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If other listers will tolerate some off-topic stuff temporarily... "Sheriff Rex Davis" discovered Gene Vincent and was responsible for managing and launching his career into immediate international stardom with his first 2 million selling single, the ubiquitous Be-Bop-A-Lula. Their professional relationship only lasted about a year. Davis managed to get his name together with Gene and others on composer/publishing of Be-Bop-A-Lula and several other Gene Vincent recordings. Whether or not he actually contributed anything is a matter of some dispute.
The recently released Bear Family Records The Outtakes 6CD Box Set follows their 2005 The Road Is Rocky - The Complete Studio Masters 1956-1971 8 CD Box Set. I was the reissue producer of both these projects. The Outtakes contains every known studio outtake, with recordings dating from 1958-1967. The first two CDs of this contain recordings made with his famous group The Blue Caps.
There is a third Bear Family project I am also involved with, which I hope will contain rare material from radio & TV broadcasts and live recordings.
For a taste of Gene's wide ranging material I can suggest Dance To The Bop EMI 5957672 (2004), which contains material from his first recordings in 1956 up until 1960.
Derek
----- Original Message -----From: nuzzsterSent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:33 AMSubject: [arthur_alexander] Concerning Sweet Gene VincentI've just read that Sheriff Tex Davis (William Douchette) has died, at
the age of 93. He was Gene's manager, and co-writer of "Be Bop A
Lula". Or should that be "co-writer"?
Also, I see that a box set is coming out of various out-takes, it
looks like early-60s material. Is there much else in the vaults, do
you know?
And, for complete novices, is there an introductory cd you'd care to
recommend?
Sorry if we've swayed off-theme here, but any musical friend of Arthur
Alexander's should be a friend of ours.....
Cheers
Norman
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