SWINGIN' JOHNNY KEYES 1967 POPCORN Rockabilly LP w/ROCK N ROLL SQUAW

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SWINGIN' JOHNNY KEYES SWINGIN' JOHNNY KEYES

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MONGOOSE RECORDS US 557

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The Rock 'n Roll Squaw (Johnny Keyes)
Just Me And My Guitar (Johnny Keyes)
Jinx Man (Johnny Keyes)
Someday You're Gonna Want Me To Want You (Jimmie Hodges)
The Pro (Johnny Keyes)
Git 'Em (Johnny Keyes and Harry Hall)
There's Nothing For Me Without You (Mark Hearn)
Work Song (Nat Adderley/Oscar Brown Jr)
SOUND SAMPLE IS FROM THE ACTUAL RECORD (LOW BIT)

Johnny Keyes is a swinger all the way. He's a Pro from the word go and a more dedicated talented and versatile performer would be difficult to find.
So says the jacket on the album that introduced Swingin' Johnny Keyes to the world. Actually...that was a new stage name for veteran club, restaurant and lounge performer and songwriter Hal Hearn. Hearn's career dates back to about 1953 in the Midwest where he gained a reputation as a very entertaining live guitar performer. In 1963, he wrote and recorded a rockabilly novelty single on Port Records that was a featured Billboard 4-Star Single -- "Turkey In the Straw" b/w "King Kemo". And then he became "Swingin' Johnny Keyes" and this appears to have been his first LP. Eight of the songs on it were written by him. But, don't let the cover photograph fool you into thinking he's a string strummin' finger snappin' Sinatra type. He serves up a country-flavored rockabilly style with numbers such as "Just Me And My Guitar" and "Someday You're Gonna Want Me To Want You". Then he adds a dollop of groovy 60s influences -- "Git 'Em" is a Neanderthalish chick chasin' song for country boys, "Jinx Man" and "The Pro" are catchy and lively "Secret Agent Man"-influenced gambler and traveling musician numbers. And there's a hip rendition of Nat Adderley's "Work Song", too. And then there's "Rock and Roll Squaw" -- it's just what you fear it is. A groovy Indian chick who drives all the chiefs and braves wild doing the latest rock and roll dances -- and it gets the fully insulting let's-imitate-Indians treatment from the singer and his band. But that's not all you get. There's another side of Johnny Keyes -- he's eager to show off his sophisticated and classy chops. This results in popcorn lounge style attempts at two songs from the then-current Jerry Herman musical "Mame" and a weird stab at Errol Garner's "Misty".
ACCOMPANYING MUSICIANS Tony Serino - Drums
Mac McKernan - Organ
Tommy Scott - Bass
Mark Hearn - Tambourine

TRACKLIST

SIDE ONE 1) Just Me And My Guitar (Johnny Keyes)
2) Work Song (Nat Adderley/Oscar Brown Jr)
3) Git 'Em (Johnny Keyes and Harry Hall)
4) If I Can't Have You (Johnny Keyes and Harry Hall)
5) Someday You're Gonna Want Me To Want You (Jimmie Hodges)
6) You Gotta Take The Good With The Bad (Johnny Keyes)
7) The Jinx Man (Johnny Keyes) SIDE TWO 1) The Pro (Johnny Keyes)
2) Misty (Errol Garner/Johnny Burke)
3) The Fighter (Johnny Keyes)
4) There's Nothing For Me Without You (Mark Hearn) [Hal Hearn's brother?] 5) Mame (Jerry Herman)
6) The Rock 'n Roll Squaw (Johnny Keyes)
7) If She Walked Into My Life (Jerry Herman)