And The Teen Kings - 180g LP

Ding Dong (real name Alain Pourquier) was France's leading rock 'n' roll dee-jay in the early '80s when he produced an acclaimed series of 10" albums for Charly Records compiled from recordings made for Sam Phillips' legendary Sun label. Ding Dong then launched into another series of 12" albums for Charly, following the same formula that had been so successful in the 10" series.

After recording on the Je-Wel label in Texas, Roy Orbison and his band The Teen Kings came to Memphis in the spring of 1956. Orbison continued recording for Sun through to 1958, but he couldn't replicate the success of his first release, "Ooby Dooby," which reached the lower half of the Hot 100 and sold over 350,000 copies. After leaving Sun, Roy signed with RCA but met with no commercial success until he moved to Fred Foster's Monument label, and struck gold with "Only The Lonely," backed by "Go Go Go."

This album contains the original undubbed versions of "Tryin' To Get To You," "Problem Child," "You're Gonna Cry," "Mean Little Mama" and "This Kind Of Love." It also contains the first recording of "I Was A Fool" that features Roy and Hayden Thompson on vocals. The version of "Problem Child" included here is without sax overdub. Detailed notes by Ding Dong unravel the Sun period of Roy's recording career. 180g vinyl remastered from the original master tapes.