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JUST IN THIS AMAZINGSERIES OF 10" VINYL LP's FROM BEAR FAMILY RECORDS IN GERMANY
Rick Nelson: The Best Years Of Rick (LP, 10inch, Ltd.) BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limited collectors edition, only directly in the BEAR FAMILY ONLINE-SHOP 1-LP 10inch (limited to 500 copies - yellow vinyl), 12 single tracks.
1:1 reproduction of an extremely rare Dutch Ricky Nelson album as limited collector's edition on Bear Family! The original 10 track version was released in 1961 on the Dutch Imperial label, catalog number ILPT-116.  Originals trade at around 200 Euros and are rarely offered! Although Nelson was still marketed internationally as Ricky Nelson in those days, the Dutch colleagues used the adult variant 'Rick'. Bear Family has added two bonus tracks, It's Late and My Babe - all recorded between 1957 and 1961 for the US Imperial label. Carefully remastered for the highest sound quality and pressed on high quality vinyl! Limited to 500 colored copies!
Rick Nelson was born on May 8, 1940 to parents well known in the entertainment industry. On October 3, 1952, the first episode of the family series 'The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet' (the Nelsons with sons Ricky and David) aired on U.S. television and continued until September 3, 1966, making it one of the longest running sitcoms in television history.
Nelson played clarinet and drums as a teenager and liked the SUN sound of Carl Perkins and his Blue Suede Shoes. In 1957, his debut single was released on Verve, and Ricky first appeared on television as a singing drummer in the episode 'Ricky, The Drummer' on the Nelson Family series. In 1957, he signed a five-year contract with Imperial, which gave him a lot of artistic freedom. His first single, Be-Bop Baby, sold more than a million copies and reached position No.3 on the Billboard charts.  
All the recordings on this 10”LP on Bear Family were made for Imperial between 1957 and 1961, most of them with the great James Burton on guitar, with whom Ricky Nelson worked for more than ten years. The two bonus tracks on the record are exquisite rockers. It's Late was written by Dorsey Burnette and took Ricky Nelson to #9 on the Billboard charts and #30 on the R&B charts in 1959. My Babe, his cover of Little Walter's 1955 number one R&B hit, delivers two hellacious guitar solos by Burton.
Nelson was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1987. He died in a plane crash on Dec. 31, 1985.