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Texan Eddie Bush came there via a stint on the Louisiana Hayride

Summary: Texan Eddie Bush came there via a stint on the Louisiana Hayride show His superb distinctive guitar style can of course be heard on Carl s best work Take a listen to these young cats on the seminal 2 sided rockabilly classic 45 Jaxon 502 Gonna Rock n Roll Tonite Rockin Love billed as Carl Mann and the Kool Kats Carl paid for the session and pressing and had 350 copies to sell at gigs The Stompertime label s cd listed later contains both these goodies and other Jaxon sides cut in 57 58 There s an early demo of the song that later changed Carl s life Nat King Cole s Mona Lisa Particularly fine is the Gene Vincentish Satellite No 2 unreleased with great vocal and guitar Carl recalled Rob Oatswell played bass on the early records stayed with me until I was drafted in 64 My cousin Jerry Tony Moore and Robbie Robinson played in the band Our band played the local radio station in Milan Tennessee every Saturday Dj Bill introduced us to Jimmy Martin in Jackson We were all teenagers and I was the youngest I met Eddie Bush in the studio there he was from Texas I met Carl Perkins for the first time too Eddie Bush and I worked up an arrangement of Mona Lisa originally it was slow but Eddie made it rockabilly I owe a lot of credit to his guitar style he would lead off on an idea and I would follow through with my voice or piano That was how we worked together Eddie was now lead guitarist Rob on bass Tony on drums and Carl on the 88s Billboard picked up on Rockin Love and wrote in April 57 Another side that could step out in both c w and pop with the right kind of exposure Mann warbles with strong feeling on unusual material with a sound They were right on both counts there was a distinctive new sound and it needed exposure In 1954 Carl formed a band with fellow youngsters When he was 13 he learned to play the piano because there was no one else around to play it They played local churches schools and the Junior Opry on WSM Nashville Carl soon started listening to r b and the young Hillbilly Cat He loved sitting in with the local djs and playing the latest hot wax One dj pal Bill Haney set up a successful audition with Jimmy Martin in Jackson Martin had his own combo and a fledgling record label called Jaxon Jaxon was not the key to the golden gate like many a now regarded classic it sold zilch Expanding his horizons Carl went to Nashville in the hopes of seeing Faron Young he suffered the indignity of having his car towed away by the cops Carl was born near Huntingdon Tennessee on August 22nd 1942 He grew up in the backwoods his family running a succesful timber business The local radio stations fed a diet of classic hillbilly and honky tonk into the family wireless set Carl s love of music was nurtured by his family firstly in church then by listening to the mother church of country on the radio He recalled to Martin Hawkins famed Sun researcher and author in 1976 Listening to the Grand Ole Opry was a real big deal Big influences on him were Lefty Frizzel Hank Williams Hank Snow and Carl Smith Young Master Mann played in church at the age of 9 and later on the local radio stations talent shows By 1950 he was playing guitar and in 1952 Jackson station WDXI gave him a regular spot In the meantime unknown to Carl Jimmy Martin tried to place his publishing with Sam Phillips Knowing a good tune when he heard it Sam expressed an interest in Rockin Love but Carl was kept in the dark Their paths may never had crossed but for W S Holland becoming Carl s drummer and manager Mr Holland of course had played with Carl Perkins and WS used his Memphis contacts to arrange an audition at Sun under the care of one Cecil Scaife One name that I feel is often unfairly overlooked by some is the highly talented son of Carroll County Tennessee Carl Mann Perhaps it s because he recorded towards the end of the golden era or that his Phillips 45s overworked a rocking the oldies formula However if you scratch beneath the surface you ll appreciate the considerable talents of Sam s youngest million selling star The fact that Carl now works outside of the music business is a travesty Later on I will discuss his superb later recordings and why he should be appearing at Vegas and Hemsby etc In Sun Records An Oral History W S Fluke Holland told John Floyd My wife Joyce and I visited a little club south of Jackson called the Cotton Bowl and there was a band onstage never met any of them except Jimmy Martin They had this boy who was singing and he was doing those Nat King Cole songs like that Jumped up like So I met Carl after the show thinking This is something different and we became friends Ole Cec was the promo man there and helped break Carl Mcvoy at Hi records Carl really impressed at the session especially when he unveiled the rocking take on Mona Lisa one of Cec s favourite songs as it happened However boss man Sam was underwhelmed Inadvertently one of his old boys Harold Jenkins lit the fuse By now he was a big star as Conway Twitty and was looking for new material He called in to see if Cec had anything he could use at a forthcoming MGM session The rocking Mona Lisa demo was played Conway knew a hit when he heard one He left promising