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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724353244927
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: July 23, 2001
Sales Rank: 126736
Studio: Capitol
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Rock & roll was still a novelty and singles ruled the record market when 17-year-old Ricky Nelson released his debut album in 1957; it immediately jumped to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. That's why Capitol fleshes out some of its twofer releases of Nelson's Imperial albums with non-album hit singles. It's stunning to hear how well Nelson's debut and sophomore LPs hold up long after their original appearances. Aside from "Be Bop Baby" (and its "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" B-side), most of the cuts on Ricky are covers, including a wonderfully sedate take on Jimmie Rodgers's "Honeycomb," proving Nelson was indeed the Perry Como of early rockers. It also includes two Carl Perkins covers, including the definitive "Your True Love." The second LP displays growth and rocks harder, concluding with the sublime "Poor Little Fool." --Bill Holdship
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It's unfortunate, in a way, that Capitol chose to do these two-fer cd's strictly in chronological order, because Ricky Nelson's first album, "Ricky", is much weaker than his second, "Ricky Nelson" (Imperial were not very good with album titles, lol). These two albums are like day and night. The first album features 17 year old Ricky crooning - without much conviction - his way through a mixture of rock and roll covers and standards probably chosen by his dad. Songs like "Baby I'm Sorry", "If You ... Read More
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Call me Rick! Why? Once the name was shortened, the songs seemed to lack the certain something evident in this album.
This album is a CLASSIC.
Excluding ELVIS, who was (and still is!) alone up there in the upper-upper-upper stratosphere, RICKY was the epitome of "white-boy" rock&roll, music intended to be fun, simple, danceable, devil-may-care (damn the adults!!) and without message. Ricky was excellent at this as this album proves. A long overdue item. A tremendous example of the KISS ... Read More
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The two-fer reissue "Ricky Sings Again/Songs by Ricky" is significantly better than this CD, which features his first two LP's from 1957. The other disc offers his third and fourth albums, and the improvement in his vocals, in his band, in his choice of material are all evident. This one is not bad, of course. Rick's talent at age 17 was surprisingly high, but his first two records were mostly rockabilly covers and as good as Nelson was, he wasn't as good performing Jerry Lee Lewis songs as The Killer ... Read More
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This is a CD containing Ricky Nelson's first two albums both released in 1957. Nelson was only 17 at the time, and considering his young age, he sounds musically surprisingly mature on many of these early recordings. On the first album Nelson is backed by seasoned, but excellent studio-musicians like guitarist Joe Maphis and with the Jordanaires backing him vocally on several tracks. The songs are a mixture of Nelson's own rockabilly favourites and softer ballads to please a larger audience and his father ... Read More
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It's really about the collection of four cds, which contain all of Ricky's work for Imperial. I'm suprised they weren't released as a boxed set. The re-mastering was absoutely perfect. If these same people produce Rick's Decca work on CD, I'll buy it, even though I already have a cd version. The re-mastering is just that good. I have another cd of "Rick is 21", and it's not even close. An absoute MUST HAVE for Ricky/Rick Nelson fans!
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