acetate TROY WALKER In Person at the Zamba Club FT Worth Rock-a-Billy HEAR

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1 sided 12"  ACETATE / DUBPLATE  (lacquer-coated metal disc) TROY WALKER  IN PERSON At the Zamba Club Fort Worth I'm guessing this was recorded/cut around 1962 or 1963
CONDITION: borderline VG/VG+ looks quite clean but there are just a couple too many pops for me to give it a solid VG+
Tracks: 1) Love Me or Leave Me 2) Where She Should Be ? (Im guessing at the title) 3) Everyday I have the Blues / Alright OK You Win 4) (I was a Fool) I Waited too Long 5) Fever / Summertime (By the way his single of Summertime has sold for over $200) 6) We Belong Together / Blue Moon 7) Sweet Nothins 8) A Boop A Do?  (Im guessing at the title)
Below is a Link to my Youtube Up-Load of "I Waited to Long which I mis-titled I was a Fool" a Neil Sedaka song

Troy Walker I was a fool (from acetate) - YouTube

Flamboyant young Walker developed a set of current hits and standards recorded by artists he admired like Judy Garland, Johnny Ray and Johnny Mathis. His chops were formidable; his ability to sell a song and give his all to the crowd was immense. He released his first album in 1962. His second -- and last -- record came out two years later, and while neither took off, his reputation as a must-see live act flourished.

He was on fire, packing rooms and drawing names like Ricky Nelson, Natalie Wood, Ronald Reagan and Elvis himself. He shared the stage with everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Pat Collins the Hip Hypnotist. He joked, he trash talked, he worked risque but never mean.He was a dazzling, flamboyant attraction, meaning he was as openly gay as an act could be in those closeted times. But it wasn’t really camp, it was just who he was. And that was something that may have hindered his professional growth.

“I often wondered why the big [career] push wasn’t made and I just kind of decided, well, nobody wanted at that time to affiliate themselves with a somewhat effete, somewhat maybe feminine man. It was that age.”

Walker survived, playing all manner of nightspots. For years he was an attraction at the legendary Palomino Club in North Hollywood. “I became the headliner at the Palomino,” he states. “[Owner] Tommy Thomas called me and asked me to come and I said, ‘They’ll stone me,’ 'cause it was very country. But I wound up there for 17 years every Tuesday night.” 

And so it was that five years ago he began singing at Cody Bryant’s Viva Cantina, a Mexican restaurant in Burbank that’s become the singer’s monthly gig, backed by guitarist Bryant’s house band for the last five years.

“So who does he draw?” asks Bryant. “For some people it’s a freak show, [there’s] some intelligentsia, some hipsters. He cuts a funny path across a lot of personality types. But he’s infinitely human, and that’s what translates to everybody.” That includes people like Jan Damiano, who go way back with Walker.

“He taught me to do the twist on Sunset Strip at the Interlude,” she says after a recent Walker set at the Cantina. “My husband and I went there and we learned the twist, and we were twisting everywhere, Miami and everywhere, but I learned from him. It’s a long time ago! He loves his audience. And that’s why people come back.”

An advertisement for a 1981 Troy Walker performance well encapsulates the singer's approach to gender normativity.

“I let them know I was there for them,” says Walker of his audience. “A lot of performers don’t project that. They don’t have that thing about letting them know you really are grateful they’re there, and that’s a feeling you have to have to be a good performer.”

 GRADES

EX: Looks &/or plays just a little short of NM.

VG+ : Used but not abused. Will likely have some relatively slight  audible imperfections.

VG : Many only surface lines or may have a small scratch that doesn't skip.  Background sound but still enjoyable.

Cover defects will be noted.

VG-: significant background sound from various defects but music always quite audible above it.

Cover has some damage that will be noted.