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| | Gene Vincent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | His attempts to re-establish his American career by recording in folk-rock and country-rock styles proved unsuccessful, and he is most remembered today for his recordings of the 1950s and early 1960s which originally appeared on the Capitol Records label. | | | A 1989 live recording of "Race With The Devil" (from John Peel's 50th birthday party) was released by The Fall on their 2000 compilation album Backdrop. | | | His major hit, Be-Bop-A-Lula has become what is considered to be one of the top three rock'n'roll records of all time and has rightly earned Gene a place in the history of modern music. |
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| | Amazon.ca: The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent [Import] [Best of]: Music |
| | Gene Vincent's one shortcoming was that he wasn't packaged and promoted the way Presley was by the shrewd sheister Colonel Tom Parker. | | | If the typical Presley fan were to listen to Presley and Vincent sing the same ballad---without advanced prompting as to which singer they were listening to---most would not be able to tell the difference. | | | Gene Vincent was the true rockabilly king, and Elvis, though a great rockabilly artist, diverged into many different realms of musical expression. |
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| | Gene Vincent |
| | Gene Vincent has had more tribute records made about him than any other rocker except Elvis proving that his influence and legend are greater than can be measured by looking at chart placement. | | | It's rumoured that Elvis' mother phoned her son when she heard the song on the radio believing it to be a new hit for Elvis. | | | Vincent began playing the guitar at an early age. |
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| | Gene Vincent Tribute Page |
| | I've got all his music; and I listen one and a millon times that songs. | | | If that kid didn't listen to Be Bop a Lula 1000 times he didn't listen at all. | | | Gene is the wildest brand of Rock and roll there is, its not about amps to 11, and cursing. |
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| | Extract from Gene Vincent by Mick Farren |
| | Gene Vincent’s life, as currently recorded, is filled with conflicts, contradictions, and leaves much to be desired in the realm of hard facts. | | | For the night, Gene was to be the eye of our hurricane, and in some respects, for the time and the demographic, Gene Vincent was actually more important than Elvis Presley. | | | Well, they said that there was this boy called Elvis Presley and there’s one called Gene Vincent. |
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| | LivinBlues- Gene Vincent |
| | The slap-back echo of 'Be-Bop-a-Lula', combined with Gene's swooping vocals, led many to mistake the singer for Elvis when the record first hit the airwaves in mid-1956, on its way to the Top 10. | | | Vincent had his second and final Top 20 hit in 1957 with 'Lotta Lovin', which reflected his increasingly tamer approach to production and vocals. | | | The 35 or so tracks he cut with the band, many of which showed up only on albums or b-sides, were unquestionably Vincent's greatest work. |
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| | Gene Vincent - Britannica Concise |
| | In 1956, with record companies frantically seeking their own answers to Elvis Presley, Vincent recorded “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” When the record sold 200,000 copies in June alone, Capitol Records seemed to have found its Presley. | | | In 1956, with record companies frantically seeking their own answers to Elvis Presley, Vincent recorded “Be-Bop-A-Lula.” When the record sold... | | | He continued to record and tour and remained popular in Britain, where in 1960 he reinjured his leg in the automobile accident in which fellow rockabilly singer Eddie Cochran was killed. |
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http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9100250
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| | TRIBUTE / FAN EXCHANGE, PAGE 2 |
| | Gene recorded a second version of "Temptation Baby" at 304, which is similar to the film version, but a slightly better production, which I assume was to be the released 45. | | | Gene Vincent wasn't a copy of Elvis Presley (as many seem to think) either. | | | Have most of Gene's and Eddie's songs on CD and would you believe my kids like their music too and admit it. |
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| | RI - Reviews - Dickie Harrell & Friends " A TRIBUTE TO GENE VINCENT " |
| | Gene Vincent recorded the song in 1958 with Tommy Facenda, Paul Peek and Eddie Cochran on backup vocals. | | | Roman’s interpretation of the song is much closer to his dad’s original then to Gene’s version, which suffered from a producer trying to incorporate the musical sounds of the early seventies. | | | Most recently he included a great version of “Lotta Lovin’” on his "Super Songs Narvelized"CD.Listening to “Be Bop A Lula” and “Dance To The Bop” I can only wish for a whole CD by Narvel doing Gene Vincent songs. |
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| | Gene Vincent |
| | The song was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood on July 1, 1966, during the same session that Gene recorded Jimmy's song, "Love Is a Bird." Jimmy was generally relegated to tenor sax and an occasional backing vocal for the Challenge sessions, while Dash's place was behind his drum set. | | | Most of the recordings were released on various lp's in Europe, not in the U.S. Thus, Gene's output remained mostly unknown to his American fans during those years. | | | The most famous was 1956's "Bee-Bop-A-Lula." He was dropped from his label by 1966, however, and was signed to Challenge Records in Hollywood. |
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| | Gene Vincent |
| | This view was fortified when Vincent was sued by the parents of an impressionable teenager over the lyric contents of "Woman Love". | | | But being so close to the dawn of rock and roll, Vincent was also possessed by an innocence that probably wasn't possible later when the entire scene had gorged at the Tree of Knowledge. | | | Gene reeled into rock and roll history as the gasping, desperate rockabilly moaning the classic single "Be-Bop-A-Lula"/"Woman Love". |
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| | Gene Vincent MP3 Downloads - Gene Vincent Music Downloads - Gene Vincent Music Videos |
| | Vincent's singing also stands out on his dark, moody, ominous rendition of the Delmore Brothers' "Blues Stay Away From Me." And the band runs circles around virtually every other white rock & roll outfit of the period. | | | Cliff Gallup, whose lead guitar had been so central to the group's original sound, and rhythm guitarist Willie Williams, who was only somewhat less important to their... | | | In 1998, Collectables Records reissued this album, paired with Bluejean Bop, on Bluejean Bop/Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps. |
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| | Smokebox.net: The Root Cellar: Gene Vincent / Link Wray |
| | But don't forget that as a whole this band was a great band, and none of these tracks would've happened without the whole band. | | | Seems he wasn't sure if the Blue Caps were "professional" enough to cut it, and he wanted to make sure the playing behind Gene was solid and the songs were decently recorded. | | | The site has a wide variety of stuff about Gene, including his post-Blue Caps career and his huge influence on rock and roll. |
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| | Amazon.com: Sounds Like Gene Vincent/Crazy Times: Music: Gene Vincent |
| | Like I said you either like Gene Vincent or you don't but if you like him, you'll love this, and since all his recordings feature the great backup band The Blue Caps, all of the stuff he recorded with them is exellent, and at the same high lev el of hsi hit Bebop a lula. | | | I believe that if the production of these LPs was better (the difference is very noticeable compared to the Gallup-era bonus tracks), these would be incredible records. | | | Excluding the bonus tracks, "Ready Teddy" is probably the hardest rocker, yet doesnt approach the raw energy of earlier material. |
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| | Gene Vincent : Oldies.com |
| | Discharged from the US Navy, he began appearing on country music radio and came under the wing of disc jockey "Sheriff" Tex Davis, who supervised his recording of a demo of "Be-Bop A-Lula". | | | One of the original bad boys of rock 'n' roll, the self-destructive Vincent was involved in a motorcycle crash in July 1955 and his left leg was permanently damaged. | | | Gene Vincent Rocks & The Blue Caps Roll / A Gene Vincent Record Date With The Blue Caps |
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| | Gene Vincent : Bluejean Bop! (Bonus Tracks) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The speed with which it had been assembled was apparent in the song selection. | | | Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' debut album, Bluejean Bop! | | | Such material served to broaden Vincent's appeal, demonstrating that he was more than just the hiccuping rockabilly cat of "Be-Bop-A-Lula," that he could handle ballads in his breathy, emotive voice in the manner of, say, Johnnie Ray. |
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| | Gracenote: Artists - Gene Vincent |
| | Gene Vincent's Music Reborn 2002-09-13 17:01:01 (Rolling Stone) | | | Gene Vincent / Rocks & BC Roll-A Record Date | | | Buy and Sell Gene Vincent discs at SecondSpin |
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| | VH1.com : Gene Vincent : Artist Main |
| | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Gene Vincent only had one really big hit, "Be-Bop-a-Lula," which epitomized rockabilly at its prime in 1956 with its sharp guitar breaks, spare snare drums, fluttering echo, and Vincent's breathless, sexy vocals. | | | Yet his place as one of the great... |
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| | Gene Vincent Music |
| | Help build the largest human-contributed music project online | | | Music » Bands and Artists » V » Vincent, Gene |
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| | Spent Brothers Productions Gene Vincent Website |
| | Add us to your Bookmarks/Favorites and come back regularly, or subscribe to our Newsfeeds or Emailing list. | | | Spent Brothers Productions is a micro-publisher dedicated to celebrating the music of Gene Vincent, disseminating detailed and accurate information on his work, and bringing the same academic rigour and scholarship to a Rock 'N' Roll performer as we have come to expect in the Jazz and Blues fields. | | | Spent Brothers Productions welcome you to our Gene Vincent website, created for us by the multi-talented artist, engineer and web-designer Nikki Pugh of designphile. |
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| | Twangin'! - American Music |
| | Links to bands, reviews, calendars, news, guides to record shops and lots more. | | | Includes, among many others, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, the Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly -- and Elvis, of course! |
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| | He appeared in several movies including "The Girl Can't Help It' for which he recorded the title track. | | | In 1957, in the midst of a sold-out tour, Richard quit rock 'n' roll, after a plane scare, to become a preacher in the Seventh Day Adventist Church. | | | On October 12, 1957 he began a tour of Australia with Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. |
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| | GENE VINCENT |
| | Don't miss their CD (RSR 016), titled 'The Town Hall Party | | | TV Shows' ; it features 26 tracks - 12 by Gene Vincent and 14 by Eddie Cochran - | | | Gene's shows date from October 25, 1958 (backed up by The Blue Caps) |
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| | WWWhatsup Gene Vincent Pins |
| | Search Compact Discovery for new & used CD's | | | 7/30/96 Gene had 3 UK hits in 1960 | | | Kenny Bellew offers a midi-karaoke of Be Bop A Lula |
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| | Personal homepage of Derek Henderson, Gene Vincent Discographer |
| | Derek is an author, Buddhist, cook, music lover, photographer and traveller | | | Personal homepage of Derek Henderson, Gene Vincent Discographer | | | For Spent Brothers Productions Gene Vincent website click link above |
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| | Gene Vincent - The Lost Dallas Tapes |
| | This recently compiled Gene Vincent release is the first collection of "new", 1950s-era Vincent recordings to appear since his death in 1971, and also possibly the last. |
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| | GENE VINCENT |
| | This is what made Gene a very different artist to his lighthearted friend,Eddie Cochran - a man who defined commercial rock 'n' roll better than most. | | | Unfortunately,like most oldtime orientated artists,Gene developed a severe dependance on alcohol (in his case,to ease his leg pain - something that plagued him all his life).In many ways,this echoed his idol,Hank Williams',dependance on alcohol to ease his back pain.His recording sessions were fewer,his health began to deteriorate and his private life was a mess. | | | For every "Walking home from school" or "There I go again" in Gene's career,there was a tough blues like "Should I ever love again".Gene could 'pay the bills' by recording the commercial rock 'n' roll rubbish (which he never truly liked) but his taste was much deeper than that as his other performances proved. |
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| | Harbottle's Encyclopedia |
| | (Sweet) Gene Vincent - from the Ian Dury song |
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| | Vincent, Gene (RCS Artist Discography) |
| | as by Gene Vincent With The Dave Burgess Band | | | Gene Vincent Rocks And The Blue Caps Roll, Part 1 | | | Gene Vincent Rocks And The Blue Caps Roll, Part 2 |
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| | FindArticles search for "Gene Vincent" |
| | Vincent Fecteau TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW SCULPTURES Things in my work happen over what seem like large spans of time. | | | Gene Vincent Mick Farren Dufour Editions Inc. Box 7, Chester Springs, PA 19425-0007 www.dufoureditions.com 1904316379 $24.95 1-800-869-5677... | | | The birth of the uterus: genes that help determine what goes right or wrong in pregnancy also enabled early mammals to switch from laying eggs to bearing |
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| | Gene Vincent News |
| | On October 12th, 1957, Little Richard announced that he was giving up rock and roll for religion. | | | An original rockabilly godfather, Vincent has been long overdue for reconsideration: He hasn't received a major retrospective since 1990, when EMI in England issued a six-CD box of his work. | | | New Gene Vincent collection preserves his hell-bent purity |
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| | Gene Vincent: A Companion |
| | Some of the information on the life of Gene Vincent that is contained in this book is as follows: | | | Return to Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps Page. |
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| | All Products > Search Results for 'gene vincent' | | | 64 matches found for 'gene vincent' in All Products | | | eBay - gene vincent all products at low prices |
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| | Gene Vincent Quotes |
| | I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry. | | | I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. | | | Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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