The Screaming End: The Best Of Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps (CD)

Rockabilly god Gene Vincent only had one major hit--the epochal "Be-Bop-A-Lula"--but he nevertheless helped to define the genre, with his hiccuping vocals, hard-edged tone, and the backing of his deservedly legendary band the Blue Caps. Many of Vincent's '50s records are rightly revered today as among the greatest of the period. The Virginia-born singer was the archetypal rock & roll bad-boy, with a limp from a motorcycle accident and a predilection for black leather. He survived a subsequent car crash that took the life of peer Eddie Cochran, but finally drank himself to death in 1971.

• Category:  Music  »  Oldies  »  Rock 'N' Roll
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: January 21, 1997
• Label: Razor & Tie Music
• UPC: 793018212328
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106347132
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #27041 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #350 in Oldies (See Top 100 Oldies Bestsellers)
• #38 in Rock 'N' Roll (See Top 100 Rock 'N' Roll Bestsellers)

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Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps: Gene Vincent (vocals); Cliff Gallup, Johnny Meeks, Willie Williams (guitar); Jack Neal (upright bass); Bobby Jones (bass); Paul Peek (drums, hand claps, background vocals); Dickie Harell (drums); Tommy Facenda (background vocals).

Additional personnel: Buck Owens (guitar).

Compilation producers: Matt Goldman, Dave "Daddy Cool" Booth.

Recorded at Owen Bradley Studio, Nashville, Tennessee and Capitol Tower, Hollywood, California between May 1956 and June 1957. Includes liner notes by Bob Hyde.

THE SCREAMING END is an all but definitive Gene Vincent compilation, cannily programmed with his most real gone (as they used to say) performances. This is rockabilly at its wildest and (paradoxically) most carefully crafted thanks, in no small part, to the Bluecaps. They were arguably the fiercest rock band of their day.

There are two main reasons for the band's precision and power. One is a virtuoso guitarist in the justifiably legendary Cliff Gallup (he of the breathless stream of notes on "Race With the Devil"). The other is a 15 year old (!) drummer Dickie Harrell (that's him screaming on "Be-Bop-a-Lula" and most of the other tracks here) who drove the band relentlessly forward. Vincent himself was an effortlessly expressive singer, and as a result most of the songs here simply reek of sex and violence. Just check out "Lotta Lovin'" and "Who Slapped John" if you doubt it.

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