he would only use it as an album cut Texan Eddie Bush came there via a stint on the Louisiana Hayride show His superb distinctive guitar style can of course be heard on Carl s best work Take a listen to these young cats on the seminal 2 sided rockabilly classic 45 Jaxon 502 Gonna Rock n Roll Tonite Rockin Love billed as Carl Mann and the Kool Kats Carl paid for the session and pressing and had 350 copies to sell at gigs The Stompertime label s cd listed later contains both these goodies and other Jaxon sides cut in 57 58 There s an early demo of the song that later changed Carl s life Nat King Cole s Mona Lisa Particularly fine is the Gene Vincentish Satellite No 2 unreleased with great vocal and guitar Carl recalled Rob Oatswell played bass on the early records stayed with me until I was drafted in 64 My cousin Jerry Tony Moore and Robbie Robinson played in the band Our band played the local radio station in Milan Tennessee every Saturday Dj Bill introduced us to Jimmy Martin in Jackson We were all teenagers and I was the youngest I met Eddie Bush in the studio there he was from Texas I met Carl Perkins for the first time too Eddie Bush and I worked up an arrangement of Mona Lisa originally it was slow but Eddie made it rockabilly I owe a lot of credit to his guitar style he would lead off on an idea and I would follow through with my voice or piano That was how we worked together Eddie was now lead guitarist Rob on bass Tony on drums and Carl on the 88s Billboard picked up on Rockin Love and wrote in April 57 Another side that could step out in both c w and pop with the right kind of exposure Mann warbles with strong feeling on unusual material with a sound They were right on both counts there was a distinctive new sound and it needed exposure In 1954 Carl formed a band with fellow youngsters When he was 13 he learned to play the piano because there was no one else around to play it They played local churches schools and the Junior Opry on WSM Nashville Carl soon started listening to r b and the young Hillbilly Cat He loved sitting in with the local djs and playing the latest hot wax One dj pal Bill Haney set up a successful audition with Jimmy Martin in Jackson Martin had his own combo and a fledgling record label called Jaxon Jaxon was not the key to the golden gate like many a now regarded classic it sold zilch Expanding his horizons Carl went to Nashville in the hopes of seeing Faron Young he suffered the indignity of having his car towed away by the cops Carl was born near Huntingdon Tennessee on August 22nd 1942 He grew up in the backwoods his family running a succesful timber business The local radio stations fed a diet of classic hillbilly and honky tonk into the family wireless set Carl s love of music was nurtured by his family firstly in church then by listening to the mother church of country on the radio He recalled to Martin Hawkins famed Sun researcher and author in 1976 Listening to the Grand Ole Opry was a real big deal Big influences on him were Lefty Frizzel Hank Williams Hank Snow and Carl Smith Young Master Mann played in church at the age of 9 and later on the local radio stations talent shows By 1950 he was playing guitar and in 1952 Jackson station WDXI gave him a regular spot In the meantime unknown to Carl Jimmy Martin tried to place his publishing with Sam Phillips Knowing a good tune when he heard it Sam expressed an interest in Rockin Love but Carl was kept in the dark Their paths may never had crossed but for W S Holland becoming Carl s drummer and manager Mr Holland of course had played with Carl Perkins and WS used his Memphis contacts to arrange an audition at Sun under the care of one Cecil Scaife One name that I feel is often unfairly overlooked by some is the highly talented son of Carroll County Tennessee Carl Mann Perhaps it s because he recorded towards the end of the golden era or that his Phillips 45s overworked a rocking the oldies formula However if you scratch beneath the surface you ll appreciate the considerable talents of Sam s youngest million selling star The fact that Carl now works outside of the music business is a travesty Later on I will discuss his superb later recordings and why he should be appearing at Vegas and Hemsby etc In Sun Records An Oral History W S Fluke Holland told John Floyd My wife Joyce and I visited a little club south of Jackson called the Cotton Bowl and there was a band onstage never met any of them except Jimmy Martin They had this boy who was singing and he was doing those Nat King Cole songs like that Jumped up like So I met Carl after the show thinking This is something different and we became friends Ole Cec was the promo man there and helped break Carl Mcvoy at Hi records Carl really impressed at the session especially when he unveiled the rocking take on Mona Lisa one of Cec s favourite songs as it happened However boss man Sam was underwhelmed Inadvertently one of his old boys Harold Jenkins lit the fuse By now he was a big star as Conway Twitty and was looking for new material He called in to see if Cec had anything he could use at a forthcoming MGM session The rocking Mona Lisa demo was played Conway knew a hit when he heard one He left promising he would only use it as an album cut

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