michael-j Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 (edited) anyone know anything about this track, e.g. who Bill and Will were? not the easiest names to Google for... only recently found out that it had a UK release (Fontana) and appears on the 'English Freakbeat' volume of the Pebbles series... so were they British or is that a compilers' mistake? Edited July 25, 2008 by michael-j
ShorterSoul Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 (edited) Ady, there's one for sale on Gemm Edited July 25, 2008 by ShorterSoul
Sebastian Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 anyone know anything about this track, e.g. who Bill and Will were? not the easiest names to Google for... only recently found out that it had a UK release (Fontana) and appears on the 'English Freakbeat' volume of the Pebbles series... so were they British or is that a compilers' mistake? If I remember correctly, it is mentioned in the liner notes that it is a US track, but they wanted to include it anyway... They are from the US. The local issue is on ATHENS, and then it was picked up by CHECKER. Bill & Will have got some other 45s on ATHENS/HERMITAGE as well. It has often been claimed that "Bill" is Billy Lee Riley, but as far as I know that is not the case. The songwriters on both tunes on that Bill & Will 45 are "Riley / Sasser / Willis". The full names of the songwriters are: Robert S. Riley William W. Sasser Jr. Jerry Leon Willis My guess is that two of the above guys are Bill & Will.
Ady Croasdell Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 Ady, there's one for sale on Gemm Thanks but need a M/M- copy, there's was VG+. Yes Sebastian I think the Robert Riley connection puts paid to the Billy Lee Riley theory. Robert Riley did productions for Ted Jarrett's Nashville labels.
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