(1956) Sun 251 ''You're My Baby'' b/w ''Rockhouse'' Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings

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STUDIO SESSION FOR ROY ORBISON & THE TEEN KINGS
AT THE MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE FOR SUN RECORDS 1956

SUN RECORDING STUDIO
706 UNION AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
SUN SESSION: UNKNOWN DATE 1956
SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN
PRODUCER AND RECORDING ENGINEER - JACK CLEMENT

''YOU'RE MY BABY"
Composer: - Johnny R. Cash
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - U 220 - Master (2:05)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1956
Released: - September 24, 1956
First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 251-A mono
YOU'RE MY BABY / ROCK HOUSE
Reissued: - 1995 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15802-2-21 mono
THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 2

Like Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison was unable to find a follow-up to his first hit. He recorded "Rockhouse", a song that another aspiring Sun act, Harold Jenkins (a.k.a. Conway Twitty), had worked up as a theme song for his group, the Rockhousers. It was coupled with Johnny Cash's execrable song, "You're My Baby", originally "Little Woolly Booger". Billboard once again was effusive in its praise of Orbison's "sock showmanship", but its recommendation failed to take account of the fact that "Rockhouse", released in September 1956, was already behind the times.

''You're My Baby'' was an uncharacteristic song for its writer, Johnny Cash. Its verses consist of 8 bars of stop-rhythm and then proceed into the chorus. At the end of the stop-rhythm segment, Ellis's rimshots announce that the chorus is about to start. Otherwise, his drumming is pretty subdued - keeping time, marking the stops, and little else until the second guitar solo. But as that solo progresses, the drumming gets more energized, and reaches a peak behind the final vocal verse. That dramatic crescendo brings the record to an exciting climax, and it's all due to Billy Pat Ellis's drumming. (CE) (HD) (SP)

''ROCK HOUSE" - B.M.I. - 2:04
Composer: - Harold Jenkins-Roy Orbison
Publisher: - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - U 221 - Master
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1956
Released: - September 24, 1956
First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 251-B mono
ROCK HOUSE / YOU'RE MY BABY
Reissued: - 1995 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15802-2-22 mono
THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 2

Roy Orbison makes a return engagement as a rockabilly singer here, but failed to capitalize on the momentum of "Ooby Dooby". Despite his prowess as a songwriter, Orbison turned to outsiders for this both sides of this disc. Its plain that he knew his way around the bluesy stop rhythm of "You're My Baby". In contrast, there is nothing funnier in the Sun archives than listening to Johnny Cash stumble his awkward way through the original demo of this tune.

There was a welcome surprise on MCA's recent Conway Twitty box: the original version of "Rockhouse". It really existed, and it revealed, among other things, that Roy Orbison had earned his half-share of the composer credit. He had more-or-less rewritten Twitty's themesong, although that did nothing to stop Twitty from griping at the time and for years after. The tune became the title track for Orbison's lone LP on the original Sun label, a compilation the singer reviled to his dying day. (CE)

Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Roy Orbison - Vocals and Guitar
Johnny ''Peanuts'' Wilson - Guitar
James Morrow - Electric Mandolin
Jack Kennelly - Bass
Billy Pat Ellis - Drums

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