much of the best of white rock'n'roll.

Verve's lack of sympathy with Ricky's rock'n'roll desires was made clear when they released another romantic epic, "You're My One And Only Love" as the follow up. Lew Chudd of Imperial Records - the company for which Fats Domino had recorded the original "I'm Walkin" - moved quickly in mid-1957 and signed Nelson to a long-term contract that was to last seven years and bring the company 36 Hot Hundred titles (many of which were double-sided hits).

Along with the move to Imperial came a toughening-up of the Nelson sound. First Chudd helped assemble an all-important band with James Kirkland (later replaced by Joe Osborne) on bass, Butch White (later replaced by Ritchie Frost) on drums, Gene Garth on piano and James Burton on lead guitar. The band had previously backed Bob Luman and were all rockabilly players par excellence.

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