Jordanaires - Malibu Run (2:04)
Recently, while scrounging for 45s out in the Atlanta suburbs I found this mystifying head-scratcher by the Jordanaires. Who would've figured these tame but talented background vocalists for Rip Chords wannabes with a passion for hot rod sounds? Certainly not I. And how about the fact that this extraordinarily unlikely disc was produced by Don Law and Frank Jones, Columbia's in-house go-to guys for classic Nashville country sounds by people like Ray Price, Carl Butler and Pearl, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Lefty Frizzell and others. And I have no idea who author R. Wilkins is but I wonder if he's somehow related to Bucky Wilkin (no "s" at the end) who wrote and recorded a substantial body of hot rod work in Nashville as a member of Ronny & The Daytonas.
Way cool find!
ReplyDeleteI've been thrown by the Ronnie Wilkins/Bucky Wilkin credit before but Ronnie Wilkins had a partner, John Hurley and they wrote lots of stuff, most notably "Son of a Preacher Man."
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