08/11/2024
Only one week to go! Released on November 15th, 7A Records is proud to present our deluxe reissue of Robert Gordon’s "Rock Billy Boogie". Available on Limited 180g Pink Vinyl and CD, the album has been remastered, expanded with four bonus tracks and features extensive liner notes.
The Album
Robert Gordon entered New York City’s Plaza Sound Studio in April 1977 to record his first album. Four months later, Elvis Presley was found dead in his Memphis mansion, Graceland, at the age of 42. The media was anxious to anoint a successor to the late King of Rock and Roll, and Gordon–twelve years Presley’s junior–was high atop many lists. Gordon’s vocal resemblance to Elvis Presley was hard to ignore, although he always retained his originality and an attitude honed in New York’s vibrant punk scene. In late 1978, Gordon was signed to Presley’s longtime home of RCA Records. He inaugurated his label tenure with the early 1979 release of his third and perhaps finest album, Rock Billy Boogie. The power-packed LP would become a cornerstone of the so-called rockabilly revival. Four additional recordings round out this deluxe, expanded edition of Rock Billy Boogie: Gordon’s 1980 cover of John Beveridge and Peter Oakman’s “A Picture of You,” a # 1 U.K. hit for entertainer Joe Brown in 1962; and three tracks looking back to his seminal partnership with Link Wray from the Private Stock years: “Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track),” “Summertime Blues,” and “Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache.”
Track listing
1. Rock Billy Boogie
2. Love My Baby
3. I Just Found Out
4. All By Myself
5. Black Slacks
6. The Catman
7. It's Only Make Believe
8. Wheel Of Fortune
9. Am I Blue
10. Walk On By
11. I Just Met A Memory
12. Blue Christmas
Bonus Tracks:
13. Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache (with Link Wray)
14. Lonesome Train (On A Lonesome Track) (with Link Wray)
15. Summertime Blues (with Link Wray)
16. A Picture Of You
