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THE RECORDS I - Pt. 1

First of all I would like to thank Tapio Vaisanen from Finland for giving me invaluable information on some of these records - Tapio, you're the best ! I would also like to thank Sven Bergmann from Bremen / Germany for letting me use information from his mag' "Rockin' With Willie" - The Story Of The ROCK-A-BILLY RECORD COMPANY, founded by Willie Lewis from Denver / CO, as well as supplying me with some great photos  of the guys - thanx a million, Sven. If any of you have information on more records featuring HIGH NOON or the band members, please
e-mail me !!!!!

>>> Big Ones <<<


SHOW & DANCE ( 1990 ) LP / Plus ( 1998 ) CD

Label : DOJO Records, Finland ( DOJLP 5013 ) - LP / GOOFIN' RECORDS, Finland - CD ( GRCD 6073 )

SHOW & DANCE ( Cover - GIF )

Trax : Rattle Snake Man / Flatland Saturday Night / I'm Not Blue / Rock Too Slow / My Ex Is Why / Rockin' Wildcat  * / Glorybound * / Tears Keep On Fallin' / When She's Good / Devil Woman / Just Because

* different versions than on 'Glory Bound' !

CD Bonus Trax :
Baby Let's Play House / Too Much Trouble / Midnight Shift / When She's Good / Rock Too Slow
These trax were recorded live in Helsinki / Finland in 1991.

Recorded at 'Sound Recorders Studio', Austin / TX, U.S.A. in '90

Info : This is the original release that came out only in Finland - there is a 1996 bootleg available in neat 10'' format. The cover art is exactly identical, there is however a second way to spot the re-issue ( besides the format ) : although "Rockin' Wildcat" is listed as track 1 on side two, it actually is track six on side one ! Both the cover and the label sticker refer to it as track 1 on side two. The original issue has the title sequence exactly as listed. In 1998 Pete Hakonen of Goofin' Records re-issued this fantastic record with 5 added bonus tracks. The CD title was merely changed to 'SHOW & DANCE Plus' .....

ROCKS ME RIGHT ( 1993 ) 10'' LP

Label : ROCK-A-BILLY RECORD COMPANY, Denver / CO, U.S.A.
( R-1002-LP )

Rocks Me Right ( Cover - GIF )

Trax : Late Train / Mona Lisa / Your New Flame ( Is Burning Me ) / Who Was That Cat ? * / Crazy Fever * / Don't Have A Heart Left To Break / Rocks Me Right * / Feeling No Pain / Branded Outlaw / Hannah Lee

* features Jussi Huhtakangas aka Lester Peabody of 'The Barnshakers' on steel guitar.
Lester Peabody ( GIF )

Bootleg features these extra trax :
Rattle Snake Man / Glory Bound / When She's Good / Flatland Saturday Night / I'm Not Blue / Just Because

Recorded at 'The Texas Tube Room', Dallas / TX, U.S.A. and in Willie Lewis' living room (*), Denver / CO, U.S.A.

Info : Re-issued as a bootleg with the same cover & some trax from 'Show & Dance' added, just after 'Glory Bound' was released. The bootleg is in 12'' format. The original release was pressed in red vinyl, only 1000 copies were originally made and it is not likely to be re-issued officially by Willie Lewis. Prior to the original release, Willie Lewis made 25 promo-pressings, which contained different versions than the later released album - HIGH NOON decided, upon hearing the promo, to re-record some tracks, thus these 25 promos have become a much sought after rarity, although the versions do not differ that much from the released ones.

GLORY BOUND ( 1993 ) CD / Audio Cassette

Label : GOOFIN' RECORDS, Vantaa, Finland ( GRCD 6039 )

GLORY BOUND ( Cover - GIF )

Trax : Train Of Misery / Midnight Shift / Rockin' Wildcat / Glory Bound / Too Much Trouble / Baby Let's Play House / Hold Me Baby / All Night Long / Late Train / Mona Lisa / Your New Flame / Who Was That Cat ? / Crazy Fever / Don't Have A Heart Left To Break / Rocks Me Right / Feelin' No Pain / Branded Outlaw / Don't Have A Heart Left To Break ( Alt. ) / The Beaumont Boogie / Ain't It Wrong / Havin' A Whole Lotta Fun / Crazy Fever
( Alt. )

Recorded at 'Quickhands Studio', Austin / TX; 'The Texas Tube Room',
Dallas / TX; Willie Lewis' living room, Denver / CO and 'Jet-Tone Studios',
Austin / TX between 1990 and 1992.

