Скачать или смотреть (1960) Sun ''Bonnie B'' (Incomplete Take 5) Jerry Lee Lewis

STUDIO SESSION FOR JERRY LEE LEWIS
FOR SUN RECORDS 1960

SAM PHILLIPS RECORDING STUDIO
639 MADISON AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
SUN SESSION: THURSDAY TO MONDAY JANUARY 21-25, 1960
SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN
PRODUCER AND RECORDING ENGINEER - SAM PHILLIPS
AND/OR CHARLES UNDERWOOD

''BONNIE B''
Composer: - Charles Underwood
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - None - Incomplete Take 5 (0:47)
Recorded: - January 21-25, 1960 - Not Originally Issued
Released: - October 2015
First appearance: - Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 17254-11-22 mono
JERRY LEE LEWIS AT SUN RECORDS THE COLLECTED WORKS

''Bonnie B'' comes from this session, and is one of Jerry’s best teen slanted songs. Composer Charles Underwood, the husband of Bonnie Beatrice Underwood, provides outwardly a lyrical teenage love song, full of praise for Bonnie’s turned-up nose. But the lyrics say ''We’re too young, we've got a long time to wait / But Bonnie baby that don’t mean hesitate / ’bout lovin’ me''.

Sounds about right for Jerry, but pretty risqué for the time. The song has a lovely rolling tempo, and if there were any justice it would have been a big hit when issued in the United States in November 21, 1961, as the flip-side to ''Money'' (not issued in Britain).

According to April Underwood, daughter of Charlie Underwood, ''Dewey was destined to become a legendary disc jockey bridging black and white audiences with their music the first to put an Elvis record on the air '' That's All Right'' and on a more intimate note; the best man and financier to my parent's wedding. Elvis was destined to become well, "Elvis the Legend", a voice no other will ever match, and ''a Godinspired man of great faith"; often this part people forget about. And my parents well, they made everyday their "play-day" to birth their dreams: From humble Tennessee beginnings with my dad at the forefront of Sun Records as artist's and repertoire director, writing hit songs like "Bonnie B" (about my mom Beatrice) for Jerry Lee Lewis, as well as many more songs for Elvis and Charlie Rich, and befriending and working with the likes of Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and so many more, to my mom's childhood belief she could clearly see the "Hollywood Sign'' in the flat-lands of Tennessee, cut to, my parents packing all their dreams in a car with no starter and playing poker to finance their way across the U.S. to California to (unbeknownst to them at that time) build a recording studio called "Nashville West" at the site of the legendary Decca Records (where Bing Crosby formerly recorded White Christmas), right next door to the legendary Paramount Studio's entrance, all to unleash those dreams''.

What better antidote for your aching ears than the sweet rolling tempo of ''Bonnie B''. This side remains one of the most enjoyable items in Jerry's Sun catalogue. Its lovely feel is established during the 6 bar intro when Jerry offers a barrelhouse right hand chord against some two string guitar work neatly lifted from Bill Doggett's ''Honky Tonk''. The mixture works well and is repeated during the piano solo. If you listen closely, you'll find a clear case for unconscious plagiarism here between sweet Miz Bonnie and Melvin Endsley's classic ''Singing The Blues''.

It's hard to guess composer Charles Underwood's lyrical intent here. What is the song really telling us? After extolling the virtues of sweet young Bonnie (Underwood's future wife, by the way), Jerry makes it clear that just because she's underage doesn't mean she ought to hesitate about satisfying his lust. Was this what radio programmers needed to hear with the memory of the childbride scandal not so distant?

Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Vocal & Piano
Roland Janes - Guitar
Leo Ladner or J.W. Brown - Bass
Jimmy M. Van Eaton - Drums

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