Name: Play The Music Louder - Curtis Gordon
Brand: Curtis Gordon
SKU: 4000127162533
Price: 23.47 EUR
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Curtis Gordon (Jul. 27, 1928 - May 2, 2004) was an American rockabilly singer.

Gordon was heavily influenced by Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills, and Jimmie Rodgers as a child. He won a radio talent show as a teen and left high school to be the lead singer of his own band, which included fiddle player Jimmy Bryant. His parents demanded that he return to school and give up the band; he did so, though he moonlighted with a band called Pee Wee Mills & the Twilight Cowboys, who operated out of Gulfport, Mississippi. He formed a new Western swing band of his own at age 21 and began touring the Southeast United States. Gordon served in the Army briefly during the Korean War; while there he met Roger Miller, whom he later helped get signed.

In June 1952, an employee of RCA Victor heard Gordon playing in a contest in Atlanta and told executive Steve Sholes about him. Gordon signed with RCA soon after and began recording for the label in the fall. He appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and supported Ernest Tubb, Elvis Presley, and Hank Snow on tour. His records sold modestly, though they never charted; he remained on RCA for two years, and when his contract expired he was snapped up by Mercury Records. Gordon's style changed while on Mercury, for a number of possible reasons. The label let him record much of his own material, he worked extensively with producer Pappy Daily, and the nascent rock & roll movement had changed tastes. His recordings of 1956-57 are a mix of Western swing, rock and roll, and straight country music.

He played regularly in Mobile, Alabama and toured the South sporadically. He recorded with Dollie Records at the end of the 1950s, his last major contract; he continued performing locally for some time after that. He ran a dance club in Georgia in the 1970s, and returned to rockabilly performing in the 1980s as the Europeans revived it.

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1 Rompin' And Stompin'

2 Play The Music Louder

3 Caffeine And Nicotine

4 Draggin'

5 Baby, Please Come Home

6 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

7 Mobile, Alabama

8 So Tired Of Crying

9 Too Young To Know

10 I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World

11 I'd Do It For You

12 One Blue Moon, One Broken Heart

13 Rock, Roll, Jump And Jive

14 Out To Win Your Heart

15 Don't Trade

16 From Memphis To New Orleans

17 Tell 'Em No

18 Hey, Mister Sorrow

19 Cry, Cry

20 Little Bo-Peep

21 I'd Like To Tell You

22 Sixteen

23 If You Tell Me On More Lie

24 Divided Heart

25 Baby, Me

26 Please, Baby, Please

27 Rocky Road Of Love

28 I Just Don't Love You Anymore

29 I Wouldn't

30 Oh, Lonely Heart

31 The Greatest Sin

32 What's A Little Pride?

33 You Crazy, Crazy Moon

34 Where'd Ja Get So Much Of?

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