Billy Lee Riley Rockabilly original dead.

[4NDR01D]

Saddened to hear, one of my favorite rockabilly singers passed last week.
Billy Lee Riley was an original Sun Records recording artist, and was due to get a huge push from the company when Sam Philips deceided to push Jerry Lee Lewis's record "Great Balls of Fire" instead. Jerry went on to become one of the greatest and most popular singers of the day, and poor Billy spent the rest of his life in realitive obscurity. Sad to see his passing without even hearing a word of his death, just thought I should mention it.

YouTube - Billy Lee Riley - Red Hot (45)

YouTube - Billy Lee Riley - Flying Saucers Rock N Roll alt

[Mikey]

The song Red Hot kind of reminds me of Sexy and 17

[The Bat]

Tis a sad Day...I love those songs! Robert Gordon covers a lot of his stuff.