A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS GREAT LAVERN BAKER COVER 78rpm RECORD FROM COUNTRY ROCK-A-BILLY STAR BONNIE LOU. 

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 Bonnie Lou born Mary Jo Kath on October 27, 1924 in Talawanda, Indiana is an American rock and roll and country music singer. During the mid 1950s, rock and roll was the hottest selling music on the market. Few women however ventured into this territory, like Bonnie Lou. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female rock and roll stars who proved to the public that female singers could indeed sing rock and roll. Like most rock and roll singers during the 1950s, Bonnie Lou's singles were also country music hits. She grew up listening to Patsy Montana and her band "The Prairie Ramblers", and was greatly inspired by her. Mary learned how to yodel, which was from the help of her Swiss grandmother.  As a child she learned how to play two instruments, the violin and guitar. By the young age of 16, she was singing and performing on a local radio show in Bloomington, Illinois. By age 18, Mary went on a bigger radio show, which aired in Kansas City, Missouri. 

By age 18, Mary went on a bigger radio show, which aired in Kansas City, Missouri. Bill McCluskey hired Mary as a singer a yodeler for his radio show called Midwestern Hayride Country & Western Radio Program. McCluskey was the one who gave Mary Jo the stage name she would be known by for the rest of her life, "Bonnie Lou". While on the radio show in Cincinnati, Lou performed regularly with Country Music girl group the Girls of the Golden West, which Lou listened to as a child. Bonnie Lou continued radio performances until the end of the 1940s. Her radio performances were even cut to acetate and released to the public. However, Bonnie Lou never truly broke as a recording artist until the 1950s.

In 1953, Lou signed on with her first record company called King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the beginning stages of her recording career, Lou recorded Country Music material and released it. Bonnie soon had big Country Music hits with "Tennessee Wig Walk" and "Seven Lonely Days". Both songs were Top 10 country hits. The flip side of her hit "Seven Lonely Days" featured the song "Just Out of Reach", which would later be covered by other Country singers, like Patsy Cline, Billie Jo Spears, Jean Shepard, and k.d. Lang. Soon, Bonnie started recording rockabilly or rock and roll.

In 1954, she recorded the song "Two-Step Side-Step", which was written by Murry Wilson, who is the father of The Beach Boys, Carl, Brian, and Dennis. In 1955, she released her first rock and roll record called "Daddy-O". The song was a Top 15 US pop hit that year, and turned Lou into a rock and roll star overnight. The song was later covered by The Fontaine Sisters on the Dot Records label.

 

RECORD DETAILS:

UK PARLOPHONE R3989   10" 78 rpm SHELLAC

CONDITION - RECORD = EX    (SUPPLIED IN PARLOPHONE SLEEVE)

 

GREAT POP-A-BILLY CLASSIC IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

 

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