CLASSIC DUANE EDDY - RARE ON A 78 " PETER GUNN / YEP " UK LONDON HLW 8879 V/V+
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Classic Duane Eddy
PETER GUNN
b/w YEP !
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 one of the tunes with which he's most often identified.
Second only to PETER GUNN a classic Henry Mancini tune which reached #2 in Australia, #6 on the UK Singles Chart, and #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959
The Art of Noise released a version of the song featuring Eddy in 1986 which reached #2 on the US dance chart, #8 in the UK, #14 in Canada and #50 in the US Billboard Hot 100
DISC DETAILS
UK LONDON HLW. 8879 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
entered the uk charts 2/1/59 highest position = 22, 4 weeks in chart
A Side: PETER GUNN
B Side: YEP!
CONDITION - V/V+
scratches and marks but plays loud and clear with just a couple of audible clicks at the beginning and ends
THIS ONE IS VERY HARD TO FIND SO
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