Info : This is a compilation of the tracks from HIGH NOON's 'Train Of Misery' EP ( R-107 ), 'Baby Let's Play House' single ( R-110-X ), 'Hold Me Baby' single ( R-114 ) and 'Rocks Me Right' LP ( R-1002-LP ) plus some added tracks and alternate versions ( although there are a few more left, check 'Rockin' Info' for details ). All trax were originally released / owned by Willie Lewis. On grounds of the friendship between Goofin' Records' owner Pete Hakonen and Willie Lewis, these tracks were pitched to Goofin' for re-release in Europe.

TEXAS STYLE ( 1994 ) 10'' EP

Label : EXILE RECORDS, Berlin, Germany ( EX10 EP09 )

Texas Style ( Cover - GIF )

Trax : Crazy Mixed Up World ** / He Won, I Lost, She's Found *** / Across The River * / My Heart Cries Yes * / Movie Magg / Red Barn Boogie **

Features guest musicians :
Alvin Crow
: fiddle (*)
John Ely
: hawaiian steel guitar (*)
Danny Barnes
: banjo (*)
Mike Maddux
: accordeon (*)
Brent Wilson
: harmony vocals (*)

Recorded in Austin / TX, U.S.A., November '93.

Info : Plays on 45 rpm ! Early in 1993, HIGH NOON and their guest musicians went into the studio in Austin / TX and recorded 8 songs for this EP.  During their European tour in Fall '93 they met up with Wolfgang Doebeling, owner of EXILE RECORDS in Berlin, only to find out that 4 of the trax were unuseable soundwise. So, in November '93 they went into the studio again to record 6 more trax. These were released early '94 on 'Texas Sytle'. A 'useable' track from the first session, 'Strange Kinda Feeling', was released in Germany on a 45 rpm single on the cover of 'Dynamite' Magazine. The other 3 'good' songs are to be released in the future on samplers or as single-trax on EXILE RECORDS.

STRANGER THINGS ( 1995 ) CD

Label : GOOFIN' RECORDS, Vantaa, Finland ( GRCD6060 )

STRANGER THINGS ( cover - GIF )Stranger Things ( LP Cover - GIF )

Trax : Stranger Things / Slow Down, Baby / Call Of The Honky-Tonk / High On A Hill / Fishin' Hole Boogie / I'm Done, I'm Through / My Little Thrill / Long Empty Stretch Of Highway / Now You're Gonna Be Loved / Rockin' Beauty / Bluebonnet Boogie / She Forgot Her Memory / Mixed Signal Mama / I Done Caught On / Doggone That Cat

Recorded at 'HITSVILLE IV' in Finland by Janne Haavisto in '95

Info : Available on vinyl in Japan ( ON THE HILL RECORDS, same cover as CD ) and in Germany
( CRAZY LOVE RECORDS, different cover, pictured below the CD cover ). Also available on CD on WATERMELON RECORDS in the U.S.A.

LIVE IN TEXAS AND JAPAN ( 1997 ) CD / LP

Label : WATERMELON RECORDS, Austin / TX, U.S.A.
( Watermelon CD 1063 ) - CD / GOOFIN' RECORDS, Vantaa / Finland ( Goofy 6074 ) - LP

Live In Texas & Japan ( Cover - GIF )

Trax : Rattlesnake Man * / Branded Outlaw * / I'm Not Blue * / When She's Good * / Tears Keep On Falling * / Rockin' Wildcat * / My Ex Is Why * / Devil Woman * / My Heart Cries Yes * / Flatland Saturday Night * / Introductions * / Rock Too Slow * / Introductions 'Continental Club' + / Ain't It Wrong + / Glory Bound + / Who Was That Cat ? + / Intro Japan * / Stranger Things * / How Come It * / Mona Lisa *

Recorded during a live radio broadcast in the studio of 'KUT-FM', Austin / TX, U.S.A. (*) on July 23rd 1989, at the 'Continental Club', Austin /TX, U.S.A. (+) on October 26th 1996 and at the 'Club Diamond Hall', Nagoya, Japan (*) on April 14th 1996.

 

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