Thursday, February 11, 2010

(294) SUNSET STRIP RECORD COMPANIES : LIBERTY RECORDS

This is the record company that Cliff Gleaves walked into and made his own deal with Snuffy Garret ! Cliff was a friend of mine and Elvis' and yes he's is in our book. One of the main reasons Cliff headed over to Liberty was that this was the label that made Eddie Cochran famous. Eddie had "Summertime Blues" and "Come on Everybody," on Liberty. As you may know Eddie died young in a cab accident while in England and so, like too many of my peers, his career was cut short by an accident.



We're linking here to Mike Callahan and Dave Edwards (and a couple other new writers) who do a great job of profiling the history of Liberty on their non-profit site!

Now in '62 Buddy Knox, who I went on a road tour with, had an album out on Liberty and he recorded a song we wrote called "ALL BY MYSELF." Here's the RCS Discography link to hear a few bars of that song!

http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/ss/29/ss29390.mp3

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