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Lew Williams - Cat Talk




Lew Williams was a practitioner of "cat music," a musical form preceding the rock & roll era that combined souped-up hillbilly sounds with hep slang in what was essentially a hillbilly adaptation of R&B. Rockabilly collectors remember Williams for the handful of Imperial recordings he made in 1956-1958 that feature his uniquely jazzy, jive-talking variety of rockabilly and rock & roll, chief among which are frequently anthologized cuts such as "Cat Talk" and "Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop." Williams seemingly fell off the planet following a final 1958 single on the Hamilton label, but turned up again 40 years later thanks to the determined sleuthing of a pair of fans. With Williams' cooperation, Bear Family Records was able to amass enough material to create a full-length anthology for this true cult figure of rockabilly music. Aside from Williams' complete Imperial recordings, which account for eight of the 29 tracks, Cat Talk brings together the Hamilton single, a rare 1953 country single that sounds a bit like fellow Texan Gene O'Quin, a vintage backing track to which Williams added vocals in 1999, and a raft of demos from the mid- to late '50s, many recorded at the famed Dallas studio of Jim Beck. The somewhat muffled-sounding demos vary from fully realized sessions with a complete band (including an early recording of "Cat Talk" from a 1954 "cat music" session) to solo performances of minute-long song fragments. The celebrated Imperial sides -- "Gone Ape Man," "Centipede," etc. -- are far and away the highlights of the set, but the remaining cuts (not to mention the 48-page booklet) fill in the blanks of a former mystery man of early rock & roll.


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   1. (00:02:09) Lew Williams - Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop
   2. (00:02:14) Lew Williams - Cat Talk
   3. (00:02:33) Lew Williams - I Saw You Cryin' At The Show
   4. (00:02:05) Lew Williams - Centipede
   5. (00:02:23) Lew Williams - My New Suede Pink Shoes
   6. (00:02:59) Lew Williams - I'll Play Your Game
   7. (00:02:11) Lew Williams - All Through The Night
   8. (00:01:52) Lew Williams - Something I Said
   9. (00:02:01) Lew Williams - Gone Ape Man
  10. (00:02:03) Lew Williams - Rock N Roll School
  11. (00:02:33) Lew Williams - Cat Talk (Original Demo)
  12. (00:02:03) Lew Williams - Abacadabra
  13. (00:02:27) Lew Williams - Teenagers Talkin' On The Telephone
  14. (00:02:17) Lew Williams - Don't Mention My Name
  15. (00:02:09) Lew Williams - The Girl I Saw On Bandstand
  16. (00:02:34) Lew Williams - I Saw You Crying In The Show
  17. (00:01:43) Lew Williams - Between Classes
  18. (00:02:11) Lew Williams - I'm The Manager Of The Flying Purple People Eater
  19. (00:01:04) Lew Williams - BaBaBaby
  20. (00:02:23) Lew Williams - Teenage Years
  21. (00:01:15) Lew Williams - I Like The Way
  22. (00:02:11) Lew Williams - You're Not My Baby This Year
  23. (00:01:55) Lew Williams - Don't Mention My Name
  24. (00:02:14) Lew Williams - Something I Said
  25. (00:02:46) Lew Williams - Please Don't Tell A Lie About Me
  26. (00:02:48) Lew Williams - Just For Tonight
  27. (00:02:10) Lew Williams - I've Been Doin' Some Slippin' Too
  28. (00:02:37) Lew Williams - What're We Gonna Do
  29. (00:02:21) Lew Williams - I Cried Over You For The Last Time Tonight